the_omegist

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by the_omegist 4y ago
Genuine question : does an inverse ETF replicating the opposite (shorting) of Softbanks investments exist? Because it seems Masayoshi Son always indicates South...
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Because the guardian & such outlets are not about depicting the most accurate & unbiased view of reality but about telling a narrative. Their audience doesn't care about alternative facts.
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by the_omegist 4y ago
For your 1st point I had to google "Approval voting" : it's the Condorcet method, it seems... Why bother improving a method that is inherently flawed? You can chose 50 candidates but they are all stupid and corrupt that makes
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by the_omegist 4y ago
While I can see you try to be nuanced you're only achieving depicting the situation in a moralistic view. You're postulating many things that are not necessarily true (by definition) : - that massive immigration to the EU will su
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by the_omegist 4y ago
The author conflates/mixes "entertainment" and "pleasure". Of course most things are done because they procure some type of pleasure/enjoyment. That doesn't mean that everything is entertainment...
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Exactly. It's like having to go to a well to get water vs tap water : it's a reliable and easy way to get infinite source of (passive) entertainment, but not only. But the excesses you mention are pathological : most people don&#x
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Good article, but no mention of the World Economic Forum/Klaus Schwab's Great Reset. They don't hide that in order to save resources and deal with climate change, renting (& circular economy in general) should become the
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Surprised it is not mentioned but : - for software : balabolka (free, portable, customizable, tons of functions). Also DSpeech. But then you need to find the voices depending on the languages you need (some are free and/or already part
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Wisdom is linked to a life-long experienced person. No one can be said to be "wise" at 15. And doing random things expecting to get "wise" is like moving frantically and randomly your lim
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Stopped reading halfway through... It's repetitive and with poor/no philosophical/metaphysical idea(s). The article keeps the dichotomy you/your digital copy while, by definition, if you upload your mind your physical bo
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Sure, am also all for efficiency and if something gives marginal improvement for a disproportionate amount of time or efforts,then most of the time it's not needed. I was more against this current "let it be" mindset that lea
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Well, I agree there is no planned things & that I am just connecting random dots. But would you have found the same proportion of books or articles promoting what seems counter-intuitive behaviors/mindsets just for the contradictio
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Aren't most studies contradictory ? For one study claiming A you can find another claiming the opposite. In the 80s/90s there was this constant fear about cholesterol and eggs (perhaps promoted by the cereals lobby?) : did people&
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Some type of Dead man's switch [0] could make it safer, if it's your main worry. Of course, it's another source of bugs.. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man's_switch
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by the_omegist 4y ago
In every movement you have over-enthusiasts/utopists who don't see the challenges. But even in a game like Deus Ex you can see it's not difficult to see the utopia [0] from reality [1]. Now, like everything : no one will get
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by the_omegist 4y ago
“The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed yet” (Gibson, but not sure) For a tribe in the Amazon forest, Shanghai or Tokyo could be from a scifi movie set 500 years in their future. For a villager in a small-sized to
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by the_omegist 4y ago
> If by “transhumanism” we mean a transition of human “life” (i.e, consciousness and culture) off our evolved biological platform onto some other recently or newly-created technology platform, someone would have to understand what human
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by the_omegist 4y ago
You can differentiate a human from a dolphin ? Then you know all that is to be known about what an human is. You don't need to understand "dolphin-ness" to know that by enabling a dolphin to talk or fly you created a post-dol
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Came to say the same thing with the same post-adolescent argument ;)
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by the_omegist 4y ago
> I believe humanity needs to pump the brakes and take a critical step back to evaluate the damage we’ve caused. I hope that it isn’t too late to try to fix what we’ve destroyed. What are you talking about ? You mention your engineering
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Indeed, I don't think the issue is with the use of chemicals or not. But about, as the parent pointed, improvement. Even in a transhumanist society, someone with eyes on its feet or a mechanical arm without any usefulness would be rega
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by the_omegist 4y ago
> “actively seeking to eliminate trans people, Put it such extreme and dishonest way, reducing sugar in food it an attempt to eliminate obese people... No , the attribute is not the object. > indeed, entire state governments in the US
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by the_omegist 4y ago
You're putting in the same bag many complaints, some of which irrational and unproven (sexual predators) and some valid arguments, rooted in philosophical or religious beliefs (unnatural, mental illness). Moreover, everyone knows twitt
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by the_omegist 4y ago
95 to 99% of the population...
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by the_omegist 4y ago
The classical consumerist hedonist mentality : if they are happy then who can say anything about that ? Well it seems you're the one trolling here. If you deny the right to people to have opinions and judgments based on their beliefs a
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by the_omegist 4y ago
In organizing "events" and "conferences" that have nothing to do with their core-business. And they have the nerve to beg for money in a very obtrusive way. Good riddance.
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Surprised how easy it is for employees to query things without some type of form to fill pointing to a case or purpose... > “If you only focus on instances in which the NSA violated those laws, you’re missing the forest for the trees,” h
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Why negative reinforcement would be necessarily bad? If you only do what you feel like doing, at the moment you feel like doing it, that's the perfect recipe for disaster. I am against the modern hedonistic zeitgeist and, on the contra
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Which was an adaptation of a French comic from 1982 : Le Transperceneige.
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by the_omegist 4y ago
Thanks. The analogy at the end made it clearer ;)

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