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by cortic 6y ago
I think you are cheating a bit, first the instruction was to picture a pirate, not a bit of one. Second, the exercises purpose is to demonstrate that missing information in an image is obvious whereas missing information in a mental image
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by cortic 6y ago
>the detail is not there. Usually no, but (anecdote); I cannot normally remember my credit card number, dreaming years ago i read the number aloud and when i woke i could remember the numbers that i had recited in the dream, i checked a
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by cortic 6y ago
Its likly to be largely an illusion; There was a talk from a neurologist years ago, when he demonstrated that mental images don't act like real images. If you picture something like a pirate, and someone asked you about the scene, eg;
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by cortic 6y ago
>If you're doing this not at an office, but at home, is this really so bad? Yes. Keylogger and Webcams and untrustworthy roommates/family members/landlords are all low threat but; This encourages people to use the same p
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by cortic 6y ago
White text on black is as bad as black text on white for me; But I find off black (12/16/33) background and off-white (248/248/248) text significantly reduces eye-strain, for me at least. If any of you are anywhere near
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by cortic 6y ago
>an average worker would have to pay for two UBIs in taxes An average worker would be paying less tax (in real terms) if we moved to UBI than they are paying for the current system. Its also true that this isn't just going to be p
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by cortic 6y ago
UBI would be cheaper than the current system (in the UK at least, but likely other countries as well). First off, those that are currently entitled to most benefits would be getting UBI instead, and those that are not currently entitled to
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by cortic 7y ago
That's a nice bit of advertising, but; They cheat. When the car detects an unusual or difficult situation developing it prompts the driver to take over. This means that all the really tricky bits of driving are done by the human and
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by cortic 7y ago
I think it sounds like a great idea, admittedly though it is difficult for me to get my head around a system that isn't unfairly gracious to the wealthy and vicious to the poor.
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by cortic 7y ago
I wonder when consent stopped being important? And how that was accomplished. I know the mentality from authority has always been; WE the government can stick anything into your body, cause we know best. And WE the multinational corporatio
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by cortic 7y ago
>I mean actual free speech would just be an endless collection of penis videos. It is the oldest problem in the book; how do i get free expression, while forcing everyone one else to agree with me?
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by cortic 7y ago
It was the threat of being deported to a country that has the death penalty and routinely torchers people for years without trial; If you honestly can't imagine being stressed about that then you are just not trying.
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by cortic 7y ago
>energy consumption of VISA offices isn’t included
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by cortic 7y ago
It comes from the legacy of automation and technological advancement created by our ancestors and should be to everyones benefit. Currently this flow of massive wealth is going into the pockets of people who need it the least and no one is
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by cortic 7y ago
So cheap they don't even mention their prices on their prices page, that is cheap.
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by cortic 7y ago
That argument kind of breaks down when you have a monopoly on the market like Apple and Google do. If there isn't a viable option to their product then i'm not free to choose. We shouldn't be talking about Apple like a gover
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by cortic 7y ago
Or just pass another law forbidding the 'depriving [any] passengers of the flight experience that they bought and paid for'. I see no compelling reason for taxes to subsidize companies just to help them follow the law, i get no s
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by cortic 7y ago
The video literally says the reaction won't happen without cleaning the surface quote; "Under normal conditions aluminum is surrounded by a protective oxide layer" btw; mods, you have no idea how much it bothers me not being
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by cortic 7y ago
>"instead of saving a hash of the fingerprint (that can’t be reverse-engineered) they are saving people’s actual fingerprints that can be copied for malicious purposes." ffs, so anyone who's watched myth-busters can litera
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by cortic 7y ago
..because if you drill a divot out of the inside of the plain, clean it with hydrochloric acid and break your thermometer on there you might get some pitting.. whoa, dodged a bullet there.
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by cortic 7y ago
I'm sick and tired of the rampant aggressive judgmental attitude of under-qualified hyper-opinionated loud mouths on these flights complaining about everyone else and not minding their own business. Who the hell are you to say whether
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by cortic 7y ago
Got to have a look into revolut, my bank will charge £40 for not paying a charge and as high as 300% interest if they allow the charge and it puts me past my overdraft.
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by cortic 7y ago
>much less write a comment because someone's wrong in the Internet. ..but they're, wrong !
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by cortic 7y ago
In the US you have sacrificed ethics and standards for price and profit. Its why there is such a panic around Brexit leaving us open to US farming practices. You also have hugely cheaper transportation costs. I'd like to compare the
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by cortic 7y ago
So, in these things listed, the difference is that they are ' attention sucking, [delayed] dopamine delivery systems ' for you (certainly not for everyone). i suppose that is very very slightly different; But have you considered
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by cortic 7y ago
You can't start with a subjective assessment and then act like its objective and applies to others. also, I'll know it when i see it is the same as saying I'll know it when i get a hit of dopamine -which was my substitute
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by cortic 7y ago
how do you measure long-term fulfillment , dopamine? So your problem is things that trick us into short term dopamine hits, and you want more things that trick us into long term dopamine hits. I suppose i understand.
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by cortic 7y ago
so, a headsoup approved dopamine rewards system? Which is of course different from all other types, 'because'.
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by cortic 7y ago
>attention sucking, dopamine delivery systems I've been siting here for five minutes, trying to think about something, anything, that is good and doesn't fit that description. Everything people like, from exercise to sociali
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by cortic 7y ago
Edit; i just wanted to point out that i was answering the question whats the difference between your hand and your heiny not how to keep good hygiene for either. so with that in mind; let me just, ahem, pass you a hamburger...

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