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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Yes, vitamin D is well-known to be harmful in excess [0] and to be fat-soluble, meaning that it can build up gradually over time. You might not hear of such conditions very often, though, since getting excess vitamin D usually takes effort.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Hi, to be blunt: You read the mind of the original article author: > They probably thought it smart to use the same acronym pattern as SLAPP Nope. Read the original article: FLICC comes from over a decade of research into the taxonomy
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I've seen this before; it was called "over-relaxing the step", I think. The idea is that even if a step is too big, we can still show that the step was in the right direction. That's the same as the author's techniq
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Your fallacies are "Fake Analogy", "Misrepresentation", and "Persecuted Victim"; you saw two five-letter acronyms and decided that they must be related, and moreover that the relation is that critics must be si
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Your fallacy is "Fake Debate"; you are giving science deniers extra room to justify their beliefs by insinuating that scientists do not already discuss potential problems in their theories.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Sorry, I don't think that people have rich internal experiences; I think that every human is a p-zombie. Therefore when I say "simulation" I am talking exclusively about physics simulations. All life is chemistry; all chemist
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
4. Simluations necessarily consume more resources than they emulate, as a matter of computational theory. Therefore, some simulations can be built, but every simulation loses fidelity, and below a certain threshold there are no longer any b
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Secure distributed computing, agoric computing, room-temperature qubits, epigenetic programming, swarm computing, civil rights for DAOs, astrophysical electronics, Gödel machines, emulated humans, civil rights for machines, uplifting, civil
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Indeed, the Free Will Theorem of quantum mechanics makes short work of Bostrom's hope that it would be possible to just rewind the Universe and get the desired outcome, as if creating a tool-assisted speedrun. Edit: Imagine that you ar
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Bostrom's logic is so laughably bad, but it's worth refuting clearly. To tackle point (1), note that Bostrom assumes a Doomsday argument [0] and that there are both pre-human and post-human modes of life which are qualitatively di
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
As somebody who definitely is not reading law, another facet of this is that while the Federal Government is prohibited from holding copyrights, same prohibition isn't fully incorporated to the States and certainly not to the rest of t
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
There are interesting implications: > First, the author of the annotations qualifies as a legislator. Whoa! There is a massive amount of such code, and the folks writing it are usually thought of as private lawyers, rather than public le
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
In addition to sibling comments, we should note that not all observations are experiments. There is a distinct difference between experiment and mere observation: In an experiment, we are carrying out a repeatable recipe in order to try to
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
It's true, we didn't have the same theory of other minds for those animals in those times. For a long time, bears in particular were so feared that their modern names actually come from ways to avoid referring to them directly [0]
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Oh, I didn't downvote you. I replied instead. I'm used to systems that punish voting and replying in the same thread. Indeed, I won't ever downvote folks like you, since I'm usually punished by that very same system. Ins
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Your own first two points are in conflict. Either humans from the past raised in today's world would be like today's humans, or like the past's humans. Pick one.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
The replies really should be "no, stop wanting that." IRC is not meant for such interactions, and is built around different social expectations. If you want 24/7 presence, then you ought to justify it socially, because ther
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
For all the folks that can't get into Nix because they find it obtuse: Okay, fine, don't use it. Nobody is forcing you to adopt it, and moreover, we don't want an influx of folks who are only embracing the situation reluctant
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
While I was reading the linked complaint [0], I found some redacted passages. I've restored them using the original sources [1]: > The Salmond Affair indeed stinks to high heaven and no aspect of it stinks more than the role in stee
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
As I understand it, the United Kingdom does not have shield laws, nor does the European Union have any analogous binding legislation. This would mean that there is no such thing, in the United Kingdom, as "a reporter", or "a
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Careful with your "you guys". I'm a leftist, and I advocate for health care as a human right. In the USA, labor rights were earned by literally committing armed rebellion against corporate "company towns" [0], as in
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Because, counterfactually, no Jeff Bezos means no Amazon means no abuse of Amazon employees. So, to some extent, Bezos and Amazon are responsible, even if they aren't wholly responsible.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Interestingly, the NSO Group claims to not operate at all in the USA. I can imagine the geopolitical optics of why they might make that claim, but isn't it worse than that? With that claim as a pretext, this sounds like it meets every
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
It would seem that a takeaway from this thread is that languages should not have C FFI if they want to be safe.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Why not lift the encoding to the type system? The type system could remember which strings are ASCII and which are UTF-8. More generally, why not lift such proofs to types?
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible is a good community-sourced overview.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
There isn't one, for our industry. You are right now remotely asking for help with how to manage a business. We can do everything remotely, and many businesses in our industry have done so. The fact is that, if you don't have co
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
So why is `unsafe` even in the language, then? It would seem to me that it simultaneously undermines safety guarantees, and it can't even ensure performance improvements.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Rendering is fucked up on this page and Reader Mode doesn't automatically engage. Explicitly do the "about:reader?url=" trick to fix it. The author's got a bad misstep in the first paragraph; Socrates, if he existed, was
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
In my experience, it's because Thing 1 and Thing 2 can review each others' code, and have no compunctions about potential bugginess. Somebody else gets to pick up after both of them, and is always outvoted during team code review.

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