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Derek Bredensteiner

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Comment · 9 years ago
It's unfortunate that we must be this paranoid.
Comment · 9 years ago
The game you play when you retire, get the lowest score.
Comment · 9 years ago
I believe the title is misleading out of context, I think it is meant to lack conclusions or clear statements and simply outline some areas for discussion ... a proposition paper?

I'm not familiar with what that really means, just jumping to an assumption about the intent of the paper that I think was not made clear in the title as is.

Comment · 9 years ago
Perhaps the most sustainable way.

It would reduce my stress to imagine a world where my grandchildren didn't die from atrophy during the great power outage of 2079, where only the 10% of humanity that weren't reliant on exercise machines exercising their muscles for them, survived.

Comment · 9 years ago
> In our culture, people suffering from schizophrenia or other forms of psychosis are more likely than members of other cultures to recognize their hallucinations as a symptom of pathology, but they also tend to have hallucinations that are very violent and negative.

I can see how encouraging positive relationships could be beneficial for anyone with such a symptom, regardless of figuring out if it's a symptom of pathology (depending on the culture context.)

Comment · 9 years ago
I was asking for a function that converted a number (auto incremented id) to a string, such that all possible shortest urls would be iterated through.

E.g. given character set a-z, 0: a 1: b 26: aa 27: ab

etc.

I probably had no idea what the interviewee was suggesting and tried and failed to explain my question any better.

Comment · 9 years ago
A lot of information can be conveyed with body language, context and emotion, to the point where it's difficult to distinguish from telepathy. Most especially with folks who've spent a great deal of time together.

I'm maybe not the only one who's experienced bits of 'beaming' with a long time friend or partner?

Perhaps "I have a pretty good idea of what X is thinking" is softer language than "I'm reading X's mind", but I can see how the experience of telepathy is not greatly distant from something that's normal for many people.

Comment · 10 years ago
Took me months to realize (on macbook) ... no one believes me until I power it off and have them try again.

Spooky is the word.

Comment · 10 years ago
I enjoy reading things that have more time and intellectual energy put into them.

This is not true of a lot of twitter ... but the short constraint I think is the only thing that really moves the needle in that direction on there.

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Trump supports free speech? He promised to strengthen libel laws (pretty sure there aren't any such thing at the federal level now ...)

He said a lot of things freely, and a lot of them are interpreted by many as racist or otherwise categorized as bigotry.

I can see the viewpoint that supporting Trump is much more about supporting bigotry than it is about supporting free speech, based on his words and his promises. I have more trouble seeing the viewpoint of the inverse, at this point still.

Comment · 10 years ago
Seems pretty cruel to me. Would be nice if we had some sort of standards or guidelines or laws against this sort of treatment of prisoners.

Would one need a safe word at all if we did?

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