ruthmarx

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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Having it be decentralized is more important than anything IMO. True privacy comes from having control over your data.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> The Blue States having their farming largely in Red Counties. No, I was aware of this, I just didn't think it mattered as much, and I still think it's not that big a deal if there are a few months to adjust. > The Blue Cou
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Blue states have farms as well, it's just not the primary industry. I'm certain blue states would have enough food to last until they could negotiate to trade with other blue states or international partners.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I don't think having a state run equivalent is much better from a users perspective. The ability to snoop without warrants would be too great.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Murdock has been American for decades now, it doesn't matter where he was born.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
How on earth does anyone think that is a good idea? Sigh. It's always a minority of humanity that has to save the rest from themselves, as they kick and scream and resist every step of the way.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Yes, they can. Not voluntarily, only due to medical necessity. As I said. > It seems to me you like to substitute what you want to be true for reality. That's the opposite of critical thinking. The irony here. Not trying to con
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I do care about welfare, and the difference between infants and zygotes is sentience. Most medical professionals and ethicists consider 24 weeks to be the reasonable cutoff for abortion because this is when the fetus starts to develops sent
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
It's an opinion the way gravity an opinion, and those who disagree have an opinion the way thinking the earth is flat is an opinion. The difference is one is backed by hard data.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> That makes it not well defined. It's absolutely well defined it's just a complex topic. Most of the examples you gave in your last reply are never defined as self-awareness in an academic paper, e.g. qualia is always separa
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I meant arbitrary files within the dir. Not including any other dirs/files it has to read. So basically, it's marginally more effective than a chroot, without any real granularity. Besides, you avoided the hard question: Imagine a
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Self awareness can mean: Like I said, it's actually very well defined because it's been being studied for decades at this point. Just because it can sometimes be an overloaded term in colloquial usage doesn't negate that
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Just because your have an opinion doesn’t make you an authority on what people under other life conditions need to lead a successful life. That has nothing to do with anything. Every single person voting on the economy for Trump, blami
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Conservative counties produce goods and food that can be produced anywhere. Democratic counties produce goods that generally require an education and are significantly more valuable. Think big tech, big pharma, engineering, etc. Democratic
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I would have thought young people having access to the internet would have allowed them to educate themselves and see through bullshit, but apparently not. I really do think this is the beginning of the end for the US. At least I have front
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Self-awareness itself is poorly defined. No, not really. It has pretty standard definitions in philosophy and science, or it wouldn't have been able to be tested for over several decades. I suggest spending some time reading the w
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Which is getting way to close to real life Gilead.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> how humans influence this cycle; whether accelerating or delaying it, in effect disrupting it. For that, there's no evidence; Le sigh.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> We, humanity, don't know what "personhood" really is It's self-awareness, at least in general and as considered by a court when granting it to a chimp. It's also why I would likely never go vegan, although I do
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
A zygote and a bacteria have some fundamental differences. > You probably meant "human life". No, I said exactly what I meant to say and meant exactly what I said.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
By that logic ending slavery should have been a 'compromise' as well.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I remember reading about college professors who shows a 1 day old zygote or whatever and a skin cell which appear pretty indistinguishable from one another. Does any reasonable person believe that zygote at that stage is truly equivalent to
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Do you also think neurons, muscle cells, etc are also not alive? There is a difference between something being 'alive' (although I think the examples you give are dubious), and being a 'life'.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
It's much worse in the US though because the gap is so much wider. Even in the UK or Canada or Australia, the right is not opposing climate change or healthcare or anything reasonable to the same extent as in the US.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> We should never doubt climate change as is presented to us, Oh god, you're one of them, aren't you? It's not like there's literally decades of evidence showing climate change to be objective truth... Sigh. Great job
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Conservative counties quite literally cannot support themselves. And yet they hold democratic counties hostage. Somewhat like parasites.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
It is astounding how many people don't get that. Also how many people blame it on Biden while giving Trump credit for Obama's work.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Unveil helps with the "arbitrary files" part. How? The torrent program needs read and write access to create whatever files it needs to, which can't be predicted ahead of time. Imagine a worst case scenario for an RCE in

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