thevardanian

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by thevardanian 6y ago
Absolutely no. At least those that already have a drive to know use reddit to sharpen their knowledge. As a research tool itself reddit is pretty invaluable.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
George Boole believed in a similar idea far before any idea of computers were known. In a sense then the entire endeavor of computation has to do with consciousness from beginning to end.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
The secret is they don't believe in anything.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
I'm just going to say that to someone who has never experienced such a thing, it is still quite incredible. SV bubble is too real. Like I get many here were expecting fully self-driving cars by 2020, but even what have right now is kin
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by thevardanian 6y ago
Psychedelics man... They'll mess you up.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
And that's fine. In fact that is itself a valid argument within the Buddhist/Hindu context. I would even argue it's basis of both "religions"; proof through self experience. So again, the point here is that it'
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by thevardanian 6y ago
It's not about it being religious, but about it being dangerous, or in some ways a hinderance/harmful to the self. Kind of like how self harm is forbidden. Vamamarga is psychological self harm, in a sense. Aghoris then take that s
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by thevardanian 6y ago
"wishing that things were different than the way they are." That's actually one of the best ways I've heard it described.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
That's also an argument for why the government should support btc/blockchain technologies, instead of banning it. Transactions can be open for everyone to see, and therefore easier to audit/account for unaccounted cash and if
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by thevardanian 6y ago
The recent interview with Nirmala Sitharaman, the current Finance Minister of India, claims otherwise in an interview given yesterday. Here's the interview: https://youtu.be/kHYQ730R-aA?t=1855 So I don't know who&
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by thevardanian 6y ago
The militarization of space is unfortunately inevitable.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
It will never be able to compete long term if, rather when state level decide to join the game.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
I mean if that were true then he could afford rent, clothing, a $10 library card, healthcare, education, etc. Like there's this peculiar mentality in America that is absolutely psychotic. While those so called "menial tasks"
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by thevardanian 6y ago
Math, like philosophy, is only interested in using concepts, structures, or otherwise rigorous ideas to pry into other ideas. Like philosophy it is in some senses self referential, and not really interested in discovering some idea of &quot
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by thevardanian 6y ago
Property taxes are absolutely not more "equitable". Property taxes are like sales taxes, a single person can only consume so much. Similarly large wealthy corporations, or individuals can only buy so much land. And so this kind of
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by thevardanian 6y ago
A lot of East coast Ivy League grads simply either go into the public sector, or finance. They essentially feed into either D.C. or New York.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
Meshuggah uses a similar beat structure to Indian classical music, which I found interesting. Here's a sort of example https://youtu.be/ZAVZtCZV9aI
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by thevardanian 6y ago
Wait... People actually unironically believe this line of reasoning?
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by thevardanian 6y ago
One word: Hauntology. Jacques Derrida coined the neologism to describe narratives of the future. Hauntology is the idea that the present is "haunted" by lost futures, and refers to the return of elements of the past that "hau
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by thevardanian 6y ago
Buddhism while not worshipping Gods, does not deny their existence, or rather a more familiar phrase would be deny the existence of "higher beings". So it is neither atheistic nor theistic.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
The denial of the self or "selfish desires" is the common thread here.
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by thevardanian 6y ago
Not beyond. Not becoming. The beyond implies a spatial expanse in which one progresses. Becoming implies a temporal expanse in which one progresses. The cessation of these spatiotemporal limits is fundamental to that "state of being&qu
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by thevardanian 6y ago
"There would be five or six wet and wonderful years when there might be nineteen to twenty-five inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. An
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by thevardanian 6y ago
That's not how any of this works. It's about the ecosystem of developers and users. How much VR work is happening on macs? How much AI? This is a long term race that Apple will fail because it failed to nurture its roots.
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by thevardanian 7y ago
It depends on what you're interested in. There's virtually one for any topic.
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by thevardanian 7y ago
In fact are there any other good gathering places than some obscure subreddits?
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by thevardanian 7y ago
You're joking, right? Cause now I have one more thing to feel insecure about.
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by thevardanian 7y ago
Or... they can just kill the Hackintosh by preventing the OS from running on unsanctioned hardware.
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by thevardanian 8y ago
Yah. And Trump is still a Manchurian candidate that Russia controls. From your article: "“As far as we recall these are already public,” WikiLeaks wrote at the time. "WikiLeaks rejects all submissions that it cannot verify. WikiLe
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by thevardanian 8y ago
That's the problem isn't it? The goal of design isn't to correct the user, but to correct for the user.

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