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by tlocke 3y ago
It seems that when you die, memory and the capacity for thought are irretrievably lost. It seems that consciousness is separate from memory and thinking. What happens to consciousness when we die? It's reasonable to think the same thin
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by tlocke 3y ago
There are lots of good options if your house is bigger than you need. Where I live in Bath, UK it's common to turn a floor of a large house into a self-contained flat. Also there's the option of renting a room to a lodger.
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by tlocke 3y ago
A spare bedroom tax doesn't change the average space per person, but it does increase the median space, as well as dramatically reducing the cost. As for tax avoidance, that's a problem, but not insurmountable. For example a simil
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by tlocke 3y ago
> Or we could just build more > homes, rather than cramming > everyone into a smaller space. With a spare bedroom tax, the average space per-person doesn't change, but the median rises and the cost drops dramatical
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by tlocke 3y ago
The problem in the UK is under-occupation of houses, rather than a shortage of houses. In other words, there are more than enough houses for the population to fit into, the problem is that a lot of home owners have a lot of unused bedrooms.
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by tlocke 3y ago
Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wri
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by tlocke 3y ago
I think you've nailed it with this comment. A big organisation thinks completely differently to a small organisation or individual. A big organisation will happily spend a lot of money to reduce risk. They like having a number to ring
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by tlocke 4y ago
The MIT No Attribution licence https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit-0/ doesn't require an attribution. It's the licence I choose for new projects.
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by tlocke 4y ago
I agree with your distinction. I notice the same thing in the Conservative party here in the UK. The Conservatives are a 'big tent', encompassing social conservatives (eg. ban drugs, ban sex work) and free marketeers (eg. legalise
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by tlocke 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted for this. Surely most people would think it's a bit of a stretch to say that lions have jobs in the same way that 21st century humans have jobs? I can't imagine walking up to a l
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by tlocke 4y ago
So I think there's a distinction between wealth and happiness. Amongst the aristocracy I'm sure there is a lot of misery. I think we've got a good chance of ensuring material abundance for everyone on the planet. Whether thos
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by tlocke 4y ago
Surely it's true to say that in the UK some people simply couldn't afford to send their children to school, but now every child can attend school regardless of their parents' wealth?
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by tlocke 4y ago
> Of course, I would love to live in the world that you dream of, I'm pretty sure that's what post-scarcity communism looks like. I just don't really see any indicators in terms of public policy or business attitude that i
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by tlocke 4y ago
Can you elaborate on that?
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by tlocke 4y ago
I agree with a lot of what you write, but in my experience in the UK there can be instances where money from the the wealthy has been used for the common good. For example, until 1945 only the rich could afford to educate their children, bu
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by tlocke 4y ago
We've created a society where there are such things as 'jobs' and unless you're rich, you need a job to support yourself and maybe a family. I think this model of society worked reasonably well for a while, but with AI w
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by tlocke 4y ago
I know this seems unrealistic, but rather than change how Open Source works, maybe we should change the rest of society to work more like Open Source? It could be argued that if 'software is eating the world' and the software is O
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by tlocke 4y ago
Wolfram is right to draw attention to a puzzle in physics: why does the universe as a whole seem to be getting more ordered, but the 2nd law of thermodynamics suggests it should become more disordered? Julian Barbour's solution to this
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by tlocke 4y ago
With GitHub, sponsorships are either one-off payments or regular subscriptions. FWIW I've only ever been paid once through GitHub sponsors and that was a one-off payment. This payment ($500) was actually from GitHub itself because they
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by tlocke 4y ago
As I see it, the standard way to package Python projects is: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-p... and the longer story is that this method has the flexibility to allow other impleme
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by tlocke 4y ago
As I recall it's mandatory. I can see the package indexes becoming much more involved in supply chain issues. A bit like the app stores, where a considerable amount of vetting goes on.
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by tlocke 4y ago
As a maintainer of open source libraries, the steps I've been asked to take to secure the supply chain are: * Signing releases (requested by linux distributions) * Signing commits (actually I don't think anyone actually asked me t
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by tlocke 4y ago
With open source projects there aren't any managers, and yet good quality software gets produced. I'm interested to know people's thoughts on that? Perhaps in open source projects the 'maintainer' roles are analogou
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by tlocke 4y ago
Hello, maintainer of the pg8000 driver for PostgreSQL here. I'm keen to know of any problems you had if you used pg8000. Thanks! https://github.com/tlocke/pg8000
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by tlocke 4y ago
You may be able to simulate a magnet perfectly, but that doesn't make magnetism. In the same way, you may be able to simulate a mind perfectly, but that doesn't make consciousness. With consciousness, it's about experiencing
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by tlocke 4y ago
Perhaps it'll turn out that trying to create a conscious mind in software is like trying to create a magnet in software?
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by tlocke 4y ago
Likewise, I had a go at trying to improve on JSON and this is my attempt: https://github.com/tlocke/zish Any comments / criticisms gratefully received.
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by tlocke 4y ago
If you build enough renewables, then there comes a point when at times you're generating more than is needed immediately. That surplus electricity can be used to make hydrogen gas by electrolysing water. The gas can be stored indefinit
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by tlocke 4y ago
I enjoyed this article, but disagree with it. For me it comes down to an economic argument, is it cheaper (on a case by case basis) to buy energy or save it? For example, my front door has a huge gap that lets cold air inside in winter. The
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by tlocke 4y ago
I read that same book, maybe a year or two later than you, and also wrote a program to draw a Mandelbrot set on a BBC Model B in my first year at Uni.

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