philipov

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by philipov 4d ago
The approximation is the belief that things can happen simultaneously. It is approximating along the fact that we only need to concern ourselves with a single reference frame. I think the difference in the scenario you proposed is that we c
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by philipov 4d ago
As an approximation it can be fine to speak that way in practical matters, but it's dangerous to go drawing any deep conclusions while doing so. Approximations shouldn't be allowed to go outside their operational parameters.
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by philipov 4d ago
It's not semantics, it's an approximation. Events that happen on the same planet are not relativistically distant, so such approximations are mostly fine in our daily lives; the same as how Newtonian gravity is fine to use in many
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by philipov 4d ago
The idea driving this conclusion is called the Relativity of Simultaneity - There is no absolute notion that two events happened "at the same time". You want to say that a distant event occurred at the same time as a nearby event
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by philipov 5d ago
It matters. The alternative is to use a product that doesn't leak your business intelligence to third parties.
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by philipov 6d ago
Would that company then sell that data back to Google? The consolidation of control of information under a single actor is certainly a factor, but it's not that simple, and it's not the only factor. You shouldn't be so eager
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by philipov 7d ago
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
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by philipov 8d ago
Nero was just a poor boy who wanted to play the fiddle. Are you sure Caligula isn't a better comparison? He's the one who constantly tried to own the ̶l̶i̶b̶s̶ senate. That's what the whole deal with the horse was about.
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by philipov 11d ago
"It was a big step up on my career and put me in a better position to provide for my family, which is my most important moral duty" is what every one of them will say.
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by philipov 12d ago
Nonprofit doesn't mean you don't pay your employees. Nonprofits earn and spend money like any other corporation, including paying permanent fulltime staff. Not everything can be done by volunteers. What they don't do is rewar
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by philipov 13d ago
and Lenovo is itself an IBM spinoff. After the company rebranded itself to Lenovo, it merged with IBM's PC business which produced its ThinkPad line in 2005, after which it rapidly expanded abroad. In 2013, Lenovo became the world
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by philipov 14d ago
> The owners/workers at AI companies won't resist the redistribution. I find this to be a somewhat incredible claim. I don't find it easy to believe such a thing. You can bring up enlightened self interest if you want, b
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by philipov 14d ago
Doesn't that just shift the problem away from incentivizing humans to incentivizing the godkings who own the robots? The scarcity becomes robot manufacturing. Why should the owners undermine the value of their robots by providing free
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by philipov 14d ago
When was the last time the United States had a famine caused by there not being enough food rather than because we decided certain people don't deserve food? Everything you named is a political problem caused by the desire to concentra
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by philipov 14d ago
There is no such thing as a post-scarcity world. Some resources are inherently scarce, such as social status, lifetime, or political power. As a result, even when productivity increases the benefits are hoarded by the few who wish to stand
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by philipov 14d ago
Valve doesn't randomly remove stuff I've payed for from my library. Even when the ability to purchase something goes away, people who already bought it keep access to it.
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by philipov 16d ago
And this is precisely the business model that platforms like Patreon and Kickstarter facilitate.
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by philipov 16d ago
I'm betting that High-End Concept will win the race over Saab.
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by philipov 17d ago
Could you name a few of the best ones?
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by philipov 18d ago
We have both. Zero and Null are different data types.
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by philipov 22d ago
I make typos all the time as well, on stuff I am just writing off the cuff like a forum or chat message. But when it comes to something important, don't you check it over dozens of times? hundreds of times? A mere missing semicolon wil
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by philipov 22d ago
typos mean it's more likely to have been made by a careless human.
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by philipov 25d ago
The mass is more than the sum of its parts, and if only a small minority exercise critical thinking they will be overwhelmed by the whole. As the great comic wrote - those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, but those
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by philipov 1mo ago
Which company is capitalizing on GitHub's lack of leadership?
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by philipov 1mo ago
Will you have spent more time working a deadend job than with your family?
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by philipov 1mo ago
Definitely using codepen. I can manipulate the scaling and view the html and css windows and stuff. I'm not using the latest firefox version, but it's not like this is a new feature right?
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by philipov 1mo ago
yeah, I see the square jellyfish image inside the red square, but nothing changes when I hover.
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by philipov 1mo ago
> Here is a demo where you can hover the image to show/hide the overflow: Is something supposed to happen when I hover my mouse over the image? Because nothing happens. I'm using Firefox.
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by philipov 1mo ago
"- the spectre of communism. All the powers of old encoding have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre..."
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by philipov 1mo ago
If information is totally wrong then all you have to do is invert it to get the truth. What was it that Sherlock Holmes said? The problem ends up being that it often takes a tremendous number of counterexamples to eliminate everything that

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