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by 1457389 12y ago
I don't know. Carmack doesn't strike me as the sort of person that would want to waste his time with all the extraneous details involved in starting a company. Seems that he prefers to have his own isolated fief where others can h
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by 1457389 12y ago
Are you going to go around making these insightful edits for everyone with an opinion in this thread?
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by 1457389 12y ago
This was debunked in an article I saw recently, where it turned out that the data was cherrypicked pretty dramatically. Let me try and locate it.
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by 1457389 12y ago
Many aspects of human behavior have been found to be highly heritable too. IQ for one. Aggression for another.
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by 1457389 12y ago
yes.
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by 1457389 12y ago
>“We’re using a locker that actually has a combination on it, and if you don’t know the combination, then you can’t get inside. Unless you take a sledgehammer to the locker, there’s no way we get to the files.” ~Jonathan Zdziarski, a sec
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by 1457389 12y ago
What interests me is why Brennan was so confident at the beginning of this affair that he was willing to go on record making comments like: >We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of w
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by 1457389 12y ago
I stand corrected, my mistake.
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by 1457389 12y ago
I'm sorry but this: > HN is a happy place, and politics are anything but happy. makes me want to puke a little. I think you are probably right though, I can sense a major demographic on this site who are eager to ignore controversia
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by 1457389 12y ago
You are already greyed out, someone is keeping an eye on posts like this, clearly.
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by 1457389 12y ago
It isn't just the rules. I think the post is greyed out because a number of members seem to have flagged it, for no specified reason as far as I can tell. If you look at the post about their Reddit AMA it's the same story: https:
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by 1457389 12y ago
Also immediately flagged and buried. This is fucking bullshit.
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by 1457389 12y ago
Where the hell is the new Intercept article on HN? The more I see obvious manipulation and malevolent flagging on this site the less I want to visit it.
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by 1457389 12y ago
I remember this study doing the rounds a few weeks ago. The consensus back then was that there were significant confounding factors. For one thing, you can't be sure that the vegetarians you include in the set didn't become vegeta
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by 1457389 13y ago
Plants are not capable of nociception, as far as I can tell from my familiarity with the biology. They don't have nociceptors. They don't have integrating organs to interface with nociceptors. They don't feel . I'd be h
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by 1457389 13y ago
Nociception implies that the raw sensory data is being processed or encoded in some way. This can't happen without a nervous system. Plants don't have a nervous system , ergo, noci ception is not occurring. I am quite convinced
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by 1457389 13y ago
I think you are conducting a lot of armchair psychoanalysis without any basis. Since I am conveniently present here to help test your theories about my moral views, why don't you take the opportunity and engage in good faith? Let'
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by 1457389 13y ago
Do they integrate sensory information from those stimuli though? Do they create a subjective representation of what those stimuli are, and use that representation to guide their actions? I think those are the questions I would ask to find o
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by 1457389 13y ago
My stance as a vegan is that it is best to err on the side of assuming they do experience some form of subjective reality that probably includes pain. Most insects possess ganglia that integrate and process sensory information, and I would
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by 1457389 13y ago
Many of the most important concepts in science, not to mention ethics, are not yet well defined... I don't think your stance here is very productive.
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by 1457389 13y ago
That's depressing. I completely overlooked the importance of patents for VR. I'd be interested in finding out the major VR patent holders other than Oculus and what they are sitting on; it has been argued here and elsewhere that t
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by 1457389 13y ago
NSA is bankrolling GCHQ and in most respects the latter seems incredibly subservient to the former. In light of that, your position doesn't make much sense to me.
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by 1457389 13y ago
Wherefore art thou tptacek? I can't wait to hear how this is totally not surprising at all and how this is absolutely what spies have been doing since forever and therefore no action need be taken. I'm also missing my daily dose o
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by 1457389 13y ago
As someone who was actually at some of these protests, I don't think putting my freedom on the line for said squatters is a sign of "privileged" thinking. Both have good reason to squat in the park, though your simplistic leg
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by 1457389 13y ago
They literally did the opposite of turning a blind eye. They placed Occupy activists under surveillance in multiple cities. They sent undercover cops. They used every tool at their disposal to get information on and contain the movement. If
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by 1457389 13y ago
This is the irony that made me comment!
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by 1457389 13y ago
They didn't turn a blind eye, that is disingenuous in the extreme. The police in the US and the UK detained and incarcerated thousands of people over the course of the Occupy movement, often with disproportionately violent methods. In
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by 1457389 13y ago
That's the perception that was heavily pushed by the media, yes. From personal experience with three separate Occupy encampments in different parts of the country, I saw dedicated efforts in all of them to set up things like food distr
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by 1457389 13y ago
This is misguided. The Occupy protests were often focused on providing privileges like housing, shelter, and amenities to those who didn't have access to it.
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by 1457389 13y ago
Did you not comprehend the portion of the article which outlined a supply side problem? You don't see higher wages in that kind of scenario, you see a steady diminishing in the market.

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