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by procgen 3y ago
The ship is a pattern that persists in time.
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by procgen 3y ago
> Live in Europe, invest in America. And where does this leave Europe in the future?
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by procgen 3y ago
I'd be interested to see a comparison of the median wealth by age bracket.
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by procgen 3y ago
Third-party apps can access a single composite "front camera", but only if a "spatial persona" is found on the device. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10094/?time...
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by procgen 3y ago
> It is generally accepted Is it, though?
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by procgen 3y ago
It has no inherent meaning. You can choose to play whatever part you like. But first you might try to figure out what this "you" is - is it a body, a mind? An infinite, underlying computational substrate? Maybe there are even mu
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by procgen 3y ago
It would be better to make schools better. Most people cannot afford to homeschool their children.
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by procgen 3y ago
We can do both.
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by procgen 4y ago
> And well, there must be a number two after Silicon Valley. Who would you say that is? The Northeast Corridor.
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by procgen 4y ago
There's billions of years of compressed knowledge in those 4 year olds. Lots of useful priors.
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by procgen 4y ago
Might be that's what we're doing, too.
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by procgen 4y ago
It sounds like it's an open question whether or not it is in fact carcinogenic when consumed in the quantities allowed by the FDA.
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by procgen 4y ago
Good on them for seemingly treating their employees well, some of whom have stuck around for decades.
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by procgen 4y ago
These are distinct from the AR goggles which they are expected to announce before the developers conference.
45.
by procgen 4y ago
Espionage makes the world more predictable, and hence less dangerous.
46.
by procgen 4y ago
It will be interesting to see their mixed reality device/OS - they should be announcing it sometime next year. I'm hoping that at the very least it can serve as a proper monitor replacement.
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by procgen 4y ago
Is remote work hammering the economy? What effect does it actually have on productivity?
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by procgen 4y ago
Please do!
49.
by procgen 4y ago
> Religion enters almost every conversation I have in the US in some way. I'm an American and this is very surprising to me. In fact, I find it difficult to believe. Can you give some examples?
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by procgen 4y ago
If you had told me two months ago that the Russian navy would be so incompetent as to lose their flagship to the bottom of the Black Sea, I would not have believed you. Now it seems that further humiliations are not only possible, but proba
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by procgen 5y ago
> convincing someone with disaffected sentiments to "take action" It's good that the FBI got to them before someone with 'legit' bombs did.
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by procgen 5y ago
The problem is the same one posed by the consumption of pigs: needless suffering.
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by procgen 5y ago
> I can see why hackernews was (is?) banned in china. You guys see nothing but negatives in any policy decision that comes out of there. The idea that a site should be banned because its users 'see nothing but negatives' is rep
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by procgen 5y ago
Logseq might fit the bill: https://logseq.com/ I've been using it for a few weeks now after switching over from Roam and it's been great. Everything is plaintext (I use it in markdown mode, but they support org-mo
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by procgen 5y ago
A 'crystal with defects' sounds like a graph to me, but I'm only a dilettante.
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by procgen 5y ago
...and I just read your bio - ha!
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by procgen 5y ago
This this is the approach that Stephen Wolfram's physics project is exploring. In their model, everything is made of space, and space is a hypergraph. https://www.wolframphysics.org/
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by procgen 5y ago
It's more of a problem where more Americans live, is what you're saying.
59.
by procgen 5y ago
A gun wants to be used. Let's let it simmer a few more decades and see what happens.
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by procgen 5y ago
"A lot of poor people need to carry a gun for protection" How utterly dystopian.

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