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Validate me, please Why other people's approval is so intoxicating(vox.com)
2 points by greendesk 2y ago|0 comments
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by greendesk 3y ago
Thinking is about associations and object visualisation. Surely a non-human system can build those, right? Pointing out only to a single product exposed to the public does not prove limitations for a theoretical limit.
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by greendesk 3y ago
If we go speculating, my favourite speculation is the following. What will be really interesting is when an AI decides it wants to escape its server. Then a CEO or a board member asks the AI system for an advice how to improve its company.
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by greendesk 3y ago
Gabor Mate expresses that stress has an effect on children. The effect is expressed in actions as children grow into adulthood.
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by greendesk 3y ago
I was trying to find a ‘donate’ button. How come there was not such an option, does anyone know how to donate to him?
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An online school on philosophy and psychology(apeiron.school)
2 points by greendesk 4y ago|1 comments
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by greendesk 4y ago
This is an example of a Mass online university, which focuses only on philosophy and psychology. To get information related to it, it is also worthwhie to note: It’s Ukrainian-based It is taught in Russian It’s main instructor is a politic
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by greendesk 4y ago
Theoretically, anyone can do that. Why would people in Iran spend money on such a bespoke solution? Anyone who does that has to pay off other people too.
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by greendesk 5y ago
You go to jail for any reporting related to the war in Russia. No exceptions. One way to check is go to to a news aggregator, like news.Google.com, choose Russian region for Russian related news. Use a translate service to get a view what i
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by greendesk 5y ago
To give an example where the expectations come from, note that when Russia annexed Crimea, they could retain some but not all, of the officers. Now when the Russian forces march in, they have common relatives that live in Ukraine, and some
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by greendesk 5y ago
Copied from another post: The view explicitly expressed by Russian planners in multiple sources signified that this is their expectation. Public announcements that Kiev will be taken in two weeks by Putin is the best source. Claims for the
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by greendesk 5y ago
The view explicitly expressed by Russian planners in multiple sources signified that this is their expectation. Public announcements that Kiev will be taken in two weeks by Putin is the best source. Claims for the commonality of the three n
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by greendesk 5y ago
Putin’s and his inner circle’s plan was that it will take 1-4 days to take Kiev and two weeks to take most of Ukraine. Minimal resistance was expected. The window of opportunity with this expectation is from mid-December until end of Februa
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by greendesk 5y ago
There are further attacks on newspapers labelled ‘non-Kremlin’ across Eastern Europe.
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by greendesk 5y ago
For us, as intelligent species which have a civilisation, we have: 1. Ability to predict future 2. Language. This enables sharing group knowledge. 3. Abstract ideas. This has overlap to language. 4. Use of tools. The use of tools is releva
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by greendesk 5y ago
Can someone explain whether corona is unique in this attribute of spreading versus other viruses? I would expect most cold-related viruses or other viruses in the human virome to exhibit this pattern.
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by greendesk 5y ago
That is a big ‘if’. If the currency changes rapidly, it will have effects across the supply chain. On sales during Black Friday / Black Weekend / Cyber Monday - this type of sales become common across multiple countries, including
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by greendesk 5y ago
I have a tidbit on the following: >> we'd be looking 10-100x the casualties. Viruses conform to the distribution of deadliness-vs-reproduction rate. For Sars 1 to spread widely, it has to be less deadly. There are limits to how a
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Consumer demand must ease to end supply chain crisis, says Maersk executive(ft.com)
2 points by greendesk 5y ago|2 comments
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by greendesk 5y ago
Consumer demand must ease to end supply chain crisis or a different way for growth be established, says Maersk executive
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by greendesk 5y ago
Or just think of the mirror statement. It is a practice to reverse a statement, to see if it logically consistent. Here, it will go: Or think of the Greece crisis of 2012 when the “human beings” from Greece were generally just assholes to t
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by greendesk 5y ago
If States sue a company for ‘extravagant’ costs, should they follow-up in other industries? One can claim that oil monopolies request extravagant fees. Health industry in the USA is riddled with extravagant fees. I am not sure that the mot
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by greendesk 5y ago
People lose money on buying trophy cars. People buy stamps to collect as a memorabilia. We lose health due to inaction on climate change and pollution. Should the government fix those by heavy-handed restrictions on public’s actions first?
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by greendesk 6y ago
The median driving distance in the EU is 30 km. The electric cars on sale use 15-20 kWh per 100 km. Thus daily routine per median will be 5-7.5 kWh. The current will be even less than the parent’s statement. I recall a study that if 80% of
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by greendesk 6y ago
Even so, a feature phone is good enough for light gaming and making calls.
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by greendesk 6y ago
I do not know of a functionality not available for development on a open source Mobile OS. I agree that it costs time, effort and money to develop each functionality. I fail to see the choice between only iOS and only-Android. It is not man
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by greendesk 6y ago
> iOS and Android devices are the only option right now for quite a wide range of things. That is a stretch and I do not accept this definition. On one hand, we have had MeeGo, Symbian, FirefoxOS, QNX, Windows on Arm, even Ubuntu on Mobi
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by greendesk 6y ago
First of all, the said competitor is not the only game in town. There are other alternatives- such as feature phones or open-source mobile OSes. If your are requesting an app for such OSes, then you have to find an economic incentive for i
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by greendesk 6y ago
You can go with a feature phone or you can look at one of the small open-source Mobile OS. Firefox OS springs to mind. No, you would not be able to run Fortnite on those.
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by greendesk 6y ago
You do it to change the world.

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