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Interesting tech and all, but ultimately efforts like this are a waste. If we humans could instead get over our self-perceived need to engage in warfare for childish reasons then we could dedicate such efforts to more productive things like helping homeless people get housing and skills, or developing better psychological sciences to help drug addicts get free from their disease of addiction, you name it

> O SON OF SPIRIT! The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbor. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes. > > ~ Baha'i Teaching

Why not just use uBlock Origin for the aspect of cleaning up the popups / ads and such?

666ft....

> For example at my last company we used JSX to make test data factories

Thats really interesting, can you elaborate more?

For example did you use a specific JSX compiler? Was that written in house or used a 3rd party library?

So basically resonance frequency of an artery doesn't depend on the artery's radius or wall thickness?

Or perhaps is that enough the case on a certain lower frequency band, where variations in those quantities are much smaller than the wavelength?

I have no experience in hiring programmers at all, but here's a couple tips based on my experience working at a company, and also family member's experience who is involved in hiring

So never ever hire a freelancer until after you've talked to a bunch of their previous clients. Not sure if this is possible though, but if you can, its probably really good

I've seen what a non-software engineer hiring freelancer programmers can do to a company. The freelancer can look great on paper, but ultimately be unable to deliver at all, and thus send the company into severe financial catastrophe

Granted for a CRUD app its probably not as big of a risk as in the company I was involved in, that had tried previously to do a groundbreaking engineering project

Also, when hiring a programmer, probably pay less attention to what they know, and pay more attention to the excitement and enthusiasm in their voice

You're probably better off hiring a relatively inexperienced programmer with deep passion for their work, rather than an experienced programmer who's just there for a pay check

That would be an absolute dream for me

Perhaps there's too much of an obsession on stardom and fame rather than talent? And hence the number of "openings" for concert pianists is reduced, while the demand on the stars is increased

And thus those who are equally talented simply didn't get their chance to shine as well as learn and grow from opportunities

I believe if Martha Argerich hadn't been absent from a concert, Yuja Wang (now famous) who replaced her that time wouldn't have had her big break

> people are smart enough to ask why should new pianists be churned out and is there something more valuable these people could do with their time.

Being a classical pianist would have been a dream career for me if I had started early enough

Some of the deepest fulfillment I have gotten was teaching myself how to play Bach

A prime example of that was demonstrated by The South Butt, a clothing store that was started by a 16 yo guy

> Winkelmann Jr. claimed the company was a parody of The North Face, an American outdoor product company.[4] In August 2008, The North Face sent a cease and desist letter to Winkelmann threatening to sue him if he did not "cease all promotion and sales of South Butt products and abandon his trademark registration application."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_South_Butt

I'm trying to find a calculus book that goes incredibly deep into integration techniques

Still searching, so if anyone has any tips I'd love to hear

Ahhh, the good old gym analogy...

We use it

We love it

And it is our mainstay for understanding all things personally growth related

Where would we be without it?

We would be lost in darkness and ignorance

>Alternatively if you don't trust this approach, you can download the latest release binary

Is there a security difference between running a shell script that runs a binary vs running a binary directly? Or downloading a executable from the browser vs downloading a shell script using curl?

I get that running the shell script can subjectively look more scary, but doesn't it just basically reveal the inherent danger of running an exe anyhow, assuming there's no code signing keys involved?

Well it is true that I am only supposing that explaining an observable process in and of itself cannot intrinsically explain conscious awareness

Its good to keep an open mind about stuff, and recognize that knowledge of all kinds is only tentative

All of us are finite and ignorant

Perhaps we can someday identify physical artifacts of conscious awareness, but how does that explain the root of conscious awareness? There is a difference between that and showing that conscious awareness is physically plausible, and perhaps even likely, according to experiment alone as opposed to our own personal experiences

Perhaps if we understood more about the brain, that would open our eyes to something we cannot even imagine today that would shed light on this issue

Perhaps science alone has capabilities that are more profound that we can see today, in being able to delve into such issues?

Well how about this instead:

- Keep the 404 page

- Use autocorrection only for minor typos

I would say that offering gambling to people, knowing that many are susceptible to the addiction cycle for whatever reasons, is what is the most wrong in this equation I think

But then again you could also argue that those offering the gambling are themselves merely victims of a different addiction cycle involving greed or fear or whatnot

One does beg the question of where awareness comes from. I can't see that any particular physical arrangement could explain it. I mean, maybe a fundamental particle or fundamentally different form of matter could be found to be what plays the role in producing consciousness, but then what would cause that matter to have or produce awareness? Perhaps that matter has behavior we can measure, but how would it produce conscious awareness? Would it be possible to understand?

As far as I can see all you can explain is that its there, but can't understand why, which suggests its transcendent over what we can see and measure

And what we can see in terms of the physical world is not proof that there isn't more to existence

Take the plant that gains sustenance from the sun and the earth, yet the fact that it has no faculties of perception that allows it to understand those processes is not proof that they don't exist

So perhaps we are like plants in a greater universe? Again, NDE's (near death experiences) are also suggestive of this

And also looking at how Baha'i taught equality of women / men, and the need for independent investigation of truth, and dedicating one's self to helping the poor etc... coming from 19th century Persia that was pretty barbaric and fanatical where women couldn't even show their faces in public much less get educated, and where plundering each other and favoritism was literally the primary engine for their economy... kinda shows that perhaps there is insight in the original Baha'i teachers

This is a Baha'i Prayer I like to say for people who pass on to the next life

Its hard to describe how I feel about it, its just so deep and profound...

Consciousness itself, as apart from the behavior and computation that goes on in the brain, is a mystery of neuroscience. So maybe somehow it persists after we die? NDEs kinda shed light on that

RIP up in the stars man

https://www.bahaiprayers.io/prayer?id=204020

You'd need unique signature of cell phone signal to separate it from other cell signals

In terms of timestamp, when multiple satellites measure different times of receipt from same cell signal they could reverse compute the location

Could probably incorporate differences in received signal strength as well

At least thats my guess

I don't think you'd wanna use timestamp info from the sender, since you have no control over the accuracy of that, even if it was available

Is this actually simulating backward time travel? Or is it just doing entanglement? I.e. somehow entangling the state of your "gift" on day 1 with the message you receive later so that when you get the message it collapses the state of the gift to the right one?

This country is founded on genocide and mass murder

Nothing new here

I am bookmarking this comment. My first job out of college was a great project for the world, but also at nearly grocery store wages. It was a small company with literally 2-3 people. The CEO was an old man "with no retirement" and also "2 million dollars in debt"

Later when I offered to defer my wages until the product was released (it seemed he was "running out of money"), eventually all the trust building tactics he had used on me over the years were cashed out on as I gradually became disillusioned to realize him paying me dirt was deliberate. He could have easily paid me a decent wage for that work, but ultimately I met nothing but resistance and breadcrumbing and stonewalling when trying to get a decent pay

"I don't have the money to pay you" he said at one point after the fact when I asked to be paid what he owes me. But afterwards and after I had rage quit, he simply hired someone else to start from scratch on my 2nd project after I had told the other developer that one thing I saw first hand working for him was how corporations don't care about people

Granted I wasn't the fastest developer in terms of the number of hours I worked, and the new person he hired seems to have been pretty good, definitely above my level, assuming they implemented all the features I did. But I was getting my work done just fine as far as I and the other dev could tell

At first I thought that said Fuck DNS

> A simple vim one liner...

> :%s/\w\+/\=submatch(0)+1/g | echo line('$')

Uh, thats..... simple???

> education systems are somewhat bad proxies for the type of work you want to do

Is that because that doing the actual relevant work is the way to find out? If so, maybe making the app more like a game where it tries to simulate things like that

> higher level features

Yeah, thats kind of along the lines I was thinking. Not specific roles but types of thought process, and now that you mention it, types of impact

The whole idea is about uncovering what unique gems a teenager (or adult even) has, rather conforming them to a predetermined framework

Amazon could automatically include the name of the product in each review (but if they haven't done that already the probably don't care)

But how to automatically discount reviews that don't match the new product name, i.e. distinguishing from a major name change from a minor rephrase of the same product

Not sure how reliable ML is in that scenario

Yeah true. I don't know the scene in the schools but I have read a lot about how math education is pretty dismal, at least in the USA, depending on the teacher

Maybe theres a way for an app to help someone who does have a math aptitude to realize that they do and that math is fun and not a bunch of rote memorization of formulas

And repeat for like.... a bunch of other types of thought

But you're right, it is pretty broad, so maybe best to start with a specific field

There are apps like Brilliant that focus on math, so maybe that fills that niche, or maybe theres something that else could be added to it in terms of helping someone explore the raw thought processes involved

> When you're young you don't know what you're good at or what different kinds of work are like. Some kinds of work you end up doing may not even exist yet. So while some people know what they want to do at 14, most have to figure it out.

That just gave me an idea for a phone app: Something that helps teenagers explore their interests and aptitudes (but not skills of course)

Thoughts?

Its best to look at overall scientific consensus across multiple studies instead of a single study. Maybe there could be some causal factors that we didn't think of when looking at a specific study?

> If such a drug exists, I want to know why the body hasn't evolved either to produce it by itself or to obtain the same effect in another way

You're assuming evolution is perfect and that we have reached perfection already

Your question is also assuming that each drug impacts everyone the same way

Some people who take a certain psych med won't experience side effects, while others may experience severe side effects

E.g. most people who take Straterra experience benefits but some outliers may become extremely suicidal

I would say overall human science on drugs is primitive. I think to achieve what you are really thinking about will need a different overall approach to psych med development

I wouldn't overlook the potential for naturally found compounds either. Many indigenous peoples have or had vast knowledge on their pharmaceutical effects but often these were destroyed in genocides