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by roberttod 4y ago
I think those initial diagrams/explanations miss a key detail. The longest step in cooking burgers is the grilling step, in which the cook is just waiting for the burgers to cook, and won't speed up the process by giving attention
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by roberttod 4y ago
I believe homeless shelters have policies such as not allowing dogs, and searching for drugs/alcohol, and they aren't always very safe and full of nits/flee infestations. The better option is to house the homeless or simply g
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by roberttod 4y ago
Perhaps not really fair to lump India in with China and Russia. My biggest concern is domestic policy, given that being "top dog" would probably imply a general cultural and political movement towards whichever regime wins. USA ha
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by roberttod 4y ago
> treating countries as though they are enemies can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It can increase the threat rather than decrease it. That's what I was referring to. Not appeasement exactly but seems like similar logic.
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by roberttod 4y ago
Military personnel is not what this is about, it's about the data of all the citizens in the US. It's about manipulating public opinion, sowing divide or a thousand other options.
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by roberttod 4y ago
Your first argument sounds like appeasement, didn't work so well in WW2. Sounds like burying your head in the sand hoping no one will do anything bad. I think the parent post means top dog in military and power sense, not welfare of ci
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by roberttod 5y ago
You should read the Myths and Facts sections in chapter 1. > inevitable illness, famine, nuclear winter Each one of these myths are debunked in that section to an extent.
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by roberttod 5y ago
Even if the pre/post install hooks are removed, you can still execute code in the source code files using some exec command. Doesn't catch as many people out, but anyone running an app locally has given it permissions to your shel
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by roberttod 5y ago
Completely agree. I've seen Storybook used at 2 different companies now, and always found it confusing and the docs incomplete. Developers get excited about auto-generating docs but in the end it's nowhere near as good as just set
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Ask HN: Is there a tool for managing application config for B2B purposes?
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by roberttod 5y ago
TIL You can write javascript numbers with underscore separators https://v8.dev/features/numeric-separators
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by roberttod 5y ago
Interesting that asm is opening the door for stuff like this. For compiled node modules with bindings, how does asm compare to binaries? i.e. compiling to asm instead of targeting a particular architecture. Seems like it could be a little n
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by roberttod 5y ago
I believe it's built on hashing, so it'll only find images in the db they have with already known content. Your own photos won't get mixed up.
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by roberttod 5y ago
Indeed, all we can do is conjecture, there's not much evidence to go by. And given a practical question like "should we try to make first contact with unknown aliens?", best to not take the risk. But while we are just conject
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by roberttod 5y ago
For every planet with intelligent life, there could be many more without it, no idea what that relationship might look like. I'm not suggesting it's the norm.
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by roberttod 5y ago
Unless we just happen to have evolved very early on compared to what's normal, we should expect a lot of intelligent life with just a little bit of variance on these numbers. And some of that could easily be millions of years old. Inte
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by roberttod 5y ago
I hope that also applies to the evolution of morals for intelligent lifeforms. I think it's safer to assume any aliens will have bad intentions but maybe any lifeform that can build interstellar technology has come to the same conclusi
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by roberttod 5y ago
> Just because you heard it in a podcast, doesn't make it true. Sure - that's true of any source though, including those links you just posted. I included the podcast link because it was informative and the experts are trustwor
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by roberttod 5y ago
Many more are not getting the vaccine because of mis and disinformation. I agree that people should never be forced, but requiring unvaccinated people to take extra safety precautions or mandating vaccines to come back into the office seems
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by roberttod 5y ago
Not addressing the harm it might do to vaccinated people - don't we have some responsibility to encourage unvaccinated people to get the vaccine for their own good? It's all very well saying "if they want to take the risk, th
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by roberttod 5y ago
We're about to go through another spike in cases in the US because of the Delta variant spreading through the unvaxed population. This has implications for vaccinated people. We may need to reintroduce some lockdown rules and the Delta
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by roberttod 5y ago
The FDA decides what counts as an emergency, and if they wanted to manipulate the approval process then that would be the least of our problems. Further, if we can't react to a pandemic which could be even quicker spreading and more de
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by roberttod 5y ago
The documentation required for approval was submitted by the pharma companies a long time ago. Many experts, including some previous FDA commissioners have stated these vaccines should have been approved by now given the data submitted. The
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by roberttod 5y ago
Just finished listening to a great podcast that touches on the safety and FDA emergency approval, see https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense-with-sam-... . Some key points i) we have more data on these
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by roberttod 5y ago
I think "cruelty" implies conciousness. You can't be cruel to a calculator. And I think pain implies conciousness. A calculator can't feel pain because it experiences nothing. To feel pain a chicken must experience somet
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by roberttod 5y ago
I agree with most of this. > I see no reason anyone should have to disprove the existence of consciousness anywhere outside of a fairly advanced brain. There's a fairly big moral reason. Unless we can know what is concious and what
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by roberttod 5y ago
Interesting point about observing conciousness changes in ourselves - that does indeed give us some insight. Though I'm not sure we could use this tool for a lot of the answers, it doesn't seem terribly precise (and doesn't l
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by roberttod 5y ago
What is the property that makes those cells not concious? As you explain, there is some sort of difference there but it's not clear how that works.
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by roberttod 5y ago
Consciousness cannot be measured, the only concious being we can know for certain is ourself. It's not an observable property (or we haven't figured out how to observe it). You could remove the wheels from a car and observe the en
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by roberttod 5y ago
Could you explain why only some of our neurons are part of our consciousness? If it's emergent then why does only part of our nervous system get to experience the world, or is the other part also concious but we are not aware? There&#x

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