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by arnoooooo 6y ago
Maybe it's time for a revival of idealism (in the philosophical sense of the term). Its rejection would account for a lot of the current frontiers in physics.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
I would not say that if youtube straight up asked for payment for their product and there were no ads. Instead, Youtube is pestering you with ads and asking for payment to stop doing so.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
Thats sounds a lot like extorsion.
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The Last Children of Down Syndrome(theatlantic.com)
68 points by arnoooooo 6y ago|137 comments
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
What are leaders for if they can't lead ? Should their job not be to convince people of what needs to be done ? They do a very good job by the way when it comes to pushing for liberalism.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
I fail to see how you're not just waving hands. You assume that consciousness is an emergent property of matter, you think it's plausible, but you can't explain it or prove it.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
> Who here can visualize an apple in their mind, literally seeing it as if existed and was being perceived by the eye (a sense organ)? Anybody who dreams when sleeping. Is that not everybody ? Ability to do it when awake (lucid dreaming)
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
People driving instead of walking or bicycling will be in poorer health, so you'd have to account for that as well, plus the consequences of air pollution, stress from noise, etc.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
This reminds me of Donald Hoffman's theory of conscious agents. He posits the simplest conscious agent to be a binary one : it can make only one kind of decision, with only two possibilities.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
And differential pressure make flowers open and close !
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
Who cares if the server is not ?
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
I wish all these file systems told me clearly if and how they guarantee file integrity over time.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
I don't think the people who downvote this comment have really thought about whether they own their phone, their computer, their printer, their ebooks, their car, their software... We have come to an era where you "buy" thing
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
Buy somewhere else ? They continue because people tolerate their abuse, because convenience.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
I believe we're heading for a very rough time if we can avoid collapse. In an unstable society, I want energy production that is simple and decentralized. Nuclear energy does not fit that bill.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
They have also very successfully "outsourced" part of the reprocessing to eastern Europe… there have been documented reports of storage in huge open vats of fuel officially sent for reprocessing.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
Energy is used to transform things. A high energy society is a society that transforms a lot, and hence will quickly reach ecological barriers, no matter how clean the energy is.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
This actually allows you to use both screens and move windows from one to the other. Not at all the same as just screensharing.
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Operation Earnest Voice – An astroturfing campaign by the government of the US(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by arnoooooo 6y ago|1 comments
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
On the same topic, I wish I could link with highlights in the page. Having a spec for highlights in URLS would be neat.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
There's much more than IP adress that's used to track you. Companies like facebook use all the forms of browser storage, browser fingerprinting, etc.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
There is indeed no mystery of consciousness except that some humans are incapable of accepting the fact that they are just consciousness, matter just being their user interface with the rest of consciousness. This works just as well (better
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
> you can be uncounscious Uncounsciousness is often taken to mean the absence of consciousness, but it could just as well be the absence of objects in consciousness. After all, by definition, no one has ever had first-hand experience of
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
> It doesn't seem any more implausible to me that consciousness is an emergent property from our brain bio/chem/physics then that hurricanes and diamonds and stalagmites naturally emerge from their respective environments.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
Unless you want the law of the jungle, any freedom you have will come from restrictions on the freedom of others. That's the basis for civilization. Speech has consequences, there are no reasons for it to fall outside the realm of law.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
You might want to read Whatsapp terms of service, in particular the part where they claim copyright and even the right to make derivative works on anything you transmit over their platform.
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Effectiveness of Grounded Sleeping on Recovery After Eccentric Muscle Loading(frontiersin.org)
25 points by arnoooooo 6y ago|20 comments
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
There's plenty of scientific evidence to suggest that porn is not that great : https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articl...
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
> Watching pornography of normal acts with male or female anatomy I doubt will cause issues It's not that simple. Not only is there habituation, but sex is something the brain reacts pretty strongly to. It can't be that neutral
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
Sad that it's Mac only.

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