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by cronix 5y ago
How does a creature proactively use tools to more easily prepare/gather foods without "thinking?" How does a young creature observe an elder doing something, and then copy it, without some form of thought occurring? It seems
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by cronix 5y ago
Next: CEO's strike back using AI versions of themselves to talk to the AI's that analyze them.
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by cronix 5y ago
I'm sure that's true. I'm also pretty sure that number is a lot smaller than the number of people in the general population who permanently damage their hearing using non-prescription headphones that they can purchase anywher
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by cronix 5y ago
Hah, go back and watch Steve Jobs making fun of computing devices that use a stylus. He agreed with you on the losing things angle. > Who wants a stylus? You have to get them and put them away and lose them. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus.
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by cronix 5y ago
One thing the author missed was the early BBS warez scene. Some people would use war dialers not to find open modems, but to systematically hack long distance calling card codes from the phone company and private companies. It would call th
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by cronix 5y ago
Exactly what happened in NYC in the 1970's. The city gov't was so far in debt with social program spending that the bankers, the ones who purchased the bonds that facilitated the debt that allowed the city to spend more than it to
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by cronix 5y ago
Wait until you see how many women aren't in the plumbing industry. > There are over 276,986 plumbers currently employed in the United States. > 5.1% of all plumbers are women, while only 91.1% are men. Women already have 5x as ma
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by cronix 5y ago
> If you want to keep up with them at all you need to at least have the bearest presence on the platform. So, if you texted "Hey cousin, it's been awhile, how's it going?" you wouldn't get a reply?
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by cronix 5y ago
I'm getting kind of tired of the narrative that "x is evil/bad/harmful, but I'm too weak (we won't admit addiction) to not use x. Everyone I know uses x. Government needs to regulate x (so I don't have to
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by cronix 5y ago
You are making a pedantic argument to a philosophical point. Extrapolate the concepts.
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by cronix 5y ago
Sounds good on face. Do Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and other platforms that dominate the planet in information/thought exchange, consider themselves publishers?
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by cronix 5y ago
> He struck me as a man nearing the end of his life that is struggling with mortality and had an experience that upended everything. It could be, but I think it's more general. > Really personal, life changing experience that man
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by cronix 5y ago
> ...and then we couldn't blame billionares for being the problem. Of course we could, and would. The narrative would then just shift to be "because these ruthless bastards didn't pay their fair share when it counted and w
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by cronix 5y ago
> When has society ever not had bullshit filters? I absolutely accept "I don't have to listen to you" as a bs filter. "That guy's nuts, I don't believe a thing he's saying." I don't accept &qu
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by cronix 5y ago
> I don’t see how any society could function if it didn’t have a strict anti-bullshit filter I don't see how science can ultimately function if you aren't allowed to push back and legitimately question things. All things. How m
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by cronix 5y ago
> The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an enemy of science. If anything destroys science, it is this
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by cronix 5y ago
> I mean they won't lose anything either by doing that, right? Not directly, but if someone were to use some of that code that a company put significant resources into developing, in a product that made someone else money, most comp
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by cronix 5y ago
I said what I said due to experience, which I probably should have clarified. I, too, have almost no internet presence under my real name. It has come up in interviews. I didn't say it prevented me from obtaining employment, but it cam
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by cronix 5y ago
There are also things like tidal waves, earthquakes and other unforeseen things that do pop up from time to time and cause big issues. We can say it's rare, statistically very unlikely, etc., but no one wants to be a Fukushima and that
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by cronix 5y ago
Next you'll have to explain why when your name is googled, nothing comes up.
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by cronix 5y ago
> So it will give China absolutely nothing It essentially gives them tremendous power over the world. All they have to do is threaten to shut it down, or ban exports to the west, or put very high tariffs on them. In addition to gaining a
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by cronix 5y ago
> There is not a single state where cannabis is legal, there are only states that have decided they won't enforce federal law. The feds don't really enforce it either. Is there a state the feds have sanctioned over legalization
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by cronix 5y ago
Wikipedia says about using wikipedia: > Wikipedia can be a great tool for learning and researching information. However, as with all reference works, Wikipedia is not considered to be a reliable source as not everything in Wikipedia is a
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by cronix 5y ago
According to this substack[1], it was a pilot walkout/"sickout" due to vaccine mandates. It's actually happening in more companies/industries than widely reported. I imagine it's also picked up steam since last
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by cronix 5y ago
This would have been gold if it was narrated by Steve Irwin/Crocodile Hunter. I felt like I was watching a nature documentary.
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by cronix 5y ago
Or, it's good to confirm what you think you know.
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by cronix 5y ago
Where would dating sites be without bots?
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by cronix 5y ago
Not to mention, way cooler to watch while printing.
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by cronix 5y ago
Collect all, decrypt if/when able.
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by cronix 5y ago
I always thought it was strange that they still called the rigid, inflexible 3.5" disks "floppies." They certainly weren't floppy like the 8" and 5.25" were.

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