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by yarou 10y ago
Because it necessarily violates quantum no-cloning. I think the state of any human at time t is a quantum state, more specifically a linear superposition of n distinct states with probability amplitudes. I don't necessarily agree with
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by yarou 10y ago
I'm not that comfortable with the hand wavy physicalist view that consciousness arises from the physical processes of the brain. If that were the case, why can't I simply design an artificial brain, a cyber brain, and upload mysel
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by yarou 10y ago
> Consciousness is the state of being awake, hence able to react normally to sensory stimulation. And how'd you go about verifying that? I know that I'm conscious, but you could be a p-zombie. That means if I poke you with a to
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by yarou 10y ago
Why would you need to copy the entire running state of the distributed system?
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by yarou 10y ago
I'm neither white nor a white nationalist, but the way I understand it is that white nationalism seeks to preserve an arbitrary trait known as "whiteness". In other words, they feel that the white "race" as a whole
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by yarou 10y ago
I've actually not heard about this. It's a shame "alt-right" became synonymous with bigot, white nationalist, etc. The underlying political philosophy is sound, but for some reason the crowd it attracts are essentially l
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by yarou 10y ago
I know people of all kinds. People that have blown out their kidneys and livers from drinking excessively until they vomited blood. I also know people that responsibly enjoy maybe one or two glasses of wine daily and have no real health iss
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by yarou 10y ago
If you take an excess of any chemical substance, there will be consequences. Barring an underlying latent condition, amphetamine use at therapeutic levels causes cognitive improvement in the general population with minimal risks.
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by yarou 10y ago
Anecdotally, I can attest to this. I took melatonin for 3 days straight and my circadian dysregulation crept up again on the 4th. I've found that simple sleep hygiene habits (no blue light exposure 30 mins before, taking a shower, etc)
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by yarou 10y ago
I could have sworn there is a formulation of 1:1 (50/50 dextro/levo), but I could be mistaken.
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by yarou 10y ago
This article is pretty poorly written. First off, methylphenidate is a phenethylamine - not an amphetamine. Its chemical structure doesn't resemble amphetamine. Secondly, Adderall is not simply dextroamphetamine, it is a racemic mixtur
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by yarou 10y ago
> We praise people that are “courageous” enough to quit their 9-to-5 and dive into the deep end of the exciting unknown. We idealize and romanticize the idea of being our own boss and being in charge of our own schedule. To take a risk a
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by yarou 10y ago
>Unit tests are not albotrosses around the neck of your code, they are proof that the work that you just did is correct and you can move on. IMHO, this is a failing of the type system. If you have functional purity, you don't have a
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by yarou 10y ago
Or better yet, let the robot engineers do their job so we can have robots do those mindless and repetitive jobs. Moves like this signal to me that Google is dying. I, for one, will shed no tears when it finally kicks the bucket.
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by yarou 10y ago
I'd rather use ROT-13 said the brogrammer.
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by yarou 10y ago
Define real journalist.
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by yarou 10y ago
> Additionally, at what point does "very scummy" become a civil offense? Why not ask a judge (and/or jury) and let them decide. Because the criteria for that changes arbitrarily based on the zeitgeist of a particular era.
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by yarou 10y ago
They have to monetize somehow, I suppose, though it happens to be very scummy. As deplorable as Gawker is, and I do not in any way condone their actions (personally, I think their reporting is tabloid tier garbage), it is vital that we have
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by yarou 10y ago
The one thing that remains consistent in the world, throughout history and today, is power. We may have gotten more subtle about it, but there are clearly individuals who have more power than others. Toss in massive income inequality global
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by yarou 10y ago
Not a very long journey. After all, it was not so long ago in this country when people of a certain ethnic descent were locked up en masse. Maybe a kill switch is too far: how about an electrical charge to block the activity of your optic n
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by yarou 10y ago
I demoed NixOS a few years back when I was wrangling with the Haskell ecosystem. I was pleasantly surprised, as I could rollback the entire state of my system from GRUB itself if anything went screwy.
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by yarou 10y ago
I agree that the user experience overall is just plain shitty on imgur right now. The home page itself is riddled with "viral images". Why would I use imgur like a *chan site? That need is already filled and done much better by ot
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by yarou 10y ago
> Most people will go get fingerprinted for a part-time job. That's how it starts. Then the government starts mandating transdermal implants at birth that contain a GPS chipset, and a kill switch. We're headed to a level of dys
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by yarou 10y ago
>However, I have yet to see a doctor that knows anything about metabolic pathways and such. You have to keep in mind that the vast majority of psych-related clinicians are average to below-average performers that were too incompetent to
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by yarou 10y ago
I think you misunderstood the context of that sentence. The way I read that was: "most people are hesitant to try a new language with a small community, and lack of stackoverflow support, but here are some potential upsides of being in
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by yarou 10y ago
Does demanding efficiency of a business that is heavily subsidized and enjoys trade protectionism lead to economic decline? No, because the state is eating the cost of that inefficiency. It's time for agriculture to be subject to marke
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by yarou 10y ago
The bugs that are the most difficult to solve are often unreproducible; and the hardest to find. That's what makes them so dangerous - if it were easily reproducible, they could have simply taken a bug report and fixed the issue.
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by yarou 10y ago
I think the word you're looking for is cannabinoids. You don't call opiates "morphine and related compounds".
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by yarou 10y ago
Fsociety.
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by yarou 10y ago
A very similar thing happened to me in SOMA when I was apartment hunting. I was walking to the next scheduled apartment viewing, when a homeless man started following me. He started shouting "Fight me faggot!", clearly trying to p

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