Cybotron5000

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Covert CIA websites could have been found by an ‘amateur’, research finds(theguardian.com)
6 points by Cybotron5000 4y ago|3 comments
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by Cybotron5000 4y ago
“… maybe that makes eye contact the very essence of music.” …tell that to Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder!
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
I _love_ my Mockulus Qwest no. 9. I’ve taken to wearing it to bed so I get to earn Zuckbucks whilst I sleep! [P.S. Palmer Eldritch is a genie, Suckerberg’s man boobs are the digital reincarnation of those of Augustus Caesar, and Peter Teak
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
I would recommend anyone interested in this topic read ‘Dawn of the New Everything’ by Jaron Lanier, which is really quite honest about both the positives and negatives of VR. Having only recently had a chance to try it out, I feel like it’
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Last Ninja’s music was super cool also! …had completely forgotten about that game - going to check out the Fastloaders asap :)
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Here’s a great article by Kenneth McAlpine: https://www.gamejournal.it/the-sound-of-1-bit-technical-cons... …An interview with Michael Land and Clint Bajakian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0EqG6RYn9Y …a
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Passenger: “…so, driving about in tunnels everyday… must be a bit weird - what’s the pay like?” Driver: “You’d be barking mad not to invest in Dogecoin!”
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Oh, so they’re ‘rebooting’ it. I wish they would hire a writer with the imagination to do something completely new without all that baggage. …I agree - there’s darkness in Columbo, but it’s much subtler and is tempered by the kindness and c
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
…or possibly someone else (Samuelson? Romney/Churchill? Groucho Marx?) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
That’s a really good point: like having a degree of immunity through prolonged exposure! Though couldn’t all that disinformation also mean that they eventually are bludgeoned into believing in whatever version of ‘reality’ has been constan
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
That’s an interesting question. I’m sure as you say that there probably are such operations (…do you have articles/information you can find to link to?), but perhaps they are disguised differently, more effectively countered or perhaps
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Why though? What is it that has changed their business model or people’s minds? Ask yourself that. What is it that is particularly biased? Opinion pieces and ‘advertorials’ etc. that they are forced to adopt because of falling revenues and
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
"When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?" ― John Maynard Keynes
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
This is so messed up. If you’re reading this and are in this ‘business’, or associated with it/supporting it, please, for the sake of yourself, your families, humanity and the planet we live on, get out if you have any choice! It’s bee
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Fiction (/well-written fiction at least) is an artform, like music or, um, art, or even design you know? It’s a communication medium meant (amongst other things) to convey something of the human experience that is perhaps intangible or
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
I tried last year to model/animate a butterfly for something I was working on/to learn how to use Blender - found this video as a reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7a7ZAqWBIs …also this previous HN post
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
‘…where are you going, with your fetlocks blowing…’ :) https://youtu.be/Nxf6ECuRcWM
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
I’m a fan of the potential of these technologies, but I’m guessing that sadly FB’s subsidised/closed VR/AR systems will have a ‘hidden’ (& frankly creepy) cost that is unfortunately characteristic of their business model: htt
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Do you think? …impressive technology perhaps, but it still just looks like really poor pastiche to me… I don’t really understand why putting artists out of work is a useful boon to society/focus of research? Is it mainly to do with hav
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Ok - please forgive/correct/help me out here if I’ve got the sticky end of the stick, but both the premise and conclusion, very clumsily put, seem to me to be: ‘formal or classical systems of logic are more limited/not as rig
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Good point: perhaps I have an unrealistic, dumb, ill-educated or otherwise malformed ideal/view that philosophers should somehow be constantly challenging their own ideas, using their writing/discourse as an instrument to help the
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
So is Thomism(/forms of Neo-Thomism) the be-all-and-end-all of philosophical enquiry then? If an argument is based on unexamined prior positions how can it be considered sound? (I suppose there is a problem of infinite regress here&#x2
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Perhaps you’re right and I was overly harsh or critical of him personally. All I am trying to say, crudely put, is that it seems to me that the author has started from his prior positions and then constructed an argument that reinforces the
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
What do you consider to be my assumptions? As I said in the comment below, I am not attacking the guy personally (that’s what ad hominem means) - I’m sure he may be perfectly lovely and if he is genuine in his pursuits then I genuinely wish
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
…and yes I think that challenging one’s suppositions ought to be the first task of any aspiring philosopher. Isn’t that the whole idea?
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
…catholic with a small ‘c’: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/catholic (…sorry I couldn’t resist the pun…). Personally I think there have been many wondrous, uplifting and glorious achievements of the Catholic church/i
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
I think that sometimes being overly opinionated and incapable of changing your mind is potentially harmful to others, yes… Is it not potentially dangerous to advocate for various political realities based solely on unexamined/individua
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
Edward Feser doesn’t seem to me to be genuinely interested in challenging his own presuppositions through metaphysics or philosophy, or in communicating the work of others to a wider audience. If the posts that appear on this site are anyth
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
“jest-monger” is my new favourite insult - kind of a subtler way of calling someone a clown… Thanks for the interesting article btw.!
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by Cybotron5000 5y ago
+1 for Miller Puckette’s book (and Pd) - might be a bit hardcore as an intro. for some, but if you’re technically inclined it’d be a great overview… If the second option is more important, there’s no substitute for messing about starting to

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