sethammons

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by sethammons 6d ago
A baby's brain is in super-sponge mode. They lack experience and control. Just because they don't yet speak doesn't mean they would not have something to say. That a drunk person shouldn't make critical decisions and nor
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by sethammons 6d ago
Holy category error Batman! Why do you put baby brain activity next inactive coma or sleep? It sounds like, "Rocks, sand, turtles: these don't experience $things." I don't see why babies belong in your list as much as tu
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by sethammons 6d ago
Other animals use fire, while we continue to seem unique in creating it. Fire hawks take burning sticks and alight brush to flush prey. https://wildlife.org/australian-firehawks-use-fire-to-catch-...
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by sethammons 6d ago
We should start from the default assumption that other animals have a lived experience not unlike our own until proven otherwise. Mammal brains are similar between species. Show me why they wont behave like ours. Most say who say animals ca
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by sethammons 7d ago
General rule: never call a goroutine without understanding how it will close.
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by sethammons 9d ago
I'm in favor of Rank Choice Voting for this reason. Our system makes 3rd party votes hard or impossible, so instead of voting for who you like, you have to vote for who you dislike the least. Let people vote for who they like the most
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by sethammons 11d ago
I don't mean to sound dismissive of differing imaginary intensity. It sounds, to me, like people are confusing _imaginary_ vs _hallucination_. Sure, some people imagine a stop sign as an HDR image with a back story and others as "
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by sethammons 11d ago
> one-stop shop to know where to round up political opponents >> Your points are, essentially, always true of all power for all time yes, there are very famous examples of good record keeping leading to invaders or coups having an
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by sethammons 11d ago
6. who controls and accesses the data will change over time 7. authoritarians and evil men can have a one-stop shop to know where to round up political opponents 8. power becomes increasingly entrenched and concentrated 9. See 7
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by sethammons 11d ago
It stretches credulity that someone can occlude their vision with their imagination. Like, you are staring at a dog, you can't imagine a brick wall in front of it and not see the dog any more. Similarly you can't not see the back
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by sethammons 11d ago
I am confused. You can't recollect a friends face? You can't imagine the feeling of sandpaper? You cant bop to a melody in your head? The "mind's eye" isn't an actual image. It doesn't pop into view like a
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by sethammons 11d ago
Watching that battle, my mind went immediately to Dodge Ball. Play that simulates perhaps our most natural type of group fighting.
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by sethammons 14d ago
Did you not use public comments to help stop flock in your community? Why is that different?
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by sethammons 14d ago
And the republicans in the states are being shitty too. They tried to block their own state attorneys general from protecting the state and opposing Trump in NC.
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by sethammons 14d ago
The fairer thing is what Google _used_ to do: organic results in the main column, ads in the sidebar. Searchers get to see competitors without confusing them for the real thing.
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by sethammons 17d ago
We solved this one: have it play tic tac toe against itself. Checkmate AI
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by sethammons 24d ago
What prevents this system from resource exploitation for more taxable profits? I want to have systems in place that encourage nature and long term sustainability.
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by sethammons 24d ago
I am wondering what protects normal people. I hear a proposal what prevents the ultra wealthy from hoarding, but I am not seeing how this doesn't negatively impact normal, single family residences. It seems the goal is maximizing tax r
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by sethammons 24d ago
"get a roommate or move"?
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by sethammons 24d ago
> The person or company that "pays" the tax does not bear the full burden of the tax. As a homeowner, who else bears my tax?
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by sethammons 25d ago
So build a second particle collider to validate what comes out of CERN?
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by sethammons 28d ago
> I defined a shortcut (ctrl+f) that... Please leave standard shortcuts alone. Ctrl+f lets me search the page for content. It should never search anything other than the current page. Edit: nvm, thought this was a web app / page. A
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by sethammons 1mo ago
Second sentence unneeded.
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by sethammons 1mo ago
I have use both for years. Elixir and functional languages talk about the shape of data. and blast radius has been used at the last 7 companies I have worked at when talking about impact of a negative thing, usually an incident/outage.
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by sethammons 1mo ago
It is the same as wealth, or any dataset that has large data outliers on one side. Average and mean are the same: normal distribution. Average higher than mean: skewed by big outliers. Professional statistician affects the distribution of s
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by sethammons 1mo ago
My 4th grade teacher in the early 90s, she called improper fractions "Dolly Parton Fractions," because they are bigger on top. Nearly 20 years later, my kid had the same teacher. The teacher was embarrassed to be reminded of the t
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by sethammons 1mo ago
A friend in Southern California worked for a restaurant in Disneyland. Her employer calculated what they felt each waitstaff should have earned and had all of them pay up for sub-tips go cooks and busboys. Refusal to do so was grounds for t
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by sethammons 1mo ago
I see no incongruity. If the other people are deluded it doesn't mean that the op isn't superior.
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by sethammons 1mo ago
You lost respect for a person and their writing because they like their brain and how it works? How so? Why? What drove this comment? Zero karma account; did you create it just to shit on this person?
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by sethammons 1mo ago
High level masking may be involved. "Non-autistic people don't spend time worrying if they are autistic." --sol smith.

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