Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
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An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale
This reads funny. As in, Ireland has a dog, and there’s a president just for that dog. twitter.com/todayyearsoldi…
Canada has become hugely problematic from what I’ve seen
I wouldn’t go
Similar stunt by @lufthansa at LAX in May when they took my picture without warning and without my consent: reddit.com/r/privacy/comm… Now they’ve stopped responding to my CCPA request.
Apart from the social-justice speak, this is a good article about your privacy at the border:
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
is this how variables work? reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/5G6UUfyito
RT @USMiniTru:
You’ll pay for others’ debt while I track every $600 you spend.
Don’t you mean Wikipedia is almost read-only? Since way more visitors read than write.
Yea, in Deutschian terms, I think it’s characteristic for our transition period from static to fully dynamic that school does teach some dynamic memes (although their usefulness is greatly reduced by the fact that students forget ~99% of them). See also blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/school-c…
RT @MoritzW42:
.@dchackethal This explanation that school is a mechanism to replicate societies’ static memes makes sense.
But a good par…
(There’s more nuance — for animals, the brain level is often a bit more appropriate, albeit still sketch. And then for ppl who really have brain issues, the hardware level absolutely is appropriate. But one can’t reduce everything to that level.)
It’s reductionist, yes. Reducing people’s preferences to chemicals, neurons, brain activity and such, especially rewards, is gross. Following Deutsch, I think the appropriate level of emergence for this matter is that of software/ideas, not hardware.
RT @PessimistsArc:
The Advocate - Buffalo, New York
08 Oct 1857, Thu • Page 4 pic.twitter.com/SI9e3NzrBA
Yes, fair enough, the idea is ‘raw conjecture’ at this point; needs to be fleshed out.
Notwithstanding, I’d reject the alternative you suggest for other, mostly moral reasons.
…CG;AT;AT;CG;AT; DROP TABLE foo; – twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0…
Dann wären die beiden Zeilen aber nicht mehr symmetrisch.
Dies ist ein Beispiel dafür, dass es in der Ästhetik echte, objektive Probleme gibt, die lösbar sind (vgl. Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit Kap. 14 von David Deutsch).
I just realized my “Agreed” may have been confusing.
I agree with the quoted sentence except “(i.e., cuteness)”.
Which category cuteness falls into is an open question, IMO.
How can the phenomenon that babies are “cute” be a biological adaptation and a static meme simultaneously?
If you think I’m making that claim: I’m not.
I thought memes are not hard-coded instinctual responses (i.e., cuteness) but copied ideas.
Agreed.
RT @bert_hu_bert:
I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the of…
RT @FFRF:
@RichardDawkins marching in Cologne, Germany with other #CelebratingDissent2022 participants in support of Salman Rushdie. http…
Yes, but to be clear, as long as you push ONCE, all preceding tiles will show. Unless you meant some people work every day and don’t EVER push, not even once a year.
AFAIK the tiles reflect commits not pushes.
RT @timurkuran:
Seven years ago, the archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad was beheaded by ISIS at the age of 83. He had been head of Antiquities a…
RT @RNCResearch:
Do you think Joe Biden is fit to be president?
“Zu Ende geht damit eine freiheitliche Grundordnung; sie wird abgelöst von einem Klima-Überwachungsstaat, der das Verhalten seiner Bürger bis in privateste Details prüft und kontrolliert.” twitter.com/434Italo/statu…
@VDS_weltweit @AutorToto @welt
Ist die inoffizielle Aufgabe des ÖRR nicht Staatspropaganda?
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
Yes, right next to the useful comments reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/A2hcKWWceS
RT @timsoret:
Just recorded some GoPro footage of the French Revolution 🇫🇷 with #midjourney 🤯 pic.twitter.com/4Q7IuPuIm2
RT @paulg:
One thing you don’t realize about parenting till you have kids is that unless you have lots of kids you’re always going to be a…
RT @KrauseFx:
🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
👀 TikTok, when ope…
@GodshallStephe1 @paraschopra @DavidDeutschOxf
It wouldn’t make sense for this book to be required anything. The author is against coercion in education, and the book contains several pro-freedom stances.
@SatpreetMakhija @paraschopra @DavidDeutschOxf
That would be ironic.
RT @RZitelmann:
Manchmal denke ich: Was wäre, wenn alle verachteten “Besserverdiener” Deutschland verlassen? Dann soll der Rest sehen, wie…
RT @DanHillHistory:
There are a fair few ‘WW1’ photos that have done the rounds over the last few years, almost always misidentified, somet…
RT @Shouse34:
I’m sorry…I just want to touch on this one more time…Because…Reasons. $80B was allocated to the IRS in the “Climate & H…
RT @jungelibertaere:
Das “Soziale Pflichtjahr” ist ein schöneres Wort für Zwangsarbeit.
Friedrich Merz will jungen Menschen nicht nur 50-6…
RT @LegendaryEnergy:
Thank goodness these moments are recorded because left wingers are saying it doesn’t exist.
RT @YasMohammedxx:
THIS is the perfect response👏
After Samuel Paty was beheaded by a deranged Muslim as he walked home to his wife and son…
Then you haven’t read @PessimistsArc. People freak out about ~anything.
RT @ChipkinLogan:
Check out my article in @BitcoinMagazine, “Bitcoin is the New Meme Machine” -
I attempt to deepen @saifedean’s argument…
RT @Ajarn_Frank:
Niemand hat die Absicht…. pic.twitter.com/zKfptgXnvs
RT @LPTN1776:
Social Security is theft. Either abolish it or allow opt out.
I bought it immediately upon hearing about the stabbing.
Ich vermute, Sie meinen ‚habe‘ statt „hätte“.
@Karl_Lauterbach @cem_oezdemir
Privatisieren. Aber auf die Idee kommen Politiker natuerlich nie.
RT @YasMohammedxx:
“All Muslims want head” pic.twitter.com/qW7xzRUgzo
genau das wollte ich auch kommentieren
RT @YasMohammedxx:
Sorry Twitter has failed you, perhaps you can try reporting me to Allah? Maybe he can figure out how to get the tweet ta…
@PhilippeIze @PlsCycling @nomadcapitalist
yes you’re right i should have been more specific.
still highly restrictive though since it affects anyone not in canada or mx
RT @YasMohammedxx:
Thank you for your unwavering honesty @billmaher
The US did this for a long time. Citizens who tested positive for covid couldn’t enter.
RT @MinistryofTru16:
#MoT Whoever
Whoever made this is a genius. pic.twitter.com/G5lkDgWiyE
In Solidarity with Salman Rushdie: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/in-solid…
RT @dvassallo:
My best advice to first-time creators: Start with a super tiny product.
RT @ForEveryBd:
Very nice religious beliefs
#SalmanRushdie pic.twitter.com/m1R3l3ao5d
RT @geertwilderspvv:
Post from last night…
RT @astupple:
“A hard money (Bitcoin) standard raises the cost of spreading anti-rational memes and raises the returns on spreading rationa…
Yes. Please help and join me in distributing the risk: twitter.com/dchackethal/st…
deleted the tweet but it was archived here: web.archive.org/web/2022081219…
Has anyone asked Dall-E 2 to generate pics of the prophet Mohammed?
The tool is invite only. If you have access, please post pics by commenting below, or dm them to remain anonymous and I’ll post them.
I love receiving death threats. twitter.com/aliwaqarsindhu…
RT @t3dotgg:
Things have progressed quickly pic.twitter.com/fR3aPY8Dtr
@Bowiemtl1 @sarcholic @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R
what do you suggest? a bunch of nested if statements, some or all with duplicate else clauses?
i will admit i sometimes do the third if there are LOTS of conditions all conjoined by && or || and i want to break them up into several lines so they’re more legible
I have been documenting some of Warren’s lies in a post titled ‘Lying Little Injun’: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/lying-li…
ARD und ZDF haben das produziert? Wie peinlich.
Schoen, dass sich dieses Gedankengut in Deutschland verbreitet. twitter.com/ulfposh/status…
Ist es nicht normalerweise die Legislative, die Gesetze ‚macht‘?
Quick Security Tip: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/quick-se…
The IRS is not invulnerable. Keep it going. twitter.com/cwt_news/statu…
@splitkostanjeu1 @DavidDeutschOxf
There’s also the stuff about justification and background knowledge. And there are links to material that goes into more content, too.
I think those who read my post will understand DD’s essay better.
@splitkostanjeu1 @DavidDeutschOxf
It’s mostly about form, yes. But I did point out that there seems to be a reduction of quality in some of the borrowed ideas vs. their originals, which is about content.
What do you mean by “most jobs being hateful”? That most jobs are worthy of being hated?
The post has moved here: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/the-true…
Criticism of @DavidDeutschOxf’s ‘Taking Children Seriously and fallibilism’: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/criticis…
And environmentalists might unironically say the north is better off. twitter.com/MarinkoKordic/…
RT @micsolana:
just heard someone unironically refer to herself as a recovering vegan and felt like, ok, we’re gonna make it
Muesste es nicht ‘Krankenschwesternde’ sein?
Es koennte ja logisch sein, mit abnehmender Sicherheit:
Geimpfter mit Maske > Geimpfter ohne Maske > Ungeimpfter (mit oder ohne Maske)
Also ist die Kritik nicht falsch.
(Was aber def. falsch ist, ist der Gastro-Branche vorzuschreiben, was sie zu tun und zu lassen hat.)
RT @SJobs_Stories:
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste - I don’t mean that in the sm…
RT @QuarkDDR:
Zur Klarstellung und weil dauernd neidisch gemault wird: pic.twitter.com/tPkZItCzrj
Another instance of a pretty girl using a genuinely interesting phenomenon to feature herself in a video about it to show off her beauty. Which makes the video really about her, not the phenomenon.
Do you feel disgust at this picture? If not, why not? twitter.com/micsolana/stat…