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GP comment is likely writing fictionally, as a hypothetical counter to the GGP.

A false dichotomy should always give first. You can both be safe and have privacy

I find that in the US, friend and acquaintance is hard to tell apart, because people are friendly and open in some ways. So I often can't tell who actually likes me well enough to figure out on deeper friendships.

I should use meetups more too. One mistake I have made is assuming that the first people that respond positively are going to be good friends, and compatible. Some natural sifting and more effort is needed even then. And self-examination and feeling as to what you want! I think this whole process helps us feel who we are. And projecting that, attracting similar-accepting humans. (while working on listning more and becoing better humans too!) / I think a bunch of people on here struggle, for obvious reasons no fault of our own, but there are definitely solutions to be found (see my other comment on this too nearby for one more). I'm reading and learning more here also.

I had this exact trouble, and though friendly, didn't know how to tell how to make closer friends. I so wanted, but was so awkward and made social errors. I lucked into finding a bunch of accepting geeks in LA and then SF so I could err in their presence and become friends with some of them, gradually. But even then, knowing how to be closer and accepted as friends was hard. At last, one solution presented itself, through a lover. Being able to talk about myself, being vulnerable, sharing myself, allowed other apes to share about themselves too more, and feel closer. I now can make friends better than I used to. And miss all my friends in the Bay!

and pay it in a coin

If you think Gaddafi was a particularly bad guy, you need to watch Adam Curtis' excellent documentary 'Hypernormalisation', still available on the BBC iplayer, and probably elsewhere too

Why do you say that? I have several friends who found it a great thing, though as people they are definitely outliers, and I haven't asked them again in a couple of years.

True, but only if they repeat it more than a couple of times, after they have had time to take on their environment and adapt! (or if a new graduate, afford clothes that fit the 'new conformity' of the particular office casualness...)

Two things: 1. what was more or equally important than technical ability for HFT programmers' success in increasing profitability for the company? That was an interesting statement: can you elaborate?

2. That fun might have these heuristics that GP talks of, and for them, the people they hire may well be the best for them. As in, motivated and attitudinally oriented towards what they want, and more able to work free from the assumptions of _knowing_ how it's done in finance. They may be wrong in your case, but that's how heuristics work. To me, that's less of a bullshit case than trendy languages etc.

Horror story linky?

...which is ironic because the kleptocrats at the top of Russia's economy and politics are all egomanaiacal selfish individualists.

I'm sorry you were downvoted: being [thought to be] wrong isn't a reason for downvoting in the official guidelines

Indeed. You could also pick a right with North Korea (or the US) for just the same kinds of 'reasons'.

Aha thanks, it was the shuttle that had the 4-way redundancy thing! I got scared of my memory, not being able to find verification quickly online, so instead wrote something less true!

There are numerous articles on the Shuttle's computers. I seem to remember the Apollo had quadruple redundancy, AND an extra backup failsafe, and lots of protection from degradation from cosmic rays, and I think the Shuttle had 5 computers too. I'm sure there's lots available, frmo NASA and other sources. https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-3.html

Likely because sarcasm isn't generally approved ofin HN. Your link is much more useful

That produces C02, and given the energies required, would produce a lot. A retrograde step.

The book should satisfy your curiosity. It's based on anthropological research, but intelligently and coherently argued, and is not just description.

For a really insightful approach to how we got here, read Prof David Graeber's book Debt: the First 5000 Years

I've never seen this but that is really interesting. I'm surprised they don't prevent them from doing that but I'm glad that they don't

Please, after reading this, don't take this as advice not to finish your prescribed antibiotic courses. You personally do not know if a shorter course would work for you.

Ah, some mobile autoincorrect. 'Keen'.

Lovage is still used by Ken gardeners and cooks in middle class England

Fish sauce of course is a Thai and far east staple!

Original title, edited for length: 'Believing widely doubted conspiracy theories satisfies some people’s need to feel special'

This is just a single person's account of a love affair, and not a general theoretical and evidence (or even story-vased) analysis piece, and as such that title is terrible clickbait.

This may be an opportunity to grow, and discover why you don't like it, so that you can read more to your kids?

That's a great point. I have no idea why I also didn't mention Fawlty Towers, possibly the greatest sitcom ever made.

Is there a place here for Blake's Seven, (esp the early episodes) and of course Tom Baker's Dr Who incarnation? Incidentally, for those who didn't know, Douglas Adams wrote some classic episodes and was script editor (head writer) on Dr Who for at least a season or so.

And I think Dad's Army remains a classic, about the Home Guard in WWII, with some of the finest comic actors.

There's even a case to be made for The Sweeney and the Professionals which dealt with grittier more modern reality stories, darker sides of law and intelligence enforcement which is often glossed over in the modern glitzier procedurals.

Aha, and though maybe it was largely in the 80s, how about Minder?