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New comment by SauntSolaire in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

SauntSolaire — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:19:11 +0000

> simply for being one of the last communist countries

Well, that plus their 50 nuclear warheads and continued ICBM development, amongst other things.

New comment by SauntSolaire in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

SauntSolaire — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:39:02 +0000

E-books supposedly, since the parent explicitly specified paper books.

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SauntSolaire — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:10:43 +0000

Perhaps Grimoire?

"A grimoire is a textbook of magic and sorcery. Traditionally, it contains instructions for casting spells, performing divination, creating magical objects like talismans, and summoning supernatural entities such as angels or spirits."

Seems to fit.

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SauntSolaire — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:54:23 +0000

For a lot of people, privacy can simply mean not having to share a space with someone else.

New comment by SauntSolaire in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

SauntSolaire — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:21:34 +0000

> You should investigate the repeated prisoners dilemma.

Well aware. Obviously, the entirety of human civilization is a bit more complicated than a prisoners dilemma, iterated or not. Yet prisoners dilemma's and races to the bottom still exist, and it makes no sense to argue against them in the abstract.

New comment by SauntSolaire in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

SauntSolaire — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:16:59 +0000

That's somewhat understandable, what I find more interesting is that people around me won't show up unless it's between 70-80 degrees out.

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

SauntSolaire — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:11:33 +0000

Also "Sequoyah’s syllabary was not simply a creative triumph, but a new means of self-government and cultural memory"

New comment by SauntSolaire in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

SauntSolaire — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:30:28 +0000

I mean, your proposed logic seems to be quite consistent from a basic game theory perspective. Defecting in a prisoners dilemma and races to the bottom are both well observed phenomena.

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SauntSolaire — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:59:44 +0000

I would be wary of extrapolating too much from the talking buttons. Review the clever hans effect and (the critiques of) Koko the gorilla for examples of people misattributing classical conditioning for intentionality.

The fact is that humans are exceedingly quick to find patterns in random data (e.g. horescopes, any form of divination), and that tendency gets amplified when the opportunity to anthropomorphize a cute animal is presented.

New comment by SauntSolaire in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

SauntSolaire — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:19:03 +0000

Or "we'll ship our code as binary blobs so you can't reverse engineer it".. oh, wait

New comment by SauntSolaire in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

SauntSolaire — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:17:58 +0000

I don't think you understand the hypothetical being discussed

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

SauntSolaire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:20:57 +0000

Are you talking about the pixel buds app? They ask you on setup if you want it installed, and you can uninstall it anytime. Seems pretty far from "mandatory".

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Dopamine Fracking"

SauntSolaire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:14:17 +0000

What's being discussed is not at all limited to people experiencing instability

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Dopamine Fracking"

SauntSolaire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:04:53 +0000

The advent of communism was sufficiently long ago that it I'm not sure your critique applies.

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Dopamine Fracking"

SauntSolaire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:55:15 +0000

> There's no such thing as an obvious "Perfect" taste.

The person you're responding to never claimed there's such a thing as "Perfect taste"; they've only said there's such a thing as "bad taste" (which I would agree with)

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Dopamine Fracking"

SauntSolaire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:44:23 +0000

I see "Torment Nexus" has completed is evolution into a catch-all term for "things I don't like".

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

SauntSolaire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:50:00 +0000

I believe they meant humanity.

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

SauntSolaire — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:55:15 +0000

Is imagine the high pedigree horses are already so genetically similar to each other at this point that they're already vulnerable to that.

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

SauntSolaire — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:49:19 +0000

They've already moved on to genetic engineering according to the article; no need to fuss with evolving a better horse when you can directly specify one.

At some point breeding programs will mostly be useful for identifying new mutations to splice into the main branch.

New comment by SauntSolaire in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

SauntSolaire — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:45:03 +0000

The next actual step according to the article is genetically engineering the horse clones. They've already crispr'd five as proof of concept.