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by randomsilence 4y ago
Nature could act as a filter. If you reach industrial production and you destroy nature, your entire planet may die. So only civilizations that have some level of respect for life itself may pass the barrier where they can build megastructu
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by randomsilence 4y ago
Do all participants have iPhones? Apple could have an almost complete social graph. If Y Smith is the common acquaintance between you and your friend, then it would be the best second suggestion if you want to share something in that part o
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by randomsilence 4y ago
Off-topic: If YOLO and you want to join Google, wouldn't that be motivation to study?
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by randomsilence 4y ago
>and psychokinesis (which consists of effects like metal bending). Can I bend cutlery and coins? Sure, but I heed Cassidy’s advice, and I don’t. If I step onstage and bend a fork with my brain, it makes everything too unbelievable. “You
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by randomsilence 4y ago
Choose a supplier with a 100Mbit limit and unlimited bandwidth.
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by randomsilence 4y ago
Do you know https://webassembly-studio.kamenokosoft.com/ ? I don't know if it compiles in the browser or on a server.
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by randomsilence 4y ago
>Some offsets may come down in price due to economies of scale, but they will never be cheaper than “no offset” There is one: pricing carbons out of the energy market. If there is e.g. so much progress in carbon fibers that all construct
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by randomsilence 4y ago
IBM has Eclipse. Not only is it an underhanded offense towards Sun, but IBM has shown that they are not willing to push the software to its best possible state. Eclipse is nice but JetBrains' products and Visual Studio Code are nicer.
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by randomsilence 4y ago
HN makes sense because votes shouldn't decide about the value of a comment. That's why the votes are hidden. You would destroy threads where people reply to your 'bad' comments. Github on the other hand doesn't make
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by randomsilence 4y ago
Have you tried contacting the developers? This seems like a feature that every pdf viewer should have.
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by randomsilence 4y ago
Also related, taking compassion one step further: Study conspiracy theories with compassion https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00879-w https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30859796
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by randomsilence 4y ago
>If I have empathy toward you, it will be painful if you’re suffering. It will be exhausting. It will lead me to avoid you and avoid helping. But if I feel compassion for you, I’ll be invigorated. I’ll be happy and I’ll try to make your
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by randomsilence 4y ago
Why do we accept the risk of intrusion from antivirus software at all? All antivirus software developers should open-source their traversal software and thus guarantee that no harm can be done. The scanning doesn't need write access an
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by randomsilence 4y ago
Just why do they care about the profit margins? Alphabet has several companies that are not as profitable as Google. If the low margins destroy morale within Google, then they could have transferred all of their experiments to another compa
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by randomsilence 4y ago
If you cannot trust the network, where is the advantage of keypairs over passwords? If you have a one-time password, worse case is that some man in the middle gets that password. If you engage in a proof of private key ownership for your lo
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by randomsilence 4y ago
That's funny: Their slogan: >try Neeva, 100% ad-free search engine, Totally private Their founders: >Neeva was founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy (ex-SVP of Ads at Google) and Vivek Raghunathan (ex-VP of Monetization at YouTube). They
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by randomsilence 4y ago
>>What else might be possible? This comes very close to: >Fisher feared that we were losing our ability to conceptualize a tomorrow that was radically different from our present. On the other hand, HN's 'What to Submit&#x
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by randomsilence 4y ago
>Buzzfeed said quarterly revenue grew 18% year over year to $146 million. Profit rose to $41.6 million It's not the organization, just the division. News is responsible for the very good image that Buzzfeed has. Why do they give it
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Google has prepared counter-moves for every step of your path. E.g. can you guarantee (2) against all moves Google could make? Even if you succeed in securing an island of quality content: How big is your audience? I don't remember the
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Check the 'Small or non-commercial Web' search engines on this overview page: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
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by randomsilence 5y ago
This reads as if innovation can simply be bought. Why should Intel be able to buy back leadership when China is trying the same without much success?
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Why can't most people open a server on DigitalOcean or Vultr where the price is $0.01 per GB? 117 Subscribers, for $300 per month, it's almost possible to start a VM per customer.
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Indeed, why does Google not use their full stack? Other competitors have the problem that SEO agencies can flood the feedback with manipulated data. However, with Android, Google knows the identity of enough people that they can identify th
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by randomsilence 5y ago
>have properties its parts do not have on their own That could already be the root of the problem. The properties don't come out of nothing. They must already be in the parts. The mind is already in the genes and in each cell. We ju
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by randomsilence 5y ago
>The idea of venting can be traced as far back as Aristotle, but Freud is the one who really popularized the notion of catharsis. Most of what we assume about the need to “let it out” comes from his assertions about the danger of unexpre
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Every night temperatures drop much more than the temperature increases from the hydrocarbon consumption. Are you sure that the energy of the hydrocarbons is the problem and not the greenhouse effect?
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by randomsilence 5y ago
This seems like a constructive approach: >This course is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes. Whereas, at least in parts, the brain seems to work 'reductively&
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by randomsilence 5y ago
All that freed, formerly captured carbon comes from trees and plankton. How could burning it all lead to life-destroying conditions when life must have been able to exist under those conditions?
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by randomsilence 5y ago
Similarly: >Showgirls was a critical failure upon release, panned for its acting (particularly Berkley's), characters, dance numbers, directing, plot, screenplay and sex scenes and is consistently ranked as one of the worst films ev
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by randomsilence 5y ago
>While a developing mammalian brain grows by just getting bigger — “inflating like it’s a balloon” — the zebra fish brain almost turns itself inside out “like a popcorn kernel, so those deep centers are up near the surface where we can i

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