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2016-08-13 at 6:15 AM UTC in Holy shit this song describes my life perfectly!Weeabooism is a disease. It makes me sad that many of my countrymen, some real intelligence and talent among them, abdicate the greatness of the western tradition. I'm sympathetic in a way, they feel so alienated from the modern culture they seek refuge in another but it's a pathological condition, not a true assessment. Our civilization is by no reckoning the oldest, yet it is proud. From Socrates to now we are the very natural extension of a line of thought that has been passed down through the generations, from our fathers to us, and which some, for their lack of perspective, lose in vanity or banality. There is nothing wrong with admiring another culture, with tolerating, exchanging, and coming to understand. But we can not unlearn what we are, denial of the tradition, the universe in which we are conceived is tantamount to surrender, admission of defeat, a cowardice.
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2016-08-13 at 2:42 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editiongod bless tolerance breaks
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2016-08-12 at 4:01 PM UTC in lsd is the shit...^ Yeah, that does sounds kinda dicey. There's also the stimulant effect, which while not super intense probably doesn't do a fetus any favors either.
Depending on the stage of pregnancy it's possible the kid didn't even have a sufficiently developed nervous system to have any kind of effect. Although prenatal tripping does sound kinda cool, like how do you experience rebirth when you haven't been born to start with? -
2016-08-11 at 5:54 AM UTC in Identity
Just as only one side of a solid structure can be seen at a time, without a mirror, only one phase of a hyperspacial structure can be perceived directly at one time. It is natural, therefore, to assign a unique identity to different phases that exceed the observer's capacity for resolution into a single gestalt. Virtue is not recognized as the front of vice, no light is seen in darkness, and you have to know your tao to find strength in compliance. Union of complementary opposites transforms them both into a structure of higher dimension. The degree to which you can resolve polar opposites establishes the dimensional scope of your Consciousness. An understanding of hyperspace enables you to answer problems that defy all philosophers limited to three-dimensional concepts.
Ok, I might of hoped for a more concrete definition for "ultra spatial structures" but I guess that does describe one property they have. You used solid structures in an analogy but it does seem, since the quality by which ultra spatial structures are likened to solid structures is the only one we thus have thus far established as characteristic of ultra spacial structures, that solid objects would qualify as ultra spatial structures. Is this true? Beyond this, what qualities of words make them ultra spatial?Plato wrote the original hyperspacial theory explaining that each of the material bodies in this world is a manifestation of an Ideal Form in Heaven.
But Plato's forms are distinct from substance. He doesn't propose that my chair is some facet of or a perception of the form of chairs, rather that it is a separate object entirely from the form of chairs that happens embody (note, to "embody" a thing is not to be that thing). To plato chairs are obviously, self evidently, distinct from the form of chairs. -
2016-08-11 at 4:25 AM UTC in Human RightsI think this quote is taken out of context. I guess I see why, malice didn't seem to get my point either.
I never said anything about a person's right to a given medical intervention or suicide. I was talking about a very specific argument which you see some people make with some regularity. It follows the basic form:
1. Intervention X is risky, untested, or simply a desperation move with a real chance of killing me or severely reducing my quality of life*
2. I'm so depressed I'm probably going to kill myself and/or continue an existence not worth having if I do not pursue any medical intervention
3. It follows from 2. that the actual risk of the intervention is low since the thing I stand to lose has little value
4. I ought to pursue intervention X since it follows from 3 that it has a (life-value adjusted) low risk
Ergo intervention X is a justified course of action.
The objection I made in the post quoted is that it's fundamentally difficult for a depressed person to make the call on 2. It's well established that there is a certain emotional ebb and flow to major depression. When a person is most depressed they are biased to deem their condition "terminal", even when it's not, just as the hypochondriac is convinced they suffer from a disease when they don't. So perhaps you can take the quality of life angle, say that "maybe I'm not great at judging if my condition is terminal but surely I have the right to determine if my life is worth living", which is a nuanced issue, I think it's obvious people can have temporary lapses of judgement when their opinion on this subject is contrary to what future and past selves would have to say and I think we can conjure an argument for why that justifies denying people, under certain limited conditions, full autonomy over their lives in the same way we deny children certain rights of personhood based on their inability to make good decisions.
In any case, I think there's a further issue here in that 4. is an unsubstantiated premise. A reasonable maxim for choosing medical intervention would seem to be to maximize reward to risk ratio of an intervention, not simply choose any intervention that meets an arbitrarily picked (and picked by a person with mental illness at that) threshold of acceptably low risk. Consider to a person with treatable cancer who doesn't value their continued existence as a cancer patient, chemotherapy and walking through coals in hopes of spontaneous remission represent the same level of risk, that is to say none because nothing of value is lost in either case. Yet it should be obvious one is clearly a better means of treatment than the other and yet we can use this same argumentative form to justify either over the other.
* Malice is going to jump in here and tell us how destroying a part of your brain with radiation is none of those things. I'd like to remind everyone I'm not talking about the particular intervention malice was discussing but rather the general form of this argument. -
2016-08-10 at 1:18 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Doubt it'll be worse than this. May as well take a chance if you're essentially terminal, or at least likely to greatly suffer for the rest of your life. Fortunately it's the amygdala, and you're really only affecting a tiny portion of your brain, so I'm not too worried.
I feel like a lot of people in certain communities have, in a particularly intense moment of depression, justified making very bad choices by this line of reasoning. You know major depression affects your ability to come to reasonable conclusions, frequently causes conditions like hypochondria or an unjustified sense of imminent death. People making this argument for themselves are obviously unqualified to give themselves the "terminal" designation.The Nordic countries actuallly have the highest per-capita rate of antidepressant use for those who blame America's system. It's human stupidity.
And yet their populations are among the happiest in the world. Maybe those antidepressants constitute part of successful treatment, or maybe these countries have some kind of geographic properties that dispose their populations to depression with greater frequency than other parts of the world (hint, hint). Your delight in "calling out" liberal admiration of the nordic (sorta) socialism is childish, a pet issue you think you have some unassailable position on and will take any opportunity you can find to bring it up. If anything the vehemence with which the right rushes to decry the nordic countries, or point out (frequently superficial, trivial) differences only goes to show how much of a problem those countries represent for the libertarian world view. -
2016-08-08 at 5:42 AM UTC in sober for 13 daysIsn't there like an overdose concern there? Sure, date rapists probably aren't going to be that concerned with the wellbeing of their victims but disposing of a corpse would seem to kill the romance.
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2016-08-08 at 4:40 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Oh and is malice alive? It seems odd he hasn't posted in a bit.
Yeah, I noticed he hasn't been posting as well. No idea, maybe I should start scanning the oakland obits.I'm supposed to be writing documentation for an azure user management tool I wrote but I'm reading about north korean rockets instead
What do you think of azure? Most people I talk to dismiss it as the ENTERPRISE QUALITY version heroku, although most of them also have never actually used it. I'm pretty much in the same boat, MS does have a history of this kind of thing though. -
2016-08-08 at 1:01 AM UTC in sober for 13 days^ Guess it would work on old bar hags who drink dirty martinis
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2016-08-07 at 9:40 PM UTC in I hate court and my baby mammer
I'm not a parent you dumbass.
On the contrary, you have a kid so actually you are a parent. If you meant to say you're not a very good parent then I'm with you there, 100%She should have got an abortion like i told her to, she shouldn't of lied about being on birth control.
You're right, she should have done those things. However that doesn't change the fact that you have a daughter who doesn't deserve the increasingly shitty life you're setting her up for.I paid child support for months and I just don't see why I should have to pay for a kid, when I don't even know where she resides.. her moms number.. like whats the point
This may come a surprise to you, Bill Krozby, but the "point" of children is not your personal gratification, nor is it the point of child support. You paid child support because you are partially responsible for the life of another person and you can't have a kid and then be like "lol, you're on your own now literal infant!". I call you a degenerate a lot because you are, but for most of it you're just self destructive, not harmless to others but just like "what an asshole" level. But if you don't care if your own child lives or dies or becomes a crack whore at 14 then you really are a shitty person. You are responsible for an entire human lifetime of suffering, and not just the general suffering implicit in an uncertain existence in an uncaring universe but like tangible suffering of the dirt poor and no real opportunities in life variety. You could have gone to court to enforce your visitation rights, get them expanded, you could of tried to make peace with your child's mother so you don't need the legal system to have some presence in your kid's life, or at least you could have scraped some cash together to continue to support the woman who's raising your kid but nope, your reaction is "got lied to lol, guess I'm not responsible for anything now". Honestly murderers are probably a better class of people.People like lanny don't live in the real world, I'm sure he thinks abortion is wrong also..
Right, because the "real world" is where you go into a court room because the state had to literally use coercive power to force you to be a parent and this upset you. -
2016-08-07 at 6:49 PM UTC in I hate court and my baby mammerOh man, what if your daughter and Hydro's son by some twist of fate meet up one day and have their own baby. That'd be like some next level shit.
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2016-08-07 at 6:47 PM UTC in I hate court and my baby mammer
People make it seem like Im the biggest douchebag for doing this, but I'm not, I was lied to and that how I had a kid. I would of never of had a kid with a girl like her.
So because it was an accident you now have no obligation to your child? Your kid is now just someone else's problem, specifically the problem of a woman you describe as a redneck who works at office depot and is in a series of short lived relationships.
Nice one Bill Krozby, way to be a good parent! I'm sure your daughter is going to have a great life. -
2016-08-07 at 3:24 AM UTC in I hate court and my baby mammer
^from derpadews.com you fucking cuck piece of shit^
Nice job not randomly lashing out at people for no reason. I can see that resolution is going well for you. -
2016-08-06 at 4:54 PM UTC in IdentityWhat is an "ultra spatial structure" and what are their properties per se?
What does wave interference have to do with words?
What reason do you have to believe that "the product of fusing all the unique images of several structures"?
Words are not Plato's forms, they are both imperfect (we have words describing incoherent notions) and mutable (changing with time), clearly properties Plato thinks are notable in their absence of.
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2016-08-06 at 6:39 AM UTC in Real talk: algorithms and data structures
Funny you mention MIT 6006 and Intro to Algorithms 3rd edition, those were the two resources I was looking at. I got as far as problem set 2 with the koch fractal before getting over my head.
Is there anything in particular you had difficulty with? You might get better answers on an education-focused site but I'm happy to answer any questions I can or talk though the problem sets.Honestly I suck at math, I can do alright at concrete things like easy statistics and discrete math, once it starts getting complex on paper or code it's really hard for me to visualize.
Yeah, I think math skills in technology are pretty bad on the whole, I still can't really do integral calculus on paper, but like anything you can practice and get better. For me I found I both enjoyed mathematics and could learn a lot faster if I did fairly few problems but learned in the context of like "I want to do this analysis, what do I need to know?", kind of going down the wikipedia rabbit hole, proving out intermediary steps instead of perpetual symbol manipulation.
I think it's a real weakness in modern western mathematics education in the way we treat mathematics like some kind of dependency tree, like first you learn some algebra and then that's set in stone and 5 years later you being able to work out some problem requires you recall some reflexivity property of some operation, if you don't remember this particular quirk of symbol shunting then "oh no, you suck at math, that was highschool stuff maaann". That wasn't the way the field developed, and while you do frequently need "lower" mathematics in dealing with more advanced material there's no reason you have to go out and "learn algebra" (whatever that's supposed to mean) before you can crack open a calculus text. You can teach middle schoolers graduate level math if you work up from the necessary ideas instead of trying to group all the math you need into some a set of monolithic subjects and putting them in some linear order and sure it's not as "robust" as the K-through-undergraduate approach I think it lends to a much more intuitive, useful understanding of mathematics as spirit of thought about formal systems rather than this kind of disjointed series of mechanical exercises you just need to shut up and memorize.I guess you've convinced me that it is worth my while. My education is in IT, which is basically a cheat code for a CS degree. I panicked my junior year of college and was convinced that webdev would be the best thing to get into, it's not what I ended up doing, but what I do requires more or less the same skill set (I use tcl a.k.a. everything but arrays is a string language).
Well to be fair webdev is, professionally, not a bad direction these days. It's how I pay the rent, a real "growth industry" at least for the time being. Tech is always thin ice in some sense but it's the place to be in terms of money these days, everyone is perpetually hiring and people flock in from other field with severely limited experience and manage to make 6 figs starting, depending on what corner of the world you inhabit. I wouldn't call it a bad career choice, I'm just kind of sad that between endless rivers of VC cash and tech megacorps we stream the majority of graduating CS talent into this wierd market that really has very little to do with computer science.For example I like the idea of network security, but it feels like the options for that field are either get a security clearence and become a goon or become a prodidgy and join McAfees elite team.
I'm not sure that's necessarily true, there's room in security for people who are neither total eliet or working for Uncle Sam. The McAfees of the world employ a lot of devs. It's probably true a not a lot of people start their careers there but it doesn't mean it's impossible down the line. There's this company called OPSWAT, they do sec stuff, they soaked up a good chunk of my graduating class and some of those people were straight up retards. It might take some work to get there but you shouldn't pigeonhole yourself unless you've found something you really want to dive into for its own sake. -
2016-08-06 at 3:36 AM UTC in Real talk: algorithms and data structuresIf you're talking about like doing your typical web dev grind then an algorithms course isn't going to do anything for you. 99% of a typical developer's career is covered by passably efficient dynamically sized maps and sequences and your language has already implemented that for you.
Algorithms are important though, the main reason is the same reason that philosophy is important, because their study reveals something fundamental about the world, or worlds more generally. The move from seeing instructions written on a page or board to understanding, intuitively, and then formally, why they possess the properties that make them interesting is one of the most intellectually rewarding activities a person can undertake. Programming per se is tedious, stupid. You memorize a bunch of syntax rules and line-shunt to appease a fragile compiler, programmers are considered good when they can also satisfy the petty egos of other programmers at the same time. Yes in 2016 it has some material value in much the same way being a blacksmithing has been a skill in high demand in times past but it has that status as a mere quirk of history. The study of computation however is immutable, we've been studying it for far longer than we've had computing machines and its truths will remain long after the last microprocessor has turned to dust.
And if lofty pontificating about the intrinsic value of the study of computation doesn't do it for you there's also this: algorithms is the shibboleth by which good (well paid) programmers identify each other. For better or worse almost anyone worth a shit in this field has a degree in CS or EE (less and less the latter). What the causal order there is (if that formal education produces better programmers or social sorting files good programmers into those education paths) is irrelevant, if you interview at a big name tech company the interview questions are going to be half or more algorithms.
In any case, for learning I recently skipped my way around the OCW intro to algorithms course to brush up for an interview and thought it was really good, I know you said you don't like lectures but IDK, I guess you could just do the problem sets or something, but I thought the lectures were interesting if you're willing to skip the stuff you already know. Depending on your math background it might be just a little proof-heavy but not so bad that you wouldn't be able to get through it with like high school level math.
CLR's Introduction to Algorithms is considered the definitive algorithms text but it's largely a refrence volume, I don't think anyone reads it cover to cover. You will also see recommendations of TAOCP but it falls in the same category, only more.
If you can bring yourself to do nothing else I guess googling around for the typical presentations of hashing, hashmaps, dynamic arrays, and linked lists and their analysis is probably the lowest hanging fruit there is. -
2016-08-06 at 12:29 AM UTC in I hate court and my baby mammerNot paying your lawyer also seems like a really great idea. I can't think of any way that shit could go sideways.
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2016-08-05 at 6:57 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Took a roadtrip down memory lane and went back to my home town. The more shit changes, the more it stays the same. Nostalgic as fuck ATM.
iktfb, although I'm only ever back in my "hometown" when something shitty happens or part of my family dies so it's been getting progressively shittier, darker and more depressing in my mind. I don't think I'll make it to the last funeral I'm alive for, god I hope when I die someone has the good sense not to drag my corpse back there. It's enough to make me want to shoot myself in the back seat of a car as one of those car-crusher things is about to smash me into a cute metal block or some shit. -
2016-08-05 at 6:53 AM UTC in Being a vloggerI think I watched like a minute of one amberlynn video in my life but venom, the passion with which you, the mild mannered mQ, have managed to hate her has moved my soul. I want to see what this person has done, what a person even can do to make a man who patently tolerates pedophiles, felons, and junkies, someone who self-identifies as an alcoholic and clearly has a powerful and enduring sense of self loathing, turn to such vehement condemnation of another human's way of life. Perhaps in elucidating the motives that feed into such stance I can for a brief moment forget myself and become lost in pure, uncorrupted, noble disgust at someone else.
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2016-08-05 at 6:34 AM UTC in dog shitHaha! The usertitle algorithm is a carefully guarded secret. It actually reduces to a polynomial time solution to 3-partition, when you understand its efficient implementation you'll have proven P=NP and then god only knows what will happen next.
