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nnq

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    Comment #44094420

    DragoChat - https://www.facebook.com/ai.drago.chat TINY attempt to fight the growing divide between "AI haves" and "AI have-not" with - PREPAID access (+ bring-your-own-API-keys al…

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    Comment #40341858

    At least Penrose himself has an excuse for this: he's actually intellectually honest and came to this from a mathematics first purely theoretical perspective - he might have been d…

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    Comment #40197189

    I was basically always slowed down by RAM on Android - prob bc I switch between lots of very badly coded apps... so even on desktop I've grown to see RAM as "insurance against badl…

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    Comment #40131501

    ...so, you haven't used Android in over a decade?

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    Comment #34640566

    you can also translate "being useless" as "they having no reason to manipulate me into slaving as a cog in their machine/society/whatever"... I'd say uselessness should be our high…

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    Comment #34609135

    this is cool, but try C (modern, C99) instead: all I see in this C++ version is obsfucation and confusingly named things... (sure, for an "industrial strength" version C++'s featur…

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    Comment #32101722

    "Eugenics" is a wide term. What part of it are you against strongly enough to completely condemn anyone involved with the idea? At the most basic romantic selection level we're all…

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    Comment #32101457

    At least appreciate his honesty - it's way better for everyone to be so blunt about it.

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    Comment #31854634

    Besides the missed irony, I mean that we need to have and we'll inevitably have a separate internet layer / set of protocols / etc. where information will be freely broadcastable a…

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    Comment #31853899

    Yes? ...this was the original dream of non-national cyberspace and we almost had a hope at getting it. Then the second chance with web3 but this was also spoiled by people getting …

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    Comment #30577282

    besides karelp's sister comment, there's also the "obvious" fact that stock price is not a function of time, it's not P(t), it's a function of time and the entire f universe that a…

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    Comment #28628028

    Bc there's some treaty prohibiting space-based weapons smth smth... hence your satelite will not be able to carry missiles (or use them without admitting it carried them). ...and b…

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    Comment #27010157

    Optimal virulence is kinda bullshit with rapidly evolving things on small timescales... Sure, if a mutation that makes it give deadly miocarditis 50% of the cases pops up, that str…

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    Comment #25252223

    ...but you can find the motivation to offer a product that just works (mostly) perfectly and doesn't need support! Rarer updates, because you just need to test your things perfectl…

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    Comment #25175531

    The same here :) I love to work with other software considered user hostile by others, but Gimp... WTF. It's like they took the most horrible stuff from Photohop s horrible UI and …

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    Comment #24383242

    > Doesn't it technically also contain its own address Huh? Then you probably don't understand the meaning of "contains" here. Or what variables are in general. Variables are hard..…

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    Comment #24078483

    ...god, my eyes, they hurt, that design, they're bleeding now ...you almost made me change my mind of whether this would be a good idea :) (Hint: I'm interested in mostly using thi…

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    Comment #24048969

    Cut the crap, if you're app is really successful you're gonna end up re-writing the UI at least three times, trust me, and you're probably also have to maintain different multiple …

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    Comment #24048911

    Anyone interesting in using this to create a code-editor / IDE? I'm dying to try my hands at a next gen IDE created using a game engine :D

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    Comment #23459747

    > messing with one's brain is dangerous Meh. I'd say we're likely stuck in a local optimum - the default programming of our brains is clearly not optimal for our state of evolution…

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    Comment #23459510

    You're "forced" to leave in an environment with a certain structure (architecture, infrastructure) under a certain set of laws. Adding a non-damaging, mind altering temporary exper…

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    Comment #23459407

    Maybe even healthy people even should be encouraged to try psychedelics or some other potent mind altering technique at least once in their life. Maybe make it as in initiation cer…

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    Comment #23428407

    > I expect to be able to use it to compute intermediary results in a shell loop You have a very peculiar use case that most other users don't! ...either you write a shell script, o…

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    Comment #23401863

    > to have the nvidia card kick in triggered by the OS somehow when really needed would be the non-plus ultra, but come on, this is science fiction Can't smth simple & obvious like …

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    Comment #23320165

    > Unpredictable progress is lethal to businesses At peace, or in a quasi steady state, yes. But not in all situations. Eg. in war or other adversarial situations you need to both b…