ViktorRay

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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
This is a neat article. I don’t think I ever thought much about that light but now after reading this article…it really was a pretty cool and useful detail. The info about how the light’s rhythm was meant to be similar to human breathing is
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Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street's Deep Anxiety About AI Future(wsj.com)
10 points by ViktorRay 8mo ago|2 comments
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
That’s very interesting! Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
Tolstoy was Russian. Russia is not a Western country. And Tolstoy was influenced by non-Western philosophical and religious figures.
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
”This interpretation reeks of Western naivete.” The essay you are responding to was written by a historian. The ideas actually described in the essay were not developed by a Western person. They were first implemented successfully by a no
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
I think this is likely the solution to the Fermi paradox. I suspect that life akin to prokaryotes is common all over the universe. The eukaryotic life forms may be exceedingly rare though. So multicellular life may be rare. It’s actually pr
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
There is a gigantic difference between deporting people who are in a country illegally vs targeting people for discrimination based on ethicality and/or religion. The Nazis targeting ethnic minorities and placed them into labor camps.
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
No this isn’t what the Nazis did. Comparisons like that are ridiculous. The Nazi took members of ethnic minorities and put them into death camps and massacred them in horrible ways. Comparing the deportation of illegal immigrants (illegals
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Assad, obsessed with sex and video games, refused every lifeline he was offered(theatlantic.com)
5 points by ViktorRay 8mo ago|0 comments
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Cuba's regime is in dire straits(economist.com)
17 points by ViktorRay 8mo ago|14 comments
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
Reddit is filled with very vocal terminally online people. Their views and actions are not representative of normal human beings.
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
The title is clickbait but the article itself is highly informative and interesting to read. Highly recommend it.
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Will pressure cause Cuba to finally buckle?(ft.com)
3 points by ViktorRay 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
I think your statement might be too harsh. Some parts of America are doing badly yes but other parts are doing very well at the moment. For example Central Texas (where Austin is) and South Florida (where Miami is) are both doing very well
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Healthcare Jobs Have Become the Engine of America's Labor Market(wsj.com)
31 points by ViktorRay 8mo ago|6 comments
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
The Dark Knight was released in the summer of 2008. This was almost 7 years after 9/11. Many aspects of that film were deliberately done to explore post 9/11 America. This includes the methods Harvey Dent uses, the things the Jok
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
Hey just want to add something. Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin. It’s pretty damn hard to get Vitamin C toxicity from overconsumption. It’s not really something to worry about. This is true for all the water soluble vitamins. This isn’
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
That isn’t because of being vegetarian but because of poverty.
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The AI Boom Is Coming for Apple's Profit Margins(wsj.com)
1 points by ViktorRay 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
Wait isn’t this the other way around? In reality lifestyle modifications are more conservative than using a medication so lifestyle modification would be first line from an ethical perspective. In reality though it does seem like statins ar
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
I listened to BBC Newshour talk to one of the scientists studying this. The scientist mentioned that other studies have shown that vocabulary does not narrow with normal aging. Word use does not change over time. A person's vocabulary
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Group Chats Rule the World (2024)(nytimes.com)
1 points by ViktorRay 8mo ago|1 comments
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by ViktorRay 8mo ago
I heard about this study while listening to BBC Newshour. One of the scientists discussing the study mentioned that this is important because studies have shown that normally word use doesn’t change with aging. So being able to detect these
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Signs of Terry Pratchett's dementia appear in Discworld years before diagnosis(boingboing.net)
3 points by ViktorRay 8mo ago|1 comments
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by ViktorRay 9mo ago
Apple’s lawyers were able to resist the Obama administration’s pressure. American presidents are not dictators. The system has checks and balances and the courts decide. It doesn’t matter who the president is.
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I Was Diagnosed with ADHD in My Forties. It Explained Everything(wsj.com)
6 points by ViktorRay 9mo ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 9mo ago
Are you sure the internet begs to differ? The dot com bubble crashed. Many websites like pets.com ended up closing up. It wouldn’t be until much later that those ideas succeeded…when companies were able to work from the customer experience
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by ViktorRay 9mo ago
You seem to be forgetting the time the Obama administration asked Apple to unlock a suspect’s iPhone and Apple refused.
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How Intel Came Crashing Back to Earth After Its Trump Bump(wsj.com)
3 points by ViktorRay 9mo ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 9mo ago
The use of an external threat to justify internal suppression of basic human freedoms such as the freedom of speech. Freedom of speech naturally includes the ability to communicate with others. When the government blocks people from communi

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