I'm reminded of the saying "When you reach the top of the mountain the only zen you'll find the is the zen you brought with you." Or, alternatively the koan "If you meet the Buddha, kill him." The idea is enlightenment…
I was just listening to an interview with Elon Musk where he discussed the importance of reasoning from first principles as opposed to by analogy. The author of this wired article would benefit from taking that lesson…
What if you pay taxes that are used to buy the weapons that kill people? For the sake of discussion, suppose you know your tax dollars will be spent this way.
Where I work the security guards greet you as you walk through the gate. I've always thought this was a mechanism for making sure the guards were paying attention. If someone comes in you have to look at the screen that…
Oh, I don't know, just a boundless universe of knowledge, news, politics, and people to connect with. I'm not sure why contemplating boredom is more virtuous than reading or commenting on something on the phone.
I've read that most parents now are actually spending a lot more time with their kids than parents used to[1]. Probably your parents were working on chores that have been made easier by technology, or pursuing their…
Assuming you have normal hand eye coordination I have a hard time believing you can't juggle. I learned by watching a YouTube video titled "Learn to juggle in five minutes" or something like that. Learning the practice…
Complexity is about the number of interoperating parts. A math problem like 75533787543269^634678 may be difficult to do with pen and paper, but it's not complicated, whereas, take the result of 5^2, divide by the…
I think the EM drive would've made for a dark future. How long would it be before maniacs were accelerating asteroids into the planet? The EM drive seemed to be simpler and cheaper than a nuclear weapon. Anybody who…
I believe that's the point of the comment you are replying to. You may develop weapons believing in the goodness of your country's military, but those weapons may come into the hands of people with more dubious moral…
No, I couldn't live in such a city. If there was nobody to take out the trash we would have to raise more money to increase salaries for garbage men, etc. Some of it, I could live with less of, and some I'd pay more…
Also, there's an option to turn autoplay off. It's a special kind of nefarious that lets you opt out at any time.
I don't think we should try to guess the motivations of aliens. You can't really rule out, or make well founded assumptions about, how aliens will act or what they'll want. Perhaps the aliens will just exterminate us to…
To me, that reads as passive aggressive. "It's unfortunate you didn't do your job..." I think it's a better approach to say "The problems are X. We know this because of Y. My proposed solutions are Z. If you agree,…
If that's true then shouldn't the double padlocked box be stolen as it is not a padlocked box but is instead a double padlocked box? (Here I'm assuming the "correct" solution is A mails locked box containing ring to B.…
For an expansive definition of "gun" you can absolutely make them yourself. The term "zip gun" refers to homemade or improvised guns and there's a huge variety. A gun is a lot simpler than a quadcopter. You need a place…
In any case where they have the rapist's DNA, and the rapist, I assume they'll do their own test to confirm. It would certainly be jarring to hear you were being accused of rape, but if they checked your DNA and decided…
I don't think it should be the only evidence required to convict, but it sure seems helpful. If further testing, and other details, line up, what's wrong with this approach?
I don't think that can be true realistically. Some people have to lose money in order for "universal income" to work. It may look sightly different if middle and upper class people "get" 12k a year, while having to pay…
You may want to consider diversifying. The continued success of crypto is far from certain and hopefully you'd like to be more confident in being able to do things like retire or have a family.
The unnecessary verbosity of these books makes me so mad I could just tug on my braid.
Speaking as someone who has been turned away for not having a credit card, that is frustrating. In my case, I had paid for a "luxury" car rental for the weekend for a fun getaway, only to be told at the stand that my…
Do you imagine an instant message client that only sends messages without receiving them?
I strongly disagree. I give the government enough money. If they want to give out free diapers, they should build one less fighter plane a year, or something like that. If I saw this woman, and knew she couldn't get the…
They may just be there to take my stuff. They may be there to do far worse. Why should I risk my life, and the life of my family, on the restraint and kindness of burglars? I don't even agree that I should have to let…
I'm reminded of the saying "When you reach the top of the mountain the only zen you'll find the is the zen you brought with you." Or, alternatively the koan "If you meet the Buddha, kill him." The idea is enlightenment…
I was just listening to an interview with Elon Musk where he discussed the importance of reasoning from first principles as opposed to by analogy. The author of this wired article would benefit from taking that lesson…
What if you pay taxes that are used to buy the weapons that kill people? For the sake of discussion, suppose you know your tax dollars will be spent this way.
Where I work the security guards greet you as you walk through the gate. I've always thought this was a mechanism for making sure the guards were paying attention. If someone comes in you have to look at the screen that…
Oh, I don't know, just a boundless universe of knowledge, news, politics, and people to connect with. I'm not sure why contemplating boredom is more virtuous than reading or commenting on something on the phone.
I've read that most parents now are actually spending a lot more time with their kids than parents used to[1]. Probably your parents were working on chores that have been made easier by technology, or pursuing their…
Assuming you have normal hand eye coordination I have a hard time believing you can't juggle. I learned by watching a YouTube video titled "Learn to juggle in five minutes" or something like that. Learning the practice…
Complexity is about the number of interoperating parts. A math problem like 75533787543269^634678 may be difficult to do with pen and paper, but it's not complicated, whereas, take the result of 5^2, divide by the…
I think the EM drive would've made for a dark future. How long would it be before maniacs were accelerating asteroids into the planet? The EM drive seemed to be simpler and cheaper than a nuclear weapon. Anybody who…
I believe that's the point of the comment you are replying to. You may develop weapons believing in the goodness of your country's military, but those weapons may come into the hands of people with more dubious moral…
No, I couldn't live in such a city. If there was nobody to take out the trash we would have to raise more money to increase salaries for garbage men, etc. Some of it, I could live with less of, and some I'd pay more…
Also, there's an option to turn autoplay off. It's a special kind of nefarious that lets you opt out at any time.
I don't think we should try to guess the motivations of aliens. You can't really rule out, or make well founded assumptions about, how aliens will act or what they'll want. Perhaps the aliens will just exterminate us to…
To me, that reads as passive aggressive. "It's unfortunate you didn't do your job..." I think it's a better approach to say "The problems are X. We know this because of Y. My proposed solutions are Z. If you agree,…
If that's true then shouldn't the double padlocked box be stolen as it is not a padlocked box but is instead a double padlocked box? (Here I'm assuming the "correct" solution is A mails locked box containing ring to B.…
For an expansive definition of "gun" you can absolutely make them yourself. The term "zip gun" refers to homemade or improvised guns and there's a huge variety. A gun is a lot simpler than a quadcopter. You need a place…
In any case where they have the rapist's DNA, and the rapist, I assume they'll do their own test to confirm. It would certainly be jarring to hear you were being accused of rape, but if they checked your DNA and decided…
I don't think it should be the only evidence required to convict, but it sure seems helpful. If further testing, and other details, line up, what's wrong with this approach?
I don't think that can be true realistically. Some people have to lose money in order for "universal income" to work. It may look sightly different if middle and upper class people "get" 12k a year, while having to pay…
You may want to consider diversifying. The continued success of crypto is far from certain and hopefully you'd like to be more confident in being able to do things like retire or have a family.
The unnecessary verbosity of these books makes me so mad I could just tug on my braid.
Speaking as someone who has been turned away for not having a credit card, that is frustrating. In my case, I had paid for a "luxury" car rental for the weekend for a fun getaway, only to be told at the stand that my…
Do you imagine an instant message client that only sends messages without receiving them?
I strongly disagree. I give the government enough money. If they want to give out free diapers, they should build one less fighter plane a year, or something like that. If I saw this woman, and knew she couldn't get the…
They may just be there to take my stuff. They may be there to do far worse. Why should I risk my life, and the life of my family, on the restraint and kindness of burglars? I don't even agree that I should have to let…