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by ud_0 5y ago
I think that UN countries should indeed do that, at the very least it'd send a strong signal. But they won't, because when the dust settles they'll be looking to do business with the Taliban or at least try and have some kind
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by ud_0 5y ago
> No one removed digital privacy in EU. Digital privacy is demonstrably being eroded on many fronts, all over the world. The EU currently has tenuous protections that are in danger of being superceded by concerns that are perceived as
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by ud_0 5y ago
I think the subscription/"free trial" concept is a particularly hard sell for this. Maybe micropayments would be much better suited as a default: pay $1 right now via Paypal to have a video transcribed . Subscription optiona
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by ud_0 5y ago
> Anyone want to debunk this? There is no need to debunk every claim. I could say "the rods are held in an unstable way" and "your mind makes your body do things without you noticing" but that's just a guess at w
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by ud_0 5y ago
The problem becomes, by what standard do we judge misinformation? I'm sure most people would be against presenting dousing as a legitimate belief, but it's all on a sliding scale. How many people would balk at authoritatively decl
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by ud_0 5y ago
> No, not "observing your own past". Being able to observe your own past is a given after FTL travel, and the most important thing: it's a given that relies on almost no assumptions about the deeper mechanics of the univ
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by ud_0 5y ago
Sorry I missed your reply amongst the other comments. > In the real world it means treating a study on 31 American undergrads as scripture My opinion is that scripture shouldn't be treated as scripture to begin with. > This po
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by ud_0 5y ago
> I tried this sort of thing back in the 90s when I was learning BASIC and making text adventure Same here :D I really like the idea, but I see problems. I'm still watching the video, so maybe they'll be addressed. Repetition
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by ud_0 5y ago
> Just because science says something doesn't mean it's true. Truth must be verifiable. I don't mean to sound condescending, but if science as a concept 'says' anything, it is exactly that truth must be verifia
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by ud_0 5y ago
Thank you for answering. I agree that "scientific consensus" is an elusive thing in practice: interpretations change, new data comes in, sometimes it turns out data was held back or falsified. On top of that, what is consensus and
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by ud_0 5y ago
> Scientism has become the state religion and companies are paying for indulgences. I was unfamiliar with that term and googled it: it's described as " excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques &quo
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by ud_0 5y ago
As expected, I see the Economist leading the charge against transhumanism here in a near-future scenario I'll call 'the pointless war for a natural and well-regulated humanity': " The question now is whether governments
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by ud_0 5y ago
Oh absolutely, I'm recommending this because of the second part of my sentence above. I believe the ad model is bad for both consumers and companies, in ways that are not immediately obvious. Ad models tend to generate perverse incenti
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by ud_0 5y ago
> I tried disliking Don't do that! The algorithm counts that as an engagement action. What you need to do is click on the three dots symbol next to the video title and select "don't recommend this channel". This abs
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by ud_0 5y ago
This doesn't look like a ShowHN to me, it's a vast and sprawling framework with many language bindings. What's your specific feedback on the Java code?
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by ud_0 5y ago
In my opinion, formal methods for software engineering have been heavily advocated for by people and organizations who want to sell books, seminars, and conferences. People who want to act as gatekeepers while extracting money from the syst
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by ud_0 5y ago
Thank you! Don't have too much pity though, I'm doing okay. I live in the EU, no spouse, no kids, no commitments really. Not planning ahead is 100% my fault, but it's not an existential problem (yet). It's just time to f
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by ud_0 5y ago
I'm one of these. I'm an allrounder software dev in his late fourties, "lured" into a non-software middle management position by the promise of money and stability a few years ago. In practice, the money has never materi
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by ud_0 5y ago
There has been an absolute mountain of work done on Star Citizen, it's just not in the areas you would expect. As far as I can tell, all the money went into building an engine that generates more money which in turn allows the project
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by ud_0 5y ago
That is a sweeping and nebulous claim, and somewhere within it is the premise that atheism is a symptom of insufficient reflection and awareness. To get a sense of how condescending that comes across, imagine if I turned that around by sayi
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by ud_0 5y ago
Maybe your browser has hardware acceleration disabled or nerfed? How are other WebGL pages doing by comparison?
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by ud_0 5y ago
> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted. The label "not religious" doesn't mean anything. People use it to ref
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by ud_0 5y ago
A thin article that throws a lot of stuff against the wall hoping that something will stick with people who are already against expanding human presence into space. The meandering argument, as far as I can tell, boils down to: it's goi
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by ud_0 5y ago
> The Cut command is ⇧ Shift+Del; Copy is Ctrl+Ins; Paste is ⇧ Shift+Ins; I wish this had caught on. CTRL-X/C/V is okay-ish until you get to different platforms and/or need to use the terminal. I also wish we'd have
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by ud_0 5y ago
I think (hope?) the Drake equation was never intended as a tool for making realistic estimations, I always thought it was more of a first approximation of how one might go about thinking about modeling when all you have is a sample of one.
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by ud_0 5y ago
I appreciate the effort, but it doesn't matter how many times I read your post, I don't see what's being accomplished there and it honestly feels both condescending and unneccessarily complex at the same time. Even in your ex
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by ud_0 5y ago
> geometry sitting around doing nothing The problem is even worse, because without some time-like process, that geometry can't even be observed. The problem here isn't mathematics, it's the practical aspects of the unive
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by ud_0 5y ago
I was starting to write a reply about how much I agree with you, but then I came to the second half of your post. > And it’s a grave disrespect against them to say that nobody actually cares about anything. I think you might have compl
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by ud_0 5y ago
It took myself a while to admit, and I get why this is an unsatisfying take for a community as heavy on creatives as HN: there are digital native makers and digital native consumers, and the latter is utterly dominating the young population
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by ud_0 5y ago
I agree. I want these turned on for shared servers and on the consumer on OS processes that I don't trust. But I would want an option to turn it off for JavaScript-heavy sites that I do trust. I'm frankly amazed that the mitigat

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