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by bsedlm 5y ago
but what about Yandex? as far as I recall, they're bigger than google in russia, hence any google data is missing most of the picture
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by bsedlm 5y ago
a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government. maybe these people have grown in better functioning democracies (unlike Russia or my own country) so they act as if the people were well represent
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by bsedlm 5y ago
it's very counter intuitive, there's so much information that we cannot know anything (for certain) trust is at an all time low and getting lower
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I'm taking a formal verification course about this right now using the logical foundations volume. This relies on the Coq proof assistant. From what I've begun to understand, they use 'higher order logic', which really m
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by bsedlm 5y ago
Byung-Chul Han seems to share your opinion about capistalism there's a quote along the lines of "capitalism is not a political question it is a force of nature which must be tamed" [1] [1] https://apposition.substa
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by bsedlm 5y ago
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> Within seconds, Universe Splitter© will receive the experiment's result and tell you which of the two universes you're in, and therefore which action to take if this thing is making my choices for me, then why not skip "
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I would work for free if I didn't need money to get any and all things, from basic necesities to frivolous luxuries
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by bsedlm 5y ago
it's a very complex issue to understand the intertial (traditional) forces behind why we cannot have a megaupload. Maybe we can make some sense of why we cannot have a megaupload by realizing that we are talking about acting against fo
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by bsedlm 5y ago
and the internet died a little bit that day, we saw a glimpse of what it could be and it was glorious... however the socio-economic and political realities disallow such a grand, free, widespread accessibility of all kinds of media.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
thing is, I've begun to consider old age as a graceful easing out of life, as if without old age ceasing to be alive can only be violent affair (violent like an explosion or a high-speed crash)
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by bsedlm 5y ago
this is a very shallow reading of the point you correctly appreciate the structural way in which the argument works. but you still do not seem to want to see the underlying subltety; that death and life are merely parts of the same larger e
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by bsedlm 5y ago
you'd say I'm rationalizing it, but I do not believe that death is a problem to be solved As I take it, that line of thought (that death is just a problem to be solved and that immortality is something to strive for) leads to solv
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by bsedlm 5y ago
what about enforcement's softer sibling, herding? I think most institutions are doing this knowing full well how it works and with a clear intention of where they want us to end up I recall reading about how google would arrange the fo
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by bsedlm 5y ago
something are so clearly obvious (I don't think "obvious" is the exact word I need) that to consider them property of the intellectual kind is silly. I'm thinking about certain mathematically expressed concepts and ideas
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by bsedlm 5y ago
surprisingly (to some, specially hardcore capitalists) some people do not want it all. i.e. some of us reject the (roughly summed up as) "go big or go home" attitude
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by bsedlm 5y ago
disagree essentially because I believe we'd get into a situation where the problem becomes heat dissipation. the problem is the human psique, not technological capabilities.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
quite simply, meditation. But sure there are many types of it, and while putting it like this it seems 'simple' it's also very difficult. more specifically, it all stems from the practice of self-observing how you react to so
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by bsedlm 5y ago
what makes you think they're designing tools for you to use? what if they're actually designing systems and schemes which use you? (in soviet russia ---and the modern day internet--- computer uses YOU) I started trying to make a j
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by bsedlm 5y ago
you can also use a "/sarcasm" closing tag
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by bsedlm 5y ago
He fooled a whole bunch of people, just because lots of other people are going around scamming anybody they can does not in any way make any of them any less guilty.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> This is incompetence and negligence from the financial elite governing our nation. that is one possibility, the other is that their intent is different than what one would expect, it's pretty much impossible to tell which is it. c
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by bsedlm 5y ago
if one were to consider lobbying as a form of corruption then it's a much closer comparisson. but of course, "lobbying" is not corruption because it's lobbying. (then again lobbying does end up undermining the will of th
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by bsedlm 5y ago
logically plausible and "scientific" and/or "realistic" are different things. Things can be complete fantasy yet logically consistent. > there's no reason to believe they made the story more complex than tha
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by bsedlm 5y ago
why assume that they meant earth days? if they're creating earth, then how could it be that they're using earth days? (allegedely, earth is just getting created) also, what if a day is a rotation around a body's axis, then wh
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by bsedlm 5y ago
disagree, google is not any better. (IMO google is the worst now, same as microsoft was once upont a time) Also Amazon is worse than FB towards open or free software
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I am as certain as one can be without any capacity to prove it, that fb and meta and Mr. Zuck.. are subject of some sort of attack for the past 2 years (the intensity/frequency of critical opinion pieces went up within the last 2 years
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by bsedlm 5y ago
What I've found, is that often teachers (really anybody who's understood the subject and is willing to teach) will try to teach both the subject AND how they have learned; i.e. they do not only tell you about the math but also the
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by bsedlm 5y ago
there's a difference between a service and a tool. do not blur out this distinction. thanks.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I have a question (from part one); it's a clarification question. > The digital implementation of frequency modulation starts with a lookup table that holds a digitized sine wave. > The next step is to modulate the output by addi

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