asymptosis

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1. 61.▲
   by asymptosis 6y ago

   > A lot more than a lack of violence is required in order for cooperation to be possible. You predicated everything you said on the dangerousness of criminals. Now it seems like you're backpedalling. Overall, your response shows a t
2. 62.▲
   by asymptosis 6y ago

   > keep dangerous people outside of society This kind of assumption about prisoners is unhelpful. Not everyone who goes to jail is "dangerous". Laws are made based on the lowest common denominator, not universal demarcations bet
3. 63.▲
   by asymptosis 6y ago

   This should probably have a "(2020)" in the title. Also, I agree with the 8yo comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5785787 > ArXiv has many "proofs" that P=NP and that P!=NP. ArXiv does
4. 64.▲
   by asymptosis 6y ago

   The size of data which "must" be stored always increases to fill the storage space available. At the moment, I'm content with 14T drives for personal use, which is about 4x bigger than what I was using just a few years ago. B
5. 65.▲
   by asymptosis 6y ago

   Thanks for the heads up. When the link said "vamachara" I just took it face value.
6. 66.▲
   by asymptosis 6y ago

   hahaha :D
7. 67.▲
   by asymptosis 6y ago

   This is the syllabus I was working through: https://web.archive.org/web/20040612155253/http://www.kamaka... It isn't obvious that asanas, breathing exercises, mantras and visualisation are somehow b
8. 68.▲
   by asymptosis 6y ago

   Perhaps you're right, but I wasn't operating within a Buddhist or Hindu paradigm at that time. I was exploring a wide variety of practices as part of a novitiate with the Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros. Even if someone had
9. 69.▲
   by asymptosis 6y ago

   This was it: https://web.archive.org/web/20040612155253/http://www.kamaka...
10. 70.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    Thanks for the question. My mental health these days is usually okay, although drinking too much is a problem for me, along with intermittent insomnia and depression. Having a stable income helps, and I live a lifestyle which doesn't i
11. 71.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    It might be forbidden within the context of certain religious paths/orders, but it's not forbidden for random people on the internet to experiment with whatever exercises they come across. I think the site where I got it doesn&#x2
12. 72.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    About 17 years ago I tried out some vamachara tantra exercises I found on the web. Heady stuff. It gave me a three week episode of full-blown mania. I only needed four hours sleep a night. I had this wild urge to run and jump everywhere I w
13. 73.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    What's the problem being solved? My dev machine already has a package manager for C, it's called ... a package manager.
14. 74.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    It's weird how much more mature you were at 11yo compared to me.
15. 75.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    > From memory it wasn't too hard of a read. Yeah, I'm surprised to hear now that the book is notorious for sitting on shelves while never being read. It didn't need a degree, it just needed some patience and imagination.
16. 76.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    > A Brief History of Time secured his celebrity. That it famously went unread, or unfinished, by many of its purchasers would for any other science communicator be a sign of failure. The book was like a Latin liturgy, filled with terms l
17. 77.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    I think there is a market niche which is being overlooked: pay-to-use search engines. Infinity Search ( https://infinitysearch.co ) is something like what I have in mind, but they only charge $5 per month, and search results are n
18. 78.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    Numerous argumentative fallacies here. * Nothing about "average consumer" was mentioned. * Speed and size aren't relevant to topics of ownership and trust. * People may pay with privacy, but it should be a consenting relati
19. 79.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    Thanks for the ryf links, I didn't know about that. Something to keep in mind the next time I'm looking for hardware.
20. 80.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    I get the feeling you could be tempted to say more about that. Please elaborate?
21. 81.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    Yes, my thoughts exactly. You can't quite escape concerns about motherboard and cpu manufacturers baking in little security holes, but it's better than buying some pre-packaged system or laptop. Chuck Linux or a BSD on there and b
22. 82.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    Reminds me of the saying about how "if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, first you have to make the universe."
23. 83.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    I don't think I follow. Check it out: $ du /swapfile 329696 /swapfile $ du --apparent-size /swapfile 33554432 /swapfile Looks to me like it's behaving as expected?
24. 84.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    Refactoring has the meaning that we impute to it. God didn't hand down golden tablets in the 60s with the words "thou shalt only use 'refactor' in these prescribed ways". Instead of being sorry for being nitpicky, m
25. 85.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    I recently ended up using swapfiles because I refactored my disk layout and it was just simpler to chuck the swap on an existing nvme partition. I realised an extra benefit: you can make it a sparse file, so it never even uses disk space at
26. 86.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    I said over 300 million. $33.333333333 recurring million per year is small change to these people. Not sure why I would need to explain basic math on hacker news ...
27. 87.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    I hear you, and I understand a lot of people in USA have had concerns about Murdoch for a long time. What I particularly have in mind though is that this whole Facebook thing seems like it was Murdoch trying out a new playbook for bringing
28. 88.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    I had in mind that the political power and monetary kickbacks go hand-in-hand. Yes, it is probably widely acknowledged across USA that Murdoch wants more political power over there. But what we've seen here is what he does when he gets
29. 89.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    So Murdoch's empire gets propped up to the tune of over $300 million per year and needs nothing in exchange except keep sending traffic to his sites. Bad news for Australia for starters, but don't think Murdoch will be content jus
30. 90.▲
    by asymptosis 6y ago

    That wasn't the tone of the article and it's disingenuous to pretend it was.