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by 7952 5y ago
The belief that rape and murder are bad is not universal in human history. That kind of behaviour was just a normal part of life for many. We may see it is a black and white issue, but that took thousands of years to achieve. Why tie your
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by 7952 5y ago
Anthropomorphism is probably just a result of human capacity for theory of mind . That is the ability to understand mental states in ourselves and others. We can look at the world from the animal hunting us, or the animal we are hunting.
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by 7952 5y ago
But you would have to redefine pain to ignore the experience aspect. And that would be a completely different phenomenona. Yes it may share the same mechanism, but so what? Plants are immobile. The only mechanism they have for moving a
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by 7952 5y ago
And presumably there is some kind of genetic advantage to this. The cat probably doesn't know why it plays with the mouse or that the mouse is suffering. It is just following instinct. An instinct that humans have is to project their
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An amazing scientific achievement can be bleak in terms of actually applying the technology to real world problems.
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In the UK substation capacity is a constraint. Rural connection points tend to have limited capacity to export to the wider grid.
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by 7952 5y ago
It seems unfair to compare a hypothetical nuclear build rate to a real one in renewables. We just don't know if a nuclear industry could get anywhere near the deployment rate required.
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by 7952 5y ago
I wonder how effective and blockers are on their own. I don't mind consenting when I know that the third party trackers will never load anyway.
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These particular sites didn't need essential cookies and discussion about privacy/cookies was taking lots of time for no real benefit. Also, I believe philosophically in trying to reduce things like analytics and tracking.
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I have been building some sites where I have explicitly tried to remove or avoid cookies completely. It is really tricky as any third party script or embed can set cookies, which may be retained depending on browser version. We end up usi
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by 7952 5y ago
Imagine you could go back to 0AD. And you ask the people why droughts happen, or why people get sick, or why volcanoes explode. Ask them why they are a slave, or a master. There were religious answers to all these questions. God's
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by 7952 5y ago
A better explanation is that those mental models are in fact universal. Things like bias, magical thinking, and dogma exist in all fields of humans life. Science included. But why stop there? Why not question the biological basis for th
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by 7952 5y ago
An interesting thing to consider is that most religious people do not really believe with much conviction. They can clearly see that scripture is not literal truth and that there is no scientific evidence. So religion becomes about faith a
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by 7952 5y ago
Well yes human culture depends on our genes. You couldn't have the Beatles without the traits that allow music to exist. But the reproduction of those new ideas is not sex based. That is different and can happen much more quickly tha
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by 7952 5y ago
Well we are the same. But our brains and culture let us go beyond that.
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I think that traits have to be sufficiently detrimental to reproductive success for evolution to remove them. For example a genetic predisposition for cancer in old age is unlikely to have an effect on reproductive success. Whilst a gene
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A lot of behaviour is in response to stimuli (like light) The "purpose" of that behaviour is that it helps certain genes reproduce. This behaviour could be complex and unexpected or much simpler. Animals may be able to exhibit m
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by 7952 5y ago
The position of the weight in the aeroplane is important. A poorly balanced plane can have control difficulties. So this would only really work with carry-on baggage. Of course you could weigh the bags again separately later and work it o
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by 7952 5y ago
Some bird species tend to take-off and fly about when disturbed. This may causes an energy defecit that could have an effect. Birds may have evolved to roost for a particular portion of the day and be put under stress if they can't.
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by 7952 5y ago
These kind of numbers are not intuitive. Don't forget that you are working in volume of material. Making something only 1m high across 1 sq mile is around 2.5 million cubic metres.
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by 7952 5y ago
Don't underestimate just how many people are needed to defend a village. A village has a lot of land to defend and not many people to do it. The local town or city sized group will just pitch up with many more men and overrun you. Al
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by 7952 5y ago
I work in an enterprise and use flow and other Power platform stuff. The sense I get is that management look at the headline features and see it as essentially safe. But Microsoft have included some features that will be exploited in unex
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The app I have used makes it very clear. It autocompletes options as you type with a little flag. It is worth trying out if you have never used it.
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Getting sent 1km or even 100m away by accident could be critical depending on the geography. The closeness of the numbers increases that possibility. And an error that reports Vietnam is easy to coorrect.
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by 7952 5y ago
For a long time weapons have become more and more accurate. You go from Norden bomb sites, star trackers and inertial navigation. To terrain tracking, laser guidance and GPS. The more precise it is the smaller the blast radius can be. A
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by 7952 5y ago
Imagine the roles were reversed. A country was building a base on your border to try and effect your countries policy. Would that make you back down?
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Hiking products have this problem. They look good in the shop and tick boxes. But a lot of the features are just bad ideas. Weirdly shaped backpacks with small access points that are difficult to get things out of. Light weight zippers t
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They tend to trap mud and dirt easily. Also, simplicity is desirable. Less to wear out or go wrong.
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The 1cm Galileo signal is now going to be offered for free. Commercial failure could be the public gain.
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by 7952 5y ago
Exactly. It is perfectly possible that a few larger satellites in higher orbits would be easier. And would still be close enough to provide relatively low moon to moon latency.

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