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wdbm

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    Comment #47954266

    Why assume there has to be a one-to-one mapping? Why assume one physical process can't correspond to an infinity of different qualia? We assume an infinity of wave-functions corres…

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    Comment #47797640

    There is an absolutely beautiful rendering of the Mona Lisa encoded at some point in the digits of pi. If you know the position, it's really easy to plot the image. But first you h…

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    Comment #46413004

    >What benefit is there to keep this antiquated method around, aside from just as an historical reference? Analogue clocks are, by design, also visual progress bars. Digital clocks …

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    Comment #45023480

    You're describing ZeroNet. It has ZeroTalk as a Reddit-like thing, ZeroMe as a social network and ZeroBlog as a Twitter-like thing. https://zeronet.io https://github.com/HelloZeroN…

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    Comment #44186807

    Hey, let's not forget 1927's Metropolis, where an authoritarian government uses deepfaked bots to manipulate the population.

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    Comment #44038345

    How would this compare to hypothes.is?

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    Comment #43600242

    Would you consider something like the Ikea cafeteria to be someways similar?

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    Comment #43253346

    The trick, Muad'Dib, is not minding that it hurts.

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    Comment #43174446

    My take on this was to get a boxy old ThinkPad that no longer functioned and fit it with Raspberry Pi, e-ink and LCD. https://github.com/wdbm/cyberDeck_2022