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Why is a data center suing for access to 750K gallons/day of Colorado river water? https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2026/06/15/imperial-va...

I've been keeping my eye on AliasVault[1]. Open-source, self-hostable or pay for cloud hosting, handles both email aliases and passwords. I'll probably switch for password manageme…

Same story here. I'll never go back to Apple Music, even if only for streaming. I had hundreds of tracks and albums just demolished by something related to iTunes Match, didn't rea…

I've been on mailbox for 6 years and I think the only issue I've had with rejections has been the email confirmation from some Discourse-based forums. But after I contacted the hos…

Thank you, this really clarified things for me!

Thank you. So based on your examples it sounds like the "computation" term is quite literal. How would this apply at larger levels of complexity like interacting anonymously with a…

> FHE enables computation on encrypted data This is fascinating. Could someone ELI5 how computation can work using encrypted data? And does "computation" apply to ordinary internet…

In Robert Waggoner's book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, the author, who was a very skilled lucid dreamer from childhood, describes how he had a moment of insight afte…

"From TFA: ‘Highlights automatically surfaces directions for a location’ Is that a mistype? In an apple advertisement?" "Highlights" as a singular brand/product/whatever name. Like…

Since I only partly understand your comment, I'm not sure if this pertains, but the phrase "spatiotemporal encoding" caught my attention. It makes intuitive sense that complex cogn…

His autobiography, And There Was Light, and a collection of talks, Against the Pollution of the I, are wonderful

Whew. I'm sorry you had that situation to grow up in, caught up from an early age in maneuvering relative to a parent's insecurities and emotional blindness. I can relate in some w…

Good point, yeah, generally the basic survival topics are still in play even when we're busy with finer details! Still, giving an intelligent species the credit for (perhaps) engag…

All of those options sound interesting and plausible, yet when I go for a walk while talking with a friend, I'm imagining an alien anthropologist wondering, "Are they communicating…

This point of view could be applied to any word, and the extreme result is that you'd negate meaningful or useful communication, or that someone would have to be the arbiter of wha…

> But calling it an unsupported belief system goes a bit far. It certainly isn't proven scientific theory. I agree it would be going too far to call it an unsupported belief system…

Yes, that's true. Generally, we see that point of view as a belief, an article of faith (and of course the subject of a lot of disagreement) but we're falsely conditioned to imagin…

> but I do always feel weird when I hear any living thing called effectively a thoughtless automaton. I feel very weird about this too. This de facto assumption that organisms are …

As far as I am aware, these kinds of nonlinear relationships are a feature of fractal dynamics, but I'm not a mathematician.

When I think of isometric exercise, I think of co-contracting opposing muscle groups so that the body is exerting more effort than would be minimally necessary to maintain a postur…

Isometric exercise involves co-contraction of muscle groups. Taichi involves the minimal contraction of muscle to produce posture and movement, and encourages maximum availability …

I'm only a fractal enthusiast, but my impression is that the key distinction that makes these fractals, or at least fractal-like, is not their detail per se, but that there is comp…

Love this take, and I agree. Where do you think this monorail proclivity comes from (assuming it wasn't "predetermined")? My hand-wavy first guess is an interwoven legacy of patria…

[Wyslawa Szymborska's "Coversation With a Stone"]( https://web.archive.org/web/20201127013535/https://www.tweet... ) And also > Kick at the rock, Sam Johnson, break your bones: But…

> consciousness is an emergent phenomenon That's a theory that has yet to be tested, not a certainty. > Every atom in your brain behaves according to the laws of particle physics..…