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by pavement 9y ago
I’d suspect, and offer, with zero proof, that the fungus has hooked into temperature regulation channels, and ants tend to seek warm/bright, high and dry areas in cold rain, to camp out until they can dead-reckon their way back home if
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by pavement 9y ago
No way, dude. There's clinical evidence that such a location in/on the human body represents the true effective residence of human sentience, since snipers target precisely that location to take out their targets, before they have
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by pavement 9y ago
But the “ organism of humanity ” lacks biological drivers and hallmarks for differentiation of classes within the same species within a reproductive familial chain of ancestry. All class divisions and duties are contrived, and artificially
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by pavement 9y ago
it seems a Victorian concept like "seat of organizational sentience" is rather obsolete. Ha! So you’re telling me that you exist in more than one place simultaneously? ( !!! ) Last time I checked, here I am. One person,
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by pavement 9y ago
Well, we have clues that it exists above the chemical layer, and above the cellular layer, since any individual person is capable of sensory processing at a fidelity measurable to auditory sample rates beyond tens of thousands of cycles per
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by pavement 9y ago
One, then, is left to wonder where the seat of organizational sentience really resides, if it resides in any of the independent organisms at all. Ants surely seem sentient, even if still lower-order animals. Is it just an emergent detail of
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by pavement 9y ago
So, what about Siri and Cortana? Same deal right? Always-on microphone constantly polling an audio signal?
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by pavement 9y ago
One conceptual reality to consider is that the ants on the surface of any hill are not quite as sentient as the queen. The survival of a queen that produces viable progeny is paramount to the survival of the species and, at a more granular
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by pavement 9y ago
Meanwhile, the advice is to sugar coat bad situations, which is certainly a flavor of dishonesty. The tier of management matters here. The boss you are eye-to-eye with should put pragmatism before sunshine. The boss' boss and above are
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by pavement 9y ago
Well, I never! How crude! I mean just poo-poo on this sort of thing and anybody amused by it!
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by pavement 9y ago
They also called the PDF an “ infographic ” which it is not. If that PDF is anything, I’d call it a “ report ” maybe. But, did they call it an infographic to get me to click it? Did I just prove signs work?
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by pavement 9y ago
It makes sense that there might be a lack of awareness for a subgroup that maintains a low profile. Inspection of the skeleton for specific details, and genetic tests prove that while interbreeding is possible, this other group was separate
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by pavement 9y ago
It seems to be a server-side bug, affecting a random (or at least apolitical) population of users: https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/10/31/1734232/google-docs-i...
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by pavement 9y ago
a measurement of user initiated actions how to pull that off Sounds like a horrible idea to enable such behavior. It’s a quick window into bandwidth throttling, for any number of reasons. Traffic is traffic, and it’s no one’s busi
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by pavement 9y ago
tl;dr They simply bought them through Soviet front companies, operating in West Germany. Instead of trucking them to ports for shippment to NATO countries, they trucked them to a Soviet freighter, and floated them to North Korea. Hey,
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by pavement 9y ago
GAN = Generative Adversarial Networks
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by pavement 9y ago
Oh, I'd hazard a guess that the media is well-educated, and handily equipped with an agenda similar to advertisers and marketers employing dark patterns and pervasive analytics. And I never claimed I was good at anything. But I did int
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by pavement 9y ago
If you're that easily phished, why are you using TOR at all? You aren't being attentive enough for high risk activities. You lack proper verification channels, to confirm authenticity, which matters in this context. You lack the s
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by pavement 9y ago
I didn't speak to whether or not this applies to anything expected to happen within 5 years, or ever at all, or whether you should expect this to be practical information.
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by pavement 9y ago
Oh, but what about wealthy corporations rendering autonomous vehicle services, either as their primary offering, or as an ancillary side business? You could own shares in such a company, purchase a subscription to summon vehicles at a rate,
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by pavement 9y ago
There are multiple interpretations to the question, clearly. Removing a tick mark from an infinite number line would just cause all the other tick marks to slide closer together like billiard balls, no? Or is the question really about what
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by pavement 9y ago
Unfortunately, no, because all of the current owners of said vehicles are incredibly possessive and covetous of such objects, and prone to exerting their influence of similar attitudes over their peers. Self driving cars, owned by faceless
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by pavement 9y ago
It sure is, and no less than several billion times over, at least, depending on how you count, and that's just on this planet alone.
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by pavement 9y ago
Whoever gets there first, and can realistically form a threat credible enough to defend it. You’ll probably need the backing of a nuclear power, although off-world representation of earthly countries might not turn out to be particularly cr
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by pavement 9y ago
Consider multiple transmitters operating at the same time, in the same room. Even if no signal transmitter is dumping high output into that part of the spectrum, isn’t bandwidth saturation one of the reasons for poor reception and lower bar
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by pavement 9y ago
No, AnimalMuppet, the article explains that he's a " yippie " very clearly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippie
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by pavement 9y ago
The goal of keeping the open web “competitive” seems a little dubious, however, considering who’s favor shall ultimately be competed for, no? Offering up every last conduit one could possibly expose on a general purpose platform, so that co
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by pavement 9y ago
In people with the condition, the cells were arranged in matching patterns in both eyes, which may be to blame for confusing the brain by producing “mirror” images. I mean, geeze. I’m kind of flabberghasted reading that.
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by pavement 9y ago
Poly-Chlorinated Biphenyls? What other acronym would they use? Or is it just that some might find it contentious with Printed Circuit Board? Three letter acronyms are always suffering from name space collisions, in mixed or broad context. I
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by pavement 9y ago
Thing is, none of this becomes definitively cool for at least another 100 million years after we go extinct, when the universe resumes an era of prehistory prior to the next intelligent life form to emerging from some primordial soup. Worse

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