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by ordu 5y ago
> Much less of an issue for me when I'm in front looking out the front window. And it never an issue when your are behind the wheel. In this case nothing can surprise you, because any acceleration or rotation not just predicted by
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by ordu 5y ago
I believe in a Free Software. At the same time I do not believe at the Free Software. Without a way to pay for work of developers no software can be good enough. So in a way I do not believe in a FS. But I believe that we need to find a way
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by ordu 5y ago
Oh... Not hopeless. The very fact that I spent some minutes watching Interpretations of Girl With a Pearl Earring, is the enough evidence that it is not hopeless. I praise the work that was done. Moreover I hoped that people would get it as
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by ordu 5y ago
> This is more like chopping off the visual cortex and some association cortex from a brain and stimulating it. We do not know exactly what part of our perception of reality can be attributed to "the visual cortex and some associa
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by ordu 5y ago
I'm not sure, that I can express myself in English, which is not my native language, and this needs some very nuanced control over tiniest shades of meaning, but I'll try nevertheless, just for fun of it at least. The original gir
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by ordu 5y ago
Dall-E 2 seems to be incapable to catch the essence of the art. I'm not really surprised by it, I'd be surprised a lot if it could. But nevertheless: if you looked in the eye of a Girl With A Pearl Earring[1], you'd be forced
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by ordu 5y ago
> The net effect of this is that AMD lost their ability to patent their invention by not filing first. It can explain Intel's move to file the patent, which seems stupid at a first glance. Anti-Hanlon Razor: never attribute to a s
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by ordu 5y ago
> Democracy is pretty decent, but comes with some big flaws I'd argue you are overstretching one example of one broken system to a whole class of systems. We can reframe these big egos as people who do not believe in democracy, bu
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by ordu 5y ago
I set them as default for some time, and I had not found any inconveniences yet (I use bash as a file manager, and normally shell for me is the default mode of solving any problem). Didn't tried to run something like ./configure o
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by ordu 5y ago
Yes, it is very manipulative. It is the ethics issue I mentioned above. It can change your attitude to your partner in bad ways. It will lead to a disaster if your partner find out about the manipulation. > The whole point of growing as
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by ordu 5y ago
Read Skinner. Conditioning can do wonders. You can train people like you train dogs, though there is a catch: people must not notice that they are being trained. From ethics standpoint it is an arguable approach, so you need to think before
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Astronomers capture dying star blowing smoke rings(arstechnica.com)
4 points by ordu 5y ago|0 comments
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by ordu 5y ago
They are making gradients for themselves. Like a cow eating grass and constantly moving by a gradient of grass mass per area. Or moving away from cow excrements. It is funnier with a herd of cows, because they will hold a line, moving alway
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Contra Hoel on Aristocratic Tutoring(astralcodexten.substack.com)
1 points by ordu 5y ago|0 comments
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by ordu 5y ago
> There sentiment was that Russia is not ready for democracy right now because of years and years of propaganda and suppression of an intellectual elite. Propaganda and suppression of an intellectual elite are symptoms. The root cause
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by ordu 5y ago
> Any wrong doings of authoritarian state being covered in a pile of "whataboutism", any mistake of west inflated into mortal sin. Lately seeing a "whataboutism" from a random person in Internet I end communication
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by ordu 5y ago
There are nothing wrong with laying a scientific basis under your anecdotal experience, to get an ability to reproduce your successes. But it must be done by using the best possible scientific methods and by great minds, just a statistics w
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by ordu 5y ago
They seem to be trying to gather a lot of telemetry to measure how they can boost popularity of Firefox. I wonder did they tried to measure how the measurement itself influences popularity? Social measurements are like quantum ones, they ch
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by ordu 5y ago
There is no point in placing blame on a part of system that is not under your direct control, because you have no ability to make that part to behave in some other way so the outcome would be different next time. No point to blame gravity f
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by ordu 5y ago
> And the best we can do with tech is still ads?? The next step is to make VR headset that creates augmented reality without any ads. Something like uBlock but now for real.
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by ordu 5y ago
Policemen wear guns, and it doesn't sound like an organized crime. The root of the word "siloviki" is "sila", which means "force". And it is about using force in order to perform their job. Like policemen
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by ordu 5y ago
Well, FSB is an intelligence agency, and they wear guns or at least have a license to wear gun. Though I cannot argue. I rely on my intuitive knowledge of Russian which is hard to use as a rational argument. This knowledge tells me that &qu
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by ordu 5y ago
> These men are known in Russia as the “siloviki” — “men of force”, or perhaps even, in the Irish phrase, “hard men”. Just to clarify. The word "siloviki" made from "силовые структуры", which may be translated liter
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by ordu 5y ago
I withhold my own opinion, because I'm not an expert. Instead I can give you a link to another non-expert, Scott Alexander[1]. I like how he puts things together. [1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ukraine-t
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by ordu 5y ago
It wouldn't work. Firstly if brainwashed Russian feels his faith in propagada is shaking he takes a double dose of propagada to feel better. To wake up from propagada is a extremly painful experience, because you are no more a good guy
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by ordu 5y ago
> I guess my bottom line is that X does cause Y, because it intuitively seems like it would. Yes. Judea Pearl argues that one cannot and shouldn't argue about causes and effects when not knowing what X and Y are, without a deep un
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by ordu 5y ago
There are no ppl left in these positions who had not proved their loyalty to Kremlin in the past. Students tend to speak their mind (Doxa[1] is a good example) and they can organize themselves, so they need shepherds. For example, Zuev was
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by ordu 5y ago
No, the article is about Beijing had rewritten one of its narratives and replaced it with another. There is nothing about western narrative.
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by ordu 5y ago
> I don't know how to mentally prepare myself for what might come and I'm not the kind of person who can just switch off and distract themselves at times like this. > Is there anything I can do to better prepare myself ment
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by ordu 5y ago
Judging by a description, it is a law to imprison any official. Seems that they are going to a gulag now. Putin took all the power, he needs his followers no more. Stalin also did this. Those who do not fear the darkness will be consumed by

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