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What does "web-based" mean? Does it run in a browser? As a standalone application? Is it because it is written in Javascript?... Genuinely curious.
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There are things that I consider problematic in old movies, but what if someone is curious about what was that era like, given that we have outgrown some blatant prejudices?
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Thanks for the precious advice. I will take note of it. The descriptions and the results of the experiments cited in Singer's book come from the experimenters themselves. Published work, publicly available. Edit: I have talked about a
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> Scientific experimentation is the least bad thing we do to animals. I did not know (maybe I didn't want to) the ineffable amount of suffering we subject animals in vastly useless "scientific" experiments (see Singer, Ani
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> I don’t really follow. There are billions/trillions of these creatures who are eaten alive every year in the wild. Why is it so significant that humans also do this? That tells us little on our moral obligations towards them and,
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There's also the possibility that we extend our moral obligations to sentient beings that are not part of our species and not subject billions of them to unnecessary suffering at our own hands .
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I also have seen a young youtuber eat a living octopus. I was horrified. The animal rights question has been lurking on my mind for many years, and I couldn't stand to ignore the problem any longer. I am currently reading Animal Libera
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Similarity with our own physical constitution? Similarity of behavior when we are in pain and they are in pain? And all the other cues that tell us that, indeed, they are sentient beings?
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The article does not discuss the potential effects lab meat will have on animals themselves.
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> The obvious fearmongering and irrationality, especially from so-called "experts", was quite intense and prolific in Canada, too. So much death and suffering and bereavement and sorrow the scale of which I have never witnesse
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The Algerian writer Kateb Yacine had interesting things to say about Camus [1]. As he says, it is true that in his novels, Algerians are almost non-existent, although the novels happen in colonial Algeria and he himself lived amongst them.
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We can infer.
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Corrected. Thank you.
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Yes, there is [1]. I remember vividly this one cop that quit his job of so many years over a vaccine mandate. He was invited on TV, and was all proud and righteous of his great deed. He died of COVID. His name was Robert LeMay [2]. I wonder
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COVID has wreaked havoc in many aspects of life. There may well be a pandemic of prolonged grief [1]. https://www.reuters.com/graphics/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-CASU...
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I haven't thought too deeply about it, but do we have a moral obligation to be "authentic" when writing something? I.e., writing with our own words instead of using a machine to speak our minds? An email entirely written by c
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The book Operating Systems, Three Easy Pieces [1] has a chapter on I/O and persistence in general. [1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
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> Set theory is your friend and SQL is great for that. Could you tell us how set theory was useful in your case?
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Framework hinted several times that they could be doing printers [1]. That would be nice. [1] https://twitter.com/search?q=printer+from%3AFrameworkPuter&f...
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This is a marvelous piece of art! Many thanks to the author.
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There's also Meow[1], which I currently use. You have to configure it first to suit your keyboard layout, but there are pre-built configs [2] [1] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow [2] https://github.com
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How do you know other animals are not self-aware? Is self-awareness a criteria for not being killed and eaten? Is it not pain and suffering that really matters?
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I used Ruby in the past and I found the syntax not that complex. What other language do you find syntaxically less complex?
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> Nothing wrong with killing animals for food, the problem is we don't do it humanely. What if a hypothetical alien super-intelligence came to earth and found us very tasty, thus killing us for food and pleasure (maybe "humanl
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There are certainly a lot of people who have given much thought about AI and consciousness, but how can we talk about sentient machines when we clearly do not understand consciousness in us, human beings[1]? [1] https://en.wikipe
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I deeply want to adopt Nyxt, but it's hard to give up all the niceties of Firefox, mainly plugins (ublock, dark reader, cookie autodelete, multi-account containers, etc.).
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> I feel lucky to have found a career in which I enjoy the minutia as well as the bigger picNT AUTHORITY\SYSTEMture, and it also happens to be able to create incredible real world value when applied to the right problems in the right way
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One excellent book on consciousness is Mcginn's The Mysterious Flame [1]. I knew consciousness is a hard problem, but the book made it clear how baffling and utterly mysterious it is. I am still absolutely flabbergasted when I think ab
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My ideal laptop. I wonder if there will be ergonomic keyboards for the 13 inch model.
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> Some of my most enlightening trips were to DPRK, Russia, China, Turkmenistan, Brunei. You learn a lot about how the western media tends to exaggerate for political ends. I am not a Westerner, and I highly doubt you could get an unders

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