Capt-RogerOver

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by Capt-RogerOver 9y ago
Yes, "factual" was not the best word choice. "Factual" in that context was something like "having obvious empirical and experiential basis".
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by Capt-RogerOver 9y ago
>> So you may be technically correct but the claim is so weak as to be nearly meaningless. My claim was referring to the following: many "science" people have a hard time developing their spiritual side, because of what they
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by Capt-RogerOver 9y ago
Your views sound outdated. There is a "you" separate from "your chemicals". In the same way a character in a video game is in fact very separate from the transistors that power the computer that the game runs on. They l
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
The idea here is following: - Processing food, even in chemical ways does not necessarily mean it will be bad for your health. - However, a lot of examples have shown that food that has been processed by the current realities of the food in
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
What other dangers did you think of? It seem the only dangers all stem exactly from this: when the technology becomes exponential (machines making machines), at which point they become better at it than humans, and humans can't longer
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Models are not wrong. They are just models. Ie, != reality.
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Would you care to expand "(side note, thats how a baby learns vision "unsupervised" -- the spatial patterns on the retina have temporal proximity, so the supervisor is "time")" to a couple of paragraphs? It see
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Have you tried firefox with a tab unloading extension?
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
We will obviously always use the url bar to tell for sure what site we are on right now. But the color thing makes it possible to much faster tell the difference. It's a very useful feature.
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
I think the websites actually increase the revenue. Instead of not clicking on any ads (as in uBlock)- the browser clicks on all of them.
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Why would it be less susceptible? Isn't it the same company that makes them?
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Not if they have shown that they can go so far as to put in BIOS. Imagine the level of effort it requires to develop something like this? If that is true, why not develop a small dedicated chip for it and put it somewhere unaccessible on th
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Lenovo have been repeatedly caught doing this. They have shown that they do not want or plan to have this as an opt-in - instead they are trying to hide it better. It's obvious that it's their strategy, not some one time "mis
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
What is your opinion on Qt mobile?
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Is there anything that's good with it? It's not very short, not rememberable, resembles word "dick", hard to use as a verb, doesn't have pleasant sounds, what's up with the domain "dklo"- hard to pron
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Very informative quote: So where do the reports of superhuman abilities come from? Well since there are many breeds of dogs in the ImageNet, an average human (like me) will not be able to distinguish half of them (say Staffordshire bullterr
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Well all the practical advice still work: eat well(!), excercise, have a proper sleep schedule, read good books, and even yes, hard-limiting time spend on social media - they all still work. I just meant that all those things also do take t
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Since you already experiment with things like meditation and psychedelics, you should look more into finding out more about your psyche and feelings, and other self-development themes. Find out more about your inner being, about the structu
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
The biggest drawbacks of Spotify and Netflix is the limitation of content, which comes from the fact that not all labels or movie studios are supportive of this. This is not an inherent problem of the platform itself of course. If this prob
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Yes it's the same frequency as water molecule's resonance frequency.
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
While it surely sounds like a perfectly valid choice for you, it's worth to mention that another option is to actually get friends who have (or convert them into) a more healthy or otherwise desirable lifestyle as yourself. Then you ca
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
JavaScript being single-threaded is one of it's biggest drawbacks. This is universally agreed on by both it's proponents and critics. Yes sure, some very few resources are wasted on each thread, but in case of JavaScript, it wast
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
It's a solution for a made-up problem. Sure, async/await makes it easier. But not as good as the normal sync code would be. And for what reason? The concurrency problems are already a solved issue in many many frameworks. Sure, if
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
It's not about how the processor works. A developer which is using a language of JavaScript's abstraction level does not think about exactly how a processor works. It's about how a human can easier think up a program and put
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Bittorrent sync?
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Doesn't Dropbox achieve exactly that, and in almost the perfect way possible? But yes I get your point, there are surely some areas for which no good solutions exist yet and users don't know that it would be very useful.
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Exactly, it's like all already there, working seamlessly, even most of the time free. For the users who really want/need this functionality, it seems to be very cheap to just research those options and configure them already (even
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
I'm a relatively avid software user and I'm having a hard time agreeing that lacking such features is a big problem. I have almost never thought that I would need such a feature, and haven't heard anyone else lack it. My poin
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
This is obviously an area too big to adequately address in a HN comment, but just the broad strokes: Spontaneous thoughts that you were referring too, can basically (simplifying) be seen as the mind's way to avoid certain feelings that
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
> has no more or less free will than a computer Exactly. The only difference in our modern times is that a brain is orders of magnitude more complex than a computer. None of the scientists who are working on replicating the consciousness

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