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> This position is technically called eliminative materialism, that consciousness or the first person experience of reality is an illusion. I find this to be the most absurd idea in the history of ideas, for the simple fact that I have direct experience of consciousness (my own). Or, to quote Descartes: I think, therefore I am.

What is an illusion, but a thing that can be experienced yet is not real?

> Physicalism seems obvious to the current status quo, but if you become more sophisticated with the mind-body problem you will see that it does not really rest on a sold foundation.

The ability to induce altered states of consciousness (such as death) through entirely physical means demonstrates that consciousness is a physical phenomenon.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

The logical possibility argument for philosophical zombies is essentially flawed. It posits that the conceivability of a philosophical zombie is sufficient to demonstrate meaningfulness, but plenty of conceivable things are not meaningful. Suppose I conceive instead of a person who knows a counterargument to mind-body dualism. Accepting the philosophical zombie argument requires accepting its refutation.
Makes me think of how the entire classroom full of guys in my high-school freshman English class came to the realization that "lasting longer during sex was better".

We were reading "Ordinary People" in class and there was a chapter where the main character would hold contests to see who would orgasm more quickly as him and his brother masturbated.

At that point the teacher said "of course this is slightly ironic because it is often better to last longer in sex", and you could see the entire classroom full of guys just suddenly realize that was the case but not make a noise.

Probably better taught at a different setting. Although through literature isn't a bad way.
I learned recently that the red stripe on the barber poles symbolises blood. Not something I expected.
> Tesla sometimes makes you do weird things like ship the old arms/linkage/etc.. back to them. Other times you might need to take pictures expressly for them, or call them after work is completed.

to be fair, mazda had the same requirements when my dealership was making engine repairs on my mx5 ... in their case, there was something wrong and they were actively trying to get to the bottom of the failures. i can understand if tesla were doing the same thing: tracking failure modes of specific parts.
I wonder how good trees really are at attracting pollen. Intuitively it sounds like the forces should be small and the effect should be pretty marginal.
I decided to create a video to illustrate how road trips in an EV differ from ICE road trips. Only needing enough energy to get to the next charging stop means you don't need to charge to 100% the way you'd fill a petrol tank to the brim. The charging stations between Adelaide and Melbourne are comfortable distances apart enabling us to time stopping for lunch and dinner perfectly.

I wrote some Python scripts to grab corresponding frames from my dash cam footage, build out the map images, overlay them with a battery SVG and compile the frames together.

https://github.com/cameronmurphy/timelapse-thingy

Hope you enjoy!
It does help. The real problem with plastic is that it's ending up all over the environment. It's very easy for plastic to fly/fall into areas where no one can access it or is managing it.

Sending plastic to landfills at least keeps the plastic in one place away from polluting the whole world. It's not an ideal solution but it helps.

Yes, getting rid of plastic is best but containing it to one place even if you have to use plastic bags helps.
I don’t think “souls” are stored in a hunk of meat. Sounds like religious people searching for evidence.
In the world of Windows applications, portable means that the program can be run without any installation or storing anything locally. So you could run it off a usb or other portable storage. This is a common usage.
And if you look further through the transcripts you'll see that they kept playing with the flight director for reasons unknown.
Providing the fake password would be, at the very least, lying to the border patrol agent. Which is an actual crime.

This might be a reasonable solution if it's a one-off unique solution and is therefore unlikely to be detected. But if you can't count on security through obscurity, this is a good way to end up serving real jail time.
Inflation control I think is the notable cause of this acceleration. In the past inflation could get out of hand and thus eat accumulated wealth. Note how the paper talks about the stagflation of the 1970s and the war periods being times of reversal.

Of course I would not want to see rapid inflation. Yet the numbers suggest that our strong inflation control has been a cause of labour's reduced portion of GDP. Running the QE hot by letting inflation outpace the central banks inflation goal might be a good idea for assisting labour's income mix. A dangerous idea, so I hope some other country tries it first.
> While the number of people living in New York City has greatly increased the amount of land has not. The more people demanding the same thing, the more it costs.

If there was the political will to do so they could build more densely in NYC. The amount of land is not going to grow massively but there’s no technical reason Brooklyn could not be built up as densely as Manhattan, or Queens as densely as Brooklyn. The technology for eight story walk ups or for similar buildings with elevators is about as old as the telegraph. If Tokyo can double its inhabitants from 1970-2013[1] with no rise in real estate prices or rents there’s no non-political reason NYC can’t do the same.

[1]https://twitter.com/geographyjim/status/1121809404049776641?...
Here's the full reference -- the point is that Oracle's a-hole is Larry Ellison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

"As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it's very hard to get used to that idea. It's like, 'surely this is more complicated!' but it's like: Wow, this is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity -- that's it! ...Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah... you talk to Oracle, it's like, 'no, we don't fucking make dreams happen -- we make money!' ...You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle." -- Bryan Cantrill
One of my colleagues once showed me millions of $$$ flowing through functions called `func1`, `func2` etc., both of them are over 1000 LoC. There are many SQL queries more than 100 lines long. Overall it's a huge application with extremely difficult use cases. And yes, there is not a single automated test scenario. But the company is more or less happy with this system and their manual testing. That said, it's a 20 year project and it has probably helped to earn some good money. So, if that project can be successful, any project can. There are bugs and it is has some serious issues, but it is possible to deliver something actually useful w/o tests.

I would assume, it's possible to go without automated testing when your business logic changes every now and then. Not that you necessarily should.

> There seems to exist a "hustle" mentality, where you need to ship at all costs

I'm still to see a developer with experience in the banking industry, who would praise its working conditions. "Low"-tier workers with 25-50% developer salary usually have to deal with even worse conditions.

Remember, working 60h+ a week can lead to unpleasant health problems, both physical and mental.
You are entitled to your opinion. And religious people are equally entitled to look for evidence that supports their world view, if they so desire.
Trees are 0.3 billion years old, so presumably they are not just good at it, but best at it.
But the poor people just wont have any meat in their refrigerators.
Yet we're still not addressing how Boeing outsourced a lot of its software development efforts to India.
That's too bad :(. Although, I admire your attitude of focusing on improving the iOS apps rather than branching out.
Unless you've seen one up close it's hard to wrap your head around how big naval guns are.

I work in a converted naval gun factory, built in WWII. They used to take the main guns off battleships and reline them every hundred shots or so, and my building was a huge machine shop set up to replace the linings.

The gantry crane used to take the guns off the railroad cars they were shipped on is still in place. The hook of the crane is a solid piece of steel. It is larger than my Honda.
I agree. Many of the mechanics that grew up around dealing with NNTP made for a very different experience compared to web forums. And I think we've lost something as we've moved on from it. (It was also a right pain in the ass in several ways... I just prefer the balance that made us strike to the dynamic that grows in a web forum now.)
> People in South American countries have as much agency as people in the US.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it seems as though you're implying that the US bears no responsibility for the present state of those countries.

I'm not sure if you have knowledge of the history of South America and the horrors of regime change that directly resulted from American foreign policy. If you don't, I'd suggest reading more about it as it will clearly explain a lot of the present socioeconomic issues in that region of the world. I very much doubt anyone could imply anything of the like with full knowledge of what occurred there during the 70s and 80s.

I do agree with your final sentence though, that the solution should primarily be found in South America.
I’m not saying heirs are good or bad, some end up going on to make even bigger economic impact and some completely bust. Regardless, the giving pledge and other philanthropic things are changing the game for the argument against billionaires. Hard to hate someone that’s going to give 95+% of their net worth to cancer research, homelessness, etc.

For some of us on HN that work in Tech, we are making great salaries on the backs of the the people that built the building we work in, or the computers we use for our job. You could say that the factory worker in China that built our PC deserves some of the wealth that we amassed via our computers/servers/etc. Follow it down the rabbit hole and you will see that everyone on this forum has benefitted from the hard work of others, and those people benefitted from the hard work of those that built their factories, homes, etc.
In particular, a perfectly reasonable answer to the question "what am I going to find on this computer?" might be "Naked pictures of me/my spouse" if it's a non-work laptop.

It's extremely invasive for some random civil servant to execute an unexpected search on a device that most reasonable people assume is private.
I feel like having evidence of faith undermines the idea of faith.
In the old days, and today in every other industry but tech, if you want to understand your customers you survey them, do focus groups and listen to unsolicited feedback.
> ...there really isn't any reason why our park trees shouldn't be producing food for us.

The article does address that notion -- trees are really good at capturing pollution, and a good amount of that pollution ends up in their fruit. Which sucks. I grew up foraging urban food, and I'll still pick and eat berries and stonefruits because they're too delicious to pass up, but it seems irresponsible for governments to promote such a thing.
Honestly, the name doesn't matter once the network effect kicks in.
I don't disagree with that. Especially when it comes to late usenet. I was cringing because usenet started better and wound up at a point where reddit is a good comparison, not claiming it was a bad analogy.
Hey now, if we started holding individuals accountable for the criminal negligence of the corporation they run, surely bedlam would errupt.

It's Limited Liability in it's purest, most distilled form.
Corruption. After the Ethiopia crash, the CEO/Chairman was on the phone to Trump, to ask him not to ground the rest of the 737 MAXs. (He changed positions on that once it was clear Boeing wasn't going to be able to dodge culpability.) The board member responsible for the audits which should have demanded a fix for these issues has been re-elected. Even the dual CEO/Chairman role is a significant governance failure.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/06/safety-w...
Physicist devises immersive game in which teams solve science puzzles
I think he is talking about the actual building on the property. It doesn't make sense that an 20 year old house should be worth more than an "equivalent" newly constructed house. It should depreciate through wear and year like any other capital asset. That it appreciates (in real dollars, inflation adjusted) instead is confusing.
Grab is getting bigger in Cambodia, but PassApp still has a bit more name recognition since they were here first.
Maybe it's a case of only remembering the good, but I feel like usenet in the '80s and early '90s fostered discourse that was very different than what I see on reddit today. I agree that it's a fair comparison against what usenet eventually became... I was cringing because it is fair and usenet was once better.
> This would likely result in the opposite of the desired effect.

> make enough of them wealthy enough

No, it is a very good idea. The champions on deforestation in Brazil are precisely the wealthiest plutocrats in the country, big farmers and the lumber industry. They are also the ones more susceptible to economic pressure.

Blairo Maggi, a former agriculture minister in Brazil, was nicknamed "the golden chainsaw" for the huge deforestation he promoted. Some agricultural embargoes by the European Union were enough to get him a change of heart, defend more forest conservation and turn him into a critic of the environmental policies of the Bozo (our new president).
I meant what exactly is proper full-disk encryption.
That's certainly something to consider.

However, it's pretty well understood criminals aren't legally required to self-incriminate. For example, if a criminal was to hand over their password, they're not then obligated to assist border security in navigating through their phone's storage to specifically point out evidence against themselves.

Whilst I'm not advocating this solution for criminals(!), I'd assume the same logic ought to hold true for those that have careers where privacy is paramount.

If you simply boot up your phone (into the "non-private" environment) and have no password, or perhaps even use the same real password (remember to change it later), then it's not necessarily your fault the border agents don't know how to use your phone.

EDIT: In terms of lying / being discovered, this is why I'm proposing a low-level dual-booting solution, rather than simply having multiple profiles on the device. It ought to be 100% undetectable that the device supports dual-booting at all, unless the user performs a precise action to boot into the private environment e.g. connect the phone to PC, and submit a specific boot command with a user provided password. Without the correct password being provided, the phone should respond no differently than a phone that does not support dual booting.

Although, IANAL nor have I made any attempt to look into the laws surrounding this. I would be surprised, although not too surprised, to hear there are laws specifically covering this situation. Nonetheless, it'd be a loophole for sure, and presumably easy enough to close off with further legislation.
There's a great passage in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King that touches on this. A character finds that when he's home, he finds his parents' conservative views frustrating and backwards and constantly argues with them about it. But when he comes across those views in his daily life, he finds them oddly comforting and reassuring on some level.
And some folks feel like having evidence that corroborates their beliefs is good for their sanity. Or they simply enjoy learning about such things.

Different strokes for different folks.
Go is really not a language to recommend for enterprise business applications. It's a niche and will likely stay this way unless they add tons of features, which they have been reluctant to do. Because otherwise they'll end up with Java, or something very similar, is what you end up with.
carry two phones, one used only when traveling across the border. Swap sim cards when needed.
DroneBullet is a kamikaze drone missile that knocks enemy UAVs out of the sky
Even stores with faster connections like grocery stores in bigger cities it is "wait a few seconds" (less than ten, they have it down to 3-5 seconds at this point) and then collect the receipt after it slowly prints out.

Whereas in Australia, it is just "tap and go." Starbucks works similarly with their QR code buying (but the money is onloaded to a digital gift card; but then I never use it anymore since mobile ordering is so damned convenient).
> - If you take more risk you get more reward

They kind of say this but I don't think they establish it. Bonds return less than stocks and housing but they admit they can't explain equal returns between housing and stocks but lower volatility for housing. They don't look at volatility within stocks where contrary to the theory that risk is correlated with return the data tends to show that less volatile stocks actually have higher returns.
I'm not even sure how they calculate capital gain. If I do maintenance on my house, are the authors viewing that as raising the basis?
Tests are not terribly common in the games industry (at least in the traditional AAA space). Code is still reviewed, but it's brisk.

This is probably because the product involves shipping a box and then never looking at the code ever again.
In Japan existing housing stock depreciates. The net result is better than appreciation in my experience. L

Right now the net result is buildings can be rebuilt when needed. All my friends can afford to buy a home. RE prices are reasonable and thus have reasonable rates of return.

The total cost of buying a new house is similar to America as the lower interest rate compensates for the depreciation. The difference is thus smaller down payments and lower monthly payments. If you want a similar net return to America then you can invest the difference in RE or equities.

Thus young people can buy homes easily while the total wealth building is not reduced. The generated wealth will be more diversified and thus less dependent on housing valuations.
Laws that have been unenforced for a long time, like the 100 years cited here, can absolutely be struck down and ignored by the court. The word for it is desuetude [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desuetude
What this summary misses is the non-trivial difficulty in finding such a device. Fox hunting is hard, particularly if you don't know the frequency.
I understand your point, but using an very insecure OS connected to the Internet is not a good idea.

Anyone using it today is risking having their data stolen or lost.
Their hard work is enabled by you saving instead of consuming the product of your labour. When you transfer it to your heirs you’re giving them a temporary leg up which dissipates over time because people spend or invest money. If they spend it it’s not a long term problem, they don’t have it any more. If they invest it either they’re bad at it in which case their relative position will decline, so it’s not a problem, or they’re good at it, so they’re contributing to economic growth by efficiently allocating resources.

The public good is that secure property rights are a great way of increasing economic growth which enables human flourishing. Would you rather live in a world as rich as the 1910s USA, with equal wealth per person, or now, with antibiotics, air conditioning, cheap easy and safe travel and practically free high quality entertainment available 24 hours a day?

In 1904 one of the most powerful men in the world, the US President, Calvin Coolidge, has his son die of an infected blister. I’d be hard pressed to choose between living as an average Ukrainian today or Rockefeller or Carnegie back then. Economic growth does enormous good to huge swathes of people and confiscatory taxation jeopardises that.
Hmm. Not a great start - 'select all' on the linux client selects all the page text, rather than the items, so there's no way to bulk edit. Doesn't engender much confidence.

[Edit: OK it turns out to be an electron app, and a barely functional one at that]
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