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by kbelder 1y ago
I agree. At it's heart, it just relies on mysticism. There's a hidden assertion that humans are supernatural.
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by kbelder 1y ago
The guy was obviously non-empathic and impolite, and probably clueless that he was causing distress. The only thing in his favor is that he was correct.
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Much like people, I guess.
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by kbelder 1y ago
Like Lynx?
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by kbelder 1y ago
I might include threat of violence in that definition. "Give me your money or I'll shoot you." But then that immediately opens the definition up to include all laws. "Obey this rule or we will imprison or kill you.&quo
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by kbelder 1y ago
Why can't you make the same claim about any other group of humans?
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by kbelder 1y ago
>As always, conflicts are much easier to understand when viewed through the lens of materialism. That no doubt does make understanding things seem easier.
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by kbelder 1y ago
A very related physics issue that boggles my mind is when you roll a disk, like a wheel. You can roll the disk north, and it'll lean, curve, and end up going south. What force changed the direction of the wheel? I understand it, inte
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by kbelder 1y ago
I need to drop AWS and start passing data through encrypted HN posts.
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by kbelder 1y ago
>0:10 I point it out. >0:11 I said I would vote for this every >0:12 single time and I'll say it again. Um, >0:15 uh, camera technology and your >0:17 expectation of privacy when you're &g
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by kbelder 1y ago
>Isn't it the modern equivalent of "let me Google that for you"? Which was just as irritating.
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by kbelder 1y ago
They are also, by complaining, incentivizing other people to not even offer free services in the future. Why set yourself up for accusations that you're 'breaking your social contract' or whatnot?
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by kbelder 1y ago
>My voice activated egg timer is amazing. Alexa?
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by kbelder 1y ago
Related... why can't I buy a thick smartphone, sturdy with plenty of ports and lots of battery?
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Aren't they the standard Atari-style, with the RS-232 style ports? It should be cheap to get ahold of some compatible joysticks. I would hope they kept all the ports the same...
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by kbelder 1y ago
>Only about 5% see enough value to drop $20 a month... Is that a real number? I'm shocked it's that high. I figured paying customers would be well under 1%.
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by kbelder 1y ago
"Everyone is a fascist except me and thee, and I'm not sure about thee."
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by kbelder 1y ago
I want to expand on that, because ColorForth is crazy in the awesome way. From Wikipedia: "Coloring in colorForth has semantic meaning. Red words start a definition, and green words are compiled into the current definition... Yellow w
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by kbelder 1y ago
Yes, but "Quantity has a quality all its own". Maybe a massive enough environment can be interesting despite being static. (This led me down a rabbit hole trying to find a source for that quote. It seems to be mostly, and falsel
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by kbelder 1y ago
>selling export banned API access of ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude Banned by whom? I can't find that.
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by kbelder 1y ago
I imagine newspapers and magazines would run those ads as well, if anybody cared to pay them money to.
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by kbelder 1y ago
How does that scale up to program that's thousands of lines? What if you have a hundred different vectors? You're not going to be calling them v1, v2, ... So does it end up as v_sepallength: 11 14 12 v_sepallthickness:
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by kbelder 1y ago
That material design site has a hamburger menu hidden behind a single 'dot' icon in the upper right? That's really doubling down...
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by kbelder 1y ago
And AR glasses to modify appearance of everyone you see, in all sorts of ways. Inevitable nightmare, I expect.
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by kbelder 1y ago
Sure, but different people judge differently what should be told as a story. "When's dinner?" "Well, I was at the store earlier, and... (paragraphs elided) ... and so, 7pm."
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by kbelder 1y ago
Direct experiences are unfiltered. Statistics are often used to lie and deceive. It's not a dig against math or statistics. It's a dig against the people using statistics. What do you do when, statistically, the majority of sta
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by kbelder 1y ago
You made me wonder about the orbital speed of a planet circling one of these supermassive black holes, and how fast it would be... and then I realized, of course, the orbital speed would approach the speed of light at the event horizon. The
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by kbelder 1y ago
Yeah, who is this 'anonymous' fellow?
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by kbelder 1y ago
I wish health care worked like veterinary care. Except, now, veterinary care is becoming more like human health care, and it sucks.
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by kbelder 1y ago
I'm generally of the view that the more freedom in trading the better, but there is a concern on these ultra-high-speed trades that it ultimately prioritizes only certain blessed traders, those with expensive equipment, geographical pr

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