resu_nimda

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by resu_nimda 8y ago
If that news broke today, it would be the most significant discovery in history, probably a major turning point for our entire civilization. I don't understand how that could be perceived as useless information.
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Are you arguing that the probes would be too difficult, or that the civilization/AI would simply choose not to use them? If we assume that the system is still working at the behest of or at least in cooperation with its human creators,
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Honestly I don't understand the point of this article. The evidence that "we" as a collective whole have not given enough attention to the paradox is lacking. I'm not even sure what he's calling for - more research
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
"Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident." This is a separate issue, and one I would disagree with. In fact I feel like this is a problematic attitude in our culture. Too many peopl
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I think it actually is pretty common for people to refer to certain natural events as "mother nature" "telling" us something. I think it really just depends on how strict your definition of "tell" is and your t
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I misread your comment, I didn't understand you were asking how the exit is relevant to the business model, and you're right, it's not. the primary principle at play is making money, on all sides Well the thing is that, whe
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Usually, "shut down" implies that the company failed. And usually, when VCs give you $11M, it is not with the expectation that you will simply return that amount a year later. You have sold them on the idea that you care about you
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
"Twitter" and "tweet" sound very light and airy, almost musical; the theme of birds chirping lines up well with the format of seeing many short messages. "Twitter" is also largely an abstract word without much
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Well if I adhere to what I just said, then I can't really speak to what people should be doing. I'm only describing my personal philosophy. Do I completely tolerate, with no misgivings, every action taken by another human being, o
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Philosophy at its extremes often does become paradoxical or nonsensical. If you believe in materialism, you can't really believe in free will, yet you still have to go about your day "making decisions." But holding that philo
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I think this is more of an observation on the distribution of land masses than people. Ushuaia is as far south as you can go on a non-Antarctic continent. Conversely there is a ton of accessible and (relatively) resource-rich land north of
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I guess I was thinking more along the lines of learning about the diversity of musical styles and cultures than specifically "music history" in a more academic sense. Random encounters can expose you to music you were not familiar
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Exactly. It seems like this author got really into Sam Smith, did a deep Wikipedia dive, then somehow extrapolated that into a wide-sweeping theory of pedagogy, with bold assertions like "That’s how we learn about music: backwards, a
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I did say in my first post that I understand it can be abused. I don't mean to claim that nobody has ever used ketamine for such purposes. I do think that the original article and some of the other ones linked draw wholly unnecessary c
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
But did you actually know of it as a date rape drug before you googled "ketamine date rape?" Not one of those articles (including the two referenced in the Wikipedia quote) even attempts to substantiate any connection between keta
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Minneapolis police previously had no policy addressing the drug, and the department manual classifies it as a “date rape drug” for its powerful sedative impact and ability to erase or alter memory. That's funny, because the World Hea
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Again, if you know what you're doing, it's pretty easy to tell tell the difference. I followed the link in the article about the Elevation Lab headphone mount. The counterfeit listing is actually more convincing than most, but wai
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein involves some of that. But how difficult would it be to intercept the payload safely outside the atmosphere? Seems it would be easier than intercepting an ICBM.
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I think you're over-exaggerating the case against Amazon here. Does any savvy user just blindly type "headphones" into Amazon without knowing any of the brands, models, etc? No matter where I'm buying, the first step i
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Because social media platforms operate at this scale, we as a society are being asked to tolerate the fact that even content as universally abhorred and clearly illegal as child pornography can be and is available on our favorite platforms
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Probably because it was done in plain sight and anybody could have worked through the implications then but nobody cared? "I didn't realize that one day the media would convince me that this was a really bad thing" is not Fac
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
One question though is what effect this has on shows with no plausible connection to contemporary life. Fantasy, historical, etc. Even in Legion a discussion involving brands would have to be pretty forced, though when they go out in public
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I agree with you in principle about product placement affecting the integrity of the work, but what's funny is I didn't even think twice about that one. Were there other products in the show? I remember looking for logos on the ro
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Well they spent a ton of their time cramming flashcards of myriad regions and sub-regions and testing the wines, were then largely unable to identify which regions the wine came from, and a bunch of them still passed (I realize the test dep
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Whenever this comes up I bring up the documentary Somm. It follows a couple guys training for the master sommelier test. To me it hilariously shines a light on the farce of the whole thing. But people are often taken aback when I suggest th
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I've long felt that intelligence is a property of the group rather than the individual. Language is inextricably linked to our conception of intelligence, and having someone to talk to is a prerequisite. I feel like this is very import
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by resu_nimda 9y ago
Your last paragraph seems to contain the kind of overconfidence that I'm talking about. I don't understand how you can say "consciousness is simply X" or "it's easy to do that [if you handwave away the hard par
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by resu_nimda 9y ago
1) One of the biggest reasons they fell out of favor for more "mathematical" approaches was that no one could really explain why exactly they worked. Kind of like how nobody can really explain how the brain works, or life in gen
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by resu_nimda 9y ago
I never can tell if there really is an influx of insane, insufferable far left crazies, or if people who insist on remaining racist and keeping gays in the closet are mad that nobody is having that anymore. That's because it's e
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by resu_nimda 9y ago
I am single, and very social. My point, though, is that you can't really determine what is representative from your own anecdotal experience, as real as it feels to you. Even adding the experience of a dozen HN users (and discounting t

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