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by smhost 5y ago
Potentially, but you'd have to convince me that the performance hit and the added instability was worth it. I actually use the opposite setup at the moment (virtualized Android apps on a Linux desktop). So I think Android would have to
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by smhost 5y ago
Personally, I just want it for completeness. With phone hardware getting powerful enough to run mid-to-high end games, I want to be able to carry around a phone that I can hook up peripherals to and use it just like I would use a desktop. T
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by smhost 5y ago
The taboo also signals the majority group's inability to confront the real conflict at the heart of the racial relation. You're exactly right that the taboo is a form of white supremacist signaling. I'm not surprised that tha
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by smhost 5y ago
I don't think I'm strawmanning at all. You just accepted that unconstrained competition leads to violence. All you're doing when you argue against the principle of having global constraints is privileging one type of violence
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by smhost 5y ago
Can you answer whether you believe that a football player being constrained by rules against maiming his or her opponent is a constraint that "[goes] against the primary driver of human motivation, competition"?
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by smhost 5y ago
If you're putting your best quality spy equipment in space, presumably you want to be able to do regular maintenance on it.
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by smhost 5y ago
Now you're just not making any sense. If you define competition as being necessarily unconstrained, then any competition with rules is not competition. A foot race where you have to stay within your lane isn't competitive. A footb
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by smhost 5y ago
yeah, but the 2025 one is the moon base. i think the main reason russia wants to build the space station is for arctic surveillance. when global warming opens up arctic trade routes and resources (oil), there's going to be a lot of geo
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by smhost 5y ago
There are a couple problems with your line of reasoning. 1) Even if it's true that humans are primarily motivated by competing with each other, this doesn't put any constraints on what the nature of the competition could be. There
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by smhost 5y ago
the 2025 station they're talking about is the sino-russian moon base[0], not an earth satellite. [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-russ...
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by smhost 5y ago
you have it almost exactly backwards. we haven't lived in a high trust society (as you defined it) since before the protestant reformation, when the printing press liberated information that had been previously monopolized by the churc
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by smhost 5y ago
you're not supposed to repress your thoughts, just change your relationship with them, like john nash at the end of a beautiful mind.
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by smhost 6y ago
The Soviets were decades ahead of the U.S. The existential dread that's reflected in late Soviet art directly mirrors what Americans are currently experiencing, at the end stages of its imperial reign.
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by smhost 6y ago
You chose an example that's maybe the hardest possible subject to mystify, and still science educators find it important to make that distinction about teleology. The fact that human brains are "hardcoded" to overfit metaphor
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by smhost 6y ago
That's what i'm arguing. It is an impersonal system with its own internal logic. There isn't some cabal of cigar-chomping elites who are puppeteering Capital in accordance with their greed. It's the other way around. It&
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by smhost 6y ago
It always interests me when people personify capitalism, as if it has human emotions. Capitalism doesn't require greed any more than it requires anything else. Capital is agnostic as to which behavior it parasitizes. If every business
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by smhost 6y ago
probably depends on what the training set was, or whether the hand-drawn image is similar enough to a person's appearance to convince a jury or something, but that's a technical point. i'm objecting on old-fashioned moralist
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by smhost 6y ago
> Images of child abuse are not child abuse have you talked to those children and asked whether or not they think publically displaying and selling images of their abuse is abuse?
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by smhost 6y ago
> they are just storing a number they are just storing atoms. the storage company should not have to care about what configurations the atoms can exist in.
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by smhost 6y ago
> It's almost certainly this one thing, and not the other thing. No, they dragnet every possible identifier and dump everything into a pattern recognizer.
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by smhost 6y ago
yeah, one of my professors would openly talk about how rich kids in grad school just pay other people to do their research for them. i don't think he meant to be demoralizing, but i remember thinking to myself 'so what the fuck am
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by smhost 6y ago
the wording of your parent comment is ambiguous (maybe on purpose), but the early (western) philosophers weren't so concerned with telling people how to live than they were with raising the question of what it means to lead a good life
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by smhost 6y ago
i would write out a response, but this clip makes the point better than i ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc
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by smhost 6y ago
> he’s not actually arguing against any of the conclusions we might draw from the spaceship Earth concept he's criticizing the ideological component of spaceship earth. nature worship is a powerful tendency within the cultural imagi
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by smhost 6y ago
i mean, even within institutions, it's usually just some person hacking away behind the scene. what else would it be?
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by smhost 6y ago
it was a good-ass soapbox though
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by smhost 6y ago
skepticism about age of consent laws is a time-honored libertarian tradition. it's not even strictly foucauldian. and as a nietzschean, foucault didn't believe in moral authority.
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by smhost 6y ago
> It is not a form of social control or domination. it is more efficient this way. efficiency doesn't stop with a building's dimensions. efficiency demands social control. it doesn't care whether that happens through self-
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by smhost 6y ago
> the reason we can't have democracy is because then things would change.
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by smhost 6y ago
it's the chocolate lava cake

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