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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Country of origin matters for the consequences, but doesn't matter for the principle.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
If you eat meat, it may be more beneficial to become a vegetarian.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
It's probably because human fuel is in the most part obtained by solar power sequestrating carbon from the atmosphere.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Markdown is a dead end, and that's why I'm using it. There's only so much syntax you can put into plain text and remain readable more or less as text, as opposed to code. I, too, would prefer some other language for complex e
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
They probably can, but they prefer not to make it too obvious. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/4/9/21204425/targeted-ads...
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Presupposing that I'm a materialist, I would not hesitate to replace any program with any living being. Some humans seem magical, some don't. I treat them all as living persons. Magic is irrelevant here. If I could understand a hu
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
What if you replace the "program" with some "blueprint for a human", e.g. obtained for cloning (DNA?)? Would you grant personhood to the blueprint, or to the execution of that blueprint? From the materialist point of vie
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
> "is this just programmed to be agreeable so predicting things that sound like what I probably want to hear given what I'm saying" vs "is this truly a being..." You're still falling on the notion of "r
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
I agree up to the point where you say that fakeness matters. If it's indistinguisable from human sentience, what are the reasons to care? Unless you want to interact with a physical body – and, given that we're chatting on HN, we
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Would you describe yourself as a network?
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Try using a paper map, no GPS. It forces you to pay attention to the surroundings, and to turn that into spatial awareness. If your problem is only that your spatial awareness was never exercised enough, you should quickly get better. You&#
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
I'm sure if you stopped paying the street sweepers, you'd find out that a lot of them don't care about sanitation, and the rest can't pick up the burden. That's why they get paid. Even then, I'd rather have one
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
It is a value. It means that the incentives of the user and the producer are aligned: to enjoy the time in a community, rather than have one try to extract money. Aside from that, not everything needs to be a business, and even then, not ev
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Lineage is not Linux in the sense that Debian is. They share the kernel and that's it.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Okular trims margins like that. It's not perfect with scans, and page numbers can bring them back though.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
I'm baffled how filing a copyright notice can be done without disclosing legal details of the one who is filing to the one who is hit by it.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Agreed. It seems the author is falling into another shortsighted position after getting out of the previous one. > it’s time to be honest about all the costs and benefits of every energy source is a good advice, but then you can't j
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
> All of continental Europe seems to fit roughly east of the Hudson Bay when shoved into Canada Your math does not quite check out. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe > Area 10,180,000 km2 From https:&#x2
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
When you invite someone for a repeat visit, you presume that they won't rearrange your stuff. When they arrive and you catch them in the act, the damage is already done. (Can applications be downgraded in the typical walled-garden OS e
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
The app might be "yours", but once you gave it to another person to install it on their phone, you should not abuse their hospitality. You don't rerrange furniture in a home you're visiting if you have good manners.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Just another symptom of the users not truly having control over "their" devices. If you don't like the logo, swap it the application files. Oh wait, sources are unavailable? If you want your phone to serve you , guess you be
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Oh, you might notice that I never mentioned a "job", only "work". Perhaps the concept of "job" is the friction that needs to be eliminated.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
> rearranging deck chairs on the titanic I think that's a pessimistic view. You posit that humanity will never be able to extract more than a tiny bit of the satisfaction lots of people feel when they are useful to the community. On
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
We won't eliminate all friction. But I'm not satisfied with any answer that neglects finding out what we can eliminate. Cooking for your family feels very different than cooking at a corporate canteen, yet both are forms of us
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
This makes it clear that people just want to do something useful in their lives. Why isn't real life building on this? What are the remaining differences? Is it the extra bureaucracy involved in earning money? Is it the feeling of be
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
All I did was try to register.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
That only means you were making space for others to phase in and use the remaining resources that you spared. You're not the one deciding which process sits on which resource, after all. The only reason why resources might be left unus
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Caution, this web page will leak your emails. I just got access to an account of a random user as I tried to log in.
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
For anyone wondering about PHB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhydroxybutyrate > PHB is produced by microorganisms [...] apparently in response to conditions of physiological stress
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by rhn_mk1 4y ago
> What these systems do, no more and no less, is to put together sequences of words, but without any coherent understanding of the world behind them, like foreign language Scrabble players who use English words as point-scoring tools, wi

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