meekmind

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by meekmind 4y ago
GP invoked the modern saying "Jack of all trades, master of none." The original saying was "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." In other words, if the choice was between
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by meekmind 4y ago
I do appreciate the consistency of that perspective, it is interesting. I must respectfully disagree with those definitions. I think that consciousness ought to imply some element of choice. A rock cannot choose to get out of the way, nor i
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by meekmind 4y ago
Likely insufficient but here is a shot at a materialist answer. Consciousness is defined as an entity that has an ethical framework that is subordinated to it's own physical existence, maintaining that existence, and interfacing with o
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by meekmind 4y ago
That doesn't follow. The air is cleaner outside than inside. Usually there are more pollutants inside a household (cleaners/plastics/etc) than outside.
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by meekmind 4y ago
If the prescription of stimulants is strictly due to pollutants or "other problems of modern life" then why are boys over-represented compared to girls? "6.4 MILLION CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF FOUR AND SEVENTEEN HAVE BEEN D
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by meekmind 4y ago
A: Probably not for much longer, thus why we're pre-programming the population for genetically modified half-human half-lizard hybrids and genderless cyborgs. It can't really be because less than 2% of the population isn't fe
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by meekmind 5y ago
I think that intent matters. Misinformation is dissemination of information that may be misleading but wasn't necessarily intended to be misleading. Perhaps the author themselves lacked the pertinent data (or really believed what they
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by meekmind 5y ago
Regardless of how you feel about the objective truth, it exists. Naturally, it follows that people who engage with what exists ought to have better outcomes than those who engage in fantasy. Admittedly, when the majority of people engage in
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by meekmind 5y ago
I think perhaps they are insinuating that this is secure assuming Brave, 8x8, and/or your meeting participants are not compromised outside the scope of the application. Though I'd agree that phrase does a poor job of communicating
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by meekmind 5y ago
It's different because I identify and agree with the virtue signaling of holier-than-thou social climbers who claim to do journalism. Their views represent mine, and since I am mostly without purpose or depth, I don't make petty d
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by meekmind 5y ago
> question is simply hand-waved away I think you misunderstood me. Giving a handful of companies control over the credibility economy is not a solution and is in some ways worse than having no credibility economy at all. These "abus
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by meekmind 5y ago
I'm a little confused by this sentiment. The internet is a distributed system that, over time, became centralized into fewer and fewer hands. The internet wouldn't really function any different on a mesh network, except the nodes
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by meekmind 5y ago
Passing around PHP files via email is functionally equivalent to passing out mix-tapes on street corners. Not a good tactic when a record label right around the corner will give you world-wide distribution for free. The only string attached
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by meekmind 5y ago
I think tech companies as a general rule have proven unreliable at understanding, much less implementing, "security" in software or hardware. It's fair to say the landscape is changing but human frailty has not. If I have bee
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by meekmind 5y ago
Honestly I can't imagine any group of companies in the tech space being more resourceful than 10,000 neglected teenagers with nothing but a computer and a bad attitude. Especially after the former tells the latter that they can only do
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by meekmind 5y ago
Absolutely agree with a small nitpick. My read of (more recent) history leads me to the idea that the distinction between capitalist and communist nations incrementally eroded (think 1970s onward) until true fascism (merger of corp and stat
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by meekmind 5y ago
I've run into a very similar issue, but it was bots - not the CDN provider. Every day (to this day) we're getting thousands of requests for images that no longer exist on our CDN (because they were stale/deleted). The CDN no
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by meekmind 5y ago
They're both distributed. The fact that anyone _can_ archive anything forever reasonably excludes the assumption that it's not, accessibility/curation notwithstanding.
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by meekmind 5y ago
> The crypto community needs to address the other side of that coin Do they? Nothing is ever _really_ deleted on the good old-fashioned internet either. We can't have our cake and eat it too. Having a centralized arbiter of truth is
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by meekmind 5y ago
Like it or not Western civilization is permeated with Christian mores. As practiced in the West, large chunks of law, philosophy, and science all have historical roots in Christian culture. You can choose whether or not to understand how th
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by meekmind 5y ago
To that end, Jordan Peterson's lectures on the Bible did me personally a great service in bridging the gap between these seemingly opposed worldviews. JP is considered by many to be a Christian apologist and has done a incredible work
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by meekmind 5y ago
He's saying that it might not be getting worse due to a cost-cutting strategy, but rather an attempt to optimize the value for the most possible people.
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by meekmind 5y ago
The main selling point of October is that it is based on Laravel/symfony. For PHP developers who are already familiar with Laravel/symfony, that is a big advantage over other box software. I understand that Drupal began using symf
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by meekmind 6y ago
> how the British thought > crystallized world views that were prevalent They were prevalent because they were correct. It has nothing to do with race. By the standards of history, nothing between two civilizations is as well document
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by meekmind 6y ago
I appreciate your well reasoned response and I totally agree with almost all of it. > media literacy may not be enough I would grant that there is an intelligence distribution in the population and the capacity to acquire critical thinki
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by meekmind 6y ago
That's a fair point, however we don't reach university until after 12 years of compulsory state-run education in the U.S. By that time, many developmental windows have been missed, a persons personality is already solidified. Univ
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by meekmind 6y ago
Respectfully disagree. > media literacy just isn't enough How would we know? It's not really taught. As you pointed out later, it's not just "media literacy," it's "thinking for yourself," "cr
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by meekmind 6y ago
It is. It's possible to have two completely valid, objective, and opposed positions in an argument where multiple different groups have a vested interest in one position being more popular than the other. Which one is propaganda? The o
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by meekmind 6y ago
The hard part is getting people to organically organize according to principles, virtue, and ethics. Do that, and decentralization is a natural consequence because a principled, virtuous, and ethical people don't need centralized forms
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by meekmind 6y ago
Great comment. Thank you for spending your time writing it. A number of things occur to me when I run into articles like this. 1. "Conspiracy theory" is simply the study of illusion, which our society is replete with because.. 2.

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