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by Boxbot 4mo ago
“Imagine that you encounter a signal. It is structured, and dense with information. It meets all the criteria of an intelligent transmission. Evolution and experience offer a variety of paths to follow, branch-points in the flowcharts that
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by Boxbot 1y ago
the gsv sleeper service had an entire other ship/Mind basically acting in this role (a rotating assignment/volunteer position), complete with human crew/residents the grey area/meat fucker was a small, uncrewed, and demi
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by Boxbot 1y ago
the culture Minds are intentionally designed with personalities (for lack of a better term) suited for their intended functions that keep them interested in/involved with base reality and their responsibilities there. there was a bit a
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by Boxbot 6y ago
same. i had multiple days of confusion 'cause i thought i was sleeping thru the alarm / half-consciously dismissing it (something i've had trouble with before) i'll never trust apple to provide a simple alarm clock agai
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by Boxbot 6y ago
i can't remember which ios update it was but one of them removed the ability to set custom wake-up alarm sound (separate from the generic alarms). did it pop up a warning? no did it default to a built-in alarm sound? no did it just st
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by Boxbot 6y ago
pretty sure the british also saw to the irish as subhuman, which also enabled their exploitation
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by Boxbot 6y ago
there's a kid in texas who got a beanbag round embedded in his skull so i'd say helmets are probably a good idea when you've got cops firing less-lethal munitions into crowds
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by Boxbot 6y ago
your original takeaway was correct too =). there were multiple experiments covered by the paper, the earlier ones involving cues that the subject was aware of directing attention into the blind spot, and the later ones dealing with cues and
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by Boxbot 6y ago
"attention" in this case being an unconscious phenomenon that can but not necessarily lead to conscious awareness. in the study both the visual cues (possibly misleading) and targets were purportedly presented within the subject&#
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by Boxbot 6y ago
> Slavery (including the enslavement of whites) is not legal, at least not in the US when you get this fundamental assertion wrong why would anyone bother reading anything else you have to say on the subject? i recommend reading the 13th
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by Boxbot 6y ago
maybe you should be proposing hypothetical solutions to address the issues of income inequality and oppression instead of how hypothetically you would like to see masses of people gunned down in the streets
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by Boxbot 6y ago
The United States of America now (more) americans get to experience to misery, terror, and death that the u.s. has exported to to rest of the world in order to fuel its economic "growth"
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by Boxbot 7y ago
"What kind of ghoul would argue that we shouldn’t vaccinate everyone against a pandemic threatening the health of our nation? The same kind of ghoul, perhaps, who thinks that cancer treatment, or insulin, should only be available for t
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by Boxbot 7y ago
it also exempts smaller employers. effectively only covering a fifth of the employee population in the u.s.
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by Boxbot 7y ago
the dnc and associated state organizations are not government organizations and there are no rules or regulations on whatever processes they use to select a candidate for the presidential election. they can literally do whatever the hell t
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by Boxbot 7y ago
The U.S. troops are in Iraq because they killed just about everyone who tried to stop them from being in Iraq. What's a little more economic warfare to throw on the pile of atrocities?
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by Boxbot 7y ago
“in times of war, the law falls silent.”
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by Boxbot 7y ago
I think you'll find that a running your healthcare expenses and approvals thru labyrinth of private, corporate bureaucracies, each siphoning off a portion of of the available money and incentivized to increase that amount however possi
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by Boxbot 7y ago
cheaper than paying for the sq. footage for you to sit in
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by Boxbot 7y ago
they're not being taught to read a piece of literature, identify literary techniques, or think critically; they're being taught how to choose one "correct" answer from a selection of garbage. whether they can justify t
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by Boxbot 7y ago
Reminder that Boeing went to SC for massive government subsidies and a cheaper, non-unionized work force. But don't worry, I'm sure they're not being penny wise, pound foolish anywhere else! (This behavior is by no means uni
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by Boxbot 8y ago
the fireball was canadian (though maybe not "whiskey") ;)
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by Boxbot 8y ago
i don’t think a 43” display would even fit on my desk, and i think i would personally prefer two smaller displays, but i would whole heartedly recommend dell’s ultrasharp or similar displays to anyone who wasn’t lookin for super high fps ga
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by Boxbot 8y ago
the idea is to have multiple timers with alarms running simultaneously e.g. if you're cooking dinner and have multiple items that will need attention at different times. the stock iOS clock app only supports one active timer. it&#x27
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by Boxbot 8y ago
Wealth generation is not wealth distribution. It is entirely possible for you to become very, very rich thru wealth distribution resulting from processes that retard wealth generation or reduce wealth globally. Actually generating wealth i
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by Boxbot 8y ago
It will never be made illegal because the threat of ostracization for any dissent or minor opposition to the status quo is an enormously powerful political tool. You don't even have to put much effort into it, just arrest someone for
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by Boxbot 8y ago
I run a Pi-hole (mostly for my phone and paired with OpenVPN and iOS/MacOS content blockers) and run into the same "problem". My advice is to stop patronizing those sites at all. Just like paywalled articles linked on HN, j
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by Boxbot 8y ago
Yeah, but then you are working for AirBbB or Uber (or worse, Facebook). Eww. Private companies/startups are still doing options. And options are worthless . My employee recently loaded all employee stock options / holdings into
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by Boxbot 8y ago
don’t worry, they’re losing money on every sale but they’ll make it up in volume.
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by Boxbot 8y ago
The algorithm has been designed to ignore stationary objects because the algorithm and associated hardware is incapable of determining which stationary objects are actually in the path of the vehicle. Regardless of whether the car slammed

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