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by jbotz 6y ago
I really don't buy Pulumi's primary selling point: That using a "familiar (general-purpose programming) language" for cloud configuration makes us more productive. I'm not a huge fan of Hashicorp's HCL---I&#x27
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She's probably putting the cart before the horse... light or troubled sleep leads to more dreaming because REM sleep phase comes just before a waking or almost waking phase. Also, you most vividly remember those dreams that happen jus
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There may be some new ideas here, but the basic idea behind this is anything but new... things like this have been around as long as personal computers and are often called PIM for "personal information management". I'm not
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Our current habit of disposing of crap sight unseen in ways that flush all those essential nutrients into the oceans may seem like a great improvement over the stench of the big cities at the end of the 19th century, but it is also entirely
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Just a small point of information... the author says the embodied energy of a laptop is about 3000 - 4000 Megajules. That turns out to be just about the average monthly electricity consumption for a typical American home.
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I think people are missing something here... this isn't going to make a typical CentOS deployment less stable than before. The intended result is to make RHEL even more stable than before, but leaving CentOS in the position where RH
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Conservativism (sic) is a flaw (in human thinking) because what it means is "resistance to change"... and as Heraclitus said, "change is the only constant in life."
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I think the arguments being made here in this thread are largely missing the point, although that's because the author of the article also didn't put his finger on it very well... yes everything is incomprehensibly complex, but wh
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One argument against Bitcoin is Bettercoin. Why should anyone bother with Bitcoin when there's Bettercoin? And then again, why should I use Bettercoin rather than just launching my own Evenbettercoin? Or maybe just wait until Bestc
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I think in the big picture the effects you are talking about are really small in the same way that the heat dissipation of all our energy use (from whatever energy sources) is negligible relative to daily incoming/outgoing solar radiat
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First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation(arxiv.org)
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China's Cainiao Is Revolutionizing How Goods Get Delivered(news.yahoo.com)
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I admit that I also automatically lose a bit of interest if I see "familiar C-like (algol-like) syntax" as a supposed feature in a new programming language, there is also no point in being original just for originality's sake
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In "The Corporation: the Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" Joel Bakan asks "if a corporation is a legal person, what kind of person is it?". His answer is: a psychopath. A person without any moral sense who wil
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by jbotz 6y ago
Those who want power over others have always manipulated public perception of the truth, but an Open Society (by Karl Popper's definition) was supposed to be resistant to this in much the same way as the scientific process is resistant
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Well, I don't know where to start... to me animals are people, not human persons of course, but individuals with personality, thus "persons", i.e. people. To speak of "anthropomorphizing" animals is a bit outdated.
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Yes, Portugal did, as did several other countries... here's a complete list: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-that-have-decr...
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Your concerns may sound reasonable, but they are not evidence-based. So far the evidence beginning to accumulated from states/countries that have decriminalized and/or legalized previously prohibited drugs has been mostly contrar
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I was pretty clear in what I said: Gitea and Gitlab are centralized. Git itself is neither centralized nor decentralized by design, it merely provides an infrastructure for replication and is agnostic about whether or not there is a &quot
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> the social network side of GH is one of its very important side. Exactly, and it's always the social network side of things that causes trouble when it's centralized. It's exactly our social interactions that we need
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Those are still centralized, i.e. there is one host that belongs to some person or org that's the main upstream repo and which can be hit with a takedown reqeuest. Git itself can be used in a truly decentralized way by having the ma
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by jbotz 6y ago
They haven't been "ordered" anything by anyone who has the authority to issue an order. They have been requested to take it down, but this request arguably has no force under the DMCA because the RIAA is not the copyright
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Also plenty of petroleum and other natural resources.
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Here's a story from the East German era... In East Germany it was illegal to watch Western TV, but it was possible because the West deliberately had strong transmitters aimed at the East. There was a tradition that the evening news be
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No we can't. In so far as we can understand people with different accents it's because we have been trained on them. Even if they are not common around us we've had some exposure, from occasional visitors, travels, or medi
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> some of the bloodthirstiest predators on the planet Present company excluded, of course. A typical human "sports hunter" can easily kill a lot more than 200 animals. And if you count all the animals that die to feed us or a
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They aren't. (The workings of body and mind are not encoded in DNA.) The only thing that's encoded in DNA is how to make proteins. Everything else is emergent from the interactions of those proteins and "encoded" onl
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Of course there is no "scientific evidence" for exactly what it will take to drive humans to extinction seeing as that that's never happened yet. But some things we need to consider even if we can't "scientifically
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Aside from probably being plain wrong, this sort of thinking is also a germ for boundless evil; from saying "we can lose 80% of the population..." to saying "we should lose 80% of the population so things will be better for t
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I highly recommend this film (available on Netflix)... it shows that there can be friendship between two such utterly alien minds and thus that higher sentience has some common principles even when the "infrastructure" on which it

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