slphil

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by slphil 9y ago
I also play chess at a competitive level (>2000, Expert in the US) and play Melee at a low competitive level (playing in local meetups, winning a few matches). I've had many arguments about ranking systems, ELO, etc with my fellow S
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by slphil 9y ago
I use multiple devices, will it be possible to have two installs synced together? For some reason I had some difficulty with this on Status.
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by slphil 9y ago
I have had only a single problem with my Nexus 6, as far as hardware goes: the USB port on the bottom sucks. On the other hand, there is an obviously superior way to charge the phone, since it supports Qi charging, which I have stations for
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by slphil 9y ago
I also use Keepass, with a complex master password that I've memorized. I keep the file in my Nextcloud instance so that it's synced between my two Android devices and four Linux machines.
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by slphil 9y ago
This is true, but building from source isn't very hard. (I also don't care for the Pixel -- I have no desire to upgrade from my Nexus 6 and recommend it to others seeking a de-Googled phone.)
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by slphil 9y ago
Same with Discord. I don't get any notifications from Discord on my de-Googled LineageOS devices, but the application works just fine (although I had to silence its constant notifications about Play Services).
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by slphil 9y ago
You don't need to pay them for a phone. You can install it on the device yourself for free.
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by slphil 9y ago
It's a somewhat competent chess player too.
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by slphil 9y ago
Of course. We should keep in mind that we are evolutionary creatures and that drastically changing our diet or environment probably has negative effects (sitting down too long, eating refined sugars, etc). Do keep in mind that evolution has
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by slphil 9y ago
Don't understand why I'm being downvoted. Don't put your coins on an exchange, ever, unless you want to risk them being lost. This is cryptocurrency 101.
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by slphil 9y ago
Did you finish reading the article? It gets far worse than numbers of hours worked (and the !Kung score quite well on many metrics compared to other hunter-gatherers). Humans stopped being hunter-gatherers for a reason.
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by slphil 9y ago
While nothing you said is inaccurate, be careful of falling for the "original affluent society" canard. Hunter gatherers do not work less than we do, and they do not get enough food. (Quillette recently did a good write-up on this
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by slphil 9y ago
Yes, this is not a Bitcoin vulnerability. Getting access to your wallet is not the same as cracking it.
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by slphil 9y ago
Waterfox has been around for a while. What fate are you talking about? Pale Moon is still in active development and use as well. I use it on some older machines for performance reasons.
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by slphil 9y ago
Yes, this is a legitimate problem because there are both genetic and environmental contributions to intelligence. We must be wary of eugenic arguments. After all, the easiest way to raise the average IQ of a society would be to kill everyon
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by slphil 9y ago
Pale Moon is a 3.5 fork, it's ancient, although it's gotten a lot of independent development.
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by slphil 9y ago
Because it's factually wrong. Biology matters, and I'm not trying to bring in concepts like race (which is a total intellectual disaster, since the term refers to multiple concepts that mean radically different things). Many studi
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by slphil 9y ago
You've heard nonsense. Please read some of the literature on intelligence research (1). Steven Pinker has also written a great book on why the ideas of the blank slate and social constructivism are purely ideological and do not hold up
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by slphil 9y ago
IQ tests are not culturally biased. This is a decades out of date canard. Some tests, like Raven's Progressive Matrices, don't even require the test giver and taker to share a language. IQ, as a statistic, washes out almost every
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by slphil 9y ago
Intellectualism isn't predicated on being correct. There are communist intellectuals, radfem intellectuals, etc. The major alt right intellectuals of note are people like KANTBOT, Frame Game Radio, and the bleedovers from the manospher
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by slphil 9y ago
Because a good propagandist does two things: 1. Ground the argument in some vestige of reality (the reliance on statistics is very strong). 2. Point out the opposing denial of reality (magical thinking, social constructionism, blank slate l
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by slphil 9y ago
> IQ is a pseudoscience This is how people trying to oppose the alt right shoot themselves in the foot. Alt right intellectuals and propagandists immediately capitalize on this kind of nonsense. (The fact that the author identifies as a
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by slphil 9y ago
Yes, and I've already reported him to chess.com. :)
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by slphil 9y ago
This isn't true, though. There are a lot of openings where the humans turn out to be right anyway, even though the computer thinks it's found a marginally better move. Humans have a better intuitive understanding of how certain op
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by slphil 9y ago
This is true although nobody likes to admit this. Intelligence, including specific subfields of intelligence, is highly heritable, explaining about 70% of variance.