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by jfk13 6y ago
Those already happened. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/14/8760024...
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by jfk13 6y ago
I also worry that in the hypothetical world where most people just own a small electric for local daily use, and rent a large diesel (or whatever) for the family holiday, demand for those larger, longer-range vehicles will be extremely seas
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by jfk13 6y ago
Sounds like you want a diesel-electric locomotive. Or a smaller version of one, maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_locomotive#Diesel–elect...
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by jfk13 6y ago
I'm not invoking the existence (or non-existence) of anything. I'm just noting that we are far from understanding what consciousness is, let alone how it works. (Who said anything about atoms? I didn't.)
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by jfk13 6y ago
We have no more evidence that what we experience as consciousness and decision-making arises from the operation of a purely mechanistic state machine than we have for the existence of a soul. Some people believe that when the machine become
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by jfk13 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
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by jfk13 6y ago
Or you might believe that a single celled organism can reasonably be understood as a state machine responding to inputs, but that a human -- or a tree, or a cat -- is not merely a scaled-up version of this same model. We are far from knowin
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by jfk13 6y ago
Maybe. We don't know that. You take it on faith, apparently, but that doesn't prove anything.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Sometimes works well, depending on the structure and content of the PDF. Other times it's hopeless. Certainly not a general solution. Indeed, there isn't one, because the design of PDF allows far too many things that can't be
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by jfk13 6y ago
That's a pretty important overlap. How many people on a board or in a community are really willing and able to entirely discount the President's views and consider issues independently?
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Code of Conducts give a single canonical state for what's considered acceptable Except... they don't. They say things like (quoting from the NumFOCUS CoC): > We will not accept harassment or other exclusionary behaviors, s
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Osiris-Rex: NASA probe risks losing asteroid sample after door jams(bbc.com)
2 points by jfk13 6y ago|0 comments
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by jfk13 6y ago
If you don't trust a third party, how about creating your own? That should provide an answer for your trust issues.
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by jfk13 6y ago
On the other hand, I understand that customising/"hacking" Ikea products is also something of a thing.... e.g. https://www.ikeahackers.net
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by jfk13 6y ago
It makes sense, as it identifies the specific (medium-hosted) blog as the source, rather than just the hosting platform. I think this is a new feature (at least, I haven't noticed it before), and seems to apply to some other domains as
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Now it turns out companies with massive legal departments can't do it? No, it turns out they don't want to.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Sounds like it's ripe for a discrimination lawsuit.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Supposing it doesn't exist, how could we make a just high-functioning society Supposing free will doesn't exist, why would you think we can decide to do anything to make things other than they are?
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by jfk13 6y ago
This seems like an acknowledgement that the market is largely saturated, and the main reason people buy these new devices is because advertising convinces them that their one- or two- or three-year-old device, which still works perfectly fi
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by jfk13 6y ago
> but not be able to create a user-facing product I don't see how the MIT license would help you achieve this.
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by jfk13 6y ago
So...care to show us?
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by jfk13 6y ago
Pencil and paper aren't new, but we can still admire and enjoy the creativity of a poem.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> He's getting a lot of ripoffs copying his work verbatim, nearly all of it occurs within a few hours of being posted here. > None of it has attribution, all are selling ads. Unsurprising, yet sad. Some even go to the trouble of
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by jfk13 6y ago
Shakespeare might like a word... (Alternatively: then why don't we have separate words for black actors, white actors, native American actors, south-east Asian actors, transgender actors, and so on?)
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by jfk13 6y ago
> as dead as a dogcow Thank you for the simile -- so much more apt than a dodo, in this case!
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by jfk13 6y ago
Yeah, calling it "exhaustive" is plainly ridiculous. (It does have "Black" and "Green", if you want alternative examples, though "White" is also missing...) Seems like just scraping author names from
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by jfk13 6y ago
I've already seen (and dismissed) almost exactly that wording.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives ... > the idea being that there's a "default", boring, generic universal font template that covers all glyphs > a type designer simply mo
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Uber secures right to continue operating in London(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jfk13 6y ago|0 comments
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by jfk13 6y ago
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."

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