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by grondilu 10y ago
They are not supposed to make decisions regarding personal management, but if those decisions consist in throwing money at employees, they may certainly be pissed off. Shareholders literally own the company. They have influence on every
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by grondilu 10y ago
Employees are supposed to receive a salary in exchange for their work. The decision on how to distribute profits is, theoretically, made by shareholders. Maybe they decided to give some to employees in order to improve morale or something
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by grondilu 10y ago
I doubt it's related, but today NVIDIA's stock price is down 2.4%. I don't remember it falling down that much in intraday for a while. I don't know who took this decision to just give away money and free time to employe
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by grondilu 10y ago
> I wish companies, if possible, throttled layoffs a bit more instead of large chunks like this, When you amputate a limb, you want to do it as quickly as possible.
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by grondilu 10y ago
To be fair a quick google search points at various similar answers. Apparently, with prolonged sitting the problem is not so much the posture, as it is inactivity. Presumably lying may be slightly better as it does not stress the back. P
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by grondilu 10y ago
Question : is laying worse than sitting?
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by grondilu 10y ago
This has more to do with thermoregulation than with the mechanical aspect of keeping your balance (which was the point I was answering to).
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by grondilu 10y ago
Cats use their tail for balance. Not sure it's better than arms, but the fact remains that cats run much faster than humans (or apes).
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by grondilu 10y ago
Well, birds are Theropods and Theropods were bipedal much before they could fly.
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by grondilu 10y ago
I vaguely recall a quote saying that if an Earth-like planet was ever found around Proxima Centaury, an international project to build an interstellar probe would begin immediately. Well, we'll see.
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by grondilu 10y ago
To put it simply, I don't feel like the current human lifespan is too short.
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by grondilu 10y ago
We're talking about automation, so we're talking about developed countries.
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> Unless you're willing to kill the worker Talk about black and white reasoning. The loss of his job is supposed to reduce his income, making him poorer, thus forcing him to consume less resources. But you're right in the sens
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Whatever life is worth living for, I don't think it requires eternity.
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Feel free to explain because I don't see what would be the problem.
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It seems to me that a full mastery of language requires a grasp of semantics, that is the ability to understand what a sentence means. I doubt it's possible to do that without having basic common sense along with an overall representa
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by grondilu 10y ago
> “You’re pulling data from my cardiac device that I paid for, implanted inside my body, the most intimate piece of technology anyone can have, and yet I’m devoid of access to the device? That moved me to my core,” he says. “That’s just
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by grondilu 10y ago
Some form of brood parasitism, maybe? I mean it is known that orcas hunt whale calves and presumably this involves an instinctive reaction from the adults to the calf's distress signal. So perhaps various other preys have learnt to imi
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by grondilu 10y ago
It's way above my league, but possibly related is an old article from nature communications, "Quantum correlations with no causal order": http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n10/full&#x
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If you see anything it would mean that the photon had been entangled with your retina, your visual nerve and your brain. All those being macroscopic objects, you could not see any quantum behavior. I'm not sure what would you expect t
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by grondilu 10y ago
Basically, yes. Although gravitation is not a "force" but a manifestation of the geometry of space-time. The aim is to show that this geometry can be derived from entanglement relations in the Hilbert space.
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> What makes the new copy, but not the old one 'you'? There are now two versions of "you". That's the point of making a copy.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Few years ago HP made sensational claims about its memristor-based Machine project. One can doubt this will ever become real, but their assessment that memory, not logic, is the main bottleneck in computing seems to make sense. Yet it se
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by grondilu 10y ago
Honestly I don't get this focus on continuity. The letter "Y" is a continuous shape, unlike say the letter "i". The problem is that some people privilege one branch of the "Y", not that one is continuous
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> If I go to bed and my copy goes out to party, I can't say I experienced a party. Your copy can. Her experience is as real as yours, and from her point of view, everything happened exactly as if her consciousness had been transfer
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by grondilu 10y ago
Again: how would you tell the difference? Say the process could have happened the night before, and the person who was supposed to do it decided to do it or not on a coin toss. There is no way for the person who wakes up to know whether or
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by grondilu 10y ago
If a copy of you is made, there are now two persons. Both of them think they are "you" and both of them are right since being you is, by definition, a subjective experience which as such depends on a point of view .
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by grondilu 10y ago
One version dies, the other lives on. The problem is that many people think only the one that dies deserved to be called "you". To me a copy that "believes it is the same person as you were" is as good as it gets. How
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The underlying assumption behind the whole process is that artificial parts are capable of replicating whatever the brain and body do to produce a human consciousness in all its details, that is including all spectrum of emotions. Therefore
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by grondilu 10y ago
The thing about the so-called "mind upload" is that it requires a particular view on concepts such as death and consciousness in order to consider that those who would undergo it would escape death in some sense, but ironically su

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