Exactly, remember the mystery of the disappearance of bees? And they finally found out (or rather. admitted) that it was pesticides that were responsible. Same thing here.
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I have no idea what “human consciousness” is. I'm not deriding you, but I have never heard a satisfactory explanation. I kind of suspect it isn't actually real.
> What does this suggest about people that don't have kids?
There are a lot of species of wild animals that will not procreate in captivity. Take a group of these creature that is adapted to a certain environment and then place them in a completely different environment and they will for some reason lose their will to procreate even though they are physically able to do so.
I think it's the same with human beings. Technology has pushed so far and fast away from how we used to live, some of us, for whatever reason, don't procreate anymore.
If at anytime we become truly happy this hurts these goals. For example, if an old man could be building a wall or an arsenal of bows an arrows, or inventing a better way to go fishing, his tribe would be more likely to survive. But if he just sat there, content to being alive, this is bad for his offsprings' future.
You could say, well why can't he do these things and be happy at the same time? I can't really explain why not being happy leads to a better outcome for the safety and procreation of society in general, but I would assume that it must serve some purpose in that goal, or the whole concept of it would have been removed by evolution long ago.
So, I think it's better just to resign yourself to the fact, barring using mind altering drugs, that you'll never be much happier than you were on average before, or much sadder, either.
And as far as this 70 yo lady is concerned, I'd bet when this was written she was simply riding the high of accomplishing something, and probably soon crashed back down below her baseline, only to recover back to it sometime later.
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder." - Homer Simpson
You've not considered this possibility, that there is an entity out there who would punish you for being Christian.
I'm not against religion but I wouldn't say there is some rational reason to believe one thing or another.
You could be shot out of one rail gun in San Francisco, glide for awhile, fall to the earth and caught by a “reverse” railgun in San Jose.
It'd be cheaper and safer than planes since no need to carry fuel or an engine on board, and could have an emergency parachute incase something went wrong.
Or maybe I've been dreaming about Kerbal Space Program projects too much lately. (I'm fully expecting to be flamed and jided for this)
> The link has nothing to do with it, I only included it because you brought up skin color.
That's some weird reasoning you have there...
> This is comment is vacuous and emotional.
Emotional? Vacuous? Why do you think so? It almost sounds like, in a Freudian slip kid of way, you are actually being self referential :).
> Please take some time to back up your extraordinary claims
It's hard to know what you mean by extraordinary. Care to elaborate?
I said the insurance companies would receive more information, and that would prevent those underinsured from being able to negotiate, lest the insurance companies find out. I don't understand how you could interpret it the way you did... And then you ironically question my ability to be logical, hoo boy!
And what does your link on the job market have to do with this?
Jesus, this is precisely what the lightning network is for! Please, do a little research before dismissing it wholesale. The node you are connected to cannot refuse to pay, because you have a signed, but unpublished transaction of what he owes you (if he owes you). If he suddenly stops contact and says fuck you, you can just publish that transaction.
Seriously, this has always been the idea from the get go, so don't go blaming that you haven't read the latest update on how lightning works. If you don't understand something, don't go around spouting that it must not work.
Because you're both connected to a common lightning node, at least indirectly. There are several public lightning nodes that accept connections and they are joined together. Connect to one and you have access to their network.
> Similarly, if I want some random person to send me money, how do I convince them to run a lightning node and to let me connect to it?
Same as above. The lightning network is, of course, only going to work with other nodes who are also connected, but there is an incentive to join, since when you do, you can transact with all of its peers.
Edit: Here is an example of a lightning network enabled wallet that works as a lightning node itself. No payment processor needed: https://lightning-wallet.com
Since you have no formal way to compare environments to each other, you can't prevent this from happening. Therefore you just pushed the subjectively as to which AI is smarter to which environments are chosen by the user to run against.
It also doesn't have the issue with monad transformers and having to lift all over the place. Nor out-of-order transformers, such as StateT Reader vs ReaderT State.
You can also label effects, so you could have the equivalent of StateT Foo StateT Bar ... without having to remember which one to lift. You just simply refer to the state you want by its label.
It also introduces people to dependent types and shows some amazing concepts in a practical example.
Not that monads are bad, but once you got the concept down about a glob of data and lambda functions representing code you can run, Effects open you up to a whole new world.
I exclusively use brave on android, linux and windows and don't have replacement ads. I've read that you can opt into viewing ads in exchange for receiving a cryptocurrency token, but since I'm in a region that isn't offered, have never seen it. But I don't think it just plasters its own ads over the originals unless you opt into this “crypto for ad views” scheme.
> I think it's more about the expressivity of pointers and arrays compared to the "backwardness-feeling" of index lookups.
Greater expressivity in ways to store bad data is never a good thing.
It's just an index lookup, so what? You'd rather mash all the data into a single parent field, is that it?
If there were no idle rich to make expensive products for, (say they were all beamed off the planet to work in an alien slave mining facility) the end product that was produced from any job would defacto have to help those in the same or lower class of the worker, benefiting everyone.
In other words, what's better for the world, yet another rich man's yacht, or cheaper, better tasting loaf of bread that a poor person can buy and eat?
I think you're wrong about that. Any proof?
That said, being on a boat for hours is hardly something we were evolutionarily designed for either, yet no one writes scare mongering articles and posts about that. So you might be doing a disservice with all this worry you're stirring up.
That is a very common tax shelter rich people use to avoid paying capital gains tax, called a CRUT. It hardly makes him a saint.