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by brudgers 1y ago
"What is it like to be a rock" => no thing satisfies that answer => a rock does not have unconscious mental states How do you know that? Philosophically, of course. I mean sure you can’t cut a rock open and see any mental
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by brudgers 1y ago
As a radical materialist, the problem with ordinary materialism is that it boils down to dualism because some types matter (e.g. the human nervous system) give rise to consciousness and other types of matter (e.g. human bones) do not. Ordin
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by brudgers 1y ago
The “something” here refers to inner experience (something similar to Kantian “aperception”. The tricky bit is that “to be” is not an ordinary verb like fly, eat, or echo-locate. And “‘being an organism’” is — in the context of the paper —
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by brudgers 1y ago
Congratulations on writing a book and getting it out in the world. 1. It took me two tries to realize there is more than the table of contents and find the Unlabeled links on the left. Just make the text in the TOC clickable. 2. Maybe text
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by brudgers 1y ago
Code page at github https://github.com/byme8/apparatus.exec
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by brudgers 1y ago
I'd still like to find a way to make at least a small living from it There’s nothing wrong with that and a commercial license is the simplest thing that might work. If you want to improve the world with your software charge enough th
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by brudgers 1y ago
Because they are weird, wide, and produce technically good pictures I find swing lens cameras more fun. https://www.lomography.com/magazine/237231-lomopedia-horizon...
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by brudgers 1y ago
Why Egypt Endured Non-interest in expansion is the lesson of Egyptian Civilization. While at times Egypt has created buffers for self defense, it has never tried to build an empire beyond the Nile Valley...Egypt has never tried to make &q
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by brudgers 1y ago
In the past, I have used Wikipedia for Unicode to copy — paste. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em-dash The reason is that it works for many Unicode, I have "w" as a shortcut for Wikipedia search i
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by brudgers 1y ago
If the Natural Ergonomic keyboard works for you, why not put in an eBay search and buy a spare or two? Even one new in box is unlikely to cost more than a current alternative if you are a little patient. Since you mention "wired"
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Listers: A glimpse into extreme bird watching(youtube.com)
4 points by brudgers 1y ago|0 comments
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by brudgers 1y ago
I wonder where the prior-generation servers end up once well-funded companies upgrade E-waste recyclers because they can handle bulk. Suppose 500 servers get replaced. To a first approximation, nobody who needs 500 servers is interested i
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by brudgers 1y ago
All models are wrong. Some models are useful. [1] Geocentrism, a flat earth, and your thumb is an inch among those. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
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by brudgers 1y ago
Yep, and living in CA that’s almost 10%.
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by brudgers 1y ago
I was wrong and did not read the fine print on the downloads. Sorry.
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by brudgers 1y ago
It is an interesting article, but not really a Show HN because there is nothing I can play with or try out...unless you ship me an old compatible Mac... my email is in my profile :
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by brudgers 1y ago
An Emacs tool to trim video most likely has a conventional Emacs API, conventional Emacs documentation, and was developed using conventional Emacs user personas. Modulo the skill of the tool’s developer, this means it won’t require a lot of
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by brudgers 1y ago
Why aren’t you talking to local established accountants?
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by brudgers 1y ago
Maybe buy a used large format printer? Because if you can print whenever for relatively little money, you might be able to live without laminating and a used large format printer can pay for itself across not terribly many prints. And even
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by brudgers 1y ago
Typically the embedded story (at least in the stories I'm familiar with) Maybe read the three classics dystopian sci-fi: The Earth Abides Day of the Triffids On the Beach Or just classic scifi: Anything by Phillip K. D
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The Delta Sigma Modulator (2016) [pdf](seas.ucla.edu)
2 points by brudgers 1y ago|0 comments
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by brudgers 1y ago
Contracts that require support, require support. And support is why companies often bet their business on Microsoft.
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by brudgers 1y ago
If that's what the mission requires, yes of course. Of course, other aspects of other missions might also require firearms. And since they have fucking nukes, all possible scales of violence are literally on the table.
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by brudgers 1y ago
I believe Peter Singer's Animal Rights is one of the most influential philosophical ideas from the second half of the 20th century. The other is Stallman's GNU. Their influence is because they are more "engineering" ra
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by brudgers 1y ago
They get upvotes, stars, good feedback These are not customers. They are not even users. Voting and staring and writing comments are easier than using a product. And posting on product hunt is easier than finding actual customers. Much mu
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by brudgers 1y ago
comments a few years ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32773058
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Jim Lovell Has Died(bbc.com)
7 points by brudgers 1y ago|1 comments
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by brudgers 1y ago
* I want to minimize the hassle of creating and maintaining the business entity* An accountant would be my starting point because accounting is mostly where the hassle lies. Good luck.
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by brudgers 1y ago
You’re building a $15/month SaaS. That makes it harder because you have to make a lot of sales and sales is the hardest part of making money. And worse, even if you provide 10x value it is probably not worth talking to you about what
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by brudgers 1y ago
More fundamentally, companies only hire people they know. “Coffee” is a way to meet “a company.” A letter is not. Even a letter of introduction.

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