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GP invoked the modern saying "Jack of all trades, master of none." The original saying was "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." I…

I do appreciate the consistency of that perspective, it is interesting. I must respectfully disagree with those definitions. I think that consciousness ought to imply some element …

Likely insufficient but here is a shot at a materialist answer. Consciousness is defined as an entity that has an ethical framework that is subordinated to it's own physical existe…

That doesn't follow. The air is cleaner outside than inside. Usually there are more pollutants inside a household (cleaners/plastics/etc) than outside.

If the prescription of stimulants is strictly due to pollutants or "other problems of modern life" then why are boys over-represented compared to girls? "6.4 MILLION CHILDREN BETWE…

A: Probably not for much longer, thus why we're pre-programming the population for genetically modified half-human half-lizard hybrids and genderless cyborgs. It can't really be be…

I think that intent matters. Misinformation is dissemination of information that may be misleading but wasn't necessarily intended to be misleading. Perhaps the author themselves l…

Regardless of how you feel about the objective truth, it exists. Naturally, it follows that people who engage with what exists ought to have better outcomes than those who engage i…

I think perhaps they are insinuating that this is secure assuming Brave, 8x8, and/or your meeting participants are not compromised outside the scope of the application. Though I'd …

It's different because I identify and agree with the virtue signaling of holier-than-thou social climbers who claim to do journalism. Their views represent mine, and since I am mos…

> question is simply hand-waved away I think you misunderstood me. Giving a handful of companies control over the credibility economy is not a solution and is in some ways worse th…

I'm a little confused by this sentiment. The internet is a distributed system that, over time, became centralized into fewer and fewer hands. The internet wouldn't really function …

Passing around PHP files via email is functionally equivalent to passing out mix-tapes on street corners. Not a good tactic when a record label right around the corner will give yo…

I think tech companies as a general rule have proven unreliable at understanding, much less implementing, "security" in software or hardware. It's fair to say the landscape is chan…

Honestly I can't imagine any group of companies in the tech space being more resourceful than 10,000 neglected teenagers with nothing but a computer and a bad attitude. Especially …

Absolutely agree with a small nitpick. My read of (more recent) history leads me to the idea that the distinction between capitalist and communist nations incrementally eroded (thi…

I've run into a very similar issue, but it was bots - not the CDN provider. Every day (to this day) we're getting thousands of requests for images that no longer exist on our CDN (…

They're both distributed. The fact that anyone _can_ archive anything forever reasonably excludes the assumption that it's not, accessibility/curation notwithstanding.

> The crypto community needs to address the other side of that coin Do they? Nothing is ever _really_ deleted on the good old-fashioned internet either. We can't have our cake and …

Like it or not Western civilization is permeated with Christian mores. As practiced in the West, large chunks of law, philosophy, and science all have historical roots in Christian…

To that end, Jordan Peterson's lectures on the Bible did me personally a great service in bridging the gap between these seemingly opposed worldviews. JP is considered by many to b…

He's saying that it might not be getting worse due to a cost-cutting strategy, but rather an attempt to optimize the value for the most possible people.

The main selling point of October is that it is based on Laravel/symfony. For PHP developers who are already familiar with Laravel/symfony, that is a big advantage over other box s…

> how the British thought > crystallized world views that were prevalent They were prevalent because they were correct. It has nothing to do with race. By the standards of history,…