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yeah, while i personally suspect that a high enough fidelity simulation would be comparably conscious, and i think we should certainly err on the side assuming that's the case from…

> It's kind of a stupid idea for anti-racists to even keep using the term, given that the group has no identity outside of defunct 20th century pseudoscience notions of race and pr…

it's a hard thing to keep in mind and execute on, even if you know it consciously. i think people in general can often have too much of a move fast and break things attitude, and i…

> The Game Cartridge yeah, i was slightly surprised that jerry lawson (inventor of the game cartridge) wasn't mentioned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawson_(engineer)

> "Orthogonal" suggests no connection but what I see above is a list of package managers that don't have namespacing. correlation does not equal causation. how is it not apparent t…

> if most people are searching for the truth wouldn't it be better to give them both sides of the issue and have them decide for themselves? i think the wording of this is insuffic…

> Frankly, if you're waiting my table and I need more water, you should bring me more water. is the logic here that as a software developer, your quality of life should certainly b…

indeed

like... i get that this is technically true, but you see how the addition of an infrared camera to the mix makes things much more cumbersome? or rather, do you see how obviating th…

> but look around next time you go out there are cameras _everywhere_ > You may not think those cameras matter, but let's be honest, many people have access to the data feed throug…

> The state of developing and maintaining accessible web applications feels like a sad joke given the industry's mantra to make the world a better, more connected place. this also …

a few things: * you're trying to focus on being data-driven, but then you posit that i should watch a bunch of anecdotes collected in a non-scientific way to get perspective? would…

two things: >> Before the vaccine, measles infected more than 3 million Americans and killed more than 400 of them each year. One in four people who get measles are likely to be ho…

hearsay from my car enthusiast friends and this cursory internet search contradict that claim. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=modify+ECU&t=ffab&ia=web

that is one point of view. another point of view is that freedom to tinker and repair shouldn't be limited to the super-rich, and that what you're describing isn't practical for th…

presumably they have to do some refurbishing and rehab when they get it back anyway. why not re-flash all the software then? or, somewhat more draconian, add in explicit penalties …

> If we passed a law outlawing targeted advertisement driven by behavior tracking, and Facebook ignored that law, a $20B fine would be reasonable to me. And I'd be OK with that law…

reproducibility should be something that's baked into an experiment's design. so, if their experiment was designed such that reproduction is inherently difficult, they should have …

also, take a page from our transit providers: "if you see something, say something." and be proactive about it. don't wait till it's too late. if we're all whistleblowers, people h…

sandboxing may not be perfect, but it provides an important layer of protection. it takes effort to break out of a sandbox. if the protections that sandboxing offered were so flims…

if you like something or think it's important, and you want the internet to preserve it for posterity, force it to be crawled by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org (usual…

sneakernet is still a useful thing for large transfers (even in literal walking distance, sometimes). like if i'm sending a large file to a person in the same office or house, i mi…

ah, yeah, well, sorry. maybe don't chase that rabbit like that next time? also i find the "rabbit hole" metaphor and a username beginning with "dbased" to be pretty "on the nose" i…