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qyron

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European guy, weird by default.

You dislike what I say, great. Makes the world a more interesting of a place. But try to disagree with me beyond a downvote. Argue your point. Let's see if we can reach a consensus between our positions.

  • Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights

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  • You made me remember of a period around 2012 when, due to my country being under external financial supervision, most cities and town opted to disconnect street lights to save on the energy bill.

    Turns out that anywhere between 35% and 60% of all street lights are superfluous, there was no increase in insecurity and close to nobody felt the need to supplement the light outside with their own.

    In my own little town, nights became quieter. Foxes, owls and other night dwellers could be seen roaming.

    People complained but when met with no other option adapted and adapted fast and well. Many street ligths, previously using sodium lamps, were changed to LED, allowing for many lamps to be removed.

    I would personally like to have less lamps in the streets and those with lower intensity. It could be done. This isn't London anymore.

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  • I have a quite large music library.

    General music folder is organized by artist name, alphabetically.

    Within each artist folder I organize albuns by year.

    Each track is numbered in the file name itself.

    Extra data goes into the file tag, readable by my music player.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • What I understood then was that in person transactions could be done, as the local ledger of each user would authorize and record operations on and off the available balance and wait until network availability to syncronize with the global record.

    Returning to the subject at hand: I can imagine very specialized "AI" being useful for scientifical research, where very knowledgeable people use it as a tool to facilitate processes but are nonetheless capable of reviewing whatever results it produces.

    Not gigantic datacenters required for this but small, purpose made and perfected, locally run, even if on higher specifications hardware to do so, but machines built for a given task and purpose. The economic viability on it be damned; it's a tool for research, it is not made to earn money.

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  • What I understood then was that the local ledger of a given user of the coin would authorize and register the transactions done on/off the recorded balance and, when network available, would broadcast such transactions to the global ledger.

    The global ledger was the total sum of transactions, not imperatively required to authorize transaction by transaction.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • Wasn't Nano predicated on those lines? I remember reading transactions could be done locally, even off-line, validated beetween the parts and only later added to the global ledger.

  • Live, laugh, Lovecraft

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  • They seldom repeat themselves.

  • Have you ever used a water treatment system in your home?

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  • Not a water treatment system as those being described in the thread but I have installed and used a water filter in my house to prevent sand and metal deposits to enter my home pipes, as the main is a very old galvanized tube.

    It cost around 60€ and the instalation is pretty straigh forward if you are at ease with tools. The kit was composed of a stainless steel cartridge and a clear filter housing. A cartridge lasts about 2 years, more if routinely cleaned, and I had the option of cheaper fabric-like filters, discardable.

    The results, for me personally, besides removing the solids, were negligeable but my partner is a water taster and was constantly stating the water tasted better after I installed the filter.

    I went to a few stores, asking questions and comparing answers and solutions. I was not in need of a complex system but regardless I was presented with very exaggerated solutions and more basic and down to earth approaches. A serious hurdle I had to face was insisting that the system had to be easily instalable and maintainable by myself; most people tried to convince me to have everything installed by a plumber, no matter how simple the solution was.

  • BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

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  • As I walked out of my house, I made a conscious effort to take a peek on a few cars parked by the sidewalk and although many had the central console LCD installed, all had buttons and knobs to ajust and turn on and off things.

    I'm in Europe.

    Now I'm going to be on the look for the full LCD central console.

  • BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

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  • Where is this? I am seeing a growing resurgence of buttons and knobs in recently built cars. And I have the impression of reading somewhere conventional controls are to be mandatory again because the screen based controls pose a distraction for driving.

  • Why are there so many adult children out there in the world?

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  • As a species, we are not prepared for wide empathy. The farther some event is from us, the easier it becomes to dissociate from. What can compensate for this is nurture and culture but self reflection is a very dificult, even painful, exercise.

    And to use your words against yourself, logic takes no part in this. Logic just denotes a sequence of events or concepts that, for the person experiencing or describing, hold value. Sometimes, we are able to correctly convey our logic to others and they gather a semblance of understanding on our thought process but that is all. Logic is not a sacred cow.

    I personally find amusing hearing someone stating they act solely based on reasoning, as if that exempts them from their basal and underlying emotions.

    We are not rational nor logic. We spend a lifetime mostly reacting to what surrounds us, droning through life. Existing, taking hold of your own conscience is a difficult task. Teaching others to do it, even more.

    And you wonder why all you describe happens?

  • BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

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  • Where was this? And I would like to read the terms and conditions for purchase. I risk there is either a clause there for this and/or an entry way to file a complaint.

    This poses an active danger. We are visual creatures. It will cause distraction.

  • Pure chaos

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  • That can not be comfortable

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  • Nothing personal against wasps. But I prefer them far away from me. Which often comes into conflict with their interests, as they have this nasty tendency to invade the space I occupy, as in my house, my patio, the places I have to go in order to work, etc. If they ignore me, I'll show the same respect. If stingers come out blazing, insecticide starts being sprayed.

  • Can someone explain me what mental therapy should be like?

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  • None is a concern. In fact, my current therapist has been trying to assess me for autism is a very discreet way and I've made my mind on why take such a roundabout way instead of just coming clean.

    Again, I have a lot of baggage from a very troubled life; it leaves scars.

  • Can someone explain me what mental therapy should be like?

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  • I never went into therapy expecting for everything to be all roses and rainbows. I'm a big boy and can handle pain, to a point most people find disturbing, including a therapist. I was acquainted with suffering very early on and needed to develop ways to handle it, as I had nobody available and even less capable of helping. I grew up being the weird kid, kept to himself. Not that I did not want to be with others; I just had stuff in my head that completely went over theirs.

    Nowadays, going into therapy I expect at least respect for my concerns. Not compassion, nor sorrow, or any demonstration of socially adequate behaviour towards my internal conflicts. I expect an approach that somehow can give me a guidance or a tool to navigate my mind out of the knots it created.

    I sincerely hope you can keep going strong in your journey.

  • Can someone explain me what mental therapy should be like?

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  • Good luck on that. I wish I could. One in particular said would not be receiving me again as they were not to be questioned on their practice.

    Nah!

  • Can someone explain me what mental therapy should be like?

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  • I do not live with anything. I'm an average person, with a very troubled past, in need to unpack a lot of things that I am aware hurt me along the way. I am not struggling with PTSD, autism, ADHD or any other condition to my life and perception, which I have multiple times been very concrete about and been ignored about.

    Two very grim examples I can provide:

    • I'm a very fast thinker and talker; I had to develop this capability in order to provide justifications or backgrounds to save myself from violence. This generated a subroutine in my mind to try at any cost to appease in every single interaction, to the point I knowingly accept being trampled over just to avoid conflict. This fosters anger and difficulty to manage it and navigate healthy interactions where the other person try to be a bit pushy and I am not willing to be rolled over. This is not healthy. It has actively hindered me in my life. I stated this openly, in deep detail, to at least three professionals. Only one addressed it has being something that should be addressed. But later.
    • I'm highly adverse and suspicious of authority. Not in the sense that I want a lawless society or to abolish police and courts but in the sense that in order for me to accept someone's authority, the other person needs to show the authority they have is based off respect and cooperation. I spent years thinking I could not work in a team setting. I work better when alone, as I can take all the risks and consequences of my decisions, with no risk of endangering or harming others. I loathe having to take responsibility over others, I hate the hierarchy narrative that is force fed to every single human being since the cradle, as if people are incapable of using higher cognitive functions and instead need to be shepherded around by "superior" individuals, because they can not go beyond their reptilian brain. One day, in a fit of rage, against myself, over the idiotic behaviour of a coworker, I got a very shy agreement that my attitude is what makes good leaders but, again, not something I should be concerning myself with.

    I have to be a bit distraught over the process, at this point.

  • Can someone explain me what mental therapy should be like?

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  • In nearly 20 years I risk I've met around 10 professionals. Statistically, I should I have met someone who I could be able to work with and progress. It has not happened. It becomes tiresome.

    Thanks for the insight and I wish everything good to you.

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  • Exactly. Like a compass or the North Star. We make the journey; sometimes we just need the help to find the way.