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2016-04-09 at 3:26 PM UTC in Galileo was a disinfo agent?
Just like you laugh at me, people used to do the same to Christopher Columbus, for claiming the world was round.
We've known the earth was round since the greeks, no one laughed at Columbus for thinking that. Not that I would expect you to have any kind of idea about the history of thought around it since you still haven't even figured out what everyone else knew almost three thousand years ago. -
2016-04-09 at 4:51 AM UTC in What is this website?
http://www.973-eht-namuh-973.com/
What is this?
[greentext]>tables everywhere[/greentext]
poorly designed is what it is.
I love this era of graphics, partly because of nostalgia and partly because it was pretty much the last time in history that a single mortal could explain a graphics pipeline in reasonable detail from the API to the just-above-hardware level -
2016-04-09 at 3:36 AM UTC in Today i learned Windows Powershell is hard as fuck.protip: install cygwin and don't waste your time.
Windows people will tell you about the technical advantages of powershell, and in a lot of cases they'll be right. I don't think there's anyone who won't admit the POSIX standard IO model is a little clunky, everyone's wanted a little more expressivity and a little less awk/sed/cut glue/magic here and there but POSIX (unix specifically, but I'd argue it applies to POSIX itself) really embodies and highlights the strengths of the worse is better philosophy. Sure things like string escaping and delineation are a pain in the when ass all you have is 1 or 2 bytestreams but it performs in the standard cases really well and it's so simple you can't help but love the "elegance". -
2016-04-09 at 3:15 AM UTC in Why is anything even real?
Seriously, think about it…why are you even experiencing anything right now rather than non-existence? Think about all the people who lived and died before you and you were experiencing nothing then. So for the same reason why aren't you experiencing non-existence right now, while "your" body goes and does all the shit that it does?
It's a fairly popular opinion among physicalists that philosophical zombies (biological humans with all the behaviour of fully conscious beings but lacking internal experience) are an incoherent concept, they're literally inconceivable. The SEP article on it is pretty interesting. I tend to think that's going a bit far, I'm willing to admit the metaphysical possibility of zombies but deny that they would be physically identical to non-zombies. Indeed the entire posit of physicalism is that consciousness is a physical phenomenon, it's an emergent property of the arrangement of atoms in your brain. The reason you experience things as opposed to nothing is explained by the same causal chain that explains your physical existence in the first place, that explains the non-conscious elements of your body. It may be complex or accidental or non-deterministic but ultimately it's a question of mechanics. And that gives us a good reason to suspect other minds because there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe anyone else lacks the physical properties that give rise to consciousness (indeed Chalmers and co. don't argue zombies exist or we should be skeptical about other people's status as zombies, just that the concept itself is problematic for physicalism) but it's not a proof thereof. -
2016-04-09 at 2:45 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Lanny, what phone do you have? Do you really have an iphone? You said it in a thread a while back, but I don't know if you were joking. I'm not familiar enough with it to know if there's any good reason you might choose it over an Android, but you definitely don't seem like the type.
I've been playing around with this app since I found out about it. I was reading about keyboard apps, whether Swype was still worth it/better than Google keyboard, and Monktype was mentioned on a (few?) best keyboard apps lists, reddit. Unfortunately it stopped being developed 3 years ago, but that led me to this. What do you think?
I really do have an iphone, I posted my reasoning for it in that thread. My main reason was that I'm not a person who lives on my phone, I live on my computer, so if you want good hardware with well thought out defaults then iphones make sense (at least the 4/5 models), they really are well designed both in hardware and software. No amount of ricing my keyboard is going to make my phone's onscreen a replacement for a full size physical keyboard so spending time on it is generally a waste unless I have some reason I'm going to need to type a lot and not be at a physical keyboard for a while (something that has yet to happen to me).
Also Dalvik was shit on a technical level and ART mitigates its shitness a bit but considering the level of developer attention that this area gets (and even that google anticipated it getting) it was just a poor engineering decision. -
2016-04-09 at 2:16 AM UTC in Poor people are more productive
Of course people are going to be hesitant, highly adverse, to accepting that they or their children, relatives, are genetically inferior and responsible for their own failures.
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2016-04-08 at 2:03 PM UTC in I found something...I think the La Pen thing is amusing but also kinda frightening. BBC's first line is "He was convicted of contesting crimes against humanity", one naturally fears a world where contesting a given proposition, any proposition, is a punishable crime especially given the incredibly tame nature of that particular comment (I almost suspect we've lost something in translation here, it actually seems comically absurd that calling gas chambers a detail of WWII can be considered holocaust denial).
As for the wall of text in OP, anything that needs to preface itself with "this is important, you need to read it" or something similar usually isn't and you usually don't. I got through two paragraphs of ignorance and vague conspiracy proselytization before my eyes glazed over and I stopped reading. I assume the remainder was anti-zionist rhetoric?
In general I think the core proposition of zionism is unacceptable but then I think the core of american conservatism is unacceptable but I don't advocate systematic mass murder of conservatives. The whole "jedis control all of politics and operate as a unified entity" thing is stupid.
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2016-04-08 at 5:48 AM UTC in Well, i'm fucked...I wonder if they routinely fingerprint steering wheels in stolen cars. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
Still, seems like a good idea to lay low for a while, find a place that can't be tied to your name, I doubt anyone would pursue an investigation for some maybe drunk nigga who fucked up a store front for more than a month or so. -
2016-04-08 at 4:13 AM UTC in Is doing a cuck the male equivalent of doing a rape?doesn't mean my taste in women isn't objectively superior
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2016-04-08 at 3:40 AM UTC in Is doing a cuck the male equivalent of doing a rape?
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2016-04-08 at 3:40 AM UTC in Is doing a cuck the male equivalent of doing a rape?
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2016-04-08 at 3:40 AM UTC in Is doing a cuck the male equivalent of doing a rape?
You have a bad taste in women.
The order is:
1. Tall one that looks like Steve-O (R.I.P. Jesus Christ)
2. The one that doesn't look like Ashley in some way, shape, or form, but would bite your dick off.
3. Petite virgin mary
4. Buttered whitebread
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2016-04-08 at 2:35 AM UTC in What do you do when not on NISI spend my free time programming, reading, or wasting my time on stupid shit like vidya or watching movies. Probably about an even split these days.
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2016-04-08 at 2:33 AM UTC in Is doing a cuck the male equivalent of doing a rape?
Nutmeg made me watch this video for 4 days straight, which has noticeably improved my intewwigence.
The butter face blonde is almost cute. -
2016-04-08 at 1:18 AM UTC in Is doing a cuck the male equivalent of doing a rape?
i couldnt understand a single word of that but it sounded like some bottom-faggot trolling for a good cornholing
He was giving a high minded exploration of the nootropic effects of nutmeg. -
2016-04-08 at 1:13 AM UTC in 12 step programs, anyone try themI've never been to an AA or NA meeting and as far as I know I've never even met anyone who has. I did know one guy when I worked in IT, scraggly ass old dude but he was the handy type. A certain intelligence even if he wasn't, uhh, intellectual? Anyway I always suspected him of being an ex junkie many years out of NA, he just had the vibe/look and was fairly religious to boot.
Anyway, I think it might be a generational thing. I don't think many people under a certain age are into 12 step type things, but then maybe it's just a product of you needing to be an addict for whatever number of years before it's appealing. In any case I guess they're fairly effective at treatment but I still think they're pretty stupid. On a fundamental level they abdicate responsibility of their actions. It's understandable, maybe even necessary, but I still find it reprehensible. I can't help but think a world with a few more addicts and a few less people who deny their responsibility for their actions wouldn't be as bad as AA zombies make it out to be. -
2016-04-08 at 12:58 AM UTC in Is doing a cuck the male equivalent of doing a rape?This is the kind of question that's an absolute powder keg in 3rd wave circles. However on NIS you get "nuh HAI".
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2016-04-07 at 7:11 AM UTC in Do you think the mood of the music you listen to affects your mood in general?I was thinking of this one:
Most of that ST was bretty feelsy tho -
2016-04-07 at 6:38 AM UTC in Do you think the mood of the music you listen to affects your mood in general?I do think the music you listen to can have an effect on your mood but I don't think "sad music = bad mood". As in any medium, tragedy appeals to us by means of catharsis, it's probably possible to go overboard and turn it into something morbid but I think the sad stuff can have a calming ultimately positive effect. If anything I think hyper aggressive music has the most potential to bring down a mood, like swans type stuff. I like it, but too much at once gets to be a real downer.
Also that Life is Strange ed track makes me cri everytiem -
2016-04-07 at 6:21 AM UTC in Galileo was a disinfo agent?I really don't know if Jung was a hack or just wildly misunderstood but his quasi-cult adherents. Probably a little of both.
