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by adrusi 10y ago
Its important to note that in addition to supply-side forces increasing diagnoses, there are demand-side incentives as well. I don't know how many parents are eager to put their kids on speed, but there are also accommodations provided
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That wasn't implied. He only said he lost interest in his friends.
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These are all part of the easy problem of consciousness, so yes, I don't think anyone doubts that they can be answered in principle. But there's the hard problem of consciousness, which this article talks about. https:/&#x2F
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Oh wow thanks, good to know there's a name for this idea with some amount of thought put into it. Might have to binge on cosmic megastructures reading.
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I appreciate the desire to transcend the exploitation of labor, but even ignoring the fact that this specific case goes about doing that in one of the worst possible ways, I don't think that it's fair or wise to offer bailouts in
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Supposing that next year we get viable coldfusion and that em drive thing turns out to be actually real somehow it would seem feasible to move the planets, but how would you move the sun? You can't very well put an engine on the sun. M
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I don't think that's true, I think you're still limited to the range of < c * lifetime, about 390 trillion miles. If you think this is wrong, can you post some links? Edit: nevermind? The equation here does indicate that l
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Not a uniform entity, but a real entity with real habits of behavior. You don't have to attribute any malice to the "people who perpetrated this mis-design", Microsoft's bureaucratic structure might just be designed in a
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If they have to opt to turn on their radio, and tune to a frequency, how is that substantially different from just using their cell phone to read bad reviews about your business? Besides, jamming radio signals off of your own property is il
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The specific precedent it cites is when actual matter entered somebody else's property, like excessive smoke. Light isn't matter. Projecting something onto someones property isn't all that different from shouting next to it.
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Vandalism requires physical damage? So if I draw a vulgar cartoon on the side of a church in chalk its not vandalism?
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I think that maybe hosting comments alongside the original article isn't the best approach. Half the fun of internet comments is discussing with other commenters, but that works a lot better when you know the community that you're
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Maybe I'm making a good case for eliminating comments by contributing to this tangent. On the other hand, maybe I'm making a good case for my claim that HN's comments are not nearly as plagued by groupthink as people claim. T
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That hasn't been my experience. There are views that HN generally opposes, like being anti-GMO, and newcomers who don't know what HN's opinions are might accidentally run into something and get punished for it. But once you k
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by adrusi 10y ago
But sometimes the point of downvoting is to bury a comment so that it doesn't dominate the discussion. If downvoting required a reply it would achieve the opposite effect.
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Are you saying that his partying put the security of the Tor project at risk? For what reason?
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Perl6 made a lot of improvements https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes Technically not regular expressions since they are appropriate for matching much more than regular grammars, but that's true for almost any
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No, its not different from status quo really. No, that doesn't make it even remotely ok.
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What this article describes is much worse than anything Trump has done in his campaign. It's one thing to engage in "hateful" speech on a podium to get people to like you, and an entirely different thing to do so in official
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You forget about the clergy.
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In the Opium Wars, opium was illegal. It wasn't much of a risk to smokers, but it drove the cost up and drove the trade underground. Social cohesion is lost when addicts can't go through socially acceptable avennues to get the nex
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Hemp smoking can let you not feel bad about your apathy while you're high, and if you don't have much in your life that you can't do while you're high, there's nothing stopping you from being high all day. Once you&
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by adrusi 10y ago
I really don't know what I think about wtbob's comment, but it's awful that it got flagkilled. Are the total available OSS funds the result of a zero-sum game? I think at face-value it isn't zero-sum. I think this ques
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Are you suggesting that it's not a legitimate grievance? Unless people are lying about, for instance, people watching porn in libraries, it does seem like there's a problem with the civility of that discussion. I haven't seen
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I think this is a bit different from when you get a mass email from a company along the lines of "We know you love to netflix and chill, so here's five new blockbuster hits we've added to our catalog". This reads like so
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You can't make a conclusion about the thousands of municipal governments based on your experience with one. I don't know if I'd single them out as particularly corrupt, but they are very frequently at least one of understaffe
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It's a fantastic protocol because of how simple it is. It doesn't try to bake-in features beyond the most fundamental of getting a message from one person to others. If you want want support for multiple clients you can have it, y
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Breaking the rules is fun. The thrill in taking such risks is exhilerating and if you get good at it — if you can repeatedly break the rules and get away with it — you feel powerful . Unless you're suggesting a transhuman approach,
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You're only able to be lax about physical security because institutions take care of it for you. Your taxes go to police, FBI, military. You keep your money in a bank, and the bank spends money on security. If people stopped keeping th
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Well, there was a declassification of cryptography as munitions, which was very important. But that kind of proves the point, doesn't it?

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