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Panpsychism is needed to quantify consciousness(motls.blogspot.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 8y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Perhaps that is the argument, but corn or sugar cane or whatever don't magically become diesel. There's energy and other external costs put into the system, pollution by fertilizers, etc. Then again, growing trees on the same agri
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Not only, but apparently includes bio-fuels. Sorry, but agriculture is hugely environmentally impactful. We should not be growing fuel. I think a lot of it is subsidized by governments. Extracting petroleum from the ground is going to conti
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a safety issue. You can flare the natural gas, or you can collect it, if it's economic to do so, but you can't just let it accumulate in the general vicinity. Boom.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
What's the explanation for pollution when the means of production belong to the people? https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/11/world/east-bloc-aides-cit...
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The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town(spectator.us)
222 points by jackfoxy 8y ago|147 comments
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
It's identifying 9.4 ha of grapes in my neighborhood in what I know is a public park. Also identifying alfalfa in areas that are simply unforested California open space.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Roughly coinciding with the complete dominance of high fructose corn syrup completely taking over from granulated sugar in food manufacturing. Correlation is not causation. In the U.S. the sugar industry my uncle used to work in is now non-
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Cosmic Airburst May Have Wiped Out Part of the Middle East 3,700 Years Ago(space.com)
4 points by jackfoxy 8y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I really enjoyed that series. Early in my career I spent 6 months in Dallas in the early 80s, same space-time as the first 2 seasons. They captured working in a "tech" company in Dallas perfectly.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Didn't read the article, but wow, if someone would build an asparagus harvester that could bring back fresh Sacramento Delta asparagus. The sh*t served in Bay Area restaurants and pathetically displayed in markets now is pathetic.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I've been struggling with understanding Ludwig von Mises' use of the term autistic exchange published in 1949 in his book Human Action . I was thinking that as a non-native writing in English he had more or less invented the te
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
> We don’t have in Russia, or in the West , a situation where there are certain types of discourse or figures that are off limits for critical, ironic investigation. The linguistic anthropologist cited in the article is wrong about at l
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I didn't realize the CFTC has effectively banned prediction markets. Does anyone know the background to this?
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I had the opportunity recently to look up autistic in an old dictionary (early 20th century), and it was not present.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Ludwig von Mises uses autistic in an unusual manner in the section heading Autistic Exchange and Interpersonal Exchange of his book Human Action , published in 1949. It would be interesting to see the context of the first known referen
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Changing a date would literally rewrite history without dramatically affecting most historical understandings.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Even deferring updates is not really good about being in your face enough about having a pending update ready, so eventually it's going to update by itself anyway. Regarding switching to Mac, it never ceases to amaze me all of my col
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I think the polite term for this is advocacy journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy_journalism I too have descended to being pretty much only a headline reader, partly because of the prevalence of advocac
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Wasn't this very issue what inspired Voevodsky to work on a Univalent foundations of mathematics, resulting in the HoTT Book (in collaboration with others)?
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
It's not tar sands, it's fracing.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
> The internet flattened “alternative culture” — first Napster, and now Spotify, allowed obscure music to bypass the critics; Netflix and Amazon made experimental film accessible without your needing to read about it in a Hoberman revie
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I spoke with a voting reform activist in San Francisco about a year ago. I expressed my opinion that one's vote should be securely auditable. He was horrified. Such a system could be used to buy and sell votes. (In other words you coul
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I haven't studied this problem, but I suspect reserves of metals (and anything else that gets mined) is technically defined the same way oil reserves are defined, which renders this kind of headline nonsense. Even in the pessimisti
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Mining Moon Ice: Prospecting Plans Starting to Take Shape(space.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 8y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
There may be hope for automating the dissemination of local and state government information and news when agencies use services like opengov.com. The problem is still getting this information to venues people will notice and pay attention
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Exactly this. My other beef with twitter is a more sophisticated way to filter my timeline. I mean something that would make sense to a programmer, not the typical user friendly useless thing.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
A friend who uses vim says adding the vim plugin to VS Code makes it very fast. Just passing this on.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
In case you don't know who Eric Cartman is... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Cartman I think this was intended as sarcasm.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Try F#. There is a VS Code plugin with about all the tooling you need. Fully supported by dotnet core, so you don't have to use it on Windows.

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