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He started his essay w/ the example of a gay person.

If you want to be outside of the herd in thought, it would aid you to be something alien to the majority.

edit: you're right.

The Library of Congress archives tweets.

Sorry a little too drunk to scan your post, but have considered this before.

I think Archive dot org as they said on Science Friday podcast are not legal archive or otherwise final word, just trying to help out with archiving humanity. If I want to delete some old posts for whatever unsupported reason (or if takeover of domain new robots.txt) then that's how it should go.

IMO.

Do you think you would be better off not knowing that everything is futile according to physics?

I used to play it with the source code in the other virtual console.

So that'd be a yes. 301 gold pieces to the priest, not 300.

I think the appeal of basic income to HN crowd is that is a solution that an engineer would like. Very neat.

Some people can't manage their money though, however complicated that is.

I read this with an eye out for what electronic surveillance they did but it doesn't seem like there is anything documented here that is too outrageous.

I would have thought that past 1,000,000 downloads you could trust the plugin but that is shown to be wrong. With Windows software I do a skim of the Wikipedia article for controversy as a sanity check but there aren't any for these extensions.

Previously I would search the apps name + some obvious terms like malware but those results are too spammy to be helpful now. Extensions are very useful, so I'd hope there'd be some reaction from Google on this.

May be relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/no_sob_story/ This is a subreddit of images with the possibly made of story removed. No story about the girlfriend etc.

From the article:"Mother Night marks the first appearance in Vonnegut’s novels of a word that would become increasingly important for him: schizophrenia." I was surprised to find this passage without a mention that Kurt's son developed schizophrenia.

I was basing this on an ipv6 book I read a while ago. Just used wikipedia as the reference.

"In IPv6 when using address auto-configuration, the Interface Identifier (MAC address) of an interface port is used to make its public IP address unique, exposing the type of hardware used and providing a unique handle for a user's online activity." - wikipedia on ipv6. ipv4 is more fungible than your MAC address.

"More time passed and we got to Korea, 1950. By that time, Madison Avenue had learned well how to manipulate the language, and the same condition became _operational exhaustion_. It had been stretched out to eight syllables. It took longer to say, so the impact was reduced, and the humanity was completely squeezed out of the term. It was now absolutely sterile: operational exhaustion. It sounded like something that might happen to your car." - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (2004)

I think it started with the first actor President.

I should re-read _America_, 1988, Jean Baudrillard.

"You have the same difficulty today distinguishing between a process and its simulation, for example between a flight and a flight simulation. America, too, has entered this era of undecidability: is it still really powerful or merely simulating power?"

"Can Reagan be considered the symbol of present-day American society - a society which, having once possessed the original features of power, is now perhaps at the face-lift stage?

Give your emptiness and indifference to others, light up your face with the zero degree of joy and pleasure, smile, smile, smile. . . Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. And it works."

The simulation, the movie, is greater than the dispossessed actuality, whatever that may be. A movie is visceral, gut thinking, truth. Why fight it, as long as there is a chicken in every pot.

If you're unconscious, you're not a threat any more.

Live to fight another day.

It's from Mercola if you want to read more about it.

The funny thing is that if you take a bunch of different antidepressants then you will become bipolar.. perhaps.

Then you need more and different medications.

Not to argue, but is being knocked out bad? It seems like a common occurrence to a fight is go to unconscious. Some people have strong chins. Would they do better in a no rules fight historically, if they didn't go down?

My first thought was that a chin may take a punch better...

Just a word of caution. Sometimes I read "OffTheRecord" chatlogs that have been posted on Cryptome.

A false sense of security can be more risky business than weak security, as pertains to what gets exposed.

Reminds me of a "too long; did read" psychoanalysis link: http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/dennen/a-panal.htm

Freud had it that sublimated aggression provides energy. Like all things w/ an indisputable theorist, I'm not sure if he's on the right page. However if it was true, it would explain the value in developer holy wars.

Quote from the above link -->

The sublimated libido, according to Freud, contributes to the formation and maintenance of permanent object relations and to the 'molding of psychic structures'; once the psychic structures are formed, the energy is at the disposal of the ego and the superego. Similarly, aggressive energy is 'neutralized' (Hartmann, 1952) and thus can be transferred from the id to the ego. According to Hartmann, Kris & Lowenstein, "the capacity to neutralize large quantities of aggression may constitute one of the criteria of ego strength".

I am learning public speaking, now that school is all over.

It turns out that my first speeches weren't very good. I didn't understand that writing and speaking are different. When it clicked, I wrote: "I have deciphered the master key to public speaking: use Vanity (idolz) or Pride (topic translatable to lowest common denominator), but not Envy (my endeavors)."

So in my opinion, TED by nature of being oral presentations would skew away from the dry wit, and piercing insight of writing.

I know reddit / slashdot style jokes are unwelcome here, but I can't resist. The line of billionaires forms here -->

Offense and defense are asymmetric in computer security just as they are in physical security. Offense has the advantage since defense is a thin skin around complex entropy waiting to pop.

I think that the relevant essay is George Orwell, "You and the Atomic Bomb." Just as the 2nd amendment is obsolete due to modern military hardware, privacy is dead if an APT wants in.

Not that I know.

I think it's not that nerd outrage isn't a force for change, it's that nerds just find a workaround like this link, and then move on with their life. The rest of people get stuck w/ toolbars, supercookies, etc.

Before the USA tortured directly, we had other countries torture terrorists for us. Some of these guys were released and then went on to do further terrorism. So that is in agreement w/ what you are saying.

Beria of the NKVD tortured. His torture wouldn't have been public knowledge as much as Gitmo is. Why did he beat people on the feet unless it was useful?

Oddly I was thinking about this experiment this morning. Perhaps I opened HN and forgot.

My thinking was along his lines. Now I think that I was in denial. In The Banality of Evil book, the main clerk of the genocide had "the personality of a mailman." He had "winged words." He fuggedaboudit. He forgot what his mind wanted to.

The Nazis were not sorry for their genocide victims. They were only sorry for themselves that they had to be the bad guys. De Nile runs deep.

Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing (Sargant, 1957) says that you need total neurological collapse to convert someone. I guess this is why the book of Nash the mentally ill math genius has better information than the misleading movie that people take seriously. He never got better until he was in a cheap state hospital and they broke out old fashioned insulin comas and such techniques on him. Total brain shock.

There is a debate now about whether torture works. It is all wishful thinking. People are innately convertable. There was a k5 essay about this. Slavery from raids used to be common. The adaptive behavior is Stockholm Syndrome -- you break down and reintegrate to the new tribe. Like Blue Jacket play (no longer being shown since it is ahistorical like the Simpsons play).

Been thinking about whether I should get a pet. Some logistics, but also the M.I. like the guy in the piece. Not sure that the article helps my decision, but the comments here add some solidarity.

The presentation of Websites is to HN as "sharp knees" are Fark.