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by nkrisc 1mo ago
No, not necessarily so. But arguing for the existence of objective morality that stretches across the entire universe seems to be a huge stretch. For what it’s worth, my subjective sense of morality is opposed to torture.
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
It does seem kind of misleading to ask someone to close their eyes to visualize something in their mind. It has nothing to do with your eyes. I can visualize my house in my mind while simultaneously seeing whatever is in front of me. Though
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
We have made ourselves dependent on cars because we have cars. There is no natural reason we must be so dependent on cars. It is a choice. Our dependency on food is not a choice.
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
Comparing it to car safety does put it in perspective, but at the same time the safety of cars has nothing to do with food safety. Considering the necessity of food for life, and the fact our current population size is dependent on industri
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
You don’t need information about its past. Everything you need to know to predict its future state is contained in its current position and velocity at the moment you measure it.
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
I would not go out of my way to live near where I work when my employer can fire me on a whim. If the office was in a place where I could reasonably expect to find other jobs as well, then that could be part of my consideration, but I would
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
I never thought about paying staff via tips being a tax dodge for the restaurant if it lets them avoid raising prices and thus taxable revenue.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Those are the ones better left unsaid.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
What a pointless point to make. I’ll spell it out for you: related within a generation or two. There are no twins in my family that I know of for several generations, for example. Thus I would say I’m not related to any twins because I’m no
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Which is pretty absurd because twins aren’t even that uncommon. I would bet most people on the planet know or are related to twins.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
That’s been happening long, long before even Figma existed.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
For some people that’s the best they can hope for.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
I can’t tell if you’re joking but people do that all the time, every day. It might be alcohol, strippers, or just random stuff they don’t really need. If this sounds surprising to you then probably you have enough money that you don’t need
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
But that’s a different bar. “Not intelligent” does not necessarily imply “not useful”.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Depending on the output image and where you are, it definitely can be a crime.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Zohran is not a demagogue. He ran on a platform of fixing real problems that no one else was bothering to fix. And he’s actually doing things.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
I don’t think that would fly as a defense in court.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
In the thumbnail concept sketch it shows someone sitting in it with their arm hanging over one of the “armrests”. What the sketch doesn’t convey is the blood flow to their arm being cut off.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
I think they do it because they know they can get away with it since it would be hard to prove in cases where they are already in an intimate relationship with their victim. For a long time it wasn’t even illegal if they were married to the
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Why? Some people like to spend their free time doing things that aren’t what they do all day at work. I knew one software developer who basically spent all his free time outside hiking and camping and rarely did anything with a computer whe
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
More recent hypotheses that I’ve read is that what we think of language evolved as a tool for internal thought and ordering of ideas and perceptions. Executive function, in a sense. The externalization of language, whether vocal or gestural
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
In most work places you are provided a computer to work on. So you could very easily not have a personal computer during your career as you are always provided one to work on. Probably not common, but certainly plausible. Not everyone wants
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
In my intro Industrial Design class long ago we fashioned styrofoam and many other kinds of foam into every shape imaginable with a hot wire, some utility knives, and contact adhesive. A wood rasp worked well for organic and rounded forms (
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
> The outer screen is pretty small and very usable with one hand. Cool. I want one like that, just without the inner screen.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
The Inuit probably had a much easier time finding them, as they would stand out quite starkly among snow and ice. Not exactly the same, but I’ve seen video of meteorite collecting on the Antarctic ice sheet near the South Pole and they just
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
> In the absence of a clear referent or definition, who gets to decide what constitutes a "harm"? The jury.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
This seems like exactly the kind of thing that should be decided by a trial. It’s some mix of intent and the actual outcomes, more or less as you stated. I don’t really see how it’s much different than premeditated murder versus manslaughte
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
The amount of people who would regularly sleep in such a building is a minuscule fraction of the world population.
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
In much of the US if you continually refuse to comply the authorities it will very likely, at some point eventually, escalate to the point where a loaded gun is aimed at you. For civil issues it might take a long time, but at some point you
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by nkrisc 2mo ago
Everyone will die. The question is whether, say, two extra months spent in a miserable state is worth it.

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