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They obviously can't feel pain. Imagine you simulate that robot with a turing-complete cellular automaton on paper. At what moment in time will it feel pain as in qualia? When you scribe the next tick on a paper?

Somewhat related essay from a negative utilitarian about consequences of insects feeling pain: https://reducing-suffering.org/the-importance-of-insect-suff...

We are talking about pain, not a pain signal. Decrementing register can be a pain signal, but it can't produce feeling of pain (qualia). If humans can be simulated on a Turing machine, we can't feel that definition of pain too.

It exists - https://youtu.be/zipZ5kwhFfs?t=37

Nowadays it's easier to just mount an electric motor on your bike.

Can't find it - it was a long time ago. I was getting strong headaches while traveling, it was a caffeine withdrawal, but I didn't know it until someone here mentioned the possibility. I started drinking caffeinated beverages while traveling, and the problem was gone.

As a counter-argument - my quality of life was greatly increased by an unsolicited advice here.

The test, that really estimates the size, not just the percent: http://testyourvocab.com/

Just a note - without XEP-0198 you will be losing offline messages if your connection is unreliable. I think most desktop jabber clients still do not support it.

Oxelo Town 9 EF V2. It's a little too heavy though.

Actually some modern cars do not light brake lights if you press on a pedal lightly, I think engineers are two feet drivers themselves. Test yours!

Yes, that's a problem, but I'm used to a stick, and that issue was quickly resolved after an hour or two of practicing. One hint - use your ankle muscles, not calf to apply pressure with a left leg. If you don't have a low traffic road to practice, you can use go-kart for that too.

Actually, two feet driving is superior to traditional method in every way, especially on a slippery road. The only problem with it is that when you try it, you are a newbie again, so of course you can mix up pedals just like when you were learning driving. So train it on roads without traffic.

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/1/8877583/two-foot-driving-pedal-...

Even though pictorialists faded into obscurity, they still won over f/64. Modern photography is absolutely not realistic.

I don't think so, most programmers can pull UBI-like amount working 1-2 months per year and spend the rest time on the project of their own, but I don't know a lot of programmers who live like that.

From comments, not sure if this is a joke itself.

dd is horrible on purpose. It's a joke about OS/360 JCL. But today it's an internationally standardized joke. I guess that says it all.

Why couldn't companies that actually produce cars just rent them out? I'd really like to have a mono-brand short-term rentals, but they just don't exist. Why is the case different for taxis?

This logic presuppose, that the military status quo is the best it can be and can't be improved. It would be wrong at any point in the past, why is it correct right now?

Actually it seems like motor skills are a part of neuro-surgeon evaluation - https://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i5976

There is also an experimental virtual surgery simulator for objective evaluation - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26153114

I had a similar problem with electronic locks, but it's very easy to memorize a 8 digit number with a mnemonic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system

Do you have a statistic confirming that? Most highway deaths are due to speed, not due to driving slow. Driving slow can provoke people behind to do dangerous things, but it's on them, not on a slow driver.

Here is one paper about that:

Music conservatory students in the U.S. and China were tested. The Chinese subjects spoke the tone language Mandarin, in which pitch is involved in conveying the meaning of words. The American subjects were nontone language speakers. The earlier the age of onset of musical training, the greater the prevalence of absolute pitch; however, its prevalence was far greater among the Chinese than the U.S. students for each level of age of onset of musical training.

http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/pdf/JASA-2006_119_719-722.pdf

Anecdotally, when you don't need to work it makes you happier (though you can still work, but only when you want to). High wage vs passive income is a big difference and the research you are thinking about only captured the former.

Here is the second victim with a similar story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063667

Is the problem systematic?

I used to sleep like this for many years, though I shifted a little less than one hour per day, my full circle was around a month. What fixed it for me:

1) Getting out every day, even when I don't have to.

2) Using alarm for going to sleep, not for waking up.

3) I think this is the main one - I've got some social obligations, so I needed to be awake during the day.

I like top maps, but they are less useful in cities. Compare:

http://www.tobyeglesfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DRC...

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-45.0344/168.6630&laye...

Topo maps miss bridges too.

The second point about dismissing markets was actually the downfall of many authoritarian governments. You can't defy the law of economics with executive orders.

At the moment, China is only strengthening private property rights, looks like they learned that lesson.

Tort law. It was the government, that prohibited suing polluters in the first place (in the name of a progress). Free-market cities probably wouldn't have ICE cars or fabrics nearby, because it would be prohibitively expensive to buy a permission to pollute from each land-owner in a city.

Someone, who can learn enough Python in an hour, won't have a lot of problems in life.

How do you rank tweets? Does Twitter API allows to sort by threads size?

I actually wrote a small extension to collect comments from HN and Reddit using their search API, and it's very useful for me.

https://imgur.com/a/vWy5NaP

This logic could work for Switzerland. What if your country started numerous wars in the past?