Arn_Thor

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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
It took me well over an hour to get through passport control in Paris CDG. And that was not even entering Schengen but leaving
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
You'd be surprised. In certain sectors, companies prefer to keep as little as possible of their sensitive information in the cloud, emails included. Running their own exchange server is a common way to do that.
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
Born and bred by the most Nordic of Nordic folk, I've had no gastric trouble whatsoever, aside from the odd bout of food poisoning. There were no symptoms from which I felt relief when I stopped having dairy. I can all but guarantee I
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
Thanks for your thanks! Whatever you're dealing with, I sincerely hope it gets better.
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
Anecdote alert here, but I grew up in Northern Europe and had a standard diet absolutely full of dairy. No problems. Then I moved to East Asia for about a year and inadvertently cut out dairy completely (it just wasn't in any food, and
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
Sure. But I was responding to the statement "The burden of proof is on the claim that you can get there through computation, not otherwise."
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
I disagree about where the burden of proof lies. If we start off firstly with the assumption that humans have consciousness, and secondly the decently supported claim that animals exhibit what to us appears to be consciousness on a spectrum
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
I have been testing various solutions for semi-professional-looking interviews with remote staff and concluded that a dedicated microphone plus the rear-facing camera of whatever smartphone they have at home is by far the best bang for the
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
I wish, but consumer laws where I live allows Apple (and all other merchants) to refuse returns from day one unless it's a technical problem
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
The slices of reality you and I observe are just tiny parts of the whole picture. That is why we need data...
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
You're dismissing the data that is available in favour of speculation and anecdotes. That may be emotionally satisfying on some level, but it's no way to reach an understanding of the world.
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
You cannot look at the blanket outcome because it's affected by vaccinations in the individual, vaccinations on the societal level, and all Covid measures put in place, how they're enforced and to what degree individuals followed
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
That is just so flat out wrong… Omicron is less severe now, but there is a clear and real risk even for healthy people
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
Aside from being anecdotal, that information is not useful unless we know the proportion that got jabbed, the types of vaccines, if they got Covid (which they may or may not have known about if it was asymptomatic), and what other changes i
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
It absolutely is. There are some outlier cases (e.g “should I get the third jab even when I’ve had Covid?”) but overall it is clear the severity of all known vaccine side effects is a fraction of the severity of Covid and complications, aft
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
Yes, yikes.. Was forced to get an M1 Air for a trip just last week. This smarts.. But the M1 already blew me away, so I think I'll hang onto it
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
I'm running all my necessary Windows software in Parallels on an M1 Mac now. Even Windows software that isn't specifically supporting Arm, since Windows 11 now does its own emulation or virtualisation magic.
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
Specs might be better, but in real-world performance Apple provides the smoother experience. Not to mention that software support is sparse and short-lived for Android phones in that budget range. Sadly...
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by Arn_Thor 4y ago
I used to have a very negative outlook on electric cooking for Asian food, specifically where a wok is needed, because I've never seen one get hot enough to imbue the "wok hei" flavor that comes from high-temperature cooking.
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
An incredibly cool, inventive and awesome system! And somehow quintessentially Japanese too. Lovely writeup.
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
Can you explain how? I'm inexperienced in this field but found wsl to be a great quick way to run Linux software in Windows
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
I'd argue there's a difference between planned obsolescence and products that are of such a nature that it's just about impossible to pull them apart. (Now, whether that means the latter category of products is defensible is
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
> If people leave your transit system for a car it is because your transit system sucks. A transit system can almost never compete with a vehicle right in your garage taking you exactly to your destination. Unless you live in very rare c
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
You're confusing ethics and legality
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
That really doesn't answer my question. But I'm getting the impression you're not here for conversation so never mind...
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
"Towers in the park" may not be for everyone (certainly, the cost of the model restricts who can afford to live there unless the government subsidizes), but in my experience it's working pretty well a lot of places. Where I l
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
Writing from Hong Kong, I wonder what you mean by wasteland?
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
Whelp! That's a hard pass
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
That's a fair point! Perhaps it would have been more accurate for me to say that there doesn't appear to be quantifiable economic consequences significant enough for the CCP to change course on the issue. What private business do
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by Arn_Thor 5y ago
We can argue about the exact economic significance—my interpretationof the facts you listed is much less severe—but whatever the cost, the CCP seems willing to pay it gladly. If that means running the economy into the ground as the alarmist

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