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So what exactly is conscioussness? Does meaning exist independently from it and I discover it or is it an attribute assigned by conscious entities? I think that meaning is independent from energy, entropy, or anything else. An arrangement of atoms can be selected with no change in entropy to maximize meaning to me that it energetically equivalent to many other arrangements.

Also what do you make of sub-conscious and super-conscious? It seems to me that the conscious experience is just an interface sitting between the physical world and the whole psyche and self. A lot of that psyche sits behind a veil and comes out in uncontrolled ways. Or maybe the whole psyche is controlling our conscioussness in ways we don't really perceive.

What if consciousness is not a byproduct of matter — instead matter is a manifestation within consciousness.

Anecdotally I noticed a huge difference in sun burning when I stopped consuming seed oils and started taking cod liver oil every morning. I have pretty pale Northern European skin and I went from sunburning within an hour of sun exposure to never using sunscreen and not burning even with hours of sun exposure. I think I’d still burn at some point but the threshold is no where near what I am used to it being.

This definitely seems like the right thing to do. I’ve noticed more and more one line snarky comments on HN the past year. As well, the top posts have trended less and less technical.

I believe “lil X” is referring to his son, X.

If anyone is interested in installing this extension, I uploaded the .xpi file and instructions to install it in an issue on the git repo a few days ago [https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues...]

Hopefully the maintainer puts the .xpi file somewhere it can be accessed.

edit: someone has replied in the bottom of the git issue thread with a direct install link. use that instead

This reminds me of a rap I wrote a while ago! I hadn't shared it before but here it goes. It's based on Eminem's 'Lose Yourself':

  Yo

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There's build errors already, his code is spaghetti

He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready

To start debugging, but he keeps forgettin'

The code he wrote down, has no comments at all

He starts to type, but more build errors are comin' out now

He's choking, how, tabs and spaces are mixing now

The breakpoint runs out, null exception, blaow!

404, oh there goes code quality!

Oh, there goes overflow, he choked

He's so mad, but won't give up that easy? No

He won't have it, he knows this whole repo's a joke

It don't matter,

All that's left is to type in disgrace,

'git rebase'

Coincidentally, Joe Fitzpatrick was also one of the experts cited in the Bloomberg article. It would have been great to see this kind of technical perspective in the Bloomberg article! Joe clearly has value to add to the conversation and it is disappointing that Bloomberg chose to leverage his credentials in the hardware security community to add fluff to their article instead of any real insight. Same with using Joe Grand as well.

Clockless CPUs with RF transceiver and signal manipulation logic, however, do not exist.

It seems to me that embedding an RF front-end, back-end, and signal manipulation logic in a chip of the size shown in the article would be extraordinarily difficult. Assuming that feat was achievable, it would likely result in serious performance hits on that transmission line right? Signal latency would probably be a dead giveaway for something like EEPROM reads being manipulated.

"So... you are in favour of excluding people whose views you find repugnant, it's just a matter of which kinds of intolerance and whose repugnance is involved".

No, OP's statement is unambiguously saying that exclusion on the basis of political ideology is, in any form, wrong. The statements "Thiel should be fired because of his political views" and "Thiels's political views should have no place in a civil society" are entirely different things. Political discourse has a special sanctity in American culture and I, personally, think that is one of our greatest strengths. Firing an employee due to their political views is fundamentally at odds with this idea and there are laws in place to protect employees from political retaliation. Although a company might be threatened by an employee running for political office, campaigning for a candidate or participating in fundraising or a political advocacy group, an employer should not be empowered to fire that employee. To do so would invite fundamentally undemocratic forces into our political system. e.g. a company feels threatened by candidate A, employees must support candidate B else they are fired.

I don't see evidence of Thiel making any such remarks about women's rights to vote and the link cited actually makes the opposite claim. To me, it destroys an author's credibility to make such a blatantly false citation.

I would all be interested in such a place.

On my iPhone 6s, it shows full access.

Screen: http://imgur.com/YX9K8Ds

It'a hard to believe they'd have $1.4 bn in funding without giving some tech demonstrations o their investors.

I'm sure the self-declared "master executive officer" knows what they are doing.

What does your margin end up being? I can imagine that cutting out typical retailer margins, stocking fees, insurance, etc... can cut a $600 bed set to $350 pretty quickly.