mehwoot

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by mehwoot 5y ago
short of violent revolution But that's exactly what happens when you start murdering people and a significant minority knows it can happen to them. How do you know that? I think collectively agreeing to suspend basic human rights fo
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by mehwoot 5y ago
Because the hard part isn't knowing what to do (the advice), it's actually following it day in, day out.
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by mehwoot 5y ago
people could vote to oppress a minority, to ban free speech, even to murder people Voting to ban free speech wouldn't really be a democracy for long in any real sense. If you can't talk about the candidates openly you can'
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by mehwoot 5y ago
What a lazy article. There's no conflict between a democracy and these sort of limits since none of it has prevented us from either voting or engaging in discussion of the restrictions. We will have the opportunity to vote both feder
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by mehwoot 5y ago
Also, was the Erlang VM written in Erlang? Probably not. So I'm skeptical about the universality claims of the language. The article states the opposite opinion: that you should use the right tool for the right job. Change the requi
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by mehwoot 5y ago
There isn't always a safe spot, but you can generate a room that makes a safe spot- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ6FD59U0_E
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by mehwoot 5y ago
Yeah doomscrolling sucks but is it worse than watching the grass grow while you get drunk on the porch a hundred years ago? Do you think the Amish live a life vastly inferior to yours?
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by mehwoot 5y ago
This doesn't change the fact that using death to solve inequality I'm not saying it will solve inequality, I'm saying it is preventing it from being far, far, far worse than it already is. Do you feel like we're solvi
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by mehwoot 5y ago
"Enjoying life for the ephemeral experience it is" is something we do out of hard necessity. But we don't do it. We sit here worrying about dying and trying to ensure we will live forever instead of enjoying the time we do
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by mehwoot 5y ago
Neither viewpoint is wrong, or bad Actually I think trying to eliminate death (at least if we're talking about letting people live >1000 years or choose when they die) is extremely bad and will have awful, awful consequences. You
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by mehwoot 5y ago
Shameless plug: I've been working on a Simulation along similar lines. Runs entirely on GPU and allows you to view it all in real time: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1482770/Terra_Firma/ Some reall
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by mehwoot 6y ago
No. At the height airplanes fly, any debris would just be falling almost straight down, if it even makes it that far (I think most would just burn up in the atmosphere anyway). The reason debris in LEO is dangerous is because it's goi
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by mehwoot 6y ago
They are references to heuristically derived conveniences That's every word in existence
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by mehwoot 6y ago
> But the black box nature of climate models was the core issue in one of the biggest disputes between sceptics and researchers of all time. It went to court and the researcher preferred to lose the suit than reveal his model (Michael Ma
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by mehwoot 6y ago
Modern biology has moved on from the definition of a species being able to breed functioning offspring, since it's actually pretty fuzzy- e.g. with ring species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
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by mehwoot 6y ago
- Facebook owns all of the content you post (pictures/posts/videos). Doesn't this apply to all/most sites with user generated content? I don't think this is technically true. https://www.copytrack.com&
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by mehwoot 6y ago
"environmental" doesn't mean it's a choice or that it can be effectively changed. For example environmental factors during pregnancy could have influence, but once someone is born it could be mostly determined. That wo
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by mehwoot 6y ago
Explanations for all of those are mentioned in the link.
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by mehwoot 6y ago
Because cows aren't really fungible, but stocks are. If I borrow $10 from you, you don't expect the literal note that you gave me back. I can give you $10 back in coins, or $10 transferred to your bank account. I can burn the $1
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by mehwoot 6y ago
Could you explain why corporations are responsible for everything on their platform if they police it to any extent?
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by mehwoot 6y ago
If they want to take that stance, they should also be held liable for Why? I pick up a piece of rubbish from the ground, so I'm responsible for everything that anyone litters? It doesn't make any sense. Twitter isn't clai
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by mehwoot 7y ago
The major art dealers who sell his work know who he is. They keep the secret because it's profitable.
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by mehwoot 7y ago
Though it may sound superficially plausible that any particular such random outcome is actually the deterministic output of a hidden pseudorandom number generator, that hypothesis is ruled out by Bell's theorem. As far as I understan
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by mehwoot 8y ago
If Facebook is sucking out the joy from your life, stop using Facebook. But that's exactly what the article is saying. Have an honest look at whether facebook is bringing you joy (so trendy) and if it isn't, get rid of it. The
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by mehwoot 8y ago
The article mentions exactly that like, two paragraphs later
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by mehwoot 8y ago
They are, and they are one of the most effective single treatments. But usually only when treatment options are exhausted.
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by mehwoot 8y ago
I always thought that the main quality in sushi and sashimi fish is its freshness. Nope, not to people who eat a lot of sushi. The point is for the fish to be aged for the correct amount of time to get the correct flavour. The longer it
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by mehwoot 8y ago
It's not the idea, its the specific technology. took measurements of parts of the robot and, in one instance, stole a piece of the robot
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by mehwoot 8y ago
complete works
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Adults sure, but what decent human sets out to get kids addicted??? The relentless march of capitalism

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