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by hnbad 3y ago
I think this mostly hinges on whether you interpret Jaynes' argument of the origin of consciousness as being a cultural artifact or an evolutionary trait. We usually think of it as the latter and tying it to a certain recent point in h
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by hnbad 3y ago
If we assume that both sides of historical battles were either expecting to win or desperate enough to have no other option than fight (because why would a commander field a battle they could avoid if they don't think they'd win?)
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Also as far as I'm aware most of the electronics recycling happens in underdeveloped countries, often by literally shoving circuit boards into vats of acid. There's money in e-recycling but it doesn't justify the expenses of
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by hnbad 3y ago
> the dowry is from the bride's parents to the groom/couple in order for the bride to have a certain level of life There are actually three distinct concepts that can all occur within the same culture: - the dowry is paid by th
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For a modern analogy: we treat gold as a luxury good we convert into prized jewelry and yet we use it to make disposable technology we carelessly throw away once no longer fit for use. And although of course the amounts of precious metals i
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> Because these students were attached to the most competitive international school in Beijing, the majority of my students were very bright and very motivated. [..] At a less selective school this curriculum may be a harder sell. I thi
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It's really more like going vegan. Individual actions are not a boycott. Boycotts require organization across a broad enough group of individuals that they can achieve a critical mass. Calling this a boycott reminds me of the young lef
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Sure but all of this is true for gTLDs, with a different set of caveats. Corporations don't exist in a vacuum, they're subject to the laws of the jurisdictions they're incorporated in. Corporations aren't permanent and u
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by hnbad 3y ago
I first got distracted by the "dot" starting to change size, then noticed my reflection while thinking about how the animation was probably supposed to represent breathing and ... yeah, I gave up when I started thinking about Blac
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He's a filmmaker in the sense that he has made films. He's not a filmmaker in the sense that he thinks of films as films and understands the art form. You can argue that's enough to technically qualify as a filmmaker but most
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"Buying crypto" is not a step in literally destroying money because the dollars used to buy crypto don't vanish, you just give them to the person selling you the crypto. You would need to withdraw the dollars as cash and then
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HN on aggregate tends right libertarian, which is politically neutral with regards to the usual US "libs vs conservatives" political dialog. For every socialist I can show you a dozen Georgists, for every anarchist I can show you
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by hnbad 3y ago
Thanks. I'm okay with taking the downvotes for comments like this. There's a reactionary political bent on HN and you get more karma from participating in it than pointing it out. It's all fun and games until someone points o
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by hnbad 3y ago
> There are women who find the joke funny and who don't think it's sexist, and FWIW my wife is one of them. Women can be misogynist. What is your point? We live in a culture still filled with everyday misogyny and sexism (and r
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by hnbad 3y ago
Stephen King is not a filmmaker. There used to be a running joke that you can judge the quality of a Stephen King adoptation by whether he liked it: if he liked it, it was likely trash; if he didn't, it was likely good. The problem is
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For all of Kubrick's talent he was always more interested in the villains than their victims and this manifests in a lens that gives sympathy to the villains while portraying the victims as mere two-dimensional canvases. The Shining
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> And, because houses of worship generally don’t pay taxes, they’ve also had trouble capitalizing on renewable energy tax benefits. Well, there's an easy fix for that but they won't like it.
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No, the problem with the joke is that it doesn't just make fun of her, it also uses the fact that she is a woman and mother to make that joke. This plays into sexism and misogyny by implying that both of these things made her unfit for
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by hnbad 3y ago
There seem to be two things at play: 1. The current economic situation is causing a lot of investors to tighten screws and demand profitability where they had previously been fine with just seeking growth because it becomes clearer that few
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This is the outgrowth of a VC startup accelerator. "Startup" in these parts usually implies being VC funded, seeking VC funding or acting as if you were VC funded (i.e. growth focus rather than sustainability).
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The US has a Common Law system so case law is as important as code (or even more so). The question isn't whether there's "a law", the question is whether there have been cases fought over it and what the outcome was. Tha
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by hnbad 3y ago
I agree but I think the mistake is to think this only affects public companies. Private investors also want ROI and this means they'll be more likely to push for a profitable "exit" than let the company just be sustainable an
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The only people I know who drink daily are the ones that definitely drink more than one beer most days. Most other people I know who drink beer recreationally (i.e. outside social events and somewhat frequently) don't drink every d
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by hnbad 3y ago
Given the prominent mentions of OpenAI I'm going to guess this doesn't use actual human translators but instead relies on machine translations using OpenAI? This is literally what created a drastic decrease in the overall quality
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Here's one that seems genuine and has round radio buttons: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f4/c8/8b/f4c88b861769e24674b4...
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It's interesting how people so detached from these fields that they think "Buffy studies" or "Madonna studies" is a field you can enroll in to get a full degree in rather than just a niche subject in a greater field
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Y'know, it's kinda funny that despite the commecialization and streamlining of the German university system following the EU reforms in the mid-2000s, German universities will still insist that the value of higher education is the
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It's been over 20 years since the last episode of Buffy aired. Madonna's most relevant period was in the 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, which was 30 years ago. Both are still considered influential and pivotal. I'm pretty sure
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You seem to be surprised by hipocrisy? People will go to great lengths to justify to themselves why they're "the good guys". Having a strong dogmatic adherence to religion at worst intensifies this problem by increasing the c
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Same here and while that's demonstrably not true (the explanation I heard was something about the colors and refresh rate so maybe this was true at some point in the past) the article does state the rats don't recognize themselves

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