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by jiocrag 4y ago
AFAIK, we have no way of assessing whether “someone” has acquired new information other than that someone demonstrating their knowledge. We can’t MRI “acquisition of information”. So, as per this thought experiment, we have no way of tellin
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by jiocrag 4y ago
"Simply devise a way to test for information predicated on trichromacy using bichromatic metamers." lol... "Simply..." this is literally the 'the explanatory gap' described in the article. We don't current
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Your confusion is not the author's fault. You ignored the parameters of the thought experiment, which clearly state that she can discern colors without "seeing" them. The question is whether the subjective experience of &
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Not clear at all and addressed by the parameters of the thought experiment. Remember that Mary has near omnipotent knowledge of light and vision. She would clearly be able to interpret the color of the door with her expertise of light refra
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Data Indicate Figma’s Userbase Rapidly Expanding Beyond Design Market(atc-analytics.medium.com)
11 points by jiocrag 4y ago|1 comments
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Where are these stats from?
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Nope, not at all like that. Derivatives provide leverage to an underlying, real financial instrument. There is no real instrument behind your paid ledger entry.
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s. Seriously though — you’re arguing this is a conspiracy to increase gun control, in which a local Texas PD is complicit? The United States is false flagging us into increased gun control by sanctioning the murder of
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Two big issues with my workflow caused by M1: -occasional Postgres failures (i/o errors, especially with parallelization) -kernel panics when connecting an external Sandisk ssd (known issue according to Apple forums) It’s a shame becau
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Amino acids found in asteroid samples collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe(english.kyodonews.net)
316 points by jiocrag 4y ago|170 comments
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Do you eat avocados or almonds or kiwis or bananas or lettuce? If so, then STFU.
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by jiocrag 4y ago
That’s because it’s the only place you can grow these crops year round, which is what the American consumer demands. You have very poor systems understanding — just a myopic view that lets you cast aspersions while enjoying the benefits of
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by jiocrag 4y ago
And WHY do you think crops are grown there?? Year round sunshine to feed the consumer’s (I.e. YOUR) appetite. You can’t grow avocados in Minnesota. This is the definition of delusional entitlement — not understanding how food supply works i
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Whose fault is it?
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by jiocrag 4y ago
ITT: Software developers mad at farmers because they don't understand that their sustenance comes from farms.
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by jiocrag 4y ago
What do you think the animals that you eat eat? Just because you don't directly consume alfalfa doesn't make it a wasteful crop.
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Dude... farms make food lol. You don't need an extra cup of water without asking, but farms need water to grow food. This is the type of delusional entitlement that is ruining the planet.
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by jiocrag 4y ago
The difference is that we need to eat -- you don't need to take 10 minute showers or water your lawn. It IS the over-consuming citizen (i.e. you) causing these problems at the end of the day, whether that fact makes you uncomfortable
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by jiocrag 4y ago
Yeah — seems like all you need is Snowflake-esque separation of storage and compute and bob’s your uncle.
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by jiocrag 4y ago
First off, please stop using "orthogonal" like that. Second, the cloud cover is not "unrelated" (if that's what you meant) to the wake up and come home in darkness issue. Portland and Seattle are often dismal and dr
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by jiocrag 5y ago
This is like saying Apple couldn’t have possibly developed the iPhone in secrecy. China has massive incentive to both do this research and make said research as opaque as possible to the rest of the world.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Exactly. Parent poster is spewing a line without evidence. Please cite discoveries of respiratory viruses with “weird features” on par with SARS-cov2.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Narrow thinking. There is currently no evidence supporting “crackpot” theories like consciousness persisting our understanding of the physical realm. Of COURSE we’ve not witnessed any scientific evidence of life after death — that would
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by jiocrag 5y ago
This is really bad. Inscrutable and arrogant for the layman, basic and non-explanatory for the well versed. What exactly is being “explained” here? Atomic energy post mortem? If that’s the attempt, it’s a fail.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Dinosaur brain to body ratios never approached those of even early mammals AFAIK. Human brains are our specialized trait (like a rhino horn or snake venom). Like asking why fish haven’t developed civilization.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Because inflation’s effects are uneven. On the plus-ish side: -Optically better revenue and profits for companies (albeit fundamentally similar or worse because of increased supplier prices), -better fixed income returns (again though, re
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by jiocrag 5y ago
A daring new tack in fed apologism: everything is transitory. Guys—don’t worry about the heat emanating from our sun; it’s only a multi-billion year transitory phase!
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Microsoft’s “cloud business” is not at all comparable to AWS or GCP. It includes all manner of other product that can’t be reasonably classified as cloud compute. AWS remains significantly larger than either azure or GCP when measured by ei
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by jiocrag 5y ago
I think you’re misinterpreting. Dennet is setting up to question Descartes’ assumption, which has been “accepted,” but he spends the first 50 or so pages of the book breaking down. I’m not saying this book has all the answers about consciou
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Hmm... those seem like pretty shallow interpretations of his research. What do you mean by 'accepts Descartes' "I think, therefore I am" without skepticism?'

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