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by yboris 5y ago
I must be misunderstanding you, because your claim sounds absurd to me. You seem to be claiming that making a prediction about the future is inappropriate. I don't understand what "zero historical basis" even means. A predict
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by yboris 5y ago
> It feels a lot more like killing someone rather than something. I guess that sounds silly. No it does not. Animals and fish are sentient beings with their own set of perceptions, feelings, thoughts, desires, and more. I do not think th
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by yboris 5y ago
It's so sad that even now people misunderstand the concerns of most people advocating reducing (or eliminating) meat from everyone's diet. In the grand scheme of things, "being eaten" (that is getting killed prematurely)
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by yboris 5y ago
How do you conclude that people consuming soy are "easier to control"? Are women "easier to control"? Are you also saying that becoming more woman-like is problematic?
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by yboris 5y ago
Meat is rather different. Just about no kid in America would want to eat a dog. And there's nothing significantly different between a dog and a pig, other than our cultural attitudes towards them.
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by yboris 5y ago
> Because the promoted alternative (soy) makes people docile and easier to control. This is a bold empirical claim. Do you have any credible reasons to believe this that you could share?
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by yboris 5y ago
It's frustrating to see arguments devolve into this kind of thing. It's almost surely the case we are discussing developed nations like the US (one of the largest consumers of meat), not some remote village in a developing nation.
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by yboris 5y ago
Beans and rice, for example, are cheaper and healthier than meat. Just about any vegetable you can pick up is healthier than meat.
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by yboris 5y ago
Have you stopped eating meat? Or are you saying "my contribution is just a drop in the bucket, so I may as well continue eating meat?" Of course government action is better than individual action. But why not both? Signal your dis
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Consumers can also have a 100% reduction in methane production in cows by abstaining from purchasing cow products. We have an ongoing tragedy of animal abuse, groundwater and air pollution, and various health problems -- all because of peop
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Direct link to retailer creating the "Goodman Zone" camera: https://doragoodman.com/goodlab-project/goodman-zone-medium-...
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I even got `jxl` to work in Electron ! https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/compare/jxl
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Could you share the code for this? It looks great! I built my own to browse large video collections: Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/ MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
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by yboris 5y ago
For those who have lots of videos on your computer (cross-platform), I built Video Hub App to browse, search, and preview videos (works with external and network drives). Hope you like! https://videohubapp.com/en/ MI
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by yboris 5y ago
How does this work? You need to be full-time at work, but also somehow manage college classes? How can you fit anything after an exhausting 40 hours of work per week?
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by yboris 5y ago
I am happy there are many people (and a whole community of Effective Altruists and academics) who are concerned about Existential Risk (X Risk / Global Catastrophic Risk) and are working on ways to reduce it. https://futureo
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Nvidia CUDA Software Gets Ported to Open-Source RISC-V Gpgpu Project(tomshardware.com)
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A march 2019 talk by Dr. Dennis Whyte of MIT working on SPARC https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6U4wB-oYM
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by yboris 5y ago
The essay / book (from the posted link) "On Bullshit" Harry Frankfurt is an excellent short read. Here is the link to the book and PDF: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/
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by yboris 5y ago
Video embedded in the article doesn't work, so here's the direct link: https://vimeo.com/167796382
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It might be much better, but it's atrocious! I open up storage and it shows 10+ GB under "other" with zero transparency and no method for cleaning anything out.
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Side comment: my math professor in college (a logician Simon Thomas) shared a math puzzle with us about a hydra that grows copies of her heads when cut off according to some math rule. The process made it seem like there would be no way to
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by yboris 5y ago
A YouTube video about this machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJIO7aRXUCg
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Reminds me of Tangle (reactive documents) by Bret Victor http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
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I'm unsure if this will help, but the new image format JPEG XL (.jxl) is coming soon to replace JPEG. It will have a lossless and a lossy abilities. It claims to be faster than JPEG. Another neat feature is that it's designed to b
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by yboris 5y ago
Doesn't this depend significantly on ambient temperature? Running the console in the summer without AC could make the components run at yet-higher temperature, right? I'm not familiar with how quickly CPU (and similar components)
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by yboris 5y ago
I liked using Cinta Notes - https://cintanotes.com/ Super quick way to jot down notes, search through them, tag them if needed. May be useful :)
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My favorite writings on the topic of consciousness are by the philosopher Daniel Dennett with his books like "Consciousness Explained". He provide such fun thought experiments, and brings together so much science - it's a tre
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One of my favorite philosophy papers: "Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked?" by Douglas Husak. He argues, base on data that SUVs have a high crash incompatibility with other cars, they are immoral. SUVs impose
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Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record(washingtonpost.com)
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