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by deciplex 11y ago
It seems to me that if you follow TheOtherHobbes logic to its conclusion, you arrive at the proposition "sentience is a supernatural phenomenon" which is an absurdity. The problem is that we have trouble agreeing on what sentience
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Being sentient as an experience is completely different to appearing to show sentient behaviour. You can make a model of sentience that's as complicated as you can invent, and you'll still have no idea whether or not a model
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by deciplex 11y ago
> So, what was the answer? There isn't one, of course. Drugs like LSD and psilocybin put your mind in a state where you perceive knowledge that you don't actually have. For many, that's enough to (begin to) resolve depre
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by deciplex 11y ago
I'm saying that people get a lot more sensitive about "talking politics" when the positions of the two major parties are in pretty stark contrast and it's blindingly obvious they can't pull the usual "both side
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by deciplex 11y ago
You can talk about voting out politicians who endorse the TPP, or for that matter who want to wreck encryption and crater the economy, because these things have broad bipartisan support and so the only way to reverse that is to vote out ev
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by deciplex 11y ago
They actually did have a filibuster-proof majority for something like a few months, in between the fight over the Minnesota recount and Senator Kennedy's death. It's pretty much the only time during Obama's Presidency that Co
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by deciplex 11y ago
Okay, so it takes longer for a tram to brake. What has that got to do with "efficiency"?
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by deciplex 11y ago
I wasn't aware that tram rails had their own physics.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Nest isn't a polished consumer product unless your bar for "polished consumer product" starts and stops at the industrial design budget. If they didn't look nice anyone with sense would call these products what they are:
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by deciplex 11y ago
> And following back the bread crumbs to the first mentions, rarely include a lot of pre-press on how good its going to be. You'd find it of course, but you'll also find it for everything else that failed. Its predictive powe
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by deciplex 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_dogs_in_Moscow
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by deciplex 11y ago
Good. Maybe if the term is diluted to irrelevance it will lose its efficacy as a cudgel to garner support for the latest police state action-item-of-the-month.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> sleight of hand
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by deciplex 11y ago
This. A good patent is a valuable thing and I can't get behind barring people from selling valuable things that they made or that they bought themselves. Whenever PatentTalk comes up we see a lot of Band-Aid solutions like this. Simila
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by deciplex 11y ago
Are you suggesting that wealth inequality is lower now than it has ever been?
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Let's say you could double the wealth of everybody in the country in 20 years, but the top 1% (or 0.1% or choose your most hated percentile) would have their wealth in crease 10x. I don't really see wealth accretion as a pro
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by deciplex 11y ago
What if we want less wealth inequality?
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by deciplex 11y ago
Right. So you , the individual reading the article and posting on HN, should expect to live among one of the more populous species of life in the universe. e: Maybe you are implicitly assuming that the workflow for "determining"
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by deciplex 11y ago
According the reasoning here it's the second one that's wrong (or rather, unlikely). btw fergussimpson your posts are showing up dead but then are getting undeaded after a certain period of time I guess. Your first post here was d
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by deciplex 11y ago
That's what we should expect to see when looking for other planets with intelligent life. But you , andrewclunn, should expect to live among one of the more populous species.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Wait, like to anyone who wants it? I wonder what would happen if Azer asked for it back, heh.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Well for one thing we could open up all the secret courts that these people use to do what they do with no accountability. Oh wait, were you talking about "terrorists", or government agents? It's not clear.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Based on the chats here: https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin... It does seem that the first contact from NPM to Azer was to tell him they were taking his package. There does seem to be a gap th
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by deciplex 11y ago
> npm won’t suddenly take your package name. "...unless we do, in which case we will." I wonder at the cognitive dissonance that has to be there to type a thing like this when the entire shit show started with you doing exac
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by deciplex 11y ago
How many of them has he read, though? And, how many of them does he need to read / receive to change his administration's posturing on this? (My guess: 0 and ∞)
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by deciplex 11y ago
On the other hand, English has clear meanings for the words "blue" and "green", which Japanese can't seem to keep straight.
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by deciplex 11y ago
A lot of those "checks" are just things that Presidents historically don't do, not that they're prohibited from doing so by the Constitution. Even then, it's not clear that Trump really gives a shit about the Consti
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by deciplex 11y ago
That would be regrettable, but it only partially addresses the threat that the Internet, or rather networking in general, poses to oppressive regimes around the world (which is to say, the vast majority of governments around the world). A b
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by deciplex 11y ago
Term limits are a band-aid, even at the Presidential level as far as I'm concerned. If someone is a shitty rep, then stop electing him, and likewise if he's a great rep then all term limits do is give you more chances to elect a s
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by deciplex 11y ago
They don't, but they got a fraction of a penny to put the app in front of you. Nobody (to a first approximation, and especially on the Android side) buys a phone because of the software - they just look at the hardware (if that) and ma

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