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by V-2 4y ago
It's not a good analogy. Astrology is an explanation of a problem that doesn't exist in the first place.
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by V-2 4y ago
In Poland most software engineers (at least the senior ones) are self-employed due to fiscal reasons. It means paying either a 19% flat tax rate with the possibility of cost deductions, or outright 12% (no deductions then). You can also app
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by V-2 4y ago
I don't believe the difference is anywhere near 300%. Maybe 20 years ago. Let's keep Vienna for comparison, but benchmark it against Warsaw (also substantially more expensive than the rest of the country). According to the data on
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by V-2 4y ago
What exactly implies Austria has a "much higher standard of education" than Poland? For example in the most recent PISA rating the average score of mathematics, science and reading is 513 for Poland (11th in the world) and 491 for
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Ask HN: Mobile app for shared home budgeting?
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by V-2 4y ago
> So if you are talking about "feeling" in the sense of emotion, we actually have a very detailed understanding of how that system works. I'm talking about consciousness, not emotions. About the sense of self. Understand
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by V-2 4y ago
I suppose GP was being ironic ;)
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Only in the same sense as dark matter or string theory are "basically magic". It is naive to assume we've already discovered all properties of matter and energy and are now only refining our understanding of those.
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by V-2 4y ago
What's "quadratic behavior"?
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by V-2 4y ago
It could well be something physical, but going beyond mere computationality. If I knew what it was, I'd be waiting for my Nobel prize now :) It's kind of as Newton's physics was missing the secret ingredient of special relati
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by V-2 4y ago
You mean legislation? :)
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"We" as opposed to "they" is a bit problematic here. Apple, too, consists of people who have contributed to building the society, they're not some alien overlords from outer space.
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by V-2 4y ago
> There's just too much evidence: for instance, changing the physiology of the brain through drugs or trauma has predictable changes on consciousness You can demonstrate that humans react (and quite predictably) to weather - when it
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by V-2 4y ago
It does not require an external observer. I believe the author does acknowledge it, writing "because consciousness is independent of EXTERNAL observers" (emphasis mine) or, even in the sentence that you quoted, "does not de
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by V-2 4y ago
"The idea that you cannot make tea from water alone requires accepting on faith that brewing tea is magic." No, not necessarily. It just means that water/computation is not the only ingredient you need.
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by V-2 4y ago
Kotlin's "const" corresponds directly to Java's "const", so my guess is that they don't want to burn bridges with Java where there's no substantial benefit.
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by V-2 4y ago
That strikes me as a very US-centric point of view.
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by V-2 4y ago
> What you are talking is intelligence in general that rat are more intelligent than butterflies. Not necessarily. One human can be more intelligent than another just the same (even if the gap is orders of magnitude smaller, naturally).
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by V-2 4y ago
It's a working hypothesis where the element of "HOW does consciousness emerge out of computation" remains unanswered, but you could argue that you shouldn't assume the hypothesis is insufficient until it's shown tha
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by V-2 4y ago
The Occam's razor favors the simpler explanation though.
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> and maybe dogs because we like them but definitely not spiders and flies because we don’t This is not an intellectualy honest way to put it. Dogs are obviously and objectively more psychologically complex creatures than flies. "Li
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by V-2 4y ago
> [Consciousness] is a construct we share and use to separate ourselves from the animals so that we can kill them and eat them as a group. Humans have been killing other humans for hundreds of thousands of years without having to deny th
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by V-2 4y ago
The consciousness problem is a tricky one, because unlike with most dilemmas, it's not that obvious on which side the burden of proof lies here. Is the "consciousness is just computation" side obliged to prove HOW consciousne
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by V-2 4y ago
So a tree falling in a forest with noone around to hear doesn't make a sound?
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by V-2 4y ago
"As good as" is not the same as "truly" though.
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by V-2 4y ago
I mean, in well-architected codebases of course. I've been lucky (or picky) enough to mostly work with such though.
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by V-2 4y ago
const is already a keyword - it denotes compile-time constants (basically primitive types). val is constant in runtime, but it can still be computed on the fly; just assigned only once. mut is a nice proposition, I'd certainly consider
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by V-2 4y ago
Yes, exactly. T always becomes Object in runtime, type information is physically gone.
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People generally do have the right to safety, but it's not "unconditional", because there are other values such as personal freedom. We compromise between those conflicting values. If I drive a car, I create SOME risk that I
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by V-2 4y ago
On Android - my platform - 99% of var usage is just for the sake of dependency injection, which is an inevitable concession because basic building blocks of an app (like Activities, Fragments) are instantiated by the SDK, not your code, so

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