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by squabble 4y ago
The average age in the US is 26. Maybe your perspective is limited?
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by squabble 4y ago
My understanding of the pro life view is that if someone chooses to put sperm in there, they are agreeing to give up some bodily autonomy and carry the child to birth.
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by squabble 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity
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by squabble 4y ago
What if "I" woke up in someone else's body? I'm sure there are movies with this premise, where "someone" wakes up in someone else's body, but they have the memories from their previous body. But if memorie
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by squabble 4y ago
That is an interesting thought. It might depend on how you define "person". When I look around, I see distinct human bodies. When I wake up, I'm in the same body as when I went to sleep, so in that sense I'm the same per
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by squabble 4y ago
I think what I was getting at is that it may be impossible to tell from the outside if something is conscious or not. If I can't even prove to myself that another person is conscious, I might have a hard time proving that a computer is
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by squabble 4y ago
Maybe I'm the only one who is real, and everyone else are just robots. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to know for sure.
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by squabble 4y ago
Will an AI ever be able to make correct moral decisions? Or is that something only a human can do?
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by squabble 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness Consciousness is not well defined. To me, this indicates that we don't really know what's going on.
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by squabble 5y ago
https://english.pravda.ru/
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by squabble 5y ago
Ukraine should have kept their nukes or joined Nato or Russia.
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by squabble 5y ago
The timestamps can be changed by Twitter
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by squabble 5y ago
It would also be interesting to see what has been cut from episodes which are (partially?) available.
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by squabble 5y ago
They have censored a lot of his stuff.
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by squabble 5y ago
Text messaging on cell phones worked fine until Apple got involved. Now when I send a message to a relative, their response goes to my Macbook. (I have an Android phone, they have an Apple phone)
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by squabble 5y ago
In my opinion, these are bad names and we would all have saved a lot of brain power if simple and clearly meaningful names were chosen. The cultural reference in the names preserves the opinion that the choice of byte order is not worth fig
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by squabble 5y ago
I hope my surgeon doesn't have your attitude. You need to both do good work and take responsibility to communicate this to your manager. If you just do good work, but don't communicate it, your manager might not know and won'
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by squabble 5y ago
A central authority can be advantageous, until it becomes dysfunctional or prioritizes its own interests over the interests of those it serves.
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Emma Watson pro-Palestinian post sparks antisemitism row(theguardian.com)
1 points by squabble 5y ago|0 comments
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by squabble 5y ago
It's about fixing asymmetries of information and control. It's not necessarily about "centralized" vs "decentralized".
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by squabble 5y ago
Many people care about Julian Assange.
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by squabble 5y ago
The nature of reality is dramatically different from anyone's perception. Everything's going to be ok.
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Quantum physics requires imaginary numbers to explain reality(sciencenews.org)
1 points by squabble 5y ago|0 comments
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by squabble 5y ago
Get a job
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by squabble 5y ago
How do you know their intent?
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by squabble 5y ago
Amazon seems to be efficient. Maybe they should open a port.
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by squabble 5y ago
I think they mean that it reduces the complexity that a single developer has to deal with.
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by squabble 5y ago
I wonder if this situation is intentionally maintained. Does anyone benefit from it?
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by squabble 5y ago
Other than the once per year point, these all seem like reasons to make smaller PR's.
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by squabble 5y ago
Why do they put many unrelated things in the same bill? Smaller, independent pull requests seems like a better way.

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