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by ajna91 7y ago
"If we substitute the word indifference for the word liberty, we shall come much closer to the real intention that lies behind the classic argument. Liberty is to be permitted where differences are of no great moment. It is this defini
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Cognitive Attractors(sergiograziosi.wordpress.com)
2 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
I think in the near future we'll have empirical evidence that most ads are malicious exploits of flaws in human psychology. Ideally, all ads should be plain text listing of facts. Pictures only allowed for demonstrative purposes. And t
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by ajna91 7y ago
Why was draw_down's comment killed? A quick glance at his profile indicates he is a 4 year old account with more than a 1500 karma, yet every recent comment by him is flagged/killed [1]. Yes, some of them appear trollish, but not
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by ajna91 7y ago
Aren't the values praised in America: self-respect, lack of deference to authority, and "telling it like it is". How did that become replaced by obsequiousness?
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by ajna91 7y ago
It's certainly been pleasant so far as I've been learning 2d game development!
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by ajna91 7y ago
Can't recommend this highly enough. First time chords ever clicked for me. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1302D94F247600CD
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by ajna91 7y ago
I agree, "beyond the functional" to me implies something else like aesthetics or design.
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Could brain organoids or machines develop consciousness?(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
The title should note that they were saved from starvation.
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by ajna91 7y ago
If this[1] is to be believed, Volcker intentionally targeted working people's salaries. > Volcker said that the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s was a "hall of mirrors" and that the "standard of living of the average
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by ajna91 7y ago
It's an unstable equilibrium, not win-win but win-lose. It's only win-win if you think being subjected to tracking, ads, etc costs you nothing. Many people would disagree.
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by ajna91 7y ago
There's another comment above that states that you have no idea if the TV isn't trying to connect to open WiFis, or even use acoustic channels to talk to an app on your phone or smart speaker. Sounds paranoid, but so did everythin
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by ajna91 7y ago
I agree. Especially face to face worrying about this kind of thing seems unhealthy. However, I can see that in text conversations the chance for misunderstanding can be much higher.
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by ajna91 7y ago
I thought the parent was referring to the developers/business choice as being immoral, not the customers. If I choose to offer predatory loans which I would never accept for my friends or family to a community that is not financially s
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Small share of U.S. adults produce majority of tweets on national politics(people-press.org)
163 points by ajna91 7y ago|97 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
Which is it? That they don't care, or they care but disagree? The first seems to be pretty much the definition of "amoral". "Lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something."
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by ajna91 7y ago
Mass hysteria!
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by ajna91 7y ago
"To make the film, Wolf developed a complex system to index and identify the 70,000 tapes, which were all six to eight hours long. In the end, he only digitized 100 of the tapes and says those 700 hours are “a tiny scratch into the sur
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by ajna91 7y ago
Similar discussion 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21544537
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by ajna91 7y ago
"Glib talk of ‘intellectual property rights’, then, concedes polemical ground to the monopoly rent-extractor by granting a certain perceived virtue to those who hold licences and rights. The rest of us are merely greedy and grasping gr
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Why the Tomato was feared in Europe for over 200 years(smithsonianmag.com)
15 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
Hey, this is kind of unrelated, but the other day you mentioned "Blueprints for a Sparkling Tomorrow". May I ask what brought that to your mind, since the book was published years ago?
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The Web We Lost(anildash.com)
3 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
There needs to be some kind of association for shared defense against bullies. Increase the cost of patent/IP trolling while reducing the risk of defending. NATO for small-businesses and startups.
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The Web We Lost(anildash.com)
4 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
Furthermore, the rats that lived in enriched environments drove for the joy of driving, whereas the standard caged rats only drove for the food rewards. "As hypothesized, the animals living in the enriched environment performed better
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Every Indo-European Language Visualized on a Family Tree(theguardian.com)
2 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
They stars won't pass through each other. The "solar systems" will pass through each other.
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by ajna91 7y ago
Maybe remove the first part of your statement so your hypothesis can be debated by cool heads?

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