canoebuilder

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by canoebuilder 5y ago
Now we depend on all of us coming to our senses to survive this thing Am I missing something? It seems to be clear for well over a year that "this thing" is not some existential threat that threatens our very survival. Why are p
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
and in fact, for rights to be meaningful at all, they must be qualified, since there are always cases where a right reaches a point of tension with another right What? I have never heard anything like that at all. Rights are absolute. Tha
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
People dying from covid are old, to very old, and/or in poor to very poor health. People dying from and having adverse reactions to the "vaccines" are young to not that old, and in good health. Big piece of the puzzle you are
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
Are basic human rights really what we're talking about here? If so, they've always had limits when it came to impacts on others. The freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of someone's nose Whoa, you've got that ho
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
The relentless doom saying gives the impression that there are some studies or research or science out there that can accurately make predictions of the sort you are interested in, but as far as I know that’s not the case. I’m not aware of
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
Quote marks can be easily misinterpreted, I was just using the phrase you used, my bad. “Faintest bit of background” Meaning, your two competing hypotheses leave out pretty much everything that is known at this point, not an academic creden
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
Yes, similar viruses are known far outside Wuhan. In this case, with the first known infections occurring in Wuhan and no known bat coronavirus source anywhere near Wuhan, other than the Wuhan Institute of Virology..., lends credibility to
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
> The bottom line is that the evidence we have at this time points to nature as the most probable origin, Highly tendentious claim... > and it's not unusual for it to take many years to figure these things out. Is that the case
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
There is a wide literature on this at this point. Please don’t make conclusive statements that also indicate you don’t have the faintest bit of background in what you are talking about. At this point, this is not a complete black box, “nove
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
Links or recommendations for the sketching PDFs?
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by canoebuilder 5y ago
Bitcoin, et al. seek to approximate a monetary system, to bootstrap a workable currency outside the traditional trappings of a centralized state. Being digital is not the point, it just makes the idea possible whether or not it works in pr
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
Twitter, Facebook etc. are communication platforms in the same way the postal service, telephone system, etc are communications platforms. Communication platforms in the US should adhere to the US constitution.
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
Yeah, this has actually been thought of before. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroristic_threat
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
> white isn't a culture FJ Haydn spent the bulk of his working career in Hungary, toward the end of his career he went to France and England and received large adoring audiences, not as some kind of exoticism, but because he was&#x
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
Can you do that on the television, telephone, radio or in a newspaper in America?
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
If Twitter maintains its place in public discourse and communication, then sooner or later the “approach to world leaders” or politicians on any level becomes a moot point, because if anyone's views diverge to a sufficient degree from
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
Maybe one aspect of ant consciousness is humans thinking, "hmm what is it like to be an ant?" And maybe one aspect of human consciousness is ants thinking, "hmm what are these large things that seem to leave sugary refuse in
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
With regard to the iOS import/export mentioned, does anyone have any more recommendations? (I'm not familiar with the mentioned option, nothing against it, just seeking out all options) Simple file system interface to all devices
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
Moonlight for some hours of the month, never exceeding a rather low intensity, a minuscule intensity compared to a single led streetlight. The night time lighting humans(and our non-human co-inhabitants of earth) have evolved with and known
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
That's an interesting idea, but in what situations is it superior or preferable to just signing a traditional contract, and taking any disputes to a court? Cross border maybe, but then what court would you go to? > Look into newer p
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
It was something “smart contract” proponents used to say, maybe still do. When I say code is law, I mean “law” in the physics sense. We can code, print “hello world”, and know exactly what the code will do. We can write code up to some thre
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
>But this is already too long :) Not at all, I appreciate the info. Cardano I believe uses PoS of some sort. What is the thinking about what keeps these distributed application servers running? Is it still mainly the mining reward model?
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
> but the industry being built around it is very real even if niche. There's a lot going on (including research) What are some concrete examples? I think most of us who are critical are still interested, because we do see things
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
> However the fact that we now have a global consensus over the ownership of digital assets that's something new and valuable. It's also completely contrived. Being digital means infinitely replicable, or thereabouts. Do we re
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
That's the question. If consciousness/intelligence is wholly in the brain, and the brain's interaction with the physical world, is that something that can be modeled with number crunching, i.e. computation? Perhaps we are sti
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
Unfortunately leds have made light pollution worse. Instead of pocketing the difference in greater photon production efficiency the trend has been to just make things brighter.(where they really don't need to be) Not to mention, not ju
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
Heat production is a necessary component of all energy transformations. Nothing is 100% efficient in this regard as you know. But light pollution, while producing waste heat, is also just unnecessary in general. We don't need to keep o
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
Thanks
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
What code do you have C-N bound to? A public package, or something custom you've written? Is it just searching file names?
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by canoebuilder 6y ago
> This is just hate spewing, plain and straight. Hate is an emotion, it is subjective. You might feel hate when you see or hear something, but it is not an intrinsic, objective quality of other people's words. Without using thes

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