FungalRaincloud

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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I think this issue arises from fundamentally western ideas about what it is that are our most basic human instincts. We have certain instinctual needs, which, I'll agree, would seem to imply a hedonistic lifestyle when considered alone
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
In my personal experience, I agree, it's a misunderstanding of what happiness is, that causes people to miss the mark when trying to find it. Happiness isn't something you find, it's something you make. The universe is meanin
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
To add to that, the backpropagation doesn't have to happen on device - they could, for instance, record statistics from a sampling of the cellphones in use, backprop on a server, then push an update to the weights in the next over the
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
This is interesting to me. A lot of what I know about posture indicates that once you are conscious of your bad habits, fixing them isn't all that hard. Something like this could very easily give people a clear indication of what their
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Personally, I take finding peace and love in your last moments as a way of raging against the dying of the light.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I'm going to assume Betteridge's law applies here... ...And now that I've read the article, I think I'm right. This sounds like an advertisement, to be honest. But I'm not really even sold. I feel like if the argume
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I'm most concerned with the ethics of testing the device, which I suppose leads us to the ethics of augmenting healthy brain function. The best candidates for testing this device might not be in the best position to give informed conse
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I wouldn't say it was criticizing streams of consciousness. I would say it was criticizing how our streams of consciousness are becoming more prone to jumping from topic to topic. I think the exact intention of the article is to show,
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Keybase desires to act as a keyserver and public identity record, keeping your aggregated identity, and a backup of your public and private key pair. The latter is (read: should be) encrypted and only accessible to you. They make that optio
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
That might be true, and that's a conversation we should definitely have, as we decide how we will be governed in the future. But that alone does not mean less crypto is preferable.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I'm probably echoing others by saying this, but: I don't agree that there is even correlation between more encryption and less privacy. Even if we were not attempting to subvert injustices done to us by our own governments by prov
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I mean, I think it's a cool idea, but I kind of hope not. Firefox is the only browser that seems to consistently be able to play video at my work, because of aggressive firewalls. If they enable tor by default, it's pretty much gu
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I don't even have my pilot's license, but if that thing was in front of me, I'd ask to ride. Bear in mind that in the early days of flight, we had people who were willing to play tennis on the wings while a plane was flying b
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I have a few tips. First, change how you look at meditation. Think of it as getting comfortable with being bored, instead of trying to clear your mind of all thought. It might help to count, or to use a mala by moving it through your hands,
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
It certainly would seem like it's your fault if someone overhears a sensitive message, if you know it's a sensitive message. But what if you don't know it's sensitive? What if you thought your last message was something
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Agreed upon code words in the message. I had a friend who was told that if she received a call regarding a particular sensitive matter, the person on the phone would start the call (whether she answered or not) with "Hey, it's Jen
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
The best way to handle this is with account-specific API keys. Even that would just mean creating an account, and the only real benefit to that is that you could track the API key, and if it did "bot-like" things, ban it. That&#x2
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
While I agree with the premise that our culture is (at least partially) to blame, I want to clarify something about my post. When I use the word minority, I do not mean "there are fewer women. Rather, I mean it in the way that the cens
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I am inclined to agree that it's not necessarily "wrong" - but mainly because I don't believe it to be a black and white issue. Self-segregation is beneficial to the individual - they feel like part of the group, and tha
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
I would like to see the studies you're referencing. However, taking what you're saying as truth (a thing I am reluctant to do), I still find it a big leap to claim that the reason that there are fewer women in tech is that fewer w
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
It seems that there's a split between people who are complaining because the ads are "relevant" to only one aspect of their history, and do not change often enough, and people complaining that the ads are not at all relevant
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
If the game is targeting young kids, it's missing out on its primary audience. For one thing, young kids often do not have cellphones of their own. But for another, I was recently at a mall in a fairly major city, and I did not see one
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
So, I agree with you. She violated the letter of the law. The argument that the FBI director is making is that the law, while saying that negligence is also a violation, has never been tested with regard to negligence. It has only been used
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
Most frustrating to me is the "high accuracy" location service. No, I do not want you to track what wireless SSIDs I'm near. Accurate within 25 feet, as GPS usually is for me, is just fine.
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
It's true, you can cut off the data stream. I have done so, at times, myself. At this point, though, I have it on (with some device exceptions where I do anything that might be sensitive, or I might want to avoid someone accidentally f
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by FungalRaincloud 10y ago
While I feel like voting to leave is the wrong step here, and will undoubtedly lead to some problems in the immediate future, I do find some truth in your post. The unity of the EU has always felt ethereal to me. It has never felt like the
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by FungalRaincloud 11y ago
I believe you're right, but it still feels icky to have something always listening for that special phrase, to me. Maybe if I wrote and maintained the code myself that always listened, I'd feel more comfortable with it. Oh, I thi
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by FungalRaincloud 11y ago
They're not even debating, they're just stating the major arguments. It could just as easily be an article stating the facts of the case, and might well be more valuable if it was.
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by FungalRaincloud 11y ago
they came first for the nouns, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a noun; And then they came for the personal pronouns, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a personal pronoun; And then they came for the gerunds, A
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by FungalRaincloud 11y ago
I would guess it's less about it being OK to lose the pilot, but not passengers, and more about the pilot being aware of the type of cargo and its risks.

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