notlenin

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by notlenin 5mo ago
sorry for the stupid question, but what is "the former" and what is "the latter"? Did you mean I acknowledge the sentience of plants but not animals? I believe that all life might be conscious, but life that is "ver
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by notlenin 5mo ago
from the article I linked: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus... > Early tinkering with the idea of using heat to create steam to power rotary motion – the core function of a ste
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by notlenin 5mo ago
honestly, I don't know. Sentience is consciousness. I can't imagine what it must be like to be a plant, the plants existence is too different from mine for me to imagine it. It would be like trying to imagine life in a 12-dimensio
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by notlenin 5mo ago
common misconception: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus... > As we’ll see, the Roman Empire was never close to an industrial revolution – a great many of the preconditions were
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by notlenin 5mo ago
> If you can't keep it in your chapel then you're an evangelist and your morals are fundamentally no different than the colonizers of old. disagree. Colonization is done by force, evangelism is, in theory, consensual. If I tell
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by notlenin 5mo ago
I do science and mathematics, and I am 'religious' - I believe in God, which I define simply as the universal consciousness - in other words, I believe the universe has a soul. Much as how Erdos talked about 'proofs from the
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by notlenin 5mo ago
1) okay, I'm fascinated by the 'fighting in a foreign civil war' thing, can you expound on that? 2) this may sound weird, but I do think that if you want to be a good parent (and please note, I don't actually have kids y
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by notlenin 5mo ago
aren't plants also sentient? Isn't all life sentient? If not, where do you draw the line? "It has eyes and bilateral symmetry and an endoskeleton looks vaguely human-like so I can anthropomorphize it"? "Only membe
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by notlenin 5mo ago
to be fair, you can get "good" meat - factory farming is awful, but not all meat is factory farmed. You can eat happy animals, for example pigs that spent their lives outside being pigs, hanging out with their pig friends, and nea
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by notlenin 6mo ago
> we may see change come from the southerners with guns who eventually decided they had been deceived by the people they voted for. er... last time southerners with guns revolted, it didn't exactly end well... https://en.
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by notlenin 6mo ago
> As we are apparently electing malicious narcissists with dementia to our highest office, a more precipitous decline seems reasonable To be fair, the current political dysfunction can probably largely be reduced by switching the elector
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by notlenin 6mo ago
For any given alphabet A, and for any positive integer n, the set of strings of length n over A is a finite set, with (number of characters in A)^n elements. The set of all strings, of any length over A, is an infinite set, because it is
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by notlenin 6mo ago
> Not to mention it was conducted almost a year ago false. The article is from 4th of March 2026, less than a month ago.
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by notlenin 6mo ago
yes. It is also worth noting that in some cases, government and business owners have diametrically opposed interests - namely governments can nationalize companies (and if I'm not mistaken, some governments, like the Nazis, did, or wou
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by notlenin 6mo ago
er... if you'll excuse me confirming the "HN is the 'well actually capital of the internet' stereotype"... If you look throughout history, you'll see that before the advent of what we'd call 'modern s
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by notlenin 6mo ago
> In August [2022], it was announced that Andreessen Horowitz had invested in Neumann's new residential real-estate company, Flow. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neumann
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by notlenin 6mo ago
they're going to pioneer "AI flight" :D
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by notlenin 6mo ago
I feel like part of the secret to being that type of CEO is that whatever your business is, you can spin it into something "oh my god, much wow". Like it won't be just "vertically integrating pallet construction", i
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by notlenin 6mo ago
not 100% true - I know some friends that would like a website, just they haven't found the means to get one. Even WordPress can be somewhat complicated to setup sometimes.
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by notlenin 6mo ago
you could have started a war with your neighbors using only sticks and stones - indeed, much of human history is people starting wars with their neighbors using weapons that we today would call primitive. But now you can start a very destr
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by notlenin 6mo ago
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - ll of these will be cherished and emulated as soon a
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by notlenin 6mo ago
happiness is very linked to unexpected surprises. I personally have been experimenting what basically amounts to a Christian version of Bhakti Yoga [0] basically "wow, thanks God/Jesus, this is wonderful, I love you, you're a
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by notlenin 7mo ago
yes, strong agree. I'm personally happiest on two heavy lifting days with snatch, cleans and front squats, and then just lots of walking, handstands and some empty barbell work at home on other days. I've tried to go harder, but d
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by notlenin 7mo ago
> One is that when I have something to say about my day, there's nowhere to say it; no one on HN cares whether I fixed up the blinds or cooked pork steaks. I hang out in an IRC chatroom for that, but sometimes nobody's around
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by notlenin 7mo ago
unless you don't have unlimited compute, at which point you need other ideas https://arielche.net/bitter-lesson