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by normac2 5y ago
It sounds like you're referring to "spiritual plane" as something that is a distinct metaphysical entity that exists alongside what would be normally be seen as the natural world. (In this case I mean "metaphysical"
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by normac2 5y ago
> I can't recommend doing any of these things, but if someone wants to, I highly suggest not naively following the directions of a satirical blogpost. Very interesting stuff. Regarding this part, are you saying that that the superna
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by normac2 5y ago
That's a fair assessment, and it's one of the reasons that neopagans have had to fill in a lot of gaps.
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by normac2 5y ago
Your post comes off as snooty but I think it would go a long way if you just replaced "educated" with "better informed." "Better informed" is just another way of phrasing the thesis of your post, that HN reader
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by normac2 5y ago
This seems to be mostly a history of ideas about devils and demons, but it also has things that sound like the oversimplified/mythologized versions of history that neopagans come up with. Mainly this: > The traditional method of sum
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by normac2 5y ago
> I don't agree with the taxi driver, but I fail to see how this response could be viewed as a sentiment stemming from lowered intelligence, especially given how often the same or similar sentiment comes up (albeit masked in nicer w
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by normac2 5y ago
Wildly anecdotal, but I ask a lot of people in my daily life whether they got/will get the vaccine, and I've noticed a relationship between lower (apparent) intelligence and refusing to get the vaccine. There's definitely a c
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by normac2 5y ago
Better yet is for the government to not even know the data existed, non? (Of course, you'd better make damn sure that they had no way of knowing before.)
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by normac2 5y ago
I feel like this should be a bunch of files that are concatenated in the makefile, not one giant 10,000SLOC script. Otherwise it seems pretty organized and looks like it's following bash best practices.
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by normac2 5y ago
It's depressing, because I can imagine a world where the government would access people's data, but only under extreme circumstances like investigating terrorist networks. Instead, they use it in outrageously corrupt ways, like co
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by normac2 5y ago
> When you self-host, the government has to come to you for your data. And better, if you catch wind they're after you, you can format your HD to zeroes, or (if you don't want even the physical drive around) throw it in a fire
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by normac2 5y ago
> To add to this as a former employee of a different quantum company that provides cloud services, there was absolutely no funny business about faking results. If you asked for quantum computer results, you got them, and it’s painfully o
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by normac2 5y ago
It's almost all economies of scale and "rich get richer" type effects, much like the big social networks. You make something that catches on (in Slack's case it really did have an edge on the existing stuff) and from the
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by normac2 5y ago
Hmn. Is that at least what we experience if we try it as an experiment (even if the underlying physics is quite different than what it seems)?
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by normac2 5y ago
You describe that as an analogy, but I always took that to be what it actually is (or at least one very simple example). Are you saying that that is how we interpret our experience intuitively, but we need a more radical account under the
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by normac2 5y ago
The Clippy one gave me physical shudders. Traumatic memories...
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by normac2 5y ago
Well, at the very least it's close in that it's native compiled (and not in a very abstracted way like JIT languages mostly are).
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by normac2 5y ago
Still hanging in there so far! Bit slow, but still faster than cnn.com for me.
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by normac2 5y ago
Notice: this is written in fairly nicely-written C, not ASM with demoscene level micro-optimizations, like you might expect. Goes to show how much you can get out of hardware just by writing code sensibly in a native language (and native li
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by normac2 5y ago
Well, maybe that gives it the general shape that it has, and you make more than you need to convince the client, because it doubles as practice,
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by normac2 5y ago
Presumably nothing, except for maybe a contract that would rarely be enforced in practice. Tutoring sites like Wyzant are also like this. They make money on the first session and the portion of people who go on through the service. Wyzant d
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by normac2 5y ago
The most obvious takeaway here is how she was wronged by Roupernian, but maybe a just-as-interesting takeaway is that the real Charles was a three-dimensional person with some good traits, and not just an avatar of all semi-neckbeardy creep
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by normac2 5y ago
> Incidentally, we should also discard `this`, unless directly inside a class method. When you say it has to be "directly," do you mean we should never use arrow functions (or use them only for looks)? Since the purpose of thos
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by normac2 5y ago
Reminds me of neopaganism in the West, where some people in the movement will claim there's an unbroken tradition. Do you think this is fed by a preoccupation/pride in the culture with their practices and beliefs being incredibly
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by normac2 5y ago
That's a solid joke, but I wonder, does that actually significantly tweak your priors in favor of this being untrue? All of these different boards have their own bizarro codes of honor, so I wouldn't be surprised.
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by normac2 5y ago
Like some of the other people here, I'm not going to assume 100% that this is real until more of the facts come out. That said, I wouldn't put this past people from 4chan in their crusade of nihilism and destruction. Of course 4ch
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by normac2 5y ago
Would you include environmental impact as a solved problem? My understanding is that Proof of Stake is the best serious option and that it's very controversial if it'll work.
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by normac2 5y ago
That's how I remember the late 90's and early 2000's specifically, which I think was an especially dark age for the speed of the overall software + hardware combo. but if we go a bit more recent (say 2005 to today) I mostly h
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by normac2 5y ago
So the idea that performing the same daily tasks on modern hardware feels about the same speed as before (and sometimes slower), doesn't have a ring of truth to you?
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by normac2 5y ago
Hmn. I would agree about all crap being mixed in there, but in terms of overall results (both wrt. SEO crap and other irrelevant stuff), my experience has been that the quality troughed something like 2-3 years ago and then came back (my gu

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