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by atchoo 4y ago
No matter how fancy the chat bot, until we solve the "Hard problem of consciousness", there will be magic in our minds.
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by atchoo 4y ago
Yup no turning back now after supping on CK3 wine. I tried EU4 but graphics/text-rendering issues meant I just couldn't play it. I look forward to an EU5 with a CK3 quality make over. Sounds like we might have to wait a year or so
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by atchoo 4y ago
Similar for me but with Crusader Kings 3. I can't imagine playing Civ now without murder, marriages, a dynasty to care for etc. Crusader Kings has prompted me to read dozens on history books due to how engages you with real historical
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by atchoo 4y ago
> why do you consider it to be a problem in the mind, rather than the body One argument is that it's a category error to call gender wrong. Your ethnicity, gender and wealth of your parents etc. just is, it's the hand you are d
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by atchoo 4y ago
No. He was sacked by an anti-science government pandering to a voter block scared and hostile to liberalisation of drug laws.
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by atchoo 4y ago
For judging harm it's interesting how the culture and economics around a drug may chiefly determine the harm, not the substance itself. The measurable harm of different drugs varies across regions. As far as I know.... unlike the US, t
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by atchoo 4y ago
Firestarter was way past the "second summer of love", m25 party circuit days that was pure gurning pillheads getting crazy to samples of 80s cartoons. It's when the Prodigy had become mainstream and this was was dance/in
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by atchoo 4y ago
Why do you think Daft Punk has a similar vibe? Their early minimal techno stuff isn't terribly imaginative and their pop/disco/funk stuff has always felt safe, commercial and boring to me. The only musical similarity is &quot
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by atchoo 4y ago
Is it lost for everyone or is it more like a stock buyback? Did everyone's money become 0.000000001% more valuable by taking that chunk out of circulation? Can an economist tell me please?
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by atchoo 4y ago
I am very sorry to hear that. Both false accusations and becoming an unprovable victim are terrifying. I don't see how this all doesn't end with near total personal surveillance of one's life - audio & video. Will culture
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by atchoo 4y ago
It sounds insane that you need "rewards and punishments" for one human to be nice to another. Friendliness should be a natural by product of happy people in a good workplace. I'd suggest a different tack, analyse what in the
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by atchoo 4y ago
> I'd definitely teach my inexperienced acolytes to add a little petty theft to their sabotage to avoid a terrorism enhancement The far right literature e.g. The Turner Diaries, describes terror cells funding themselves through thef
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by atchoo 4y ago
A long time since I read it but I think he gave examples like mithridatism, poisoning yourself to build up resistance. Anti-fragility is about incorporating change as an expectation instead of seeking stability and fearing it. For software,
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by atchoo 4y ago
I think there is still cause for worry. Listening to John Siracusa talk about creating such utilities and it's a story of ever decreasing API features making tasks like interrogating and controlling the OS or other apps increasingly ha
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Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge(theintercept.com)
132 points by atchoo 4y ago|198 comments
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by atchoo 4y ago
I have never rock-climbed, only briefly messed about enough to know it's not happening despite my pull-ups peaking with +50kg added weight. The "not happening" was that my weight distribution feels like it was ripping me off
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by atchoo 4y ago
I think I'd agree with the OP, the eccentric is more precarious. Weakness on the pull and the bar slows/stops but there is still control, weakness on a slow lowering and the weight runs away from you breaking your form. When you a
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by atchoo 4y ago
A good shed for about £1000 from Power Sheds (UK). https://www.powersheds.com/ It was a very disheartening experience looking at shed reviews from all the typical garden/DIY suppliers in the UK and seeing all the negat
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by atchoo 4y ago
1zpresso K-Max manual coffee grinder. Excellent build quality and grind for the money. A joy to use every morning and I expect it will last a long time. Their large range of models is confusing and takes some time to understand but with eno
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by atchoo 4y ago
I would look for studies on ghrelin (the hunger hormone) - lose weight it goes up, gain weight it goes down - that's the set point behaviour. The phenomena of an ever increasing set point I believe is down to periods of willful over-in
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by atchoo 4y ago
I don't think Aliens would have found much value meeting Donald Trump.
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by atchoo 4y ago
> The United States was never an empire 1865? Military suppression of secession is not a voluntary federation... it sure looks like an empire to me since then. The focus on non-contiguous regions to meet the definition of empire feels be
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by atchoo 4y ago
It's a curious analogy because in many contexts, use of a megaphone is quite abusive warranting confiscation. If I attend a political rally and the speaker uses a megaphone, that's fine, I have consented to it's use. However
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by atchoo 4y ago
Nah, that's a popular myth. I too was told it as a child but I understand the real reason is much more mundane... it's easier to sculpt. Creating realistic looking legs out straight requires under-cutting and they still look kinda
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by atchoo 4y ago
Interesting question. I've read books about the Templars and it didn't come up. Some speculation: Worth bearing in mind the type of people using this service were landed gentry. A Turkish bandit wouldn't do well turning up at
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by atchoo 4y ago
"Febrile" is basically a UK Politics meme after being used by journos to describe the "atmosphere in Westminster" during each crisis of the week.
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by atchoo 4y ago
Not a joke sadly. The Labour membership is quite left wing (understandably) so Starmer's leadership campaign was structured around 10 left wing pledges, promises about nationalisation, the EU, unity and continuation of the 2017 Corbyn
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by atchoo 4y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, they are both unacceptable and I haven't and don't want to see the symbol tweet. I personally find words more impactful, revealing of intent and suggesting action than symbols. I say arguable because I
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by atchoo 4y ago
I think they kind of have. Musk replied "that's fine" to Ye posting the Musk yacht photo and "that is not" to the Star of David Nazi symbol which suggests that was the final line for the ban. The "going deathco
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by atchoo 4y ago
We'd still call a genuine off road vehicle a four by four. Americans have gone a bit nuts with the SUV label - we don't call things like a Model Y an SUV, it's just a hatchback. Some other models Americans call SUVs are Estat

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