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You'd think if intelligence were that interesting we'd be able to agree on, like, any attribute of it. The best we can do is IQ and let me assure you there's enough high iq morons …

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I tend to think that destroying the nazis and the empire of japan was worth the extremely high cost. I'd hazard a guess that most ukrainians and russians and koreans and chinese an…

> So OSS aside (which has its own complicated economics) Assuming you're actually referring to free software and not open source software, it really doesn't, though. It's straight …

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I highly recommend this movie if only because it's a hilarious combination of excellent production value, terrible acting, and some of the most boring and openly delusional film yo…

The term end-user does not refer to advertisers by definition. Typically most people use the term "user" to refer to humans. You're not wrong, but advertisers are a cancer on socie…

Eh, it depends on the situation in question. Social acceptance (if this is even possible) will cost some people far more than it can benefit them. Any behavior, principle, or value…

This might be the first positive thing I've ever heard someone say about at&t. Mad props for distributing phones though! If you wrote up even a brief guide as to how to do this and…

My god the future sucks far more than we could have ever imagined. Imagine being sold a chatbot and being told it's an android!

A metaphor with another physical object will always fall short. Why not just state the number of bits a particle represents? It's much easier to describe going through each dimensi…

> 2 vs 3 Is this really still relevant? I've been using only python3 for well over a decade now and I can't remember the last time anyone even suggested I use python2. the rest of …

> This may be so, but there is no competition that's even 10% better than Google. It's been more than a decade since google results were distinguishable from bing results. Both spa…

It's clear google wants to be a dumb pipe rather than a business that's responsive to end-user needs. Unfortunately, they're also notoriously unreliable as a dumb pipe.

Surely this refers to decomposition and not living plants. Your link doesn't appear to finger plants as the culprit at all.

> i am having trouble wrapping my head around the sense in which entanglement is a physical phenomenon as opposed to a semantical byproduct of the bookkeeping involved in modern qu…

I think it's interesting that the trolley problem is so useless you could interpret this as a statement for or against virtually any ideology or moral framework. Hence my rejection…

I expect spamassin will work as well as it always did. The difference now is that we're not allowed fine-grained control over whats spammed at us.

> People of integrity with utilitarian leaning are often labeled amoral or unemotional. Utilitarianism is a moral concept. I think you just mean analytical.

Make's clear benefit is laying out a process as a series of dependencies.

Shell scripts are additional complexity? I'm not sure what you mean. Adding structure reduces complexity.