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by blaze33 1y ago
I regularly see similar articles with similar comments here, but there's one thing I still don't understand: From the European Convention on Human Rights[1]: ARTICLE 8 Right to respect for private and family life 1. Eve
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by blaze33 1y ago
> It is the most technological color, and I’m willing to claim that this is why it is usually, in science fiction and elsewhere, used to represent the future. For me it is because of red- and blueshifting[1]. Far away galaxies appear bot
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by blaze33 1y ago
Ok, now if we took a picture of all the food in the world, a more accurate caption would be: "The staff threw away 30 to 40% of it and ate the rest later."
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by blaze33 1y ago
> it becomes impossible to look at the crescent moon at night and not immediately triangulate the position of the sun I do that too, like the moon is lit from the right, slightly from above so yes obviously the sun is over there, up, aaa
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by blaze33 1y ago
> there's a website dedcated to listing the best models for all of this but I cannot find it anymore Could be the DarkSky approved products: https://darksky.org/what-we-do/darksky-approved/
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by blaze33 1y ago
This article is a bad rewrite of this one from a month ago: https://www.ecoticias.com/en/japan-super-solar-panel/12474/ > Scientists in Japan have been discussing the possibility of using a material called
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by blaze33 1y ago
Seems to me the Dalai Lama used the 7 years cell replacement thing as a metaphor to explain some classic Buddhist teachings. > still dwelling on something that happened thirty years ago. Exactly that: clinging causes suffering. Buddhism
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by blaze33 1y ago
> The “ideology of technological salvation” On this point, 20+ years ago I had a chat with my uncle who managed a factory of rubber thingies for the car industry. I asked him what he thought of climate change: "Oh well, if it's
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EU and Japan celebrate start of operations of the JT-60SA fusion reactor(energy.ec.europa.eu)
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by blaze33 3y ago
I once read that whale's songs could be used to transmit a 3d image from one whale to another which doesn't sound so crazy considering that echolocation can activate the visual cortex. I don't remember the article and anyway
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by blaze33 3y ago
> Most of all, I don’t want my priorities re-ordered. And that is why I don’t use psychedelics. Ok, good for you :) I suppose if you're lucky enough to already have a good life, psychedelics may not appear so relevant or appealing
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by blaze33 3y ago
> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Indeed, I'm sure it's marketing speech but it tells me nothing about what xAI actually does. Yeah, something AI-related I guess, way to go... I'm currentl
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by blaze33 3y ago
Related thread a week ago: 'Entropy: A little understood concept in physics [video]' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36560104 I read "Hour of Our Delight: Cosmic Evolution, Order, and Complexity" by
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by blaze33 3y ago
For me, I used to read or watch the news because I wanted to be informed and maybe learn some things to better understand the world we live in. After some time you start noticing the patterns: the short-termism, the over-seriousness and re
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by blaze33 3y ago
That's not revenge served cold, that's a firm that embraced everyday racism, sexism and whatever kind of discrimination there is for 15 years. But now that some coworkers went on their own they want to kill the competition. > “
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by blaze33 3y ago
"You’re a vegetarian, but don’t you realize that plants have feelings? He said, Yes, I do, but they don’t scream so loudly." Alan Watts.
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by blaze33 3y ago
On this topic, I read Collapse[1] by Jared Diamond, which was quite interesting. Main idea being how it's generally a combination of problems that can cause the fall of a society, climate often being one of these. [1] https:/&#x2
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by blaze33 3y ago
Yep, the stoned ape theory! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory Didn't know there was a documentary about it though.
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by blaze33 4y ago
Indeed, big house, fast car and lobbying to make even more money... I'd like to point out it's titled "what to do?" while it was actually an answer to "what to buy?" so the problem is more about the implied con
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by blaze33 4y ago
So, on the topic on making time to stop and reflect on our lives, an interesting thing is how we tend to apply metaphors about our activities and tools to our lives. We aim at a target because we had ancestors hunting wild beasts. One can l
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by blaze33 4y ago
Back in 1999 we had a huge storm that cut the power for millions of people across the country. Our home was not spared as a tree fell on its power line. The power company was completely overwhelmed by the scale of the damages plus it someho
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by blaze33 4y ago
In "Action and Contemplation", Aldous Huxley wrote the following: "Pragmatism regards action as the end and thought as the means to that end; and contemporary popular philosophy accepts the pragmatist position. In the philoso
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by blaze33 4y ago
> It took time to demonstrate that cigarettes caused lung cancer. If social media causes depression and anxiety, it will take time to demonstrate that, too. And let's not forget the decades it then took to overcome the lobbying of t
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by blaze33 4y ago
I can't help but notice the underlying conflict giving rise to these sort of controversies. What is a game? What makes a successful one? Ok, checks dictionary: "an activity that one engages in for amusement or fun". I remembe
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by blaze33 4y ago
Personal anecdote, but one thing that I noticed last year while reorganizing all the digital photos I took over the last 17 years is how technological change shaped my digital archives and subsequently how well I remember my past. With my o
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by blaze33 5y ago
Looks quite similar, thanks for sharing ! Appears I most probably remembered this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22811653 about Falsiscan!
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by blaze33 5y ago
I remember an HN post of a program doing exactly this: adding your signature to a pdf and altering the document so that it looked liked a scanned one. Could have been handy a while later but I never managed to find this post again... It was
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by blaze33 5y ago
There you go: https://twitter.com/sephr/status/1286058848063614977 :) A few months ago I almost rant about the same "people also search for" box on twitter but wanted to do my homework first. So I learne
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by blaze33 5y ago
Yes, lots of people have at least some of their photos only stored on FB and have no backups, so FB ends up being their de facto "photo backup service". Obviously you should routinely backup your data, yet here we are. Last year I
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by blaze33 5y ago
Yes. Also, given the huge volume of radioactive waste (eg. like 10s of thousands cubic meters just in France) it would require thousands of rocket launches for such an endeavour. Launch failure rates at best nearing 1%, space don't loo

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