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Fine-Tuned Constants(plato.stanford.edu)
20 points by ph4 7y ago|3 comments
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Why I Am Not a Physicalist(thesideview.co)
1 points by ph4 7y ago|0 comments
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by ph4 7y ago
Serious question, why post something for discussion if it's behind a paywall?
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by ph4 7y ago
For those interested in potential viable ontologies other than reductive physicalism, I encourage you to read the works of Bernardo Kastrup. His most recent book, The Idea of the World, is well-argued and very interesting.
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by ph4 7y ago
Don't move. Stay in your small town. Narrow the scope of your dreams, dial down your ambition to something more reasonable. Jettison idealistic principles, come to terms with self-imposed limits on your potential using elaborate ration
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by ph4 7y ago
The attacker is also threatening to make these private repos public, or misuse their access to the repos in other ways (likely additional types of breaches).
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by ph4 9y ago
Convention = arbitary. It's conventional. For convenience. Relative. Not absolute. Same as your lines defining what is and isn't conscious.
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by ph4 9y ago
You're drawing arbitrary cutoffs in your height example. Which brings back the original question, what's your selection criteria for consciousness?
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by ph4 9y ago
The Book and The Wisdom of Insecurity, both by Alan Watts. Then I could have inoculated myself from the myopic obsession with eco-consciousness promoted by the rest of the books in this thread.
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by ph4 9y ago
Seems to me that consciousness is a matter of degree, with devices like thermostats at one pole, and self-reflective neocortex-style consciousness at the other. Not that I have a strong desire to defend the consciousness of thermostats. I j
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by ph4 9y ago
Do you have a working definition of consciousness?
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by ph4 9y ago
Reading these comments is a fascinating look into the ontology assumed by militant scientific materialists.
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by ph4 9y ago
dos32.bas
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by ph4 10y ago
Is there a clear, objective, and accurate list of the ways in which the DNC rigged the primaries? All of my searches turn up shady conspiracy web sites.
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by ph4 11y ago
We've been using this for about 6 months to bang out prototypes very quickly. Happy with it so far.
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by ph4 11y ago
Starting with Django 1.7, migrations have been available in the core package.
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by ph4 11y ago
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity An exploration of man's quest for psychological security and spiritual certainty in religion and philosophy.
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by ph4 12y ago
So what should we be learning if we want to be exposed to high-level, highly-transferrable concepts related to front-end frameworks?
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by ph4 12y ago
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to ocean - Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. Robert Frost
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by ph4 12y ago
Sorry, the trivial amount of people using noscript is simply unimportant to me.
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by ph4 12y ago
I'm taking Discrete Math now and have both books. Epps' has much simpler explanations. I haven't taken algebra in 5 years and find that Rosen's assumes a lot more knowledge, frequently skipping lots of steps in its expla
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by ph4 12y ago
Wonderful book. Try "The Wisdom of Insecurity" next. And to anyone considering either of these, I think TWoI is a slightly better intro to Watts' work.
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by ph4 12y ago
I wrote all the content myself, which took maybe 20-30 hours. The theme is a profession in the veterinary field, so it offers advice to prospective students and people interested in the career (schooling, salary, etc.) It requires zero main
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by ph4 12y ago
About $75-$100 a month from a simple AdSense site that ranks highly for some key terms. Pretty lame.
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by ph4 12y ago
This is a good way to piss off your marketing department. Unfortunately sometimes UX has to take a hit in the name of the bottom line. Email/direct marketing works. It won't deliver value to every user on every contact, but even 5
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by ph4 12y ago
A one of a kind, once in a generation human being.
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by ph4 13y ago
Sorry, but that sounds like absolute bullshit.
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by ph4 13y ago
So? Why does do you need science's permission to do anything?
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by ph4 13y ago
What the heck is with that logo?
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by ph4 13y ago
You're like the Survivorman of development, carrying your own cameras and playing the harmonica on top of the real stuff.

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