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by odyssey7 3y ago
Starting from evolution as the cause for the fact that our physical bodies present sensation to our awareness, I have to assume there’s a reason for that to happen. The obvious answer is that pleasure, pain, ideas, memories, etc. all exist
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by odyssey7 3y ago
A newborn baby is an example of physics at work, rather than an underlying physical law.
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If so then they are a lesson in how misleading statistics can be.
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If it’s illegal then it’s moot.
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The root user of an operating system has access to resources that should not be available to every application. That's not anticompetitive per se, but it is required for a secure computing system that preserves user privacy. It's
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by odyssey7 3y ago
The DOJ case is requesting the opposite of your proposal. Although the alternate app store angle is what has been featured in the headlines, the case also requests for Apple to make various private iOS APIs available to 3rd-party apps, so i
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by odyssey7 3y ago
Sure, regulations and legal systems are important. However, they can fail to protect people in situations where technology would offer greater protection and vice-versa. For example, Benjamin Franklin applied his technical skill as a publis
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Are you referring to the Swift version of TensorFlow? https://www.infoworld.com/article/3608151/swift-for-tensorfl...
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Imagine if the DOJ case against Apple prevails and rivals begin distributing their own iOS apps through alternate app stores and obtain unencumbered access to currently-private system APIs.
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I like the angle and skepticism, but the experiment would still need to overcome the challenge that the philosophically rigorous way to confirm a consciousness is to be that consciousness.
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Cogito, ergo sum.
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Instead of "scientists are calling for the moon to be better protected from development," it could have been titled: "scientists say they deserve first dibs on developing the lunar surface."
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by odyssey7 3y ago
This dialogue from Smithsonian Magazine seems somewhat confused. Protecting the moon from development is a valid position to take; and somehow, to the contrary, the article promotes various scientific development projects. It's disinge
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A wish list of development projects, presented as a request to prevent development.
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Cambridge researchers have discovered that music is enjoyed by actual flesh-and-blood humans, refuting Pythagoras? Clearly a revival of the quadrivium is needed.
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People who make these kinds of moves tend to stand out as noxious charlatans.
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The deceased and their community.
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Imagine a software bug that wipes out an entire cultivar.
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Additional marketplaces aside, one of the specific complaints mentioned in the article is that some iOS system APIs are private, usable only by apps that Apple itself produces. "private APIs and system-level integrations that Apple cla
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Sure, but that's just wordplay. There are genuine, meaningful differences between technologies. Professionals should be able to weigh and consider them in various contexts.
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Application-level software engineering hasn't been about hand-writing for-loops for a long time, but there's a tendency for people to feel self-satisfied in what's familiar and what they worked hard to master. Now that LLMs c
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by odyssey7 3y ago
It's perhaps not surprising that the security benefits of the App Store are under systemic pressures, as aftermath of Apple inconveniencing many organizations by adding so many privacy features to iOS. Many of the numerous organization
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by odyssey7 3y ago
Years ago I toured an aquaculture research facility producing fish that grew (iirc) faster and larger than natural specimens. I asked about the ethics considering what might happen to ecosystems if any of the fish made it into the wild, and
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To err is human
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The biggest mistake I have made in completing coursework in many cases has been losing time understanding the readings when I could have used the time to rush through and submit the assignment. Reading the material to understand it first? N
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by odyssey7 3y ago
A friend recently gave up a career in which his very soul was bound but which had kept him impoverished and struggling, always having to navigate churn to afford to live. He works in a call center now, and he’s so much less depressed that i
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by odyssey7 3y ago
This is a great use case for von Neumann self-replicating machines. Little self-replicating space robots that fashion aerodynamic payloads and fire them to a small receiving site on the Earth. Just remember to include a stop signal, lest th
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by odyssey7 3y ago
How many change detectors to mitigate against 51% attacks? Realistically, even with this extension functioning as advertised, there are still plenty of related risks. E.g., a software company could disguise its motives early on and convert
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by odyssey7 3y ago
Content sharing via stories features, like those in Instagram and Snapchat, is more ephemeral than some earlier methods, leaving less of a public trail to analyze.
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by odyssey7 3y ago
Yep, you got it. I just generally don't use Chrome unless I'm taking an exam that requires it.

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