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It's when something has subjective experiences.
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6y ago
That's completely different statement. The first one was about the objective state of an external thing, the new one is about interaction with it.
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6y ago
I'm interested as well. How did you choose your PeerTube instance? What happens to the videos and followers if whoever runs peervideo.club stops what I assume is a side project of them?
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6y ago
In terms of engineering, permanent DST is pretty stupid. Instead we should use standard time but move one timezone over. With DST all year long your timezone becomes UTC+N+1, this is needlessly verbose/overcomplicated.
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6y ago
> What makes money for the bank is the difference of interest rate between money they buy and money they sell. But they do not have to buy the same quantity of money as to what they are selling. When making a loan money is created out of
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6y ago
Are you sure it's not the other way around? There is a well known business strategy where Chinese entrepreneurs look at promising kickstarter projects and launch production in Shenzen and have something on the market even before the or
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6y ago
> whose responsibility is it then if some site continues to use it? It's still a hard pill that a finished and working interactive resource has to be rewritten from the ground up in a different technology after years of working unat
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6y ago
What I've been wanting for years/decades is consumer level devices to see inside the body without opening. We've been doing it for many decades in expensive facilities or doctors offices, it should be democratized by now. Ech
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6y ago
Yes, this a step towards technological telepathy. Something that hasn't been tried as far as I know is to design a new human language from the ground up with only phonemes that are easily distinguishable when spoken silently. That is,
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> would have imagined a simple cream that you apply on your skin and whoosh all the hair follicles would be permanently dead. I'm glad it's not that easy... I can see the "pranks gone wrong", the "ex-boy frien
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> So, there is a gap of 77-78k. The parent was asking about the normal increase of death count year over year. This can explains about half of that gap.
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Have you considered machine vision camera in your investigation?
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6y ago
Finally someone suggesting machine vision cameras! These are awesome devices for many applications and they have become way more accessible in the past few years, both in terms of price and by moving to USB3 instead of GigE interface. They
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> They were also producing content solely to upload to The Pirate Bay and sue whoever downloaded it Holy crap that's a brillant business model. I'm always amazed by how much out-of-the-box thinking can be made when you remove e
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6y ago
There is a difference though, Twitter is usually critiqued for its user's behavior, not really for its own decisions. You can have a decent Twitter (or even Instagram) experience if you don't follow toxic people. Twitter is mostly
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6y ago
It doesn't really matter if it's any worse than other coronaviruses or not in this discussion, the grand parent comment is comparing its effects to the effects of the vaccine to ponder a decision between these two only.
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6y ago
> Senators and States governments decide no, and take direct action against the prime culprits of such a scheme in those two States. Could this really happen? I thought the US model was more about letting the market as free as possible f
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If it's compressed correctly you might not even realize it's a signal. If I send a jpeg by radio to 1930 I'm not sure what they could make of it.
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6y ago
Companies should never be mods on their own subreddit, isn't there a rule against that?
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6y ago
Here: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~charley/papers/DavisLineweaver04.... The weirdest part is that there are photons that are currently receding away from us faster than the speed of light but they will still be able
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6y ago
As far as I understand it lives in droplets heavier than air that fall to the ground in a matter of a few seconds. The next person entering the elevator won't breathe it. Truly airborne viruses can be lifted by regular air turbulences
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> a person that does not exist. They'll run it through face recognition and find the original person that provided their face data and arrest them. Plot twist, a criminal will flood the market with masks of their own face to get pl
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But spacetime can expand at a rate that makes two points recess from each other faster than the speed of light, so still weird.
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You say this now but if we ask you then, the day of your death, would you rather die now or live a few more years in a diminished capacity, you might have a very different answer.
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> All of the things mentioned are already being done without VR headsets. Not all, no. You can't lay paint strokes in mid-air around you if you are not in a virtual reality with different physics. That art form simply did not exist
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It looks like you are conflating Open Source with permissive licenses like MIT or BSD licences. You would be mistaken. The GPL is both a Free Software and an Open Source licence to take the most obvious example. The differences are ideologi
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He is saying it's inevitable, not that it's there yet.
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Gaming is a only small part of what VR can do. Education (language learning, geography, biology, engineering...), real estate, porn, psychology, situational training (firemen), scientific visualization and collaboration, spatial painting an
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... in a vacuum. Matter can travel faster than photons in water or other mediums.
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Always use a virtual card for this. This way you can tell in advance how much can be drawn max and the expiration date. And even if their database is compromised it won't work elsewhere.
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