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by marzell 6y ago
There was a similar situation with CDs where you could overprovision data that existed past the technical limit of useable range. I think that's was utilized in NINs Year Zero ARG experiment.
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by marzell 6y ago
Alcohol is a CNS depressant. This doesn't mean it makes you feel 'depressed', but rather that it dulls some sensations, which can include anxiety (it may also cause mood swings that reverse this affect).. so yeah when it wear
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by marzell 6y ago
I disagree... In the article, the writer says, "If I share an article on Reddit I feel anxious for a week".. Clearly he was in the wrong line of work. I'm not saying it wasn't worth sharing in self-care, but I don't
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by marzell 6y ago
Well, you can be technical about it... The fact is that this is unethical behavior and should absolutely be called out and made more visible.
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by marzell 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I was actually meaning that they were being "taxed" in terms of food sent to the rest of the UK and not in terms of money. Even with the article you linked, it's not clear to me if "exports&
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by marzell 6y ago
During the famine, ireland produced way more for/potatoes then it required to feed it's people; they were just taxed to all hell. Currently the US produces about twice the calories it requires. There are so many calories produced
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by marzell 6y ago
Print("I am conscious"); does not equal consciousness.
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by marzell 6y ago
Well that is a very interesting question, isn't it? Certainly I believe we can agree that if you program am application or service to act as though it were conscious, that doesn't actually make it conscious. I believe part of yo
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by marzell 6y ago
I can't help but honestly feel that tech/AI will always be fundamentally without will/motive, and that all the sci-fi stories about 'uploading consciousness' or sentient tech will never truly be actual conscious ent
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by marzell 6y ago
Amazon also makes zero effort to inform people when they have listings for items and are not an authorized retailer, which invalidates warrantees and leaves consumers with no recourse if there is a manufacturing defect or other problem that
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by marzell 6y ago
How does this compare with Estonia and their use of public ID numbers? I just know they don't consider their ID numbers secret the way SSNs are in the US, yet they use them for everything. How do they prevent fraud and ID theft?
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by marzell 6y ago
Also, how long was it #1, and how much meaning should be ascribed to that? I visit HN typically several times a day, and haven't seen that blog before.
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by marzell 6y ago
I mean, even if the effect is significant, it might just come down to the fact that for one person the activity alleviates stress and for the other it does the opposite. Sure, the physical activity is good for circulation and cardio/st
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by marzell 6y ago
This is interesting. Once you had a set of moves 'down', could you execute them accurately on a pretty consistent basis? At that point... I know dancing requires focus, but once learned was it still more mentally taxing/drain
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by marzell 6y ago
I tried posting this 15 hours ago lol
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by marzell 6y ago
"visualizing the harmonious ratios on objects such as Chladni plates (a field called Cymatics) reveals that there is something deeper to consonance and harmony than meets the number line" Ok I'll bite. What does it reveal? Th
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by marzell 6y ago
"This tutorial goes over the entire process of building the game step by step." This looks like a great resource for anyone with some programming experience already, and is interested in learning LUA or wants some practical experi
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Bytepath game is open source and includes a tutorial for writing the game in Lua(github.com)
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by marzell 6y ago
Yeah that's what I've been using, guess I'm turning into an 'old' as evidenced by my hair now approaching ponytail length.
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by marzell 6y ago
There was plenty of voter fraud, like when he was 'elected' but all the ballots were destroyed in an unreasonable quick time frame. Then there were the precincts with more than 100% voter turnout. Free speech means you have the ri
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by marzell 6y ago
I think the crux of this is defining `consciousness`, which I haven't seen defined in a way that I feel is sufficient in this context and can be tested/measured. I can program a chat app where if you ask `are you conscious` it wil
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by marzell 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this.
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by marzell 6y ago
Yes, I do get all that, and that it is meant to be in jest and actually making fun of Fawlty. I also can't fully appreciate the context... for instance in the UK I've heard it was common in the 50s and 60s for the N word and it&#x
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by marzell 6y ago
Watched that show not so long ago, for the first time really. I guess I had fawlty expectations, I thought it might have more good jokes and less racism.
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by marzell 6y ago
Yea I think it's part status quo (from a narrow perspective) and also an example of, "if all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail." For people involved in the energy sector, but only really know coal, the only way they
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by marzell 7y ago
JEDI aside, I feel like Azure has grown in leaps and bounds... meanwhile AWS has rested on its laurels because they were the first major cloud and so many people adopted them early and either are stuck or in denial about where Azure is at.
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by marzell 7y ago
That means people would only be at least 3 feet away, not 6 feet. The original assumption was right.. need a 6 foot radius, 12 foot diameter to meet social distancing guidelines
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by marzell 7y ago
No worries, I was just trying to figure out what this was all about.. I'll load it up on another device
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by marzell 7y ago
FYI The text is insanely small in chrome mobile, and if I pinch zoom the text is very wide so I have to scroll horizontally to read it
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by marzell 7y ago
The bullwhip effect reminds me of ETL memory management issues like backpressure and parallel streaming of pipelines to maximize throughput

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