naringas

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by naringas 5y ago
but with individualism we can form a better collective. however it is harder to do, takes longer to get there, and there are some tough patches on the way. because quality takes time and effort (and always encounters failure along its path)
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by naringas 5y ago
but the vast majority of those "lo" would be the male article not the neuter.
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by naringas 5y ago
while the article is factually incorrect when claiming that Spanish has no neutral gender at all. It's also true that "lo" is seldom used in Spanish and there are almost no neutral nouns (like in german).
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by naringas 5y ago
there's a steady droll of anti-free software going on. I take it to mean that commercial interests are stronger that potential gains enabled by new technological forms of collaboration. We (as a society) are 'choosing' to kee
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by naringas 5y ago
I was assuming that there would be law in China that clearly stated this as a legal requirement? Also, I have this perspective in which, given the case that this is a corrupt practice, it ends up as a form of taxation (corrupt taxation, but
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by naringas 5y ago
I was thinking about a comment I read here, that claimed that in China companies have to hire party members because is the politically correct thing to do. And that got me thinking how in "the west" companies have to hire lawyers
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by naringas 5y ago
microtonal harmonic grids free from the rigors of 12-tet (i.e. midi, i.e. the keyboard) but don't get me wrong, 12-tet is an incredible accomplishment on its own. but it's what it is because of (now obsolete) physical constraints
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by naringas 5y ago
"These "investors," who have zero industry skills or expertise, take advantage of a [insert economic activity]-as-a-service (?aaS) model to gain sophisticated capabilities" The type of billionaire individuals who by virt
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by naringas 5y ago
maybe it's one of the perks of controlling the world's reserve currency?
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by naringas 5y ago
the next civilization game HAS TO use a deep learning based AI. it. simply. must.
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by naringas 5y ago
This seems to be by design. (or at least a consequence of economic incentives which are politically defined and individual but enacted by the selfish behavior of individuals (specially compnay-size "individuals"). rant-on: the ind
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by naringas 5y ago
very reminiscent of 'freemason'-style secrecy
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by naringas 5y ago
I recall reading in some random internet place that the Nazis also went on wild goose chases in the Himalayas... might have been a conspiracy forum (which means this "factoid" may be discarded at will; and some might argue that th
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by naringas 5y ago
> what led to such extreme situations I think it's more plausibly a gradual slippery slope. the kind of slope you don't notice
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by naringas 6y ago
What about the role of the parents? (the king and queen?) IMO they handle Elsa's powers in the worst way possible. The trolls sublty hint at what not to do: "fear is the worse you can do"; then they do exactly that. She'
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by naringas 6y ago
I see two sides: the numericals and the algebraists. I've talked with people who also see these two sides but call them differently. As I see it, this book is closer to the algebraists side. Thus, you probably lean closer to the nuemer
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by naringas 6y ago
there was a project but it seems abandoned https://github.com/patoline/patoline
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by naringas 6y ago
there's an aspect of readability that is in the eye of the reader. I've been thinking about this a lot. often I hear (specially old-guard) hackers talking about easy and simplicity but they really mean it's familiar to them.
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by naringas 6y ago
> It is just a tool, like a hammer or chainsaw, that serves a greater purpose. I think it's better analogy to think of it as a technique, like a somersault or a cartwheel. but I'm just nitpicking.
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by naringas 6y ago
> Since AIs are smarter than humans, why bother teaching humans at all? Unless there is a point where a developed human brain could outsmart the AI, it seems to be a waste and emotionally guided. taking this point and running off with it
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by naringas 6y ago
> the user has control over their Mac. for now, because observing the current trends, they'll likely won't for much longer... all for the sake of safety and convenience.
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by naringas 6y ago
from a very broad conceptual viewpoint; "the law" exist from (or out of) written language (where "language" is seen as a social-technology). what computer technology and the internet (or for short: software) is doing to
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by naringas 6y ago
I guess so did machine guns and all ways to kill more people for cheaper and with more effectiveness (rockets, etc..). then again, it doesn't matter; they're here to stay, cat's out of the bag.
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by naringas 6y ago
so empty space on a galactic scale might have measurable weight?? emtpy space does have energy and energy equals mass
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by naringas 6y ago
> and may spend the next ten or twenty years aggressively fighting against it regardless of its merits. it seems more accurate to say that they retire and the new generation of physics professors are more open to those ideas because they
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by naringas 6y ago
so... might makes right?
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by naringas 6y ago
well, he was downvoted. but not overwhelmining so; let's call it controversial. > And who exactly has been fired for "believing male and female are real concepts"? I recall some kind of minor debacle about a Stack Overflow
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by naringas 6y ago
"we can spy, but you can't" --"1st world" western powers There must be a more modern term than "1st world", I just don't know it.
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by naringas 6y ago
what if... the soviets had had an internet and computers? what would have come from central planning? would it have been a failure? Maybe the chinese will answer this questions...
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by naringas 6y ago
I would argue that many of these changes the world is going throught are technological in principle. the perpsective that the pandemic merely accelerated already ongoing trends towards remote work, and the growth of internet-centric society

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