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by oska 2y ago
This is the same French secret service that bungled the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior ?
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by oska 2y ago
No, there is no spectrum when it comes to Free Speech. Free Speech is an ideal that promotes total freedom to say whatever you want and is against all (state) censorship. (And btw, I'm unaware of anything that exists that is a &#
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by oska 2y ago
Some say it began as a CIA project. > Declassified American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European
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by oska 2y ago
The allusion to Robbie Burns / John Steinbeck in the title felt a little odd too, notwithstanding there being a mention of mice in the body of the article.
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by oska 2y ago
There's certainly information in there, I agree, but it's badly delivered. We're more than 20 years past Douglas' untimely death. People writing new pieces on him now need to be writing much more appealingly or , if th
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by oska 2y ago
Such a badly written and dull piece on what should be a very interesting subject to write about (DNA). I wonder if ppl who are upvoting this submission actually read the whole, verbose piece before upvoting or whether they're just upvo
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by oska 2y ago
Just reversed the downvote that was on yr comment because I interpreted it as not so much as saying the Bible story is what literally happened but that biogenesis feels very unlikely (even over billions of years). I feel similarly and my pe
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by oska 2y ago
Just looking at that location on the map, it struck me how 'continental' it was, i.e. how inland it was. Turns out it's actually pretty near Eurasia's "Pole of inaccessibility", which is basically on the border
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by oska 2y ago
> any previous century Big call here.
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by oska 2y ago
> Now after the election, that is another story altogether. Agree. First half of 2025 could be pretty spectacular (if/when we get through 2024). I suspect there might be some pretty radical plans for US debt monetisation being drawn
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by oska 2y ago
The waves that are already looking like a storm in a teacup ? There is no 'AI', that is always only hype. There is machine learning, which is a very powerful technology but I doubt MSFT will be leading that revolution. As for LL
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by oska 2y ago
I'm obviously not speaking for dang (or for anyone who flagged the thread) but a successful assassination is on a different level to an attempted assassination. I think younger people are mostly all aware of the assassination of JFK
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by oska 2y ago
HN isn't the right place for this discussion and that is made explicitly clear in the Guidelines [1] : > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting n
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by oska 2y ago
> Every scientist has to be a materialist Quite obviously not true (and also untrue in a documented sense in that many great scientists have not been materialists). Science is a method, not a philosophical view of the world. > it come
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by oska 2y ago
The requirement of Free Software is to respect the four essential freedoms [1], one of which explicitly talks about 'community'. And the essay that lays out the four freedoms begins with this very line : > “Free software” means
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by oska 2y ago
Cheers, I should have been more precise in my wording there. I should have referred to some (Idealist) schools of thought in Buddhism & Hinduism, such as the Yogachara school in Buddhism. Particularly with Hinduism, its embrace of var
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by oska 2y ago
Your responses indicate (at least to me) that you are, philosophically, a Materialist or a Physicalist. That's fine; I accept that's a philosophy of existence that one can hold (even though I personally find it sterile and nihilis
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by oska 2y ago
No, you don't have any proof for the creation of consciousness, including human consciousness (which is what I understand you are referring to). In my view, and in the view of major religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, etc) plus various phil
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by oska 2y ago
I just went back and added a parenthetical statement after my first sentence before seeing this reply (on refresh). > The creation of consciousness is impossible. That's where I'd start my argument. Machines can 'learn&#x2
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by oska 2y ago
There will never be, and can never be, "artificial intelligence". (The creation of consciousness is impossible.) It's a fun/interesting device in science fiction , just like the concept of golems (animated beings) are i
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by oska 2y ago
Lovely opening paragraph : > I sometimes think of my computer as a very large house. I visit this house every day and know most of the rooms on the ground floor, but there are bedrooms I’ve never been in, closets I haven’t opened, nooks
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by oska 2y ago
You're closer to the action than me and very probably much better informed, but the opinion I've formed from across the Southern Pacific is that Millei's 'minarchist' rhetoric is mostly theatre and that he's in
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by oska 2y ago
Thanks for your comment. I don't know how ordinary US Americans refer to Australia and whether they use 'Oz' to do so but I am not surprised to hear from you that they generally don't. What I was talking about, and where
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by oska 2y ago
Mate, this is the comment that they were directly replying to : > At best unproven and denied.
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by oska 2y ago
There is no such recording.
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by oska 2y ago
I wonder if you ever listen to the many, many, many Jews who state that criticism of Israel is not 'antisemitism' and that blowback from the state violence and the intensely evil persecution & genocide of the Palestinian peo
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by oska 2y ago
It's actually quite rare for Australians to refer to Australia as Oz, at least in my experience. Seems to be much more a thing in the US and, to a much lesser extent, the UK. If that graffiti were written in Australia, I think it would
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by oska 2y ago
I had never seen this purported quote before. And I found it extremely dubious that he said such a thing. Seeing as you didn't provide a source I went looking for one. I found first a recent NYT piece [1] with the purported quote. Here
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by oska 2y ago
You are referencing something orthoganol to the subject at hand here (searches of devices while going through customs, which garvi is right to point out occurs in a range of countries). (Not only that but it was a very poor reference, with
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by oska 2y ago
On the assumption (perhaps misplaced) that this comment is serious and not a joke, such a sentiment indicates extremely poor risk assessment. Native Australian fauna represents such an extremely small risk to tourists that it is not worth c

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