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by Udo 7y ago
> You can just call it "extracellular". That's an understatement, as I'm sure we both know. A more apt word would be "extrauniversal".
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by Udo 7y ago
> "The flaws of your position are shown quite well in the "Blind men and the elephant" proverb." Once again, that's quite an assertion you make against me there. At no point did I argue that we understand every
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by Udo 7y ago
> You just hand waved away the entire problem of whether materialism/physicalism is actually the correct position It's true that I don't lend credibility to supernatural hypotheses, which I'm sure isn't the mos
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by Udo 7y ago
> You are confusing brains and minds. That's a baseless assertion. In fact, I made it extra clear to distinguish between minds and the hardware they run on. By necessity, we need to talk about the "interface" between bo
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by Udo 7y ago
Cells are machines, (our) minds are running on cells, therefore minds run on machines. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that. Unless you are making an argument for supernatural influences. It's debatable whether minds
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by Udo 7y ago
I think so, yes. For example, if you're including a Facebook button, that counts. So including JS from a CDN would also have to count. And when you're using a reverse proxy, I think it's not distinguishable anymore whether it
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by Udo 7y ago
I do support this stance, but depending on your setup, there are gotchas website operators should be aware of. I see CDNs as a major hidden aspect: for the government, it looks like you're tracking people, even if you're not. So y
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by Udo 7y ago
> Will the governments ban conventions? I would have had to go to a convention/trade show in Paris next week, but luckily it got postponed for two months. So far people are getting more cautious. Between the two standard criticism
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by Udo 7y ago
I think the concept is neat, and this could be a worthwhile mode for some chat apps. I would get rid of the cute range names though and just tell users how many km this reaches. I remember there was a project exactly like this in nReduce (a
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by Udo 7y ago
Replacing the HDD on an iMac is non-trivial. This is not only due to the fact that you have to unglue and then re-glue the screen, but there is also a non-standard thermal sensor on the Apple HDDs which you need to circumvent when putting a
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by Udo 7y ago
So let's say this is 10% efficient, that means 50W per citizen. Clearly, there is something I'm not getting. Do power companies really budget 50W per user? I mean it's possible but that seems very low to me.
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by Udo 7y ago
> enough power to supply a town of one hundred thousand coursed through an 831-foot tower That would mean 5W per inhabitant. In 2020, this would barely be enough to charge a phone, and in 1934 that would have been a light bulb per 20 c
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by Udo 7y ago
> I have a very boring solution to Fermi's paradox: interstellar travel is simply very hard You're probably right, but that's not a solution to the Fermi Paradox. The central question is not why we don't see any spa
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by Udo 7y ago
I think this probably doesn't need to be said but LGBTQ people on Mastodon are not an example of what I meant. To make it extra clear, I also didn't mean to imply that just any group with a strong presence on such networks is au
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by Udo 7y ago
I disagree with many of the premises laid out here. > Federation results in the data of users being subject to the whims of the owner of the federated instance In the largely unfederated world we have right now, that boils down to one
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by Udo 7y ago
> Now imagine the rules and procedures of an underground lottery. That's what makes it so fascinating. The bingo ball machine concept you describe requires a lot of trust, that's why so much effort has to go into continuous
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by Udo 7y ago
Wouldn't the payout ratio have been known in advance, when the bet was being placed? From what I understand, the "bankers" would set that ratio in advance and pay out of their pockets if necessary.
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by Udo 7y ago
I had to look this up, because the article doesn't really explain it very well (maybe it's common knowledge, but not to me): it seems the numbers "drawn" were usually taken from a publicly verifiable source of randomness
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by Udo 7y ago
Thank you for clearing that up, I think I misunderstood your original comment to mean that the Saudis and the US administration are opposites. I think you're right that there is some hypocrisy involved when CEOs publicly denounce unpop
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by Udo 7y ago
Not only Silicon Valley. I struggle to see the relation to the Trump administration here, but in any case they are deeply in the Saudis' pockets as well, same as with any other administration that came before. To paint the SA regime an
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by Udo 7y ago
"muted small text" directly below the headline. Could it be more prominent? Yes. But it's not like the author didn't attempt to communicate the language context, and in that I argue, this blog is still doing better than
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by Udo 7y ago
Normally I would agree with you, there are many instances of articles where the language/framework in question is just assumed to be known. However, in this case, the post is clearly marked ".NET, .NET Core, C#".
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by Udo 7y ago
The crucial point is that to get to (low) relativistic speeds, you also need a relativistic exhaust velocity or the reaction mass just becomes untenable. Current ion thrusters are not up to the job. For example, if you had a vehicle weighin
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by Udo 7y ago
My "scheme", in its simplest form, is to serve the same content over HTTP to nearby phones, and has in fact one fewer point of failure - namely the old TV. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, but it's n
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by Udo 7y ago
For the cost of a micro SD card (or a small micro SD for the OS and an inexpensive USB hard drive for actual data storage) and an Orange Pi Zero (about $10), this could also become a low-power headless Wifi access point providing Wikipedia
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by Udo 7y ago
> Bio today is where information technology was 50 years ago: on the precipice of touching all of our lives. Bio has been touching all of our lives for a long time now, from vaccines to food to basic research yielding large advancement
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by Udo 7y ago
Over long enough time scales, replication errors and base pair flips will accumulate, and it's likely these effects will become problematic way before the stated in vitro half life of 521 years. However, since we're talking about
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by Udo 7y ago
> Even if you manage to digitise yourself This article talks about a potential way to increase lifespan and quality of life by a very modest amount, by a process that if it is feasible at all for humans (which it likely won't be
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by Udo 7y ago
Put another way, both men and women seem to agree that breakups are more likely the man's fault than the woman's. What I found curious is that at the same time, apparently the majority of "laypeople" when asked about it
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by Udo 7y ago
That reflects how things work on macOS and iOS right now, the scroll bar disappears when you stop scrolling. However, that does not apply to "pop-in" elements like the share pane. It operates like a slidable component on-top of th

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