MeImCounting

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by MeImCounting 2y ago
This comments and many of the others on this thread strike me as written by people who have either never worked at a real restaurant and/or tend to order bland and fatty food (eat like a toddler) by default when they patronize restaura
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yeah I cant imagine a use case for this
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Perhaps they mean the finger thumb box thing bartenders do when asking for your ID?
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Because they cost time and money to implement and there is no incentive to avoid data breaches. This should be up to legislation, if we as a society actually care about privacy we need to give data privacy laws some teeth and start really e
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Ahh yes two decades ago there was some issues. This clearly makes any disaster preparedness advice from this organization totally useless. You know what while we are at it we should all reject libraries, freeways, the park service, and the
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Maybe you should trust information from FEMA for instance? Or just the Department of Homeland Security in general? While there is certainly an aspect of consumerism in some prepper communities the actually serious people tend to default to
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Runoff from mining? Activist groups I'm sympathetic to have been screaming for years about certain types of mining specifically open pit mining obliterating watersheds. At a guess I would say either new mining interests are being devel
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Why? How is that relevant? Isnt it well established that open source security research is the number one way to have a secure app/ecosystem? Why should tooling be kept secret when another team can potentially find more exploits using t
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Your primary source of face time should not be coming from your work.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
> Are you saying that these two claims have some sort of scientific ~proofs No. I think this statement is a conclusion only indirectly supported by scientific fact. This is a logical leap from more and more behaviors and internal states
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
So yeah I dont disagree with you that attempting to exert control over oneself is a desirable thing or that it generally results in things that wouldnt have happened if one didnt work to have control over ones cognition, behavior etc. This
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Still not entirely sure what exactly youre getting at here. Yes what I am describing is my opinion which I have formed from looking at evidence. My opinion isnt really a measurement in the sense that one can measure activity in parts of a b
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Well most of the explanations I personally am interested in have a public and therefore high epistemic value. Since they are published and repeatable. Certain behavioral tests or self-report surveys on the other hand have lower value becaus
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Im not really sure what you mean here, could you elaborate?
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
> How would thinking be determined by exterior stimulus, when we all vary to some extent to the same stimulus? Because, and this may shock you: we are not all the same person You make an excellent point that people respond differently to
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yes it is indeed possible that in that small and shrinking gap of behavior that isnt explained by some complex set of circumstances and stimuli there lies some magic immaterial soul that grants the ineffable quality of free will. Bbbut sinc
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Theres actually a ton of different ways. The most obvious is probably MRIs of which many have been conducted with the subject having a huge variety of different stimulus. Then theres the good old fashioned behavioral studies ranging from th
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
"Clearly" refers to the obviousness or self-evidence of the statement. In this context, "just" means "similarly" or "in the same way," or ig "exactly" if you like. "Clearly" becaus
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Thinking isnt even a path to "free will". Thinking is pretty clearly determined by exterior stimulus just like feeling is.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Not only that but Israel is keeping the ratio of civilian to combatant casualties well within the acceptable norm for this type of combat. Claims of genocide undermine actual criticisms of israels handling of this whole situation.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
You dont lose lift in a barrel roll, you merely change the direction that lift is being generated.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Does it? The sophons are capped at light speed though they communicate FTL. The whole curvature propulsion I thought had the ships moving at light speed, not exceeding it. Three Body has plenty of clarketech but most of the drama comes from
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yeah I guess it has FTL but its not really FTL in the same way I think GP meant. It could just as easily be simulation or something else. Its not warp or hyperdrive and it doesnt really violate the internal consistency of the world buildi
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Its really not hard! I am with GP in that most scifi with FTL comes off as silly, perhaps fun and well written but not to be taken seriously in the sense of its worldbuilding being immersive or intriguing. Almost all my favorite books almos
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
This is baseless fearmongering. This has been talked to death here and elsewhere. First this overestimates the capabilities of AI second it misses the historical precedent set by the creation of other GPTs throughout history. Yes some peopl
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I would be happy to kiss crypto goodbye and though AI might be stifled it would still be developed further just with a mind to efficiency. This is because it has actual real world uses unlike crypto.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Polyethylene is similarly a good shield because its got high hydrogen content so is pretty good at moderating neutrons. I image a polyethylene structure containing a layer of water is probably something like what we'll end up settling
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Indeed. This means upholding international law wherever possible as thats the biggest single mechanism thats kept us in something approaching peacetime for all these years. This means holding our allies to a higher standard than those who o
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
“Piles of bloody clothing had been cut off and dumped out of the way in corners; coffee cups and cigarette stubs littered the decks, plasma bottles hung from cords, and all the fearful surgical apparatus for holding broken bones made shadow
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
The problem is that paradoxically, thicker shields can cause higher doses of radiation due to secondary radiation production. Theres a balance there to minimizing primary and secondary dosage but you cant really get it below a certain thres

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