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sorry for the stupid question, but what is "the former" and what is "the latter"? Did you mean I acknowledge the sentience of plants but not animals? I believe that all life might …

from the article I linked: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus... > Early tinkering with the idea of using heat to create steam to power rotary motion – th…

honestly, I don't know. Sentience is consciousness. I can't imagine what it must be like to be a plant, the plants existence is too different from mine for me to imagine it. It wou…

common misconception: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus... > As we’ll see, the Roman Empire was never close to an industrial revolution – a great many of…

> If you can't keep it in your chapel then you're an evangelist and your morals are fundamentally no different than the colonizers of old. disagree. Colonization is done by force, …

I do science and mathematics, and I am 'religious' - I believe in God, which I define simply as the universal consciousness - in other words, I believe the universe has a soul. Muc…

1) okay, I'm fascinated by the 'fighting in a foreign civil war' thing, can you expound on that? 2) this may sound weird, but I do think that if you want to be a good parent (and p…

aren't plants also sentient? Isn't all life sentient? If not, where do you draw the line? "It has eyes and bilateral symmetry and an endoskeleton looks vaguely human-like so I can …

to be fair, you can get "good" meat - factory farming is awful, but not all meat is factory farmed. You can eat happy animals, for example pigs that spent their lives outside being…

> we may see change come from the southerners with guns who eventually decided they had been deceived by the people they voted for. er... last time southerners with guns revolted, …

> As we are apparently electing malicious narcissists with dementia to our highest office, a more precipitous decline seems reasonable To be fair, the current political dysfunction…

For any given alphabet A, and for any positive integer n, the set of strings of length n over A is a finite set, with (number of characters in A)^n elements. The set of all strings…

> Not to mention it was conducted almost a year ago false. The article is from 4th of March 2026, less than a month ago.

yes. It is also worth noting that in some cases, government and business owners have diametrically opposed interests - namely governments can nationalize companies (and if I'm not …

er... if you'll excuse me confirming the "HN is the 'well actually capital of the internet' stereotype"... If you look throughout history, you'll see that before the advent of what…

> In August [2022], it was announced that Andreessen Horowitz had invested in Neumann's new residential real-estate company, Flow. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neuman…

they're going to pioneer "AI flight" :D

I feel like part of the secret to being that type of CEO is that whatever your business is, you can spin it into something "oh my god, much wow". Like it won't be just "vertically …

not 100% true - I know some friends that would like a website, just they haven't found the means to get one. Even WordPress can be somewhat complicated to setup sometimes.

you could have started a war with your neighbors using only sticks and stones - indeed, much of human history is people starting wars with their neighbors using weapons that we tod…

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of …

happiness is very linked to unexpected surprises. I personally have been experimenting what basically amounts to a Christian version of Bhakti Yoga [0] basically "wow, thanks God/J…

yes, strong agree. I'm personally happiest on two heavy lifting days with snatch, cleans and front squats, and then just lots of walking, handstands and some empty barbell work at …

> One is that when I have something to say about my day, there's nowhere to say it; no one on HN cares whether I fixed up the blinds or cooked pork steaks. I hang out in an IRC cha…

unless you don't have unlimited compute, at which point you need other ideas https://arielche.net/bitter-lesson