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by denton-scratch 4y ago
It went further than just implying it; they said (paraphrasing, I haven't re-read it) that a gentleman should never take offence at an insult from a pleb. I think there's something in that; if an insult causes you offence, you a
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
I find search suggestions positively hostile, and is one of the first things I switch off. I see that Mozilla has started pushing Pocket again. With the last upgrade, I got a new tab with a full-page Pocket ad. They don't need telemetr
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> The form includes significant loopholes, like failing to require the apps to report data sharing with “service providers.” > As we’ve noted, data sharing with “service providers” is exempt from disclosure requirements. > Many dif
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> at least any congressperson would have to be able to challenge any other, right? Duelling was a matter for gentlemen; men of honour. If you have no honour to defend, duelling is inappropriate. A "gentleman" in England, at lea
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
Maybe you'd get used to it?
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
(replying to self - sorry) > If there were no Higgs particles anywhere ...which is counterfactual, if you mean "anywhere in spacetime", because there were a lot of Higgs particles, at the very beginning; and those particles exi
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> Logic done seriously requires a mathematical maturity most high-school students simply don't have. I guess that "done seriously", that's true. But basic logic is like basic arithmetic; they teach that in primary sch
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> Every AI has a legal owner, author, and an agenda set by their human creators It's not obvious to me that this is always true. I can easily imagine a crowd-sourced, distributed AI, with no owner and no identifiable author. I don&#
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> just bots speaking to each other Ah - perhaps therein lies a solution! We all get a personal AI bot. Mine would sound like me, would be able to imitate my voice and my writing style, and would be able to distinguish bots from humans be
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> Is it rare, or is it commonplace? From my understanding (/me not a physicist), it is rare. It's created only in high-energy situations, and decays extremely quickly. In the very beginning, there were a lot of them, but not fo
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> alleging the police and the local judge had violated Title 42 Judges gonna make judgements - that's their job. It's in the nature of judgements that they're not right or wrong. But in this case, the judge didn't eve
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
The rule didn't say "No github".
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> The rules clearly state "no Github" Did you actually read the rules? "Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files, such as Webs, Wix, Weebly, GitHub, Jekyll, and Rep
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> why this effect is more observable for girls than for boys I agree that's an interesting question. I think it's that girls are (conditioned to be?) more sociable than boys. After a divorce, many more men find themselves frien
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> In countries with single-payer healthcare (or socialised healthcare), it's not true that it harms only the consumer. This is a fallacy. Public health measures benefit some individuals more than others; but everyone benefits. Free
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
Gosh, your daughter is impressively eloquent and literate. I've come across rhetoric like that from a 12-year-old, but not very often. You should both be proud.
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> after scientists cloned an animal and watched it die, moments later, from a lung defect Moments after they cloned it? The immediate result of cloning is a single cell, not something with a lung. So that single cell grew into an organis
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
Hypothetical "dark matter" doesn't interact with ordinary matter, except gravitationally. Neutrinos do interact with ordinary matter; otherwise we wouldn't be able to build neutrino detectors. Therefore neutrinos are not
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> how many people know what the term top dead center references? Isn't that a petrolhead reference? I thought it was the position of the camshaft in an ICE that places cylinder 1 at maximum compression. /me not a petrolhead, no
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
Never used LinkedIn. They started spamming me relentlessly in the early noughties, and I never talk to spammers. They were a seedy, manipulative platform, almost as seedy as Where Are You Now? (WAYN), which was a ghastly sewer.
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> which includes everything in completed physics, chemistry, and neurophysiology "Completed", which I take to mean stuff that someone already understands, now. But nobody understands how changes at a neurophysiological level af
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
MIME not only arrived after SMTP (the 'E' in MIME stands for 'extension'); it doesn't infect the SMTP part of the stack. There's nothing in SMTP that would have to change if MIME was abolished. SMTP provides no
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
Sorry, but I didn't take Mary's 'complete' knowledge of physics to mean that she also has insight into the workings of her own mind, still less that she can manipulate it. Justy knowing all of physics is superhuman enoug
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
No idea what Bhante Vimalaramsi is. I used the term as a synonym for sravakayana; I think I probably used it incorrectly, it should probably include a lot of mahayana practice (because mahayana sutras). Maybe it just means "practices t
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> I think we need to train people to write formal specifications I don't think that is really a matter of training. You have to start with people who can think clearly; if they can't think clearly, it's hopeless to expect
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
I did a lot of mindfulness sitting practice. We were specifically directed not to attempt concentration. There's more than one kind of mindfulness, and more than one kind of vipassana. I was mainly taught vipassana as something that ar
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
So they claim.
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> In fact, in Britton’s study, 60% of the participants reporting distressing experiences were meditation teachers, rebutting Davidson’s argument that experienced meditators don’t end up in difficult territory. Meditation teacher !== expe
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> you don't need to burn insence sticks and bow k times before a statue to be a Buddhist. That's what would be called "devotional practices". I didn't care for all that - pujas, foundation practices, 100,000 pros
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by denton-scratch 4y ago
> hell is mentioned within the context of Theravada as well As far as I'm aware, Theravada is a body of teaching that developed late - around the same time as Mahayana. It's not some kind of "what the Buddha actually taugh

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