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Why isn't Wayland better than X11?

I find this subject frustrating. People actually know very little about it, yet they end up telling and debating complex stories about it.

To me, the hard problem of consciousness is the link between observable physical activity of matter in the brain, and conscious experience. Science has found correlations between b…

I cannot imagine why someone would like Windows 9x enough to use it, let alone develop something so complicated for it.

I view World War 2 as Nazis harnessing discontent in Germany to motivate Germans to fight a war. So, the main risk I see is discontent building up again. What about people who can'…

As long as we don't understand how consciousness works, I don't think it's possible to make claims about what is or isn't conscious. It's all just speculation. But if others are sp…

How is this possible? Are phones willing to connect to any cell and blindly trust that text messages from there are genuine and really coming from the numbers they claim to be comi…

What is new here? I thought corona discharges during storms had already been well known for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire

The biggest problem is that Canada shares a long land border with the US but is isolated by oceans from other countries. Having alternatives is good, but conflict with the US is da…

Maybe motivation needs to be considered separately from intelligence. Pure intelligence is more like a tool. Something needs to motivate use of that tool toward a specific purpose.…

Being accessible over the internet from a country can't be the same as having a physical presence there. Otherwise, anyone putting any content on the internet needs to comply with …

How is one country able to fine businesses in other countries? What legal authority or ability do they have to do anything?

The real problem is that society teaches people to suppress negative emotions. Then someone can harness those suppressed emotions and focus them on something.

If you want a custom resolution in Linux drm.edid_firmware= works well with the right EDID. For me, the worst things about the Linux graphical console are lack of scrollback and ho…

What's the point of taking your own highly detailed photos of the moon? You can find much higher resolution images elsewhere. I usually only want to take a photo of the moon as par…

It is about accomplishment, but about accomplishing what is truly meaningful to you and what makes you happy.

It seems like there is a continuum between being oblivious and delusional. You need to notice things, recognize their meaning, make connections and then make conclusions. Being obl…

I think there is a fundamental difference between such social phenomena and the seemingly solitary delusions that happen in recognized mental illness such as schizophrenia.

This is a good article, but I dislike how the start defines delusions as "fixed, false beliefs that cannot be changed by evidence". Many delusions seem wrong to others without any …

I don't think apps running in a web browser are very efficient. Calling something like that "ultra-fast" doesn't seem right.

I think a big part of the problem is use of cool white LED lights, which produce more light on the blue part of the spectrum. That light scatters more in the atmosphere, like how t…

I see no evidence that the amazing increase in data transfer rates has increased people's happiness. That is because happiness is a measure of something else, more like how well yo…