jiocrag

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by jiocrag 5y ago
This is, in a sense, a microcosm of the argument in Daniel Dennet’s “Consciousness Explained.” To oversimplify (and potentially butcher): consciousness results from innumerable “drafts” or guesses arising from neural interpretation of senso
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Dyson sphere.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Far fetched, obviously, but.... Jurassic Park, Dennis Nedry-type situation? Shut down the master systems to hide the theft (or in this case, destruction) of vital info. No key-card access means even non-need-to-know internal employees wou
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Don’t forget almost perpetual swelling of normally uncorrelated assets across almost every class. More wealth in assets = less need to work for a segment of the population.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Not disputing that. Anecdotally in my household: 100% break-through rate (2 Pfizer vaxxed adults and 2 unvaxxed [ineligible] children] all recently caught what we believe to be the delta variant (confirmed via PCR). That said, the vaccine c
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by jiocrag 5y ago
CoronaVac vaccine? This is a much less effective vaccine than Pfizer and Moderna ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoronaVac ), so it's not surprising that natural immunity would be superior.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Geez... Go walk around Fuller Park and tell me you're comfortable. Ask residents of Fuller Park if they're comfortable strolling around and ruminating.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
"or that for example black people cannot walk around and therefore white people have privilege to walk around and therefore think and reason." Dude... go walk around in Compton or Fuller Park and tell me you're able to rumina
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Did you read any of the study? It's about the respective mental states of walking through good and bad neighborhoods. Very poor reading comprehension from the posters in this thread. "Forty-six student participants walked in group
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Ridiculous. Walkability is a key trait of affluent, nice neighborhoods. There's plenty of research on this: https://www.brookings.edu/research/walk-this-waythe-economic... Seems like the posters in this thread are
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by jiocrag 5y ago
You’re empirically wrong. Leisurely walking is a privilege of affluence. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095595/
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Tendrils of an insidious beast? A bit dramatic? What are you including in said “insidious beast?” Any mention of a racial past is representative on an evil monster seeking to pervade all culture? I think you’ve been watching too much hentai
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Poor walk to survive and work—often hungry, stressed or with a goal in mind. Goes without saying that this is different from strolling a private residence with the freedom to ruminate.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
He’s talking about walking to leisurely ideation, not walking and running to survive lol.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
“Come on…” said every person uncomfortable with the brutal history of race relations and living in denial about its long term effects.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Repeating myself from another thread but… China. Conjecture, admittedly: 1. Apple cannot lose the Chinese market. Huge and more important fastest growing geo for the company. 2. China is self deprecating elements of its own tech sector (agg
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Ah, so every governmental regime is equally evil. We can excuse nazi Germany or the Khmer Rouge because “all countries do evil crap.” Seems as though you’re the one feeding on a heap of freshmen-year college cultural equality propaganda.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
“they just see the world and their place in it differently to you.” You’re so right. For instance, the Chinese government sees that nothing of importance happened in Tiananman square in 1989 while the rest of the world sees a massacre.
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by jiocrag 5y ago
Grammatical and spelling errors aside, I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.
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“China are evil, and that is the reason These pure US companies do bad things” Literally no one is saying this. You're getting incredibly sensitive over a regime that just thwarted investigation into a pandemic that has killed more tha
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by jiocrag 5y ago
This is pure BS. "Everyone in China is using WeChat anyway." Really? Chinese citizens don't use their iPhone cameras to store photos locally? They only use WeChat to take pictures and store them? Gee, you should tell Apple AN
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by jiocrag 5y ago
You're deliberately ignoring the use case, which makes your argument look silly. Scenario 1: Apple announces Orwellian system to thwart child abuse in the United States. Scenario 2: Apple announces Orwellian system to thwart Chinese di
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by jiocrag 5y ago
China. Specifically, gradual capitulation to China. "Apple's earnings for Greater China in Q2 2021 were up 87.5% from this time last year, to $17.7 billion. During its latest earnings call, Apple has announced dramatically increas
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by jiocrag 5y ago
It’s not just a product of money supply, but money supply is certainly a factor, and we won’t really know how big of a factor until we see if inflation persists past Covid related supply chain constriction.
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What were the economists saying in 2007? 1999? 1987?
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by jiocrag 6y ago
How do you account for “let the world burn”-type actors in this scenario though? It seems this pulls at the key misunderstanding around crypto and blockchain in general — it can’t sanitize the endpoints. If any human party has the power to
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