telmo

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by telmo 4y ago
I agree. I like the weirdness, and I don't think it can survive mainstreaming. Mainstreaming always means blandness.
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by telmo 4y ago
I love the idea of Mastodon and I would love for things like that to take us back to the less centralized and less corporate internet of before, but I am pessimistic that it will happen anytime soon. The real reason why people are "mig
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by telmo 4y ago
Hardcore punk is pretty close to left wing anarchism. Is this news to you? Also: it is possible to criticize the capitalist system without advocating communism. Believe it or not, it is not a binary choice.
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by telmo 4y ago
People will grasp at anything to avoid confronting harsh truths and personal responsibility. We are facing an existential threat to civilization itself, but some kids have thrown some soup at a painting so I guess our hands are tied now...
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by telmo 4y ago
I didn't claim that it was (or wasn't) a free speech issue. What I said is that "if it is not your server you don't get to complaint" is an overly simplistic (and untrue) take on this issue. In fact there is already
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by telmo 4y ago
> It's an online bubble of polarised people looking for attention, not a public square and not representative of anything I find that people who write things like this are expressing a distaste for politics taking place on Twitter.
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by telmo 4y ago
I live in Europe and I can tell you that Twitter absolutely became the public square for politicians at all levels of government, in the various countries and in the EU. It is also where all journalists hang out, and many other type of acto
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by telmo 4y ago
> If it is not not on your server, than you don't get to complain. That is a rather naive slogan to be repeating in 2022. Once your servers become the de facto public square, we absolutely get to complain. Not even talking about how
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by telmo 4y ago
I also prefer the Many Worlds interpretation and I do think that it is gaining popularity in relation to Copenhagen, but I'm not sure what you mean by "today's world view". And who is this "we" that you write a
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by telmo 4y ago
For example: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/14/european-cou...
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by telmo 4y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." ― Upton Sinclair
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by telmo 4y ago
What do you mean? Nothing is perfect but the EU has been a net positive for its member states. It is approved of by a majority of its citizens across all countries. The EU created one of the most prosperous (for the common person), free and
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by telmo 4y ago
I find that the term "woo" suffered a semantic drift in the last few decades. It used to refer to things that pretend to be scientific by using the terminology and aesthetics of science without being grounded in real empiricism. O
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by telmo 4y ago
> Sounds great to me, can't think of a better way to go about learning things well enough that we can say we know them to an extent. > If not results from scientific methods, then what's the alternative that should be truste
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by telmo 4y ago
> anti-science rethoric As a lover of science and a scientific researcher (according to my payslips), I have a certain aversion towards this current "defense of science" furor. In my view, science needs no such defenders, and t
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by telmo 5y ago
The slogan was always cut short. Here's the entire thing: "Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away." Well, it's even slightly more complicated than that but
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by telmo 5y ago
> vino verde Not wanting to be pedantic or snobbish, but it is "vinho verde", because it is a Portuguese type of wine (I am Portuguese, and that is why I care about this :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin
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by telmo 5y ago
> While true in essence, I don’t think that the German society broadly shares the value of privacy to a level that warrants such excessive restrictions. You are wrong. I have been living in Germany for almost a decade and it absolutely d
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by telmo 5y ago
Yes, this is exactly the reason. (I am a native speaker)
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by telmo 5y ago
Successful at what and for whom?
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by telmo 5y ago
> the political elite I'm not sure what this means. > in the major (remaining) EU countries, or it wouldn't be the policy, right? It is not some policy, it is an international treaty signed by every current in the EU. This w
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by telmo 5y ago
I am a continental European and I have lived in the UK for some time. I always lived under the impression that the goal of the EU was to increase integration. I think the majority of continental Europeans feel the same and support this idea
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by telmo 5y ago
> is there some kind of "commerce clause" type loophole for this The EU is not just a commercial organization. It is an actual political union. The English-speaking press tends to hate mentioning this, but it is the truth. The
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by telmo 5y ago
I have been using Firefox as my main browser for years (on a mac). Firefox is fine. For my taste, it is better than Chrome. My suspicion is that the majority of people in this sort of thread will never use anything other than Chrome, becaus
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by telmo 5y ago
> Mathematics is not related to the natural world at all. This is your personal belief, unless you can justify it. I won't hold my breath, because this discussion has been raging for centuries with no end in sight. > For example,
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by telmo 5y ago
> mathematics is not necessarily a reflection of the physical universe Nobody knows if it is or not. It could also be that the physical universe is a reflection of mathematical truth. > It can be, in cases like addition, but it doesn&
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by telmo 5y ago
We were out of oranges. Then Mary left an orange in the kitchen. Then Bob left an orange in the kitchen. Q: How many oranges are there in the kitchen? A: 2. Not so fast. Addition is a mathematical model and doesn't necessarily reflect
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by telmo 5y ago
Everyone calls it AI. It just so happens that it became a large field, so people tend to say that they work in Machine Learning, or Reinforcement Learning, or Evolutionary Computation. The same as in any other field really. Also: https:&#x
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by telmo 5y ago
What a coincidence that something that was claimed for years to be a likely outcome of Brexit happened right in the aftermath of Brexit.... but it turns out that it was mostly unrelated to Brexit. What. A. Coincidence.
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by telmo 5y ago
> Correction: they happen in what you believe to be a theatre of consciousness. Belief without evidence is religion. I have the highest possible level of evidence: direct experience. It just happens to not be communicable. Not everything

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