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by pygy_ 8y ago
Yup. The free market as the end to all means relies on several incorrect assumptions: 1) humans are not rational agents that always pursue their best interest 2) local optimization (what the market does) doesn't always lead to a global
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by pygy_ 8y ago
I wouldn't go as far as damage, because it is reversible. If you stay away from saturated stimuli you relearn to taste subtler nuances. Capsaicin, and similar substances (TRPV1 agonists) which are found in hot peppers and ginger do kil
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by pygy_ 8y ago
Additives for food security is an intetrsting angle, thanks. That being said, I'm not convinced that it requires making fattening products, but it was in part the outcome. Your last point is at least partially mitigated by the fact tha
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by pygy_ 8y ago
That explains why we buy ready-made meals, but not why we buy unhealthy rather than healthy ones.
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> Through reductive reasoning, it doesn't explain why calculators and any matter shouldn't have consciousness. Why shouldn't it?
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by pygy_ 8y ago
I'll put it aletrnatively: Since 1) we eat too much and 2) we're not being force-fed, what drives the food down our collective throats? How do you explain the obesity epidemics which is a very recent phenomenon, if not through per
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by pygy_ 8y ago
For one, the amount of refined sugar in our diet exploded recently. More generally, even if the molecular building blocks didn't change, the way food is prepared industrially and marketed makes us more likely to eat too much of it.
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Now we're getting somewhere...
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by pygy_ 8y ago
So you agree with me, but still want to ridicule my argument ("parody of itself")? I'm also quite surprised to see a statistician use anecdata as arguments. Humans are predictably irrational, there are mountains of scientific
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by pygy_ 8y ago
We've had a carb rich diet since the neolithic revolution. The obesity epidemics started after WW2. I don't think that they are related.
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That's where "ill intent" kicks in.
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A company that produces food that is more appetizing and less filling than its competitors will sell more of it and beat them in terms of revenue and profit. They either have to align themselves or die/be assimilated. Even without any
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by pygy_ 8y ago
Thanks, I know. I'm not too worried about HN karma. Also, I don't such a thing to happen. The minute a subset of the economy can work in an automated closed loop (because automation is cheaper than the cheapest human labor), it wo
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A world where 95% don't need to work is a world where 95% of the people don't have any economic power and will be left to starve.
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This is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis at work. The way common language defines "nature" doesn't map well to reality and we end up developing contorted thoughts rather than re-evaluating the tools we use to think. I like to contr
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by pygy_ 8y ago
Indeed, my comment was more "even if you count `()` as a visual palindrome, it doesn't work".
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Also, they are not necessarily mirror images: (()())()
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> But they were right to laugh at Columbus. He was right for the wrong reasons. He wasn't even right. He was wrong in his estimation of the earth circumference, and lucky that America was there between both oceans...
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by pygy_ 8y ago
Also Franz Lisp, and in the esoteric bucket: Piet, ArnoldC and Shakespeare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lisp
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Any computer program is an AI. What matters is how intelligent they are along various axes. Automatic programs have been surpassing humans on some dimensions for ages, but we keep insisting that they are not truly intelligent because they c
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No idea, but the period of prescription starts when a libelous/harassing item is taken down. I learned this because of a recent scandal where numerous, well connected, French journalists were operating coordinated 4chan-like online rai
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by pygy_ 8y ago
Turing completeness doesn't bother me as much as all the security issues that existed by default (some of which are still present to this day). I wish programming languages made a type-level distinction between strings that are and are
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That was true up to PHP5, where a Java-like, saner subset of the language with stronger typing became available. The genius of PHP was in the code delivery model and the way you could intermix HTML and code in a single page to be served by
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UNIX/C, for one :-)
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The same lobbies exist in the UK, I'd expect a copycat law to land as well.
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React provides an immediate mode API (virtual DOM, which is recreated from scratch on every render) implemented on top of a retained mode API (the actual DOM which is stateful). Diffing and piecemeal updates are an implementation detail&#x2
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Another unfortunate issue is the DRM infection of the camera. The Pi camera communicates with the GPU through a standard MIPI connector, but it is equipped with a DRM chip and will reportedly refuse to work with boards that are not equipped
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by pygy_ 8y ago
Re. chemo: it was most likely radioactive iodine, taken in liquid form to destroy a thyroid tumor. It is a form of radiotherapy.
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Ocean acidification is a consequence of the massive CO2 emissions. CO2 is an acid.
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The effect of those "other more “traditional” pollutants" is mostly local, whereas global warming and ocean acidification are global.

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