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by blotter_paper 7y ago
> I don't know everything about our product so often the best I can do is show them how I would find out the answer. I feel like this is often more helpful than simply giving an answer, and I sometimes feign ignorance on a topic as
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
That might depend on what level of supervenience you're thinking about. We could imagine a neural network in which individual neurons communicate with one another over a REST API. Is the REST API I/O, or thinking? My view is that
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I've never been a Seventh-day Adventist, but I've spent a significant amount of time around Seventh-day Adventists and attended their potlatches. For the sake of avoiding confusion for other readers I'll throw out that while
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I was extremely skeptical of this, so I googled it. Seems like Tesla owners have had no problem starting their cars without an internet connection, though obviously the internet dependant features don't work.[0] This doesn't seem
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
> Your comment shows malice [...] Try Hanlon’s Razor. For the sake of internal consistency you should accuse GP of stupidity, not malice.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I don't have a source, but I recall seeing a pop-sci news story claiming that men who have children at an older age have sons with higher than average life expectancy. IIRC they controlled for lifespan of the father, but I don't r
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
> He was interviewed a few months before his death where he was asked if he was Satoshi, and he just smiled. Sauce? I found an article from a few months before his death where he glances down (indicating a "no") when asked if h
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Wright has forged signatures to prove his Satoshiness. Maybe Kleiman was Satoshi, that could explain how Wright had knowledge that supposedly fooled Andresen, but Wright is clearly a scammer of some sort. My money is on this whole charade
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I know of no studies to back this up, but based on anecdotal interactions I strongly believe that some people have an easier time writing off the cuff and others have an easier time speaking. I've known people who could speak in comple
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
What do you like about the Vine ID alphabet? I don't see the appeal, it cuts out some characters yet still includes potentially confusing ones (I/l/1 and O/0, which can look identical or nearly identical in some fonts).
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
...unless you're optimising for other things, like keeping leaders accountable to laws. If you believed a given leader had broken laws which would theoretically result in their imprisonment under the current system, and you believed th
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
My original claim (which DocG disputed) was that clicking on a YouTube link launches the app by default, without asking the user. "By default" implies that this can be changed.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I had an old Galaxy S6 Active sitting around, so I just did a factory reset and didn't sign into any accounts. I opened Chrome and searched for "keyboard cat" using the URL bar. I tapped on the first result, and it opened the
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I totally agree that this is weird play, and I don't like OS vendors doing it. I'll add that while I personally prefer Android to iOS, Google implements similar behavior; clicking on a YouTube link launches the app by default, wit
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I've heard that adult chimps get strong enough to rip chunks of flesh off with their hands. If this is accurate, how old can a chimp get before roughhousing with them like you do with that baby chimp is totally out of the question?Are
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Growing pains, we'll get over it. USB-C fixes the problem everyone complained about forever of turning the plug over three times before getting it to be rightside up, and gives us enough contact points for modern video streams. I feel
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
The whole beauty of USB ports is that we have one unified interface for practically everything. It can't be safe without giving that up, adding some friction to user interaction, or doing some dark art involving centrally signed device
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
It would be funny to have the business card list known exploits on their system -- whether this would taken lightly by the hiring manager is another question.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
How do you intended to enforce regulations without violence? Without violence, your regulations are merely suggestions which I am free to ignore. I'm fine with suggestions. Again, if you can't agree with my use of words then pleas
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I would try to intervene with language, but not violence. I would appreciate and expect the same from my friends -- there are people in my life I've discussed very similar hypotheticals with. None of that has to do with whether or not
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
> Not quite. If you buy something without knowing what you're getting, that's not free trade. As a matter of language, I disagree. If I want to bet that the man offering me a lottery ticket is accurately conveying the odds, and
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Forgive me for not caring what my genocidal people decree about which laws govern this land our "sovereign" (over whom?) ancestors stole, but yes, there is certainly disagreement between democracy and evolution. And with strange a
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Intended by whom? I claimed that regulation is antithetical to free exchange -- if you restrict me from trading something then I am not free to trade it, and if you don't restrict me then the thing is unregulated. I consider this state
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Timescale matters here. If Boeing becomes an example of an organization which suffered greatly, competitors will become more cognizant of the need to make internal incentives match external ones.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Anarchist here, used to identify as a communist. I'd argue that both of your "capitalism" definitions can be pointed to as potential causes of the 737 fiasco, but that the latter ("free economic exchange through markets&
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Disagree. I once had a conversation with a sibling who was trying to understand logic gates, and I ended up using a verbal explanation of a very similar setup (in my example the AND gate was a pipe with a hole in the bottom just big enough
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I can totally imagine wanting to reach it that badly -- what else could you do, turn back that close to the bottom? That said, they didn't actually know that a window had broken until they were already there[0]: > After almost fiv
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
On mobile, my URL bar being displayed adds about 2 meters to the depth that any given creature can survive. I suggest that divers start putting URL bars at the top of their masks.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
> Curious what folks think. Personal take: I value open source software, and while you do note that some of your suggestions can be implemented in open source while hoping that bad actors don't take the time to remove them you also
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Indeed, I've long desired such a tool not as a weapon to convince my enemies of their logical flaws but as a mirror to convince myself of my own.

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