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I'll push back on this a little. I have well-established, long-running issues with overly critical self-evaluation, on the level of "I don't deserve to exist," on the level that I …

"Legacy" modifies "companies."

Take that, Dr. Wolfram!

This is cute. You should flag the "I claim that three colors suffice" map if the user actually 3-colors it. At least, I think I did...

This quote is harsh enough that I feel the need to say that this is one of Heinlein's characters talking. Although the whole "innumerates are terrible" thing appears all over his b…

What I mean, mostly, is that I shouldn't get doxxed for the crime of being queer on the internet the way some people I won't name like to do. There isn't really law surrounding thi…

I read said blog post. The future you dream of would require, at minimum, vastly improved privacy laws and freedom of identity.

My husband and I did this, basically. Our idea is to do the whole celebration thing in a few years. We'll renew our vows for an anniversary and do all the planning then.

Sure, somebody did 28mph on a dollar store bike in a recent Ironman. I don't think this is an arguable point.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I'm vegan, though not the type to rave about anything. I'm afraid this is selection bias --- the loudest voices win. I've seen plenty of folks t…

Is this e/acc? Quien es Eliezer Yudkowsky, huh? It's really, really weird to read this guy hawking LessWrong stuff the one moment and anarcho-capitalism the next. Guess we live in …

If anyone else is going to read Nona, I strongly recommend you read it immediately after Harrow and immediately before Alecto. And keep a Pynchon-style notebook. Neither I nor a fr…

If you haven't read Jon Bois' piece on working at RadioShack you absolutely should. https://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulog...

Coming out as trans and getting to be myself. Deconstructing and reconsolidating my early childhood trauma.

I watched your old, old SM3.9 videos as a child. I'm sitting in an Etterna Discord channel right now wishing I had the wherewithal to write a 3rd party Rust client. What serendipit…

Speaking as a gay furry (hacker?), this is almost certainly what they mean when they say "IRL catgirls."

Gravity's Rainbow is completely understandable right up until you put the book down for a second.

And Eliezer promptly nips my desire to do anything in his sphere of influence right in the bud. I thought politics was the mind-killer?

I'm a collapsenik and even I think TBWHTTA is unhelpfully overstating its case. We're screwed, but not that screwed.

My favorite thing about the look-and-say sequence [0] is that John Conway completely characterized it in a 1986 paper. The sequence can be compressed into atomic subsequences that …

Right, because nothing shitty and unforeseeable ever happens to low-income kids in the middle of a semester, because kids who definitionally have fewer resources aren't held back i…

Thank you for including vegans. Bookmarking this.

Which is all of them.

I'm commenting because I could have (and, in fact, have) said this. There's a hole in your heart that is preventing you from accurately self-evaluating. You are not seeing the whol…

Okay. My ethical standard is "to exclude — as far as is possible and practicable — all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose." Y…