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by robmclarty 13y ago
I just think it's not as simple as that. I may very well not be able to distinguish the difference between electrode-stimulation and actual-cake-in-my-mouth. What I'm trying to say is that I don't believe that even an exhaust
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I don't agree that conscious experience is necessarily reducible. When I put a piece of cheesecake in my mouth, certain electrical signals will likely be firing in my brain, but those signals don't mean what it's like to con
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by robmclarty 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus... EDIT: Why the downvote? Did I not write enough? My point is, simply, that observing consciousness in correlation to matter does not imply that consciousne
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Agreed. I have yet to see a non-speculative argument for how mind and matter are connected. It's always explained as "Well, you know, there's just all these electrical signals going on in the brain. And, like, when the brain
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Wow. That's a lot of words. How exactly does consciousness "emerge" from matter? Are there some kind of psychophysical bits that aren't currently accounted for in physics? Surely it's not merely epiphenomenal. How d
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I think the main problem with e-cigs is that you're still taking in the addictive Nicotine. When you "cut down" and delay smoking, that next puff seems even more "pleasurable" because you're now relieving yours
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I was simply trying to say that feedback is sufficient, but not necessary for the creation of art.
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Improvement is a process of variation, selection, and inheritance. I don't think anyone in the evolution racket ever claimed that natural selection meant things were improving . They might be balancing themselves out and adapting to
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I mostly agree with you. The only point I'm hesitant about is the idea that feedback is absolutely necessary. I think feedback can be both good and bad; bad in the sense that things like originality, uniqueness, and novelty might be
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On Finishing Stuff(robmclarty.com)
1 points by robmclarty 13y ago|0 comments
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I love Entypo. I think their solid black shapes and subtle, stylish forms make their set of icons hard not to use. I'm not sure how I feel about animated/interactive icons like Iconic is proposing. I feel that icons should be very
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Not exactly a product, nor wholly Capistrano-centric, but I recently put together an article on how I deploy Rails on a new VM from scratch: http://robmclarty.com/blog/how-to-deploy-a-rails-4-app-with-...
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How to Install Image Magick and Setup Paperclip for Rails 4(robmclarty.com)
1 points by robmclarty 13y ago|0 comments
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by robmclarty 13y ago
A new game with a map and clock in the top right... Are you addicted to FFXIV like I am? lol I struggle with attention issues myself, and have tried medication, but have noticed a difference in creativity when medicated (although much mor
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I agree. I'm not a published writer, but it seems to me that the expense of selling books printed on trees might be the problem? In my naive way of thinking about it, I feel like the author should just cut out the middle-man (publisher
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Use your PhD to figure out a way to advance science at a profit. Bootstrap that shit ;)
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by robmclarty 13y ago
How does the artillery platform work? How can we use it and what will it cost us? It looks awesome :D
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Coffee chip salad? But seriously, yeah, I had in my mind Ruby blasphemously morphing into Python or something. I'll take Ruby -> JS though :)
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Death is definitely what others here are referring to as an "out of bounds error". It is simply the ultimate definition of incomprehensible. It's like a physical computer not only losing power, not only being gone, not only n
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I agree. The "code" in the example page is, to me, easier to understand than the "human-readable" output. For me, it's about spacing efficiency (I can see more at once), formatting (e.g., italic is not as easy to re
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by robmclarty 13y ago
The cool thing is that I have to go through a legal process? If someone doesn't pay me, production stops, servers go offline, and IP is definitely not transferred.
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I have problems getting paid on time like everyone else. I think this problem is more of a psychological one, one of communication and setting expectations with one's clients. I think this service is overpriced, and I question why anyb
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by robmclarty 13y ago
What happens if a client cancels a milestone or otherwise simply doesn't hit "approved"? Machinist has my money, not me. I feel a lack of control, and I feel this isn't something I couldn't do with a single phone ca
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Why would I pay money for someone to withhold my money from me? I ask for 50% up front from clients (and get it) without paying $100/m + 1.5%. If I want easy payment processing, Stripe is pretty simple to setup on my own site (and
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Yeah I went a little too fast myself and so, started reading the comments because I was confused. I thought the loading progress bar was actually a good thing and a UX improvement when waiting for heavy pages to load. Regarding using such
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I think this is something slightly different in that it's non-blocking. The progress bar provides users with feedback as to the current status of the page they have requested to load, but it doesn't get in users' way and the
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Yeah, I personally don't really agree that name-calling and dressing people down publicly is really the most effective method of altering a team's behaviour for the greater good of a project. I guess I'm just thinking about t
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I think you're missing the really great point Linus is making: that we (as humans) can find a way to work together on a common goal despite our differences. Linus obviously has some differences, and yet is managing to pull off this ama
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Question: when did we start trusting MS that we now can no longer?
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You Shouldn't Expect an Open Global Network to be Private(robmclarty.com)
1 points by robmclarty 13y ago|0 comments

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