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by placebo 9y ago
Thank you for a great idea for my next startup - an application to micromanage remote workers. It will be even better than office micromanagement since the boss will have a large screen where all the remote desktops will be visible and unde
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by placebo 9y ago
I don't know, to me this sounds like a perfect scenario to let them know he's getting a good lawyer and justifiably suing them for damages if they intend to go through with it and delete his account. Sadly, in most cases abusers o
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by placebo 9y ago
I honestly don't understand how this issue is even arguable - I mean given that: a) We haven't seen any evidence of life outside this planet b) We haven't been able to reproduce life from scratch in a lab so we don't kno
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by placebo 9y ago
I think you underestimate the creativity of conspiracy theorists to explain away any contradicting fact :)
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by placebo 9y ago
At the risk of uncovering my ancientness, I remember reading astronomy books as a kid which specified that stars are so far away that they can't appear as anything more than dots of light even when viewed through the largest telescopes
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by placebo 9y ago
Perhaps investigate what physicality is beyond the awareness of it. The only reason something objective exists is that there's a separate subject to say so. And no, this doesn't mean that nothing existed prior to human beings, it
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by placebo 9y ago
That's a good question and the answer is that both the sun and the number 15 are concepts created by the mind because creating concepts has great survival value. You are conscious of these concepts. "Consciousness" itself is
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by placebo 9y ago
I asked a friend who said that in the decades he has practiced psychiatry not only did he never have a patient with this diagnosis, but he also never met a colleague who did, so his personal opinion is that this is more of something meant f
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by placebo 9y ago
I find it interesting that AlphaGo improves its play by playing against itself. I wonder what the limits of this are.
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by placebo 9y ago
I hate patent trolls with a passion, but these non-practicing entities are are just another negative by-product of what has devolved to be a negative system. Patents originally existed to protect inventors. Today, like in other legal system
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by placebo 9y ago
Decades of struggling with the question and scrutinizing what others came up with :) Nothing I've mentioned though is original or new - just took some time to filter out the noise, look carefully and honestly and connect the dots.
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by placebo 9y ago
You are referring to the soft problem of consciousness, which is not what the argument is about. I too am convinced that the hard problem of consciousness is beyond the scope of science. It is beyond science not in the sense that it violate
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by placebo 9y ago
> LuaJIT is such an amazing piece of software - apparently to such an extent that only Mike Pall fully understands some of its internals Fully agree about the awesomeness of LuaJIT and incredible capabilities of Mike Pall, but also the r
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by placebo 10y ago
I completely agree. It's so silly that I chuckle every time this argument comes up. Then again, people are so attached to their definitions and classifications in a way that it becomes part of how they define themselves, and therefore
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by placebo 10y ago
My experience has been the exact opposite. The latest version of UltraEdit easily handles large files that Notepad++ and Sublime Text 2 choke on. Didn't purchase Sublime Text 3 yet so the situation might be different there.
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by placebo 10y ago
>But I still must, ultimately, trust you, your competence, and your motivations. This is true about any entity that has access to your data, including your bank, health insurance, or any other organisation which you have an account with.
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by placebo 10y ago
I think in terms of catchy marketing phrases, its a good switch, considering they wanted one that sounds as good as the previous one yet does not clash with existing professional terminology. I remember thinking for a few seconds about what
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by placebo 10y ago
While I agree with everything you wrote about "no excuses" being a side effect of a healthy frame of mind, and that in an ideal situation things should be motivated by passion and not by fear, I wonder if perhaps sometimes the amo
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by placebo 10y ago
If the goal was just end to end encryption, why was there a need for asymmetric keys? Couldn't the medical data have been directly encrypted via the password-derived AES key and stored on the server?
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by placebo 10y ago
in Israel every egg carton has a stamp stating an expiry date if refrigerated and an expiry date if not.
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by placebo 10y ago
> They say they're free from suffering, maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but they can't tell me how to repeat that in a way I can reproduce for myself. If that were true, I'd take the same position as you do, but th
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by placebo 10y ago
I assume you trust logic and empirical tests. Here's something that is both repeatable, and as empirical as it gets. Consider every instance of knowing anything "objectively". You will notice that consistently it is always f
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by placebo 10y ago
My favorite too, and also my first encounter with his writings. Read it back in the eighties as it was one of the writings discussed in "The Mind's I". It was exactly the type of initial clarification I needed to read at the
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by placebo 10y ago
I once conveyed this belief to someone who had been through a path that is equivalent in difficulty to what the US nave SEALs have to go through. I told him that perhaps willpower is an illusion and it's basically has to do whether the
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by placebo 10y ago
I'd argue that companies don't care about anything as they are not sentient. The culture and morals of a company is an aggregate of the morals of the people that operate and make up these companies, so this "companies care fo
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by placebo 10y ago
Back when python 3 was introduced and after learning of breaking backward compatibility my first thought was, "good luck with that"... Wanting to create something better is not surprising. What was surprising (to me at least) is n
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by placebo 10y ago
The fact that you are right about the possibility of taking other interpretations as non truth, does not mean that no opinions are simply misguided and not based on truth. In addition, there have been many articles that are simply made up,
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by placebo 10y ago
You need to want to know what is true first, to care enough to take the trouble of knowing how to detect bullshit. I think the reason why bullshit is flourishing is because those that actually give a damn are the minority. The majority is c
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by placebo 10y ago
Good to know, thanks. Guess I'm a bit of a dinosaur for not following social networks :-)
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by placebo 10y ago
I've also been following this book and it seems as if progress has stalled. The last sent chapter is incomplete and half baked, there is no response from the author in the book forum and errors in previous chapters remain unchanged.

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