thevardanian

Absolutely no.

At least those that already have a drive to know use reddit to sharpen their knowledge. As a research tool itself reddit is pretty invaluable.

George Boole believed in a similar idea far before any idea of computers were known. In a sense then the entire endeavor of computation has to do with consciousness from beginning to end.

The secret is they don't believe in anything.

I'm just going to say that to someone who has never experienced such a thing, it is still quite incredible. SV bubble is too real.

Like I get many here were expecting fully self-driving cars by 2020, but even what have right now is kinda mind-boggling.

Psychedelics man...

They'll mess you up.

And that's fine. In fact that is itself a valid argument within the Buddhist/Hindu context. I would even argue it's basis of both "religions"; proof through self experience.

So again, the point here is that it's important to be knowledgeable about whatever subject matter that you're taking part in, not least because of being respectful, but because that way whatever task is being undertaken can be done "correctly". Including, perhaps especially, if you have belief in occult ideas.

It's not about it being religious, but about it being dangerous, or in some ways a hinderance/harmful to the self.

Kind of like how self harm is forbidden. Vamamarga is psychological self harm, in a sense. Aghoris then take that same principle to the next level.

The problem is people fetishize, or in other ways make arguments and ideas about Indian origin things within the context of religion. That has in my opinion done far more harm in understanding the philosophical approaches of Dharma than any other misconception, including translation errors.

"wishing that things were different than the way they are."

That's actually one of the best ways I've heard it described.

That's also an argument for why the government should support btc/blockchain technologies, instead of banning it. Transactions can be open for everyone to see, and therefore easier to audit/account for unaccounted cash and if they're being used or not.

The recent interview with Nirmala Sitharaman, the current Finance Minister of India, claims otherwise in an interview given yesterday.

Here's the interview: https://youtu.be/kHYQ730R-aA?t=1855

So I don't know who's more senior than the FM of India that Reuters is getting their info from.

The militarization of space is unfortunately inevitable.

It will never be able to compete long term if, rather when state level decide to join the game.

I mean if that were true then he could afford rent, clothing, a $10 library card, healthcare, education, etc.

Like there's this peculiar mentality in America that is absolutely psychotic. While those so called "menial tasks" are no doubt important, rather invaluable to functioning of society, we should not imply let alone pretend, that they provide enough. So in terms of sheer economic value, if we believe our current way of measuring labor, those "menial tasks" are in fact not valuable. Because if they were they could provide a decent life, let alone being able to provide roof over your head.

What I find bewildering is how so many Americans, even here, can justify the sheer waste of time, and psychological trauma, with "If he graduated with minimal debt and was able to get a good paying job, I'm not seeing the societal waste".

Such justifications either feel like exuding gross privilege or worse a result of some mass Stockholm Syndrome.

Math, like philosophy, is only interested in using concepts, structures, or otherwise rigorous ideas to pry into other ideas. Like philosophy it is in some senses self referential, and not really interested in discovering some idea of "truth", but rather exploring the avenues by which truth itself is defined.

Property taxes are absolutely not more "equitable". Property taxes are like sales taxes, a single person can only consume so much. Similarly large wealthy corporations, or individuals can only buy so much land. And so this kind of tax structure fundamentally burdens the bottom earners of society disproportionately.

A progressive tax system will always be far more equitable.

A lot of East coast Ivy League grads simply either go into the public sector, or finance. They essentially feed into either D.C. or New York.

Meshuggah uses a similar beat structure to Indian classical music, which I found interesting. Here's a sort of example https://youtu.be/ZAVZtCZV9aI

Wait... People actually unironically believe this line of reasoning?

One word: Hauntology.

Jacques Derrida coined the neologism to describe narratives of the future. Hauntology is the idea that the present is "haunted" by lost futures, and refers to the return of elements of the past that "haunts" the present as a ghost. So imagined futures, instead of exploring new futures, itself becomes a form which is haunted by the exploration of past ideas of the future. This is the whole idea of retro-futurism that we often see these days.

Here's a vid that talks about exactly what people here are trying to analyze. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSvUqhZcbVg

Buddhism while not worshipping Gods, does not deny their existence, or rather a more familiar phrase would be deny the existence of "higher beings".

So it is neither atheistic nor theistic.

The denial of the self or "selfish desires" is the common thread here.

Not beyond. Not becoming.

The beyond implies a spatial expanse in which one progresses. Becoming implies a temporal expanse in which one progresses. The cessation of these spatiotemporal limits is fundamental to that "state of being" (this phrase itself betrays that). In that sense memory itself creates that time-space substance, because it is through that, that it exists.

This is something that is very difficult to reconcile with, because this would also imply that cause and effect are non-objects. So then what is it that one "realizes"?

"There would be five or six wet and wonderful years when there might be nineteen to twenty-five inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. And then the dry years would come, and sometimes there would be only seven or eight inches of rain... And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."

Whenever Californians talk about whether I'm reminded of this Steinbeck quote.

That's not how any of this works. It's about the ecosystem of developers and users. How much VR work is happening on macs? How much AI?

This is a long term race that Apple will fail because it failed to nurture its roots.

It depends on what you're interested in. There's virtually one for any topic.

In fact are there any other good gathering places than some obscure subreddits?

You're joking, right? Cause now I have one more thing to feel insecure about.

Or... they can just kill the Hackintosh by preventing the OS from running on unsanctioned hardware.

Yah. And Trump is still a Manchurian candidate that Russia controls.

From your article:

"“As far as we recall these are already public,” WikiLeaks wrote at the time.

"WikiLeaks rejects all submissions that it cannot verify. WikiLeaks rejects submissions that have already been published elsewhere or which are likely to be considered insignificant. WikiLeaks has never rejected a submission due to its country of origin,” the organization wrote in a Twitter direct message when contacted by FP about the Russian cache."

"A WikiLeaks spokesperson told the Daily Dot that no emails were removed from what the organization published. The spokesperson also suggested the Daily Dot was “pushing the Hillary Clinton campaign’s neo-McCarthyist conspiracy theories about critical media.”"

That's the problem isn't it?

The goal of design isn't to correct the user, but to correct for the user.