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by trevyn 7y ago
FWIW, I bet that there’s a lot of hormone replacement therapy going on in that cohort.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I assume it was for maximum contrast with the black that many of the protesters wear, to help distinguish friend from foe.
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by trevyn 7y ago
> I can't imagine how they may get any other outcome. There is one person who has made himself a big single point of failure for China.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I'm curious, how deeply did you investigate social services (food banks, shelters, etc.) available in your area? This is not an accusation — I don't claim to know your individual situation. Yet I suspect that in many cases where p
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by trevyn 7y ago
> you wonder how anyone could go into that They Shall Not Grow Old sheds some visceral light on this — soldiers are very intentionally funneled through a process taking them from normal life to the front line in a way that makes the n
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by trevyn 7y ago
Any ideas for solutions?
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by trevyn 7y ago
I assume there is something specific you’re not mentioning? In which case, I highly recommend paying for it — both sex and companionship.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Is there evidence they are actually state sponsored ?
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by trevyn 7y ago
Related, physicist Kurt Mendelssohn’s The Riddle of the Pyramids is a great read. It proposes that the “bent” pyramid has its shape because of the catastrophic collapse of another pyramid being built at the same time, which led to choosin
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by trevyn 7y ago
Except that Neuralink clearly stated that they have ambitions for all of this, which is unusual for a company developing a medical device. Also, wouldn’t the stim abilities count as a feedback mechanism?
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by trevyn 7y ago
Maybe, maybe not, but one should also consider the well-being of the kids in this world.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I find it interesting how dystopian “warning” fiction often ends up being used as an instruction manual. If we wrote more optimistic fiction, maybe simpler minds would have a wider variety of instruction manuals to choose from?
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by trevyn 7y ago
(This is from the Google AI team.)
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by trevyn 7y ago
They include depreciation in the calculation, so it's not that bad.
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by trevyn 7y ago
The phones are labeled "Assembled in India", not "Made in India", and have less than 30% locally sourced materials. There is some discussion to possibly meet this level eventually, but it is not currently the case.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Fun fact: One of his earlier articles this year was a review of a book about suicide.
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by trevyn 7y ago
If you were doing it just for fun, with no expectation of a financial or reputational payoff, would you still like to do it? Would it feel different?
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by trevyn 7y ago
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by trevyn 7y ago
I agree that, at the individual level, focusing on the beautiful aspects seems like a reasonable coping strategy, and I can’t help but think that on larger scales of time and space, it only helps perpetuate the horrors.
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by trevyn 7y ago
1080i is interlaced; 720p, 1080p, and 2160p are progressive, i.e. non-interlaced. My understanding is that most commercial Blu-rays are progressive encodings, broadcast may be different. (1080i was common back in the day.) Interlaced had th
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by trevyn 7y ago
I believe that we are heading toward a society where money is far less important than it currently is, and I enjoy discovering how this might work, and what a transition might look like.
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by trevyn 7y ago
On the other hand, recognizing that one is a farm animal is the first step to getting off the farm.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I have no money and have no intention of acquiring any.
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by trevyn 7y ago
This is starting to sound a bit like OpenDoc.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Is there a workaround for the NYT paywall that I’m missing? They’re blocking incognito windows now somehow.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Or a way to make a society function without a marketplace.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Taking a stand for human rights; putting our money where our morals are.
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by trevyn 7y ago
> Because I didn't have to work for a living, I could spend more time meddling in various subjects and activities. Observation: If you stop working, you’ll still be living.
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by trevyn 7y ago
> Can an exaFLOPS scale Google datacenter with millions of TPUs really be less capable than the 20 watt ball of jelly we all carry around? It is demonstrably less capable in some important dimensions, yes.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I had the front page open in a slightly old browser window with this post at #1, and specifically opened a new window before proceeding in case this exact situation happened. A comment by mods would be appreciated.

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