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by nota_bene 11y ago
I'm done writing stuff online. Good luck to y'all.
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by nota_bene 11y ago
Mandatory hardware based backdoors, unlimited funding for CPU power to accelerate decryption of intercepted data, etc.
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by nota_bene 11y ago
This seems to eternally remain relevant: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/fear-of-terror-makes-...
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by nota_bene 11y ago
> That is exactly why I don't share it. I think the best way to handle this dilemma is to try to sense which of your friends and family members are most open-minded and to start with those. (Personally, I feel like once you've
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by nota_bene 11y ago
I don't practice religion anymore, but understand 100% of your experience and fully agree (before my experience, this would have been some sort of "ridiculous new age blah blah" to me).
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by nota_bene 11y ago
I fully agree, this is the "other window" I know of (I would say though that it is a different window, it adds something different, neither better nor worse ). And it physiologically rewires your brain - for the better, as yo
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by nota_bene 11y ago
This leads to the question "How can we get rid of social anxiety?": Other human beings are a subset of your environment. So you may ask "How can I improve my perception of my environment?". This is (only) 1 of the many b
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by nota_bene 11y ago
This is extremely interesting, because the effect which is proven in this study is (only) 1 of the many beneficial aspects from the experience you live through when you ingest the substance LSD: Handled the right way, you can experience the
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by nota_bene 11y ago
> happiness is kinda pointless and ephemeral Ephemeral? Yes. Pointless? No: If you are happier, you'll make people around you happier. If everybody tries to achieve that, we'll have a much saner society. Thus, we should take it
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by nota_bene 11y ago
> Neurological changes? Yes, see: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to...
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by nota_bene 11y ago
> It's starutp-scene-connected-tech-heavy-news more than anything else. Yes, and that's because it is a very powerful marketing tool for Paul Graham's huge YC business.
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by nota_bene 11y ago
Isn't the first question to ask "Can I trust Windows?" (and the answer "no", for all the obvious reasons)?
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by nota_bene 11y ago
Realistically, we have to assume this, given the fact that this is the approach used by the "five eyes".
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by nota_bene 11y ago
Don't forget that borders are becoming less important. Corporate interests don't care about borders and national interests.
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Dark web marketplace “Agora” shuts down over security concerns(bbc.com)
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Windows 10 Is a Tool to Spy on Everything You Do(youtube.com)
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by nota_bene 11y ago
I'm not downvoting. I'm not pro-cheating either. People should have sexual freedom and be open about it with their partners, if they feel the need for it, to be happy. I see the need for privacy at all level of our lives. Unless w
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by nota_bene 11y ago
Could be that I'm naive as well, but personally, I hope that people will finally get the message Snowden tried to pass and in the process sacrificed his future (and maybe even his life) for: We're about to abandon our privacy.
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by nota_bene 11y ago
Snowden has risked his life and will be forced to remain paranoid for the entire rest of his life. His cause is noble and 100% justified. He did it for society, for us . What did we do to thank him? We labelled him a traitor and showed no
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by nota_bene 11y ago
Spot on. I don't get it. It's become so obvious and people still seem to categorically refuse to admit the elephant in the room and to act upon it. It's as if everybody was in some kind of unbreakable state of permanent cog
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by nota_bene 11y ago
And quantum physics will stop being weird once we get its rule set (lightning and thunder had God status, once).
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by nota_bene 11y ago
> If A harms B, then your argument is that B has no right to retaliate it Yes and no. Yes, because no judgment allowed means no punishment allowed. But: the correct answer to A's action would be a sanction against A, in the sense
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by nota_bene 11y ago
> If some choose not to apply guilt or blame to others, well, then that was also in the cards. Correct. Like this discussion and everything logically was also "in the cards". So, yes, in a sense "it does not matter",
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by nota_bene 11y ago
All correct, except: > as societies we act pretty illogical It just looks that way on the surface. Below the surface, you can track all decisions back to their causes (down to "the smallest" scope).
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by nota_bene 11y ago
> I would think that "free will" is developed If you see life as a 4-dimensional network of variables linked through "cause and effect", then there is no place for a "free" variable which could introduce fre
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by nota_bene 11y ago
> Historical guilt and merit still exist in the absence of free will Historical guilt and merit would simply be the sum of all guilt and merit of a society, meaning actually the sum of a lot of nothing...
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by nota_bene 11y ago
> if we discovered that we have no free will we'd still have free will to act on a certain way upon it No because we'd actually act upon it because of purely logical chains (1) of cause and effect, not free will. -- (1) Or rath
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by nota_bene 11y ago
The issue with (2) is that the physical state of our body and brain is a function of all past and current surroundings and context (including our genome). Which means it can never be independent, but is instead fully defined.
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by nota_bene 11y ago
Where you're correct is: We can never prove the absence of free will, because we can never understand then entirety of our environment (how the universe "really works", etc.). But when you take what we know today and appl
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by nota_bene 11y ago
What's worst is when people leave worthless comments like these.

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