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by naringas 6y ago
but the law is not the judge
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by naringas 6y ago
IMO this is such an 'obvious' idea once you think about it that it will eventually happen. The law will go from written natural language to executable computer programs (formal languages). However a change of this mangnitude canno
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by naringas 6y ago
the only way to preserve democracy is to have absolute transparency of everything public.
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by naringas 6y ago
money laundering laws are also from that period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st_United_States_Congress#Ma... they are a key part of the overall strategy to wage war on drugs.
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by naringas 6y ago
soembody should try this with cigarrete butts
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by naringas 6y ago
I have no reason to believe they ever stopped trying. They have probably tried other ways; mayhaps even more succesful but we are not authorized to know whether they did... because appaerently it's super important that their actions ar
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by naringas 6y ago
in my own experience the first 3 of the four noble truths (Buddhist philosophy) are very much onto something... so I disagree with your statement "all religions only promote complete nonsnese" because of that very specific counter
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by naringas 6y ago
a lot of what goes by as 'science' is really just religion with a "this is not religion" facade. (for example all 'science' with a "replication problem"). At the core, both religious people as well a
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by naringas 6y ago
just because it's in the curriculum doesn't mean it will be taught well. consider (for example) k-12 mathematics pretty much anywhere...
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by naringas 6y ago
really nice quote, this comment is only commented so I can find this again.
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by naringas 6y ago
I am not sure, but I think it's a Joke Hilbert space
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by naringas 6y ago
IMO, for most people empathy is already there. In my own experience what I had to learn about empathy is how to handle it, not how to have it; I already have it, it's automatic. The only thing that needs practice is extending it to str
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by naringas 6y ago
Maybe they arleady knew this was a possibility but they work at companies large enough that it doesn't matter.
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by naringas 6y ago
it's the the new e-
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by naringas 6y ago
But I have tried to learn jq's syntax (it's pretty much a minilanguage) and it has been incredibly difficult. I also remember what when I first tried learning regex it was also very difficult. That is until I learned about finit
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by naringas 6y ago
"Animals are not the only creatures who can be literally half asleep. Research shows we experience this, too" but we are animals too! why does everybody love to forget this??
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by naringas 6y ago
> with no oversight whatsoever. for many of us who grew up in 'third world' (and/or 'developing') economies, this is not in any way better to "heavily regulated". I expect that people from very corrupt
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by naringas 6y ago
> Our ability to work together to achieve larger aims [...] makes us unique. counter-example: thermites, ants, bees.
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by naringas 6y ago
Depending on your employment terms, I would argue that the daily hour of 'indenpendent study' should be billed. (after all, it's in you employers benefit that you keep up and continue learning, isn't it?)
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by naringas 6y ago
I have a suggestion, it involves realizing that any job involves a variety of diverse activities, naturally some will be more enjoyable than others, but all of them will have to be done. This realization allowed me to focus and enjoy the fu
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by naringas 6y ago
I think there's more nuance to this. on one hand, they loose individual developer mind-share, but I'm sure that big corporation executives and governments are loving this kind of stuff...
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by naringas 6y ago
I have always thought that he was on to something. I think it's actually quite impressive that he saw something incoming which only now (20 years later) is becoming feasable. then again, a lot of people think I am also crazy, so there&
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by naringas 6y ago
hallucinogens in general indeed forcefully show one things like this. but it's really about realizing and acknowledging a separation between what we are, our language, and the way in which the elements of language (symbols-vocabulary)
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by naringas 6y ago
I insist, both life and death refer to the same real underlying phenomenon of existence along time. the words are not the meaning. but I suppose I have also wound up believing that "everything" and "nothing" are more sim
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by naringas 6y ago
we gotta understand that life and death are two aspects of only one real thing. it is only our language which separates them into seemingly contrasting opposites. language is not reality, it merely has the ability to mirror reality.
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by naringas 6y ago
In my opinion how he handles his succession will be the key. if he acts like a nepot and tries to keep the power within his lineage, that's a sure sign of a classic story of decreseaingly capable rulers. I think that the capability of
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by naringas 6y ago
> The paper becomes an extension of you and your brain. Because when the medium over which we write (the "paper") becomes a digital computer-based system it becomes possible for some actor other than myself to gain control over
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by naringas 6y ago
which is exactly why when paper becomes digital, free software (FSF and GNU free, not open source) becomes quite important. I fear that it will have to get really bad before everybody agrees on this, and it might even be the case that peopl
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by naringas 6y ago
I think this has something to do with the sense of ownership behind the software. An open source software is owned (literally and figuratively) by the people writing it, hence they will take care of it as they take care of their own. On the
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by naringas 6y ago
imo the need for 'centralization' comes from the fact that in order for different people to understand each other, they must use the same dictionary (so to say). So the 'dictionary' is a centralized construction. It must

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