Xen9

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by Xen9 2y ago
What's with the magic smoke? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522542
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by Xen9 2y ago
I believe there is no better kind of feeling in all of mathematics & all of science than that which one may get from the knowledge that an an intuitive, possibly shaky idea they themselves suggested already exists as rigorous and useful
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by Xen9 2y ago
Highly relevant (self-advertisement): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173227
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by Xen9 2y ago
Comments like this are usually not good, but in this case I believe it's better to give the link than to try to summarize the numerous points about the state of censorship in the United States and Europe that were made in that intervie
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by Xen9 2y ago
My bad for potentially strawmanning.
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by Xen9 2y ago
> When people who haven’t been to America talk about it, they get their ideas from the distorted cliches of the media. A land of gun nuts and COVID deniers, rife with racism and obesity! This annoys me. I’ve lived in the US and have fami
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by Xen9 2y ago
Counterpoint: https://rumble.com/v4e0xw0-tucker-carlson-interviews-mike-be...
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by Xen9 2y ago
Because you express no uncertainty, your belief equals the statement: There exists 0% probability that agency in the physical universe is embedded. This is stupid, because embedded agency does exist, EG we have programs that simulate consc
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by Xen9 2y ago
One must add that IQ & height distributions ALSO look the same despite the latter and artificial one being a good proxy for intelligence.
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by Xen9 2y ago
When Ukraine war started for example, there were many lists of oligarchs, "Putin's circle" cieculating around. These would lead to, even when there were no sanctions, activism against these names and avoidance of doing busine
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by Xen9 2y ago
I am not familiar with US politics but Musk has of course done lots of political things in the past and now with the Trump interview, this feels slightly like a target list. Could it serve as one?
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by Xen9 2y ago
A browser addon that takes one's password manager export & deletes every account, possibly after scraping the data, would be amazing. No one has done it and it can be done such that the system will eventually safely delete every ac
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by Xen9 2y ago
It's by the way interesting idea that developing countries entertrainment industries may develop very differently due to internet piracy being already prevalent, though foreign investment may lead to this not happening, IE an "agr
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by Xen9 2y ago
Ironically completing Hawking's work to prove himself wrong. Now it's the physicists turn to prove a better mathematical model, semi-empirically.
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by Xen9 2y ago
I would have done the same. I think in general world has too much prison and too little kicking the convinct off, even though monitoring that they dont come back is a problem.
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by Xen9 2y ago
Wait tree days before posting, span it out.
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by Xen9 2y ago
I think it's "you pay 20k because you don't care how much you pay as long you get a good product, unless the cost is at least in hundred thousands." Elite showing off behaviour seems to be either about cool unusual thing
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by Xen9 2y ago
Exchange the mortage for a watch loan.
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by Xen9 2y ago
Regarding note-taking, an Obsidian plugin that generates Loci's palaces where you get to add all sort of things, using stable diffusion & other new technology (rotable 3D => better spatial memory) would be great.
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by Xen9 2y ago
I don't see harm in non-compete agreements between non-natural legal persons. In fact, were IP developed by a person tied to a personal proxy body, it would be possible for them to recieve payments for the IP from past employer, who co
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by Xen9 2y ago
A factor to note: Proportion of humans who know how to use touch UI but not the other UI. --- I wonder if there exist systems that measure response times, error presses etc. consistently over time for different mediums. There is huge amout
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by Xen9 2y ago
I've recently realized that one can effectively cross-ventilate studio apartment by adding to their mail slots a PC-fan filtered by small HEPA-filter (to remover outdoor odors) combined with a window-attached ventilator pulling air to
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by Xen9 2y ago
I did not open the site, but unless there's a list of names, preferrably with portraits & clear captions (e.g. "FName Lname, X billions made, from Y definition surveillance / other evils of Z humans") no blame campai
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by Xen9 2y ago
Humans probably believe in true things because lack of conception of logic would lead to cognitive retardation. It is also possible to say that it is impossible to not to believe in true things, because belief may be a definition of the tru
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by Xen9 2y ago
I believe that most good to the world would be done by first working out the theory & then developing an applet, EG website, that lasts long, and will automatically determine the best possible backup solution "real-world." Thi
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by Xen9 2y ago
That seems fixable by making them tell that. I suspsect that most adults realize that there are fees though.
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by Xen9 2y ago
I will have to make an analysis of regular expressions of heuristically most useful & heuristically highest quality academic source materials.
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by Xen9 2y ago
Idea: Web page of every phrase in (Koine) greek that meant different thing to the ancient great philosophers than in English language today. This'd help to get a good picture of the Greeks at once for one usually stumbles upon the &quo
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by Xen9 2y ago
I'd consider not getting seats a failure overall, though he managed to get attention and the first elections werent that bad (if I recall correctly).
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by Xen9 2y ago
Yours is ridiculously bad advice, but typical for those who work to say. Even for person with no other sources of income, the optimal path is investing such that you will within reasonable amount of time be able to with "certainty&quot

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