djokkataja

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by djokkataja 4y ago
> The alternative: that its a practical possibility to translate all parts of my sensory experiences into data which can be transmitted and parsed in exactly the same way by other minds feels like the proposition needs some evidence or j
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by djokkataja 4y ago
> I realised that anyone who actually did this would have to be utterly morally bankrupt. To get from micro-organisms to intelligent life this way would involve an immense amount of suffering, with billions of sentient creatures living,
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by djokkataja 4y ago
Even if all you care about is whether you keep getting paid, being one of the owners of a business (even if it's one of many) suggests to me that you would have much more influence about whether you keep getting paid than you would in
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by djokkataja 4y ago
> Where, exactly, does the money to pay for their additional salary and jobs come from? Why does anyone pay anyone else to do work for them? If this situation was actually zero-sum, then employees would get paid for a while until compani
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by djokkataja 4y ago
> If you don’t believe in the Future, unreservedly and dreamingly, if you aren’t willing to bet that somebody will be there to cry when the Clock finally, ten thousand years from now, runs down, then I don’t see how you can have children
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by djokkataja 5y ago
The OP's specific point was based on a misunderstanding: that being unable to pay the land value tax would mean they would have to move to a different city because the cost of living in their original city would be too high. This might
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by djokkataja 5y ago
Yeah, this was already happening with people moving from the bay area to Phoenix.
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> For instance, say I live in a very expensive city and I can no longer afford the land tax. One of the major reasons that our cities become expensive in our "modern" society is that we don't have land value taxes. If we
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by djokkataja 5y ago
Arguably ADHD could have benefits for people in hunter-gatherer lifestyles: https://faculty.washington.edu/dtae/manuscripts/eisenberg%20...
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by djokkataja 5y ago
There's an update for the desktop browser: https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-five-5-1/
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> arrest our own evolutionary development. There is a sense in which there's not much point in aliens "uplifting" humanity: on our own, without external interference, we might develop in ways that would be hard for them to
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by djokkataja 5y ago
Storing data is cheap and gets cheaper all the time. This isn't a super comparison, but the Internet archive's 2019 revenue is listed as $36.7 mil on Wikipedia ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive
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by djokkataja 5y ago
But if the cultural standard is that no one personally sacrifices anything in order to try to render better moral/ethical outcomes, how will people that become business owners and CEOs learn that they're supposed to be better? And
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by djokkataja 5y ago
Yep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet#Nomenclature
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> These days, the more confident-sounding and charismatic someone is, the less I believe there is anything interesting I can learn from them, and the less I trust them! Probably a good metric anyway; if someone puts all their points into
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by djokkataja 5y ago
Is it possible it was a cultural thing? This is reading a ton into small details and generalizing a lot but... You mentioned you were helping him "get his life straightened out"; maybe he felt like it was going to pull him away fr
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by djokkataja 5y ago
It's actually mentioned in the original article: > Side note: The potentially most extensive research on the problem of programmatically unblurring mosaic'ed regions from videos was done by Japanese Adult Video enthusiasts. Jav
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> The whole point of free and open society is to avoid over reliance on a central authority and allow for emergent authority. To me, "free and open society" suggests that the people of the society intentionally put limits on an
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by djokkataja 5y ago
"You're a Blizzard, Harry" is fantastic
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> If there's a permanent Moon base - so what? Does anything really change? How? (What - in practical and economic terms, as opposed to symbolically - did the ISS change?) Can you even have a self-sustaining Moon base without relying
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by djokkataja 5y ago
In terms of ownership structure, yeah, that's pretty similar.
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by djokkataja 5y ago
Just for fun, purely as a thought experiment... Could digital "real estate" or "territory" be taxed in the same way -- not literal digital territory, like in games, but considering "ad spaces" as virtual territ
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> Similarly, there is nothing to prevent a tyrant from arising who will create a system that is horrible in completely novel ways; or some clique gaining power and doing the same. I almost can’t believe Kropotkin doesn’t address this; bu
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by djokkataja 5y ago
It strikes me as odd that interviews aren't collaborative. I mean, the really valuable information that interviewers want is whether or not the candidate is going to work well with other people there, right? So interviewers could wor
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by djokkataja 5y ago
I think Hemingway mode is when backspace and delete are disabled. Ghostwriter ( https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/ ) has Hemingway mode and another mode that they call "distraction free mode" which highl
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> You wouldn’t say that Facebook or Google are building their own Internet Of course not; buying up competitors is much more practical (why build what you can buy?). So this is presumably the same strategy Facebook plans for any competin
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> It just takes a long time to run a memory test on 32 GB of RAM Maybe run memtest while you sleep? :) > Or maybe it’s a thermal issue. I'm no expert on thermal issues by any means, but I did have a laptop that overheated frequ
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by djokkataja 5y ago
> and I annoyingly frequently have had to reinstall the OS from scratch Is there a story behind that?
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by djokkataja 5y ago
It's less useful as money because so many people use it as a speculative asset.
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by djokkataja 5y ago
Actually as a Vim user I have Ctrl+Backspace mapped for insert mode. But I learned Windows shortcuts before vim...

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