anvandare

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by anvandare 8y ago
>[...] We see wealth, power and influence placed in the hands of the greedy, the megalomaniacs, or the plain malicious. [...] the same old dynamics. Insanity is running the same program over and over again and expecting different results
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by anvandare 8y ago
If only we knew why our feet walk the way they do. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/calf-path
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by anvandare 8y ago
>rejecting that there is any knowable basis for morality or truth. Which is correct. There is no such thing as The Morality or The Truth or The Good. They are but figments of our imagination, byproducts of a mind that's evolved to
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by anvandare 8y ago
But given sufficiently enough time (i.e. infinity) the 'same' brain (spawned with a start-state which is an exact copy of the end-state of the last time) will keep re-appearing again and again, allowing for a continuous stream of
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by anvandare 8y ago
On the contrary. If all actions lead to regret, then it is regret which is meaningless, not the actions themselves. The same holds true for life. All our lives end in non-existence, but it is non-existence which is meaningless, not the life
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by anvandare 8y ago
Translated trying to use approximating modern Flemish-Dutch words ("slaap-voerde af" isn't really an existing word, but its meaning should be obvious). ny ołys ej gułd, wos zih fynklt, glanct oba łiöeht? Niet alles is g
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by anvandare 8y ago
The story of mankind, I'm afraid. A few people find a neat little spot where they can hang out, and for a while things are great, everything is pretty cool. Then, sooner or later, the group gets Too Big. Not so cool stuff starts happen
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by anvandare 8y ago
The order between (1) "you being late" and (2) "you departing home at 09:05" is undetermined, but the events themselves aren't. Or: it doesn't matter in which order you write the events of a story, as long as t
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by anvandare 8y ago
The Master said: "If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them
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by anvandare 8y ago
I wouldn't consider a bear that attacked my village and killed some of my friends "guilty". It's just biology, which is just chemistry, which is just physics.[1] As are we all. In the same way I don't assign blame t
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by anvandare 8y ago
We can deal with small and fast changes, or big and slow changes, but not big and fast. The problem is not the CO2 levels themselves, or the heat, or even the climate. Life can exist and thrive in phenomenally hostile environments. It&#x2
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by anvandare 8y ago
There is none. Science is discovering what is possible. Technology is changing something from possible to doable. Once the possibility of something is made clear (if not the exact path toward it - the do-ability), people will start rushing
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by anvandare 8y ago
Like being in a car going 60 mph and there's a cliff 100 feet away... But we're not talking about braking, we're arguing about by how much we should take our foot off the gas pedal.
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by anvandare 8y ago
Part of the security of observation comes from the observed not knowing whether or not they are being watched. The Stasi (as well as every other secret police) never had the manpower to keep eyes on everyone. (Of course, that was before mas
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by anvandare 8y ago
$ units ... You have: 50 * 12 * 12 inch^3 You want: dm^3 * 117.98686 / 0.00847552 You have: 118 liter per (50 * 12 * 12 inch^3) You want: hogshead per rod^3 * 533.44715 / 0.0018745999 533.44 hogsh
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by anvandare 8y ago
That's what sensory deprivation tanks are for. As the brain is a constant pattern-matcher and input-filter, depriving it of fresh inputs seems to turn it a bit hallucinatory, it starts to make up stuff (could be described as boredom, p
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by anvandare 8y ago
They haven't figured out how to interact with the nerves to create any kind of sensory input (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, balance, ...), so no Altered Carbon-like virtual reality where you can be tortured to death over and ov
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by anvandare 8y ago
Oh I understand why that's there, it's just another amusing instance of "I'll know it when I see it" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
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by anvandare 8y ago
It's illegal, but legal if licensed (quantum physics has nothing on legal systems) or on a temporary basis and small scale (town fairs, hobby club raffles, etc.). The main issue is that the games allow (and target) minors to play, whic
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by anvandare 8y ago
The gambling commission which made this report/recommendation apparently uses four criteria: (1) It's a game /* hello, Wittgenstein */ (2) There's a (financial) stake (3) The player can win or lose (i.e. they'r
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by anvandare 8y ago
I wonder why the Chinese internet is still even connected to the Internet (other than for cyber-warfare).
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by anvandare 9y ago
No coincidences with games like this. :) (I went over it again, and of course a simple blob isn't just a binary, it has no magic bytes or anything, stupid.) Using "Israel-is-70" gives me ... 3?.205.32.11 Which of course look
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by anvandare 9y ago
Yes. The highlighted areas are: >+-++<>-+--><[+-[ ]+-]<+--+>[+--+]< [+>+<-]><----[--> +++<]>--.-------- -.+++.[++>---<]>+ +.-[----->++<]>-. +[->+++<]>+.+++++ ++++++.---
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by anvandare 9y ago
If I were not of the opinion that social media is more damaging than beneficial to humanity, I'd like to see a social network that limits the number of people you can interact with to ~100. Want to add a new person? Then get rid of an
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by anvandare 9y ago
Maybe. Per Article 7(3) (in particular the last sentence)[0]: >The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent bef
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by anvandare 9y ago
And this is how the Cult Mechanicus begins. :)
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by anvandare 9y ago
Another collapse by changing environment is (likely) that of the Maya civilization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Maya_collapse#Drought_... A civilizational collapse is rarely caused by a single event, but inst
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by anvandare 9y ago
But how can you trust your memory when it tells you that your memory was once better? :>
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by anvandare 9y ago
Pitot tube, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot_tube
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by anvandare 9y ago
I see what you mean by paradox. It's definitely chaotic in that the system loops back on itself, but the main component of tectonics are (supposed to be) mantle cells due to heat difference between the core and the crust.[1] There are

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