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Like the chip-software in Gibson’s sprawl, from the micro-soft to the ROM cowboy to the Aleph, the endgame of computertool distribution is via single-use chunks of quasi-biological…

Can’t say; this set of genes didn’t produce a consciousness that cares to pass them along, I suppose

This assertion relies a bit much on overloading the definition of “life”, and I for one care more about spreading my ideas than my genes.

What are the other axes in your theory?

Artificial colorants make it easier to design visually hyperstimulating foods without having to compromise on flavor. What could the upside for the consumer be, to disrupt our evol…

I dare say autism is the pride of human intelligence.

I regret never having written a single essay in my decade of being homeschooled; it wasn’t until the last year of my bachelor’s I could even begin to appreciate the benefit to the …

I simply ask that Apple let me plug my phone into any USB-C dock and use it as if I had done the same with a MacBook.

Learn by imitation ; if you want to make DnB tracks, try and inevitably fail to recreate existing DnB that you admire. With time your failures-to-imitate will congeal into a novel …

Uh, too bad for them? What if I want a hot muscular body, but don’t want to spend the hundreds of hours running, lifting weights, planning and executing a healthy diet; and I certa…

I should rather have said, “we will solve it no sooner than …”, because certainly there are countless other ways society constrains desire to the detriment of the subject’s capacit…

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AllElectronics in CA, too. I bought out their 10k dual-taper A/C pots during their closing sale; an unusual but powerful taper for audio electronics.

I don’t regret my math minor but that didn’t go on the paper diploma …

As an American, I would not call our system healthy from a practical sense; certainly not for society, if this past decade of mounting instability, distrust, and profiteering is an…

No greater horror has ever been dispensed upon the martyrs of truth but a downwards pointed thumb

For one, a brain can’t do anything without irreversibly changing itself in the process; our reasoning is not a pure function. For a person to truly understand something they will h…

Many people hold worldviews which are ontologically incapable of co-existence with other viewpoints. By reducing discourse to intergroup sparring and affinity signaling, the interm…

In the former case it is a list of performances characterized by including Anthony Hopkins; in the middle, it is a list of performances belonging to Hopkins. The latter reads incor…

For my biology, L-theanine (200 mg) rounds out caffeine by stamping out the anxiety-inducing effect. By itself it just gives me a headache sometimes.

False humility is a form of egotism; every stated upside of Go can be equally construed as a paternalistic concession to our general failure to produce capable programmers, let alo…

What is insurance if not “overpay[ing] ‘just in case’”? What does paying a middleman benefit you in this situation?

On the contrary I think it’s quite reasonable to gate functionality behind reading the manual. But one wonders why it’s a distinct application and not integrated throughout the sys…

“Rotting” has a connotation of uncontrolled decay; cheesemaking is a well controlled process that enhances the base material.

The ease of obtaining such sounds on the cheap makes it difficult to appreciate just how cutting-edge those sounds were in Kraftwerk’s time. Making electronic drums sound good requ…