antepodius

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by antepodius 1y ago
The point of the article is that this does not have to be the case, and is not the case for all software.
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by antepodius 5y ago
In a classical computer, every bit of information in the system is in a definite state- 1 or 0. In a quantum system with such definite possible states, what you actually have most of the time of the system in some interpolation of the poss
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by antepodius 5y ago
The kid can go outside, go to establishments with friends...
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by antepodius 6y ago
I doubt a guy running ship-building is 'bound by dogma'. The consumers are the ones who need to be brainwashed into buying new stuff every 20 minutes; the producers don't need to be convinced into some grand story in order t
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by antepodius 6y ago
"The medium is the message." The possible shapes of a river are determined by the underlying landscape.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Yes. People in close proximity are in competition. When technology makes the whole world your neighbour, you're at war with the whole world.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Yeah. Until we've tiled the solar system with solar panels, fusion reactors, and people, we're not done with local growth. Of course, Earth's surface would be converted first, and you might want to treat that as an external
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by antepodius 6y ago
1930s Germany didn't hate the japanese, despite them being very different from them (appearance, culture). Instead, they hated the German/european jews, who were basically visually indistinguishable.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Is it? If everyone in a country used FOSS apps rather than paying (in money, data, or letting ads into their heads) for proprietary ones, wouldn't that country's people be better off? And nobody's saying there can't be
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by antepodius 6y ago
It's not so clear to me that the abbatoir of nature is that great, inherently. You could probably make a decent moral case for wiping out all life on earth, should there be no prospects for it to transcend the bloodbath and disease an
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by antepodius 6y ago
It's insane to talk about ending growth when we haven't even put down colonies in the sahara.
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by antepodius 6y ago
If electric cars really are more practical, we'll see that reflected in their adoption.
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by antepodius 6y ago
The viewport can be filled neatly by html/css. No javascript required.
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by antepodius 6y ago
I reckon that eventually, there'll be 'lab-grown' meat that tastes better than animal-grown meat, while being healthier. Humans are omnivorous; we're presumably adapted for some amount of animal protein. Even if meat-e
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by antepodius 6y ago
To filter out idiots and the lazy. 'Normies'.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Yes, stay home, consume product, and order your sex toys off of amazon.
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by antepodius 6y ago
People want to drink, and those who want to drink the most will also be the least reserved about what they drink. It's the circle of life!
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by antepodius 6y ago
The powers that be will ban alcohol and encourage replacing it with weed. Bezos & co. will swill their wine much more contentedly when the population's nice and doped up, rather than drunk and wild.
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by antepodius 6y ago
US schools don't need more funding, they need to be burned to the ground.
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by antepodius 6y ago
HE DOES IT FOR FREE
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by antepodius 6y ago
More of your friends than you think hide their true thoughts and opinions from you, because they (often correctly) expect social censure if they reveal them.
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by antepodius 6y ago
In the end, the geometry does imply that for a given reproduction rate, you eventually reach a crunch where there's not enough surface area of new space to expand to for your colonists, who are proportional to your volume. Being uploa
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by antepodius 6y ago
Don't worry; the lockdowns will never stop.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Particular environments encourage different behavious in people. A lot of people in jail do things they wouldn't outside.
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by antepodius 6y ago
It's more that we're able to build computers from scratch, and we can transfer data between them. You can ship-of-theseus-backup yourself ad infinitum (well, until the usable energy runs out.)
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by antepodius 6y ago
No, there was a sizeable contingent who said that all lives have value and celebrating a man's death was demeaning.
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by antepodius 6y ago
I feel like that's just a way to cope with the horror of death.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Seems like the move for hackernews people is to pre-emptively move to high land (Tibet?) and not take out loans.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Are you talking about the counterparty taking 'physical' people hostage and torturing them? Because that sort of runs counter to 'everyone is invulnerable and immortal'. Or about them running sentient hell-simulations fo
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by antepodius 6y ago
Grain-fed free-range vegans, ethically bow-hunted, marbled meat

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