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by eszed 4mo ago
I proposed in another comment that consciousness and self-awareness are at least close cousins, and perhaps the same phenomenon. If that's true, then that's an axis upon which you might create comparative measures. Yes, hamsters a
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by eszed 4mo ago
Indeed. That's the failure mode into which several (at least) western democracies seem to be tipping. Russia, among other states, is all the way down that "performative democracy (only)" road. Democratic accountability is mea
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by eszed 4mo ago
I don't know if it implies that. Someone up-thread mentioned temperature as an emergent property: individual atoms don't have it, but a sufficiently large group of them do. That would, I guess, make temperature meta-physical in
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by eszed 4mo ago
Not a gotcha at all, but I don't have a satisfying answer, nor am I confident there even is one. Best I can do is to say that I think consciousness and sense of self are at the very least closely related, and perhaps the very same phen
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by eszed 4mo ago
Those are great, but The Godfather is my favorite example. The book is, honestly, terrible. The prose is bad. It focuses almost exclusively on the salacious - does it need to tell us that many times about the size of Sonny's cock?
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by eszed 4mo ago
Yeah, I currently suspect that consciousness is an emergent property. I read elsewhere (it's somewhere in my HN history, I'm sure) that the biggest compute we can currently muster is something like three or four magnitudes away fr
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by eszed 4mo ago
I'm a lapsed English teacher, and I don't completely disagree with you: some of the Old Standards could be removed without losing anything, and there are contemporary texts that aren't but should be included in high school an
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by eszed 4mo ago
You might enjoy reading "Spoon River Anthology", by Edgar Lee Masters, which was one of the inspirations for Our Town . It's a cycle of short free-verse testimonies "spoken" by the dead in a small town cemetery. Re
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by eszed 5mo ago
It's been a while since I had to do it, but there used to be a way to transfer an AP or a switch (I've done both) from one gateway device to another. Have they removed that, or did the Cloud Key never offer it? I wouldn't hav
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by eszed 5mo ago
I've hit this, too, and the trick is to connect to the Unifi gateway offline, before you adopt, and change its LAN address space away from the default, and then connect it to the ISP router. I'm sure you figured that out, but I&#x
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by eszed 5mo ago
Browsing these made me unreasonably nostalgic.
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by eszed 5mo ago
I agree with (very, very, nearly) everything you say - particularly about the naivety of the "left"'s assumptions about political interventions being necessarily well-intentioned and competent. On the other hand, skepticism a
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by eszed 5mo ago
Complaining about downvotes used to be uncouth, but whatever. :-) For what it's worth, I'm pretty "left" - at least within the HN bubble - and I like the cut of your jib. I devoutly wish that the broader "right&quot
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by eszed 5mo ago
I was aware of the Greek - but (sadly) didn't study Latin, so thanks. I may not have understood your point, though. Do you object to this particular translation (which seems fine to me? Basically, "[thing] is singular [in this set
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by eszed 5mo ago
There's a relationship between the concepts: if you are alone, you are necessarily the only one there.
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by eszed 5mo ago
The verification I'd be looking for immediately in-store would be "is this [product] or is this a brick?" - that once happened to me, with (for all I see sellers complain about excessively buyer-friendly policies) no recourse
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by eszed 5mo ago
Eight of the top ten largest stadia in the world are for NCAA Football. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_by_capacity
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by eszed 5mo ago
Of course they do. Only fools expected anything else. Does else anyone remember the "age verification" on '80s video games? Some of them were hilarious. I think it was Leisure Suit Larry that asked multiple choice history q
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by eszed 5mo ago
Fair points. I've never owned anything but (rooted) Androids, or (now) GrapheneOS. I don't know if that makes me more paranoid than you are or not; I am, however, much less afraid of a wipe that's not a wipe! Not everyone has
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by eszed 5mo ago
> hand over a computer full of my personal data to a corporation I'm equally paranoid, so I back up and wipe any device I hand in for repair. > What if I can't afford to part with that computer? No perfect answer for this, b
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by eszed 5mo ago
Totally agree, and you have superb taste in vehicles. :-)
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by eszed 5mo ago
OK, thanks. I agree with you, then. I think the gist of your point got missed by both me and the GP. It read like you didn't think / understand fun was any kind of a value at all. I mean, you did ask: > What specific benefits d
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by eszed 5mo ago
I'm not the guy you're asking, and you didn't need to be rude, but the difference is a fun driving experience. It's perfectly OK not to value that, but it's a valid priority. I'm speaking here as an NA Miata ow
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by eszed 5mo ago
Yeah, that's the obvious thing to do. My fear is that we (more directly: I) have burned trust. After all, they moved us away from an internal solution because marketing didn't like it; how can I persuade them that a new internal s
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by eszed 5mo ago
This, so much. I'm the IT Director of a medium sized (for our industry) company. Some years ago I worked with an amazing free-lance developer, and our then-director of marketing, to build a custom website that we were pretty proud of.
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by eszed 5mo ago
I think you missed the directionality of the anecdote. After that whole process, the drummer still recognized his work on the sample within the song.
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by eszed 6mo ago
> median period length and typical variation/range. This was what my partner found useful to share with her doctor while trying to figure out a medical issue. Of course it could have been done typing dates and notes into excel, and
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by eszed 6mo ago
My understanding is that it would be, if admitted to. That's where the parallel comes in: establish an evidentiary trail that's plausible enough to withstand defense scrutiny, and count on the court itself (ie, judge) not to dig
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by eszed 6mo ago
I didn't think you thought otherwise, and apologize if I left that impression. As I said, I spend more time reading Wikipedia articles and watching YouTube videos than I do on any kind of "deep" study, and I think I am less w
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by eszed 6mo ago
> in Wikipedia you can spend hours reading banal pop-slop content or instead spend that time reading amazing articles about history, literature, arts, and science. I'm not saying you're personally doing anything wrong, but ther

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