blueadept111

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by blueadept111 7y ago
Right, and we don't even have subjective continuity ourselves. Every night we fall asleep, and our consciousness dies. Every morning it is reborn. We don't worry about it.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Well, if mycelium can conduct electrical signals, then it's similar to brain tissue, which seems like a more interesting analogy than saying it can perform digital computation, in my opinion. Because then it raises the question of wha
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by blueadept111 7y ago
What is this article saying? That mushrooms might naturally compute, because they transmit signals between each other in response to environmental stimuli, or that mushrooms have properties that can be hijacked and used to build a logical
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by blueadept111 7y ago
It's a vicious cycle. Methane levels increase to dangerous levels, which causes researchers to soil their pants, which releases more methane into the atmosphere.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
I live in Vancouver (BC) and over here Airbnb worked with city to create and enforce regulation for short term rentals (ie, requiring a license to operate and then actually policing and enforcing the regulations). I think its working out we
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by blueadept111 7y ago
There are over 7 billion people on the planet. That number needs to come way down if we want to step back from the brink of destroying the planet. The sooner people realize this, the more likely we can find a solution before we make the da
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by blueadept111 7y ago
I'm glad they do this! I publish books on Amazon.com using Amazon KDP, and it's impossible to compete on a level playing field in brick-and-mortar bookstores. Distributors won't touch self-published titles. And I can't
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Did you post the right url? YouTeam.com is a French website.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
How is it a problem that women, for the most part, are not welders? Is it a problem that men are not nannies, for the most part? I think we all know what would happen if Bruno vs Betty got if each tried to hang out their shingle as a baby
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by blueadept111 7y ago
It's healthier for the planet and your conscience.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Yeah, this is an important career hack: leave your company while the leaving is good. If you stay until things go bad, then your resume will be nothing but a long list of firings and/or bad reviews. Sad but true. Took me a while to f
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Apple could afford to spend a couple million dollars to find those same security problems and then fix them before everyone's phones became compromised, but apparently they weren't as interested.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
So it only takes a couple million dollars to finance an exploit that circumvents all security from a billion iphones? Holy Heck, this must just be the tip of an iceberg.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Not only that, there's money to be made by insiders leaking (or even creating) security holes for the hackers to exploit and then getting a kickback.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
The Myers-Briggs categories are more neutrally named than those of the "Big Five". SENSING VS INTUITION is called OPENNESS in the Big Five. THINKING VS. FEELING is called AGREEABLENESS JUDGING VS. PERCEIVING is called CONSCIENTI
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by blueadept111 7y ago
"Today, Assange sits behind bars in a London prison under shocking conditions even a murderer wouldn’t expect. Renowned filmmaker and journalist John Pilger visited him there and fears for Assange’s life, noting he is held in isolation
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by blueadept111 7y ago
In my experience, its best to drive the discussion into technical areas that are so interesting that the interviewer runs out of time to ask their dumb canned questions, including the "tell me about a time" questions (and hopefull
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Nobody wants to hear that the only solution is to keep human population levels to something sustainably low. It's more fun to pretend that shiny new tech will save us.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Well if I eat a salmon, then I'm actually saving the lives of all the other other fish that the salmon would have eaten if I hadn't eaten the salmon. So in that case, it's unethical NOT to eat salmon. Oh my, there's jus
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Anyone who seriously expects detailed feedback from a failed job interview doesn't sound very "senior" to me. I'm pushing 50 after a lifetime in tech and I stopped expecting feedback about 30 years ago. Also, as someone
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by blueadept111 7y ago
The dark side of physical books: sometimes you buy a book and then you lose it.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Yawn. This is a tempest in a teapot. Why would anyone bother to use Libra? People buy crypto mostly for speculation, hoping that it will go up (or at least not lose value over time, due to inflation). A stable coin that's pegged to m
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Quadriga
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by blueadept111 8y ago
True, but it nonetheless encourages manufacturers to invest in zero emissions vehicles. Switching to clean energy can't happen overnight, and the real solution is population control, but it's still a signal in the right direction.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
Either the AI can generalize or it can't. If it can't, you don't need neural nets at all. If it can, you need to worry about whether it's generalizing correctly, which is definitely "so hard".
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by blueadept111 8y ago
This motor needs to put into a vacuum chamber pronto!
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by blueadept111 8y ago
Counter argument: So if we've been using radar since WWII, and radar has been capable of signalling our presence to alien civilizations, then we don't need METI. Alternatively, if METI is proposing a signal that can reach alien c
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by blueadept111 8y ago
This is one of the very few articles I've read about the nature of consciousness where the ideas presented are cogent, consistent, and novel (to me). She does a terrific job of explaining the current state of affairs in philosophy of
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by blueadept111 8y ago
I knew this would blow up. Sadly, Amazon/createspace (now called KDP) apparenty has no mechanism or will to ban users who abuse the system. I am a KDP author myself, with three titles under my belt in the nature/regional category.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
>minutes after the truce: most of the men could not grasp the fact that they could now stand upright without dying immediately. But seriously, would you be the first to stand up, when the last guy that did it was mowed down?

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