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by simiones 3y ago
Yes, I should have been more specific. The broader point I think stands: you need a very high resolution screen and high-res image (and thus rendering compute power) to get even a good-enough viewing experience, especially for text - say wh
902.
by simiones 3y ago
Oh, I'm not claiming I've solved the mystery of what happens after death! I'm just saying this may be a good way to help someone visualize better what it even means to say that consciousness just stops, not that it somehow pr
903.
by simiones 3y ago
No, we are nowhere near close to having a full-powered laptop in a form factor that could be worn on the face. I don't see any reasonable chance it will happen in the next 10 years, for example. And I don't agree that that's
904.
by simiones 3y ago
> we are so close to replacing laptops with something that's 1000x more convenient and powerful. Strapping a heavy laptop tightly to your face is the farthest thing away from "convenient" I can think of, especially when
905.
by simiones 3y ago
For anyone not aware of the reference, this is from an episode of Parks and Recreation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw
906.
by simiones 3y ago
The paper is specifically claiming there is just no association between serotonin activity and depression. By my understanding, that should include increased/decreased receptors, reuptake, breakdown etc.
907.
by simiones 3y ago
I think a good way to imagine non-existence it is to ask people to think about how they feel about the time before they were born. It's better than that idea of a black void that some get, and it tends to better illustrate the concept
908.
by simiones 3y ago
By that criterion though, people like Edsger Dijkstra or Stephen Hawking would not be considered truly intelligent people. I think many would consider such a definition bizarre.
909.
by simiones 3y ago
Serotonin doesn't cause you to be happy. Its effects are more basic in some ways, but also more complex in others. It is a chemical which serves a purpose in at least all forms of multi-cellular life, from plants to animals - so you ca
910.
by simiones 3y ago
The fact that the listing was approved is immaterial to whether the business is breaking securities law. The SEC is not required to verify that you are running a legitimate business before allowing you to IPO. They are only required to conf
911.
by simiones 3y ago
But they have, repeatedly, haven't they? Crypto coins except for Bitcoin are securities, and must be treated as such. Any business allowing for their trade must behave like any other securities trade business.
912.
by simiones 3y ago
Ooops, I misunderstood something in TFA and didn't check myself further... Thanks for correcting me!
913.
by simiones 3y ago
We have a pretty good idea of how commerce worked before widespread legal trademark protections, and you're dead wrong about it. Trademarks are much older than trademark law. Before they were protected in law, they were usually made ve
914.
by simiones 3y ago
The point of this ruling is that you can't use the parody protection for your own trademark. If you have a trademark of your own and include a parody of someone else's trademark on your items, then the parody test would apply. For
915.
by simiones 3y ago
The SC actually decided something else. They decided that you can't defend your product's only branding as parody, whatever form it takes. If something is your trademark, you have to defend it from being an infringement of someone
916.
by simiones 3y ago
It also says nothing about parody for commercial purposes. It just says that you can't claim parody as a defense of your own trademark. If the dog toys had had some specific trademark of the original company, but then also some parody
917.
by simiones 3y ago
It's not about non-commercial purposes. "Barbie Girl", the song that actually created the Rogers Test to begin with, is definitely a commercial product. The new decision says that the Rogers Test should only be applied to thi
918.
by simiones 3y ago
You're choosing the wrong thing to start this crusade over. Trademark law is by far the most defensible form of intellectual property, since it is very clearly necessary for a decent economy. There is no world in which it would be bett
919.
by simiones 3y ago
> the negative image of wearing goggles on your head This isn't about image , it's about the discomfort of wearing heavy goggles pressed against your face. Doing that for anything more than an hour or so is horrible, and it&#x
920.
by simiones 3y ago
The iPad was also supposed to compete with your laptop, and it has partly succeeded, though nowhere near as much as the most hopeful fans were expecting. The VisionPro is a far less comfortable, far less portable, more power-hungry version
921.
by simiones 3y ago
I think the loophole is that Airbnb is profiting massively by renting all of these properties, but each property owner individually is not making significant profits. I would guess the intention is to tax Airbnb appropriately as one of the
922.
by simiones 3y ago
It's not "her" version of the song, it's just a version that she sung (some) of the lyrics on. She didn't compose the song, she isn't performing it a capella (there's a band including some famous musicians
923.
by simiones 3y ago
Lots of people become obese on excellent food. It's far more common than obese people who become normal weight for a long period of time. The food doesn't really seem to be the main issue (though it probably adds its own set of he
924.
by simiones 3y ago
It is the attitude of most people who have tried to lose significant weight (tens of kg). Note that I personally don't think surgery or semaglutides are a great solution, since they still don't attack or even try to identify the r
925.
by simiones 3y ago
No, it's because people can't just fight what their body tells them they need for any significant amount of time. It is incredibly difficult to lose weight for anything more than a year or two, and in fact very rarely happens - at
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by simiones 3y ago
Are you implying that running shoes, a bike, and/or a gym membership are a replacement for bariatric surgery? Will you suggest salads as well next? The magnitude of the obesity epidemic should really give people more pause when imagini
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by simiones 3y ago
As far as I see, average ETH gas prices have been between ~20 and ~170 USD in the last few months. So, by my understanding (happy to be corrected) for a 1k USD transaction, that's between 2% and 17%. It does get pretty good if you&#x27
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by simiones 3y ago
It is not. If we have an open channel and I send a payment to you and confirm that you have received it (and perhaps that you sent some good my way), I can then close my channel on the BTC network claiming that no transaction happened. Ligh
929.
by simiones 3y ago
> Bitcoin is really our only option to guard against inflation, counterfeit, capital controls and high costs in general. Cash (and Bitcoin) are just as vulnerable to inflation as traditional currencies. If oil is more scarce, the cost of
930.
by simiones 3y ago
Yes, because both BTC and ETH are well known for how cheap transactions are.

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