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dangitnotagain

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    Comment #37119443

    It’s more likely to encourage the war against open source. Come on, tell me you haven’t noticed there’s a secret war brewing to supplant open source. The day shall come when we may…

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    Comment #37110530

    From landing page: > Hello guys, We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site. The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in ou…

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    Comment #37109462

    100 For efficient capture of the gamma release that is. We might just get steam power within the next decade.

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    Comment #37109356

    And then there is that guy that points out the conspiracy to supplant every suspicion that nefarious actors plot against the unsuspecting masses of all others. There are conspirato…

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    Comment #37088890

    We cannot trust humans to tell the Truth. Better yet, can we ourselves deduce Truth? So separately is LLM capable of discerning and manipulating Truth? No, not alone. Humans are no…

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    Comment #37088734

    Ye of little perspective! That blasted corpratocracy which feeds upon our dreams has buckled. The trend has pulled a groin, over reach you see. There is an inevitability which cres…

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    Comment #37041262

    Passwordsafe/password Gorilla(Apple) It’s been around for ages, I don’t know how well supported today, though it is what you asked for!

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    Comment #37036883

    > a mass migration of humanity to a new cognitive frontier Yes, something is happening yet I don’t see the relevant causes or consequences exposed. There is a self of “super-consci…

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    Comment #36994163

    There is a lecture series “Astronomy, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe” by James Kaler which is quite excellent. Recorded Books has the Modern Scholar Series, which one might obta…

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    Comment #36988202

    Getting the work done. Get the work done. Do the work. Finish it.

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    Comment #36953852

    The problem is not that Truth is impossible to find, rather that undeceiving the self is difficult. The Truth is a perturbation of Objective Reality (the state resolve of universal…

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    Comment #36938385

    Once while looking for ‘On the consolation of Philosophy’, by Boethius I came across the near title ‘The Consolations of Philosophy’ by Alain de Botton. After having self studied p…

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    Comment #36917922

    They’ve been here for 10,000 years. They don’t “visit.” They’ve been here the whole time. More have come since the first arrived, though they just drift around in their (living mac…

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    Comment #36883776

    Offering of your gratuitous craze. These “Aliens” who have been hanging out in under and around Earth for 10,000 years would like for me to share a short account I have written. Tr…

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    Comment #36859995

    What is ironic is the best of both sides purged the finest of their own in a secret war among us all. Those who would be our gods through Power plunder and ensnare these state asse…

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    Comment #36859661

    Insanity is real, however what is commonly called “sane” is itself a delusion. You KNOW this, whether you would attribute to such an extreme secret, that one so vast and thorough c…

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    Comment #36817389

    This seems an appropriate time to point out, we are not alone in our own minds. Conventional debate refuses this inescapable truth. Affluent, educated, and well respected members o…

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    Comment #36763704

    To throw a little shade on you translation nerds, I thought to mention a few things. Greeks were all illiterate at the time of the Homeric composition. They didn’t start reading/wr…

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    Comment #36741664

    Europeans are used to not being listened to. They believe in angels and divinity making a spectacle phenomenon. How these correlate over time is curious. Lots of old tales from she…

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    Comment #36722500

    Well, there is a hypothesis that the quantum sieve is an analog rather than binary domain. Rather than spin characteristic, an entire amplitude wave front exists in there, we must …

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    Comment #36722016

    In the “consciousness is the inflection of existential being” view, consciousness is massively coherent through coupling and entanglement, thus giving the illusion of a singular fi…

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    Comment #36706487

    Expectations and presumptions become as much a feature as the curiosity. - our visitors cannot travel faster than the speed of light, however they can communicate (through their mi…

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    Comment #36678105

    Emergence. If entropy is the distribution of potential over negative potential, emergence is that where an outcome creates potential (of some discrete domain). The mystifying relat…