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This comments and many of the others on this thread strike me as written by people who have either never worked at a real restaurant and/or tend to order bland and fatty food (eat …

Yeah I cant imagine a use case for this

Perhaps they mean the finger thumb box thing bartenders do when asking for your ID?

Because they cost time and money to implement and there is no incentive to avoid data breaches. This should be up to legislation, if we as a society actually care about privacy we …

Ahh yes two decades ago there was some issues. This clearly makes any disaster preparedness advice from this organization totally useless. You know what while we are at it we shoul…

Maybe you should trust information from FEMA for instance? Or just the Department of Homeland Security in general? While there is certainly an aspect of consumerism in some prepper…

Runoff from mining? Activist groups I'm sympathetic to have been screaming for years about certain types of mining specifically open pit mining obliterating watersheds. At a guess …

Why? How is that relevant? Isnt it well established that open source security research is the number one way to have a secure app/ecosystem? Why should tooling be kept secret when …

Your primary source of face time should not be coming from your work.

> Are you saying that these two claims have some sort of scientific ~proofs No. I think this statement is a conclusion only indirectly supported by scientific fact. This is a logic…

So yeah I dont disagree with you that attempting to exert control over oneself is a desirable thing or that it generally results in things that wouldnt have happened if one didnt w…

Still not entirely sure what exactly youre getting at here. Yes what I am describing is my opinion which I have formed from looking at evidence. My opinion isnt really a measuremen…

Well most of the explanations I personally am interested in have a public and therefore high epistemic value. Since they are published and repeatable. Certain behavioral tests or s…

Im not really sure what you mean here, could you elaborate?

> How would thinking be determined by exterior stimulus, when we all vary to some extent to the same stimulus? Because, and this may shock you: we are not all the same person You m…

Yes it is indeed possible that in that small and shrinking gap of behavior that isnt explained by some complex set of circumstances and stimuli there lies some magic immaterial sou…

Theres actually a ton of different ways. The most obvious is probably MRIs of which many have been conducted with the subject having a huge variety of different stimulus. Then ther…

"Clearly" refers to the obviousness or self-evidence of the statement. In this context, "just" means "similarly" or "in the same way," or ig "exactly" if you like. "Clearly" becaus…

Thinking isnt even a path to "free will". Thinking is pretty clearly determined by exterior stimulus just like feeling is.

Not only that but Israel is keeping the ratio of civilian to combatant casualties well within the acceptable norm for this type of combat. Claims of genocide undermine actual criti…

You dont lose lift in a barrel roll, you merely change the direction that lift is being generated.

Does it? The sophons are capped at light speed though they communicate FTL. The whole curvature propulsion I thought had the ships moving at light speed, not exceeding it. Three Bo…

Yeah I guess it has FTL but its not really FTL in the same way I think GP meant. It could just as easily be simulation or something else. Its not warp or hyperdrive and it doesnt r…

Its really not hard! I am with GP in that most scifi with FTL comes off as silly, perhaps fun and well written but not to be taken seriously in the sense of its worldbuilding being…

This is baseless fearmongering. This has been talked to death here and elsewhere. First this overestimates the capabilities of AI second it misses the historical precedent set by t…