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by normalnorm 7y ago
I much prefer living in a place that errs on the side of too much caution when it comes to privacy. You say "easily manipulated", I say that they have social memory of the horrors of the Stasi. After the fall of the Berlin wall, t
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> But people want to have it both/all three ways: feel good about recycling, get a discount on a future new gadget and sell/give the functioning old device to somebody. Amazing. The discount in this case is an incentive agains
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by normalnorm 7y ago
Sure, and cancer existed before cigarettes. Doesn't mean one should smoke cigarettes.
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by normalnorm 7y ago
If there is no way to harass people with notifications for "price alerts", there will also be no incentive to create artificial pricing systems with sudden "promotions", meant to hijack users' attention and cognitiv
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> If you deny a return within the return period, you're in violation of Amazon policy, and the A-Z team will rightly rule against you. Amazon makes the laws and acts as a court now? I don't understand why people respect "c
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by normalnorm 7y ago
No they aren't.
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by normalnorm 7y ago
Because unless the UK and the EU reach a trade agreement by the end of the year, the provisions of the Withdrawal Agreement kick in and Northern Ireland becomes bound to EU regulation. This is a long and complicated story, but essentially B
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> I would like to point out that when you say that the world does not meet your expectation and that somehow is a problem with the world and not your own self is very arrogant. Notice that this kind of argument could have been (and proba
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by normalnorm 7y ago
Excellent blog post. You mention several things that we are so used to, that we don't even notice the abuse, such as the polluting of culture by association of works of art with commercial brands through relentless advertising. To this
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by normalnorm 7y ago
Am I the only one getting depressed with all the excuses and rationalizations in this thread? It's the same with "adtech" and the like... "Hey, I'm not killing anyone, what's the harm?" Technology has the
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by normalnorm 7y ago
The position you describe is known as "eliminative materialism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism I find this position absurd for the following reason: > The illusion of consciousness
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> Anybody, even the most low agency circumstances, can choose how they approach life. That is a very common ideology around these parts (and also in the US), but it is simply not true. We are constrained by our mental health in how we ca
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by normalnorm 7y ago
To me, your offer of "help" reads like a thinly disguised attack / insult. I guess we all know about the "humblebrag", this is "backhanded empathy". Or something. The author is not saying anything that is
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by normalnorm 7y ago
We have no way to know if the response was reasonable or not, because we were not privy to the conversation and we were not given a list of the claimed health benefits, so we can't judge for ourselves of do our own research. This was a
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> Getting directions is simple. Even the author doesn't take issue with that specific functionality. Yes he does. You touch anything and state is erased. Don't know exactly which one of the search results you want to go to? Tou
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> popular service 'x' doesn't exactly fit my power user need 'y', therefore x is hopelessly borked, poorly designed, and borderline useless. So you are telling me that wanting to see the name of a given street wi
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by normalnorm 7y ago
This comment is a master piece, in that it crystallizes everything that is dismaying about the present. We live in a boring dystopia.
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by normalnorm 7y ago
We all know exactly what they do. I don't care what the OP does specifically, they are collaborating in building something that makes the world worse for all of us. > there is ABSOLUTELY a place in this world for advertising on the
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by normalnorm 7y ago
I had this problem in the beginning (specifically and only with hotmail), but it solved itself at some point. No idea if it was something that fastmail did or that hotmail did. I have been using fastmail for one year and had zero other prob
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by normalnorm 7y ago
I have no problem with agreeing that computation can emerge from neurons. For example, one can show how different neural configurations correspond to logic gates, persistent memory (this requires recurrence) and so on. This is precisely wha
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by normalnorm 7y ago
It's really just a personal intuition. I don't have any good argument or explanation to offer... For what it's worth, I do feel that panpsychism was my "natural" belief when I was a kid, until the adults told me it
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by normalnorm 7y ago
Hehe :)
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by normalnorm 7y ago
There is only one conscious entity that you have direct experience of, which is yourself, and as far as you are concerned, all of science is contained within your conscious experience. You (and also me) reason by analogy, and we assume cons
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by normalnorm 7y ago
You can point to a protein being expressed by DNA, and then understand how many protein molecules amount to cells, then tissues, then organs. There is a first principle guiding you all the way, even though the complexity is staggering. Ther
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by normalnorm 7y ago
An important difference is that angles are imaginary entities, while I doubt people with give up on explaining the most direct thing they can experience, which is their own consciousness.
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by normalnorm 7y ago
Consider all emergent phenomena that you know of. Let's say: stock market prices, ant hills, biological organisms, ecosystems, etc, etc. What all these have in common, is that they are too complex to explain in terms of individual inte
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> mentees Sounds like something you would use for bad breath.
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by normalnorm 7y ago
I an European and I have worked and lived in 4 different EU member states, some rich, some more poor. I know almost nobody who gets private insurance. Currently I am in Germany, and I had a serious health issue. The sort of thing that makes
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by normalnorm 7y ago
Philosophy encompasses science. Testable hypothesis are a philosophical idea, justified on philosophical grounds. You can't justify the very idea of "testable hypothesis and experiments" by using testable hypothesis and exper
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by normalnorm 7y ago
> There are good reasons that most of academia moved on from philosophy. There are philosophy departments in almost every reputable University I know... Everything that is non-STEM is underfunded, it doesn't matter if it is philosop

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