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Do we need scrollbars? What about popping the cell into a tab or overlay like we do with images, Apples 3D Touch I want to drill into specifics, not fiddle with scrollbars, which j…

What’s legitimate is subjective. Rand Paul is too much of a troll to be given legitimacy

He’s just polluting the airwaves to keep his voters wound up. A single layer of cloth doesn’t stop it. There’s a reason why those scarfs aren’t allowed in airplanes (well they say …

We can’t create enough material machines for everyone that wants to code to code. If that’s dystopian, wait until you hear about your impending natural death. I can sit by a tree a…

Them HN commenting standards…

Wait until he learns about the predictions that go back to 1860s: https://daily.jstor.org/how-19th-century-scientists-predicte...

The reason they want us in offices is real property is the root of power. If they don’t own all that land they lose influence locally. They can’t put on spectacle in their “stadium…

Property owners are human members of society They’re not above participating in solving human problems You want to live in a bubble, go off grid None of us get up and contribute to…

90% of communication for humans is body language and sensory cues. It’s not hard for me to see how our language faculty convinced past humans we were somehow masters of reality bey…

Yep. Babies can add and subtract when they’re days old. Can they write Shakespeare? If human language is fundamental, how is it missing from the start? Are we learning language or …

Yes. It’s emergent behavior of a physical universe that has no meaning. It just is. “Meaning to us” is subjective. That’s how we have conflicting theories in many fields. Science i…

Yeah, same experience. We had to write our own “terraform” like tooling to make use of it (retry loops and the like). It has (had? This was a couple years ago) no awareness, for ex…

Sure there is more going on than we see on the surface. Before neuroscience and modern imaging we needed to sit and imagine and theorize. Now we don’t.

Religion shows we can create very detailed belief in ornate ideas that are scientifically nonsensical. It’s possible the concepts linguists seek to develop are similarly self reinf…

I don’t understand how we don’t? I make sound snapping my fingers. Whistling. Why is it so hard to accept mirror neurons fired when early humans heard birds and animals, each other…

Agreed. The pattern matching part is easy. That’s what bores me about math. How can it help me reason about reality is the interesting part. For that, one has to really practice th…

We had to learn to collaborate before “language”. Perhaps thinking language is a key aspect of consciousness is wrong. Chomsky has said human languages themselves are just random s…

If it’s just stats why do I need Google? I can write code to bubble up stats across text sources in any language. I’m reminded of a behind the scenes video of Batman 1989, where th…