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by chr1 8y ago
I can hear/imagine a human voice singing, (similar to the way my internal voice 'talks' when thinking) but i usually can't imagine instruments, because they always end up sounding as if they are performed by a human voic
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by chr1 8y ago
> One way of describing it would be that I can close my eyes and tell you where everything is in my house, or map my way downtown. I can do this, (also for simple 3d shapes needed to solve school geometry problems) without closing eyes
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by chr1 8y ago
Disclose here should not mean opening a popup, it should be a separate page where user can see what data have been collected and what did the algorithm decide based on that data. Similarly GDPR should have been about a requirement to provid
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by chr1 8y ago
Access to internet must be recognized as a constitutional right, and people in prison should be able to freely use normal video calls and other messaging apps, independently from in person meetings.
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by chr1 8y ago
I believe effective culture in this context should be understood as one able to produce and sustain larger number of people, and spread it's influence to more societies. Reducing population for instance is clearly not effective, becaus
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by chr1 8y ago
Why is it insurmountable? With cheap solar energy desalination becomes cheaper. And even without that countries like Israel now use desalinated water for 70% of their total water use.
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by chr1 8y ago
Strange that your comment is being downvoted, because it's a good summary of the article! For instance size of hydrogen atom is inversely proportional to the mass of electron [1], so with heavier electrons, sizes of atoms shrink. And i
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by chr1 8y ago
Technology makes full surveillance easy, and usefulness of surveillance in preventing small crimes, regulating traffic, etc. makes fighting against it hard. Maybe instead of fighting with technology we should find ways preventing it's
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by chr1 8y ago
Sure worrying a bit is reasonable, and that's the reason most people would not use gene editing now. (Unless they are trying to correct some well understood life threatening condition). If we talk about so many people using it that it
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by chr1 8y ago
Then this gene edited children will again use gene editing to produce children with genes similar to theirs that are already known to not produce too many autistic conditions. > We dont know enough about it to allow it open slather in th
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by chr1 8y ago
In your thought experiment, even if very few parents made the gamble, it would be enough to keep the gene around until we figured out what in the environment caused autism, after which the many more would want to have it. For the Tay-Sachs
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by chr1 8y ago
Sure monocultures are bad but talking about banning gene editing to avoid monoculture at this point is the equivalent of proposing to ban people who already own cars to buy teslas to avoid electric car monoculture. Because we are not anywhe
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by chr1 8y ago
If we get to the point where we can distinguish genes that cause autism to be able to remove them, we'll also be able to distinguish 10% Nobelist case. But even if that was not the case, with gene editing some parents who did not have
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by chr1 8y ago
> but you would probably oppose the right of mothers to end the lives of their children after pregnancy Unfortunately the distinction is not that clear cut. When we have technology to raise several weeks old fetus to maturity in an artif
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by chr1 8y ago
Banning all schools will affect all children now because we have reached a point where schools are common. 200 years ago they were not, and if we decided to not allow any schools until we could provide schools for everyone, we still would n
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by chr1 8y ago
That's not something that you can decide for other people. If some people like their sickle-cell gene no one can force them to remove it, and similarly if they don't like it no one should be able to force them to keep it.
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by chr1 8y ago
>Yet people still find use in horses in rural parts of the country. that's why the title says "as rare as owning horses" Many people will own cars, but not nearly as many as now.
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by chr1 8y ago
So far nature have not solved the problem of most of the earth being desert and all of the live ending in 600mln years [1]. One could argue that having humans (trillions of them) is natures way of solving these problems, and having less peo
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by chr1 8y ago
I agree, but in many cases sterility is a very nice feature. For grapes and banana people managed to breed seedless varieties long time ago, and for other things like peppers or watermelon many would be prepared to pay extra.
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by chr1 8y ago
while "real" is somewhat debatable, "GMO" in this context is certainly not a good word, all organisms are genetically modified, and all cultivated plants are modified by humans, the difference is that most of them were m
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by chr1 8y ago
Maybe real isn't a good word, but because you can grow varieties that are more optimized for taste instead of transporting, and you can pick up the fruit when it is ripe, instead of picking early to optimize for storage, locally grown
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by chr1 8y ago
Maybe we should approach the question from the other side. - We need more fish than can be sustainably caught. - Most of the ocean is a desert [1] due to the lack of essential elements close to the surface, and only near the shore or in pla
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by chr1 8y ago
Why will grounding the plane cause more people to drive? It does not have large enough share of existing planes to cause significant rise in prices to make people choose driving. Especially considering that it is used for long distance flig
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by chr1 8y ago
My question is a bit different: how to load the native std:kv-storage from a webpack bundle. It seems the only options are to either load the whole bundle as a module, or use async import like: eval('import("std:kv-storage")&
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by chr1 8y ago
I couldn't find anything on how would bundled code or a simple script be able to access std: modules. Does anyone know the answer to this question?
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by chr1 8y ago
Would US be able to breakup non-US tech companies, and if no how would it prevent tech companies from moving outside the US? Some of them have enough money to buy a small country or build a huge seasteading city.
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by chr1 8y ago
Read the article until the end, in the last section it says that plastic produced by this method is would break naturally in the environment.
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by chr1 8y ago
> or get consent before they use them The only effect the gdpr have is creating endless popups on all sites to accept cookies. This does not make any sense, because browsers already have setting to block cookies, and users that had even
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by chr1 8y ago
> Stalin's policy was 'Socialism in one country' He started a war with Finland, signed a treaty with Germany to split Poland, helped communists in China and North Korea and set communist regimes in all countries that sovie
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by chr1 8y ago
> I've read a bit in a judaism book that the kosher idea comes from the mental struggle to rationalize taking a life to sustain your own. This seems very unlikely because the stated reason to spare these animals is that they are unc

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