akramachamarei

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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
It is not rude to point out that an insubstantial comment, which in particular falls foul of Hackernews guidelines, likely comes from a sublogical mental process. I regret my apparent failure to promote introspection or further inquiry into
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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
Well, yes, that's kinda the whole question of accessibility. The proportion of people who e.g. can't distinguish colors or use the stairs might be a rounding error in some populations. We still find it valuable to strive to serve
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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
If the comment baited you, maybe it's because you're holding onto a popular but nonsensical belief system, and you're experiencing painful cognitive dissonance.
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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
Shhh don't ask that. The authoritarians are here.
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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
I'm beginning to think you don't understand the words "argument" or "woke" either.... But anyway, I'm merely pointing out for the sake of readers that insurance companies are engaging willingly (and very g
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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
...What do you mean "cap"?
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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
> Soviet programmers invented it in their spare time when they had access to computers, as enthusiasts. What did capitalism add? Capitalism created the computers whose Soviet copies were Tetris' native platform, it made the language
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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
Are the Americans in the room with us right now?
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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
> the experience has been […] uniformly poor […] Any positive interactions and outcomes have felt like happy accidents Which is to say, not uniformly poor? > I'd also love to do away with tax prep — the government knows what is o
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by akramachamarei 2mo ago
> You can force insurers to cover folks they wouldn't want to otherwise by bringing more customers (employees) to the table. The word you're looking for is "convince," not "force." This whole discussion is
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Impossible Colors(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by akramachamarei 3mo ago|1 comments
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
(Which you might be able to see)
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
Thanks to the hackernews community for flagging this and proving his point!
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
This seems like a strangely inverted observation, i.e. pretty directly backwards of what's actually happening. This is evident in the odd way you characterize your latter 2 of 3 examples. The first example is real though, and those are
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
This is at least the third HN post about this lol. Surprised it still hasn't blown up on HN.
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
Your analysis reiterates the popular but fallacious motifs. The real issue is that people don't read the contracts they sign, so when they buy something they imagine that it will do all they expect and probably more from the time they
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
As an occasional amateur music transcriber I'd say the goal of transcription is not transformation. If I'm transforming, I've failed :) Inevitably the transcriber makes decisions in how to deviate from the reference recording
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69% support forcible transfer of 50% AI stock to public fund: Verasight(reports.verasight.io)
2 points by akramachamarei 3mo ago|1 comments
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
I'm not certain I took that dichotomy as a premise, but regardless I agree there is a middle ground of many patches occupied by real events characterized by mixtures of intentionality and submission. That's the easy part. What I t
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
You're talking about superiority of technology, not technology itself.
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
Could you elaborate? Esp. on the "more or less" bit. E.g. I can't imagine you take away porn and more than 100 people experience withdrawal.
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
> Are you truly curious as to how it might not be A Good Thing that those engaging in high-finance capitalistic money making programs would have access to forcefully engaging a human being's brain into activity, with or without thei
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
Are you serious?
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
To flip the question on it's head, what exactly do you see as the "evil" potential? The most prominent comments to this effect are just scifi handwaving.
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
Really, I don't think you need to worry. A prevailing latent attitude in the comments is that the brain is somehow super malleable and subject to external control through some incantations. Like subliminal messaging, it will at most be
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
> I appreciate that this is scientific research, but there are definitely companies out there that will try to row-hammer everyone's brain if this sort of thing is not heavily controlled. What's to gain in doing so?
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
> Talk to console gamers and they still think the PC is sweaty and playing on the PC is like putting your hands in the toilet. The kind of ridiculous sweeping generalization that discredits the rest.
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
> Anything worth doing out of the kindness of our hearts is worth doing collectively without expecting individuals do disproportionately sacrifice. What are you saying here? Like, how are you distinguishing individual charity from the th
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by akramachamarei 3mo ago
Surveillance sovereignty

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