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by bsedlm 4y ago
> later historians either accidentally or maliciously made so-called “phantom copies” of events and rulers, repeating them over and over again under different names. For example, he believes that the Peloponnesian Wars is just an earlier
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by bsedlm 4y ago
"Accidentally" ? this presents a choice as to what to belive: - that they are so incompetent that they do not know what they're doing. - they are perfectly aware of what they're doing and the journalists are trying to be
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by bsedlm 4y ago
corruption. maybe not a problem in your own country.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
Maybe currency is not the best use case for blockchains. But what about the services provided by Notaries? land registries and other necessarily robust and trustworthy transactions that aren't ever going to happen at a high-volume?
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by bsedlm 4y ago
as far as I can recall, in the Arrival story ("the story of your life") the aliens eyes are a continous ring that has a 360 degree view. I also recall that the aliens were impressed by humans standing in 'only' two legs.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> We’re facing some massive generational crises at this point, and it feels like the only solution is to wait for the current leadership to die off, and hope the gen x’ers fix it. oh man, I choose to laugh so I don't start crying ha
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by bsedlm 4y ago
at some point, somehow, medical care stopped revolving about 'healing' and medicine became all about 'treating'. the health of the patient became subordinate to the economic incentives of the hospitals and the other invo
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I can sense this is written to make it sound cool and appealing. i.e. this is clearly a form of advertising.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
you're referring to an inner monologue? I wonder why you consider it a net-negative? In my own experience, having become more adept at using it, may I suggest you just need more practice? Personally, learning to "turn it off"
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by bsedlm 4y ago
He seems like he's somehow split or fragmented or segmented away? Or possibly he just has a radically different way to bring all of his own self together. What if he were to sit in the morning to write down a plan of what he'll do
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by bsedlm 4y ago
IMO, this is a skill that can be practiced (I feel the same way about Aphantasia). i.e. I believe that even people who don't have it could learn it. However I do concede that some some will barely feel like doing it and they'd be
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by bsedlm 4y ago
this is a really cool "dichotomy". I was just discussing this in terms of "sages" which know things, they recall and store "stateful data" and "seers" (like in the verb to see); them who don't kn
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by bsedlm 4y ago
This is a limitation of science. The issue I see, is how to continue to study such purely theoretical matters? Why should everything have to be testable (and thus, potentially developed into a marketable product)? It may not be science, but
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I don't think that the musicians have responded yet to the reccording technology in a comparable way to painters responding to photographic technology with impressionism and other non-realistic painting techniques (which do seem to hav
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by bsedlm 4y ago
could the hyperreal be understood as a combination between supernormal stimuili [1] and the magnificent bribe [2]? the hypernormally stimulated bribe? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus [2] https:&
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by bsedlm 4y ago
In my opinion, nothing about big-O and related omega, theta, etc, is at all strict. Maybe I value "pure symbolic clairty" too much. I do see a very pragmatic usefullness to the complexity notation.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> I think mathematicians don't yet understand the power of mathematical notation and what it does. We use it, but we don't understand it I think this is where a computer science (but really, "computologist" mindset) d
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by bsedlm 4y ago
this is why some of us have a natural resistance to going with the flow. I know I do but it's individually very costly but I like me this way (after many years of feeling bad for having 'poor social skills'). I like to think
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> We are lazy creatures who try to expend as little mental energy as possible. but I take this as a virtue, not as a vice. we are efficient, we (as life) do not like to toil needlessly nor wastefully. (IMO, the viciousness comes from an
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by bsedlm 4y ago
At this rate (on the trend that this article also denounces), I feel like considering giving up computation altogether is on the table (like supposedly happened in the Dune fictional universe). RMS has been right all along, although he may
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by bsedlm 4y ago
why is the absolute overwhelming majority of stuff in the universe (and 100% of things outside of special lab settings) made up from 1st generation matter? why is it that all stuff made from charm, strange, top, and bottom, quarks decays ri
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I put that such a clear awareness of this phenomenon will alter the way it continues to happen going forwards. i.e. this is so plain to see that it'll somehow change its own dynamics. this is specially accute due to political implicati
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I'm of the opinion that taxes are unnecessary in a state (meaning something closer to culture-civilization, i.e. taking "state" as far more than just government, at the least including private banks) were money is created by
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I don't. my family is all adult individuals so we all do whatever we want and are able. I do not go around imposing my beliefs upon them. They have their own problems to be bothered with mine too.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
what's an artist anyways? ...I don't even know anymore. (this will only get worse now that we're on the verge of some neural net 'rendering' as much music as you can listen to in anybody's style; I mean, it&#x2
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by bsedlm 5y ago
IMO this compresion is equivalent to sophisticated scientific (mathe-physical) understanding and theories (which really are stories) but I have no backing to this claim
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> To achieve both of these, builders are increasingly designing buildings to be sealed bubbles of air, where any sort of flow across the outside boundary (air, water, energy) is minimized and controlled. there's an associated ideolo
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by bsedlm 5y ago
It's a fun unrelated fact that neurons come from the germ (embrionic) layer of cells which correspond to external cells, like the skin. i.e. neurons are made from ectoderm germ cells (not endoderm --inside, nor mesoderm -- middle, but
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by bsedlm 5y ago
on that note, if tomatoes were taken to europe only after Colon's famous trips... how come Italian cuisine is famously known for it's tomato-based pasta sauces? also, what did they irish eat before potatos were taken over there fr
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by bsedlm 5y ago
well, but she's kinda famous, so she can do it, I suppose less famous physicist could still provide similar service for less (like a less prestigious law firm)

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