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by giardini 1y ago
taneq SAYS "i don’t think that’s what ablation is about. It’s more like blowing parts off a bus until it ceases to be a bus." Different people have different goals. You want some form of minimal bus and I want a Lotus 7. There&#x2
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by giardini 1y ago
No. the Allegory is a fragment of a poor unfinished story and little more. You don't need it to explain "multiple layers of abstractions, deeper reality vs appearance" as you say. In fact, you don't need it for anything
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by giardini 1y ago
Plato's "Allegory of the cave" was uninteresting and uninformative when I first read it more than 50 years ago. It remains so today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave Also, other than in
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by giardini 1y ago
Sounds like a winning strategy and a money saver to boot.
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by giardini 1y ago
Can U still drink the Jägerbomb after developing?
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Rare Left-Handed Snail Seeks Hook-Up with Similar Mate(cnn.com)
4 points by giardini 1y ago|1 comments
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by giardini 1y ago
Left in the lurch by Tinder (having neither opposable thumbs nor fingers) Ned the snail threatens to sue under ADA.
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Rose Scent Increases Brain Gray Matter(sciencealert.com)
16 points by giardini 1y ago|2 comments
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by giardini 1y ago
b/c th qustion is misspeled so onli morns repsonde?
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by giardini 1y ago
"Grizzled old dudes" often make good husbands and they have sufficient income and lifestyle to support a family.
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by giardini 1y ago
Since there's talk of euthanasia: Soylent (green) is now available off-the-shelf (Saw it at Walmart yesterday, in a handy half-gallon container): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DF54G8F9/ For reference: the movie
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by giardini 1y ago
dsign says "But immigration is the only thing that can replenish their workforce." should be "immigration or automation are the only things that can replenish their workforce."
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by giardini 1y ago
$4000 seems steep for a piece of fur with a vibrator and the right smell! Needs a little private enterprise competition.
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by giardini 1y ago
My goal is to eliminate all non-profits. That is, I want them taxed!
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by giardini 1y ago
"Crime rates have fallen." Some murder rates have presumably fallen. But I would be wary of even that b/c I've seen the lengths that bureaucrats(police) and politicians(civilians) will go to alter statistics. "Trust
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by giardini 1y ago
No wonder Anthropic isn't working well! The "Moby Dicked" explanation of the state of AI! But seriously, Why must someone search even a significant part of the public Internet to develop an AI? Is it believed that missing som
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by giardini 1y ago
I hope they can settle this. When I was last in Europe I visited the museum and for the first time realized how unique Vincent Van Gogh's art was. The Museum displays his work in controlled lighting so as to get the full effect of the
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by giardini 1y ago
paywall.
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by giardini 1y ago
Thank you for the suggestions. She (my friend) uses: - a browser (Edge or Chrome), - Google Sheets, - MS NotePad, and - MS Paintbrush. The only other idiosyncrasy is that she backs up to a variety of flash drives: old stuff on old drive, ne
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Ask HN: Windows 11 Update Fail – Linux Distro Suggestions?
4 points by giardini 1y ago|7 comments
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by giardini 1y ago
IAmGraydon says >But burning it is a symbol of hate of our country< No. You don't know what the symbol means to any other person than you . And there is no absolute meaning of a symbol. You are one person in a world of bil
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by giardini 1y ago
I find that statement subversively patriotic... or patriotically subversive or ...hmmmm???
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by giardini 1y ago
No, this is a bridge too far. The Supremes won't let him pull this off. Free speech is too strong in the USA. As a child I understood objects such as flags, books (Koran, Bible, Torah, Vedas, Buddhist Canons, SICP, etc.) could be used
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by giardini 1y ago
Been there, seen that. Some notes: - the two-way switched lights may have never worked as intended. So no matter what you do with the endpoints it may never work. - doing it yourself is a waste of time and money. You'll learn nothi
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by giardini 1y ago
Can I now take it as confirmation from the two of you (justsomehnguy and micromacrofoot) that at least half of Americans who vote should not be allowed to vote? If so, this may be the first time an important political question has been reso
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by giardini 1y ago
That may be so, but what you say doesn't answer my question: can they unscrew a lightbulb that is literally falling apart as they unscrew it ? ANSWER: If the power is off, they likely will remove the glass bulb (one piece), examine
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by giardini 1y ago
Sadly yes, b/c even the simplest things can go wrong quickly. E.g. people sometimes change light bulbs w/o turning off the power. Have you ever experienced a dead (or good, for that matter) bulb coming apart as you twist it out
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by giardini 1y ago
This is a big waste of money and time. But the courts will set it straight in a few months.
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by giardini 1y ago
It likely means the OP has poor handyman skills and wisely has chosen not to learn by him/her self due to safety hazard. After all, these circuits are usually ~110 volts and there is almost always an unintended ground nearby (a water o
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by giardini 1y ago
For a small price (probably less than the cost of a "home assistant controlled floor standing lamp") you could buy parts to repair the bathroom lighting? Better yet, pay someone to do it (and maybe show you the hows and the hazard

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