Gupie

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by Gupie 5y ago
"Would you feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped - would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money?"
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by Gupie 5y ago
They would be wrong then. The great majority of unionist are of Scottish descent and have been in Norther Ireland from the 1600s. FYI the term "unionist" refers to those in NI who want the union with Britain to be maintained, not
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by Gupie 5y ago
However Blair's electability and legacy was fatally damage, and when Cameron next wanted to go to war, to bomb Syria, parliament did not allow it.
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by Gupie 5y ago
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by Gupie 5y ago
Yes, and it is not releasing fossil carbon.
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by Gupie 6y ago
Can't there be a concept of negative happiness?
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by Gupie 6y ago
Interesting point. Is there any country that has system tending towards this?
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by Gupie 6y ago
I agree the rule of law is very important and voters need to care about corruption more that partisanship. How free is the press in South Africa? In the US and to a lesser extent in the UK it is owned by billionaires who broadcast an agenda
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by Gupie 6y ago
But what is the cause of low or high corruption in a society? One method is a free press, which can highlight corruption, along with free elections where corrupt politicians can get kicked out. Is there an alternative?
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by Gupie 6y ago
> you don't get better in your 80s in a meaningful way, since you aren't going to live forever. No one live forever. My father had bowel cancer in his mid-eighties 4 years ago. He had an operation to remove the tumour and had a
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by Gupie 6y ago
I have not down voted it myself but there is the assumption that unit tests will always catch bad refactorings, that human error doesn't apply to writing unit test, that every developer is perfectly conscientious, competent, is not und
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by Gupie 6y ago
Yes, we know a lot, but we don't understand consciousness or even why the universe exists at all. You are probably right, there is unlikely to be a necessity for a "time-stable identity". But who knows, as Lord Kelvin said 19
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by Gupie 6y ago
> There is no known process in physics that could give meaning to that identity. I am arguing that we don't know enough about consciousness or about the universe to claim there is no difference between the original and the copy. So
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by Gupie 6y ago
> unless you believe in a transcendent soul as the seat of consciousness, it must be equivalent. That is a big claim considering we have no idea what causes consciousness. It is however certain that the copy is not you. Whether the ori
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by Gupie 6y ago
Or proof the earth is flat.
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by Gupie 6y ago
No. Enlighten me.
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by Gupie 6y ago
> Its security against nation state level attacks depends on the amount of energy used. I don't understand how more energy used makes bitcoin harder to shut down. It would seem the opposite to me as energy usage could be used to fin
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by Gupie 6y ago
Why do you prefer Bitcoin to use more energy?
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Why Bitcoin is so bad for the planet – video explainer [video](theguardian.com)
19 points by Gupie 6y ago|11 comments
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by Gupie 6y ago
Putin controls Russian media for the same reasons billionaires control American media. Neither are democratic. Whoever controls the media controls the electorate.
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by Gupie 6y ago
But if a civilization has been expanding for a billon years the chances very small that you are this millennium of fuzziness.
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by Gupie 6y ago
But we had a billion years left. We have plenty of time to do whether we are going to do before the "planets clock runs out".
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by Gupie 6y ago
Problem: 225 radioactive asteroids heading for Earth
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by Gupie 6y ago
Or whether the tale is optimised
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by Gupie 6y ago
Yes, but I cannot find the same in the problem definition: "they need you to find the two entries that sum to 2020 and then multiply those two numbers together" https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/1
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by Gupie 6y ago
I was only joking when saying 100%, but it is high. It is like having a bag of 1000 marble and you put your hand in and pull out a green one. You now know that the probability that there are a lot of green marbles in the bag is high.
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by Gupie 6y ago
The "x == y" test looks like a bug to me, unless duplicate entries are not allowed. For example [1010,1010,1721,979,366,299,675,1456] should return 1010 * 1010, not 1721 * 299.
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by Gupie 6y ago
Perhaps no hypothesis has ever been proven to be definitively true, but it is possible to proof that at hypothesis is false, e.g. the moon is not made of cheese, the earth is not flat. Also you can estimate the likelihood that a hypothesis
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by Gupie 6y ago
> there's an estimated 8.7 million unique species of plants and animals currently on Earth. So [...] there's a one in 10 million chance of "intelligent" life evolving on a planet that supports life Isn't that the
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by Gupie 6y ago
He is not saying that people with anxiety are abusive he is saying that abusive people are often have anxiety, i.e. a subset of anxious people try to cope with their anxiety by being grandiose and abusing.

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