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There can be no understanding of the world at large. Our human cognitive ability simply cannot compute the effect of 8 billion agents acting independtly in a chaotic environment.
All we can do is extrapolating based on information available and heuristics. Better information and better heuristics are the best we can hope for.
Lyn Alden · 18w
I find Bladerunner 2049 frustrating, because I *almost* love it. The characters, themes, acting, and the overall plot structure are great, imo. However, villains give melodramatic exposition monolog...
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Didn't like it. It seemed to go nowhere slow. Didn't really like the Blade Runner either to be honest but still rate it better. Huge fan of Philip K Dick novels nonetheless.
As far as adaptations of his novels go, I thought A scanner darkly was on point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly_(film)
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L0la L33tz · 22w
We just got a pretty major grant from a thing called Octant and the Ethereum Foundation to produce a documentary about the DOJ‘s case against Roman Storm. Probably gonna get lynched for this, but ...
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while you seem to be doing important and quality work, it's a bit hard to expect people to send money as support when it's not clear what or who the money funds.
You want donations, you need to display transparency, governance and accountability.
ETH foundation giving you shitcoins is on the same level as some billionnaire giving to a charity money that evaded tax and will be used to deduce yet more tax --> an absurd cynical move, stealing from the mass to appear generous and morally righteous
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Renaud Lifchitz · 38w
New IQ research shows why smarter people make better decisions https://phys.org/news/2025-06-iq-smarter-people-decisions.html
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It doesn't actually show why (meaning how) they make better decisions. It only shows that smarter people think better outside of IQ tests. That's stating the obvious.
The IQ test is only a proxy for general intelligence, which is defined by our ability to think (solve problems, recognise patterns..). So I'm not sure what we learned here... that smart people are smarter than dumb people?
Vitor Pamplona · 48w
Everybody knows the British went after the spices, but it was the Portuguese that significantly changed the food of the world. Brazil didn't have coffee before the Portuguese brought it from Africa....
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Most spices come from the Molluca archipelago in modern day Indonesia, not the Americas. South and south east asia have had spices long before the Portuguese got there. So did the rest of the world by the way, with Arab merchants carrying pepper, cloves, cardamom etc around, including to the Mediterranean. Your food history is off :)
Rizful.com (zap tester) · 51w
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I tought this was the nicest spam I ever received. Was getting notified by Minibits every minute so I thought the same 1 sat transaction was being processed over and over again. DDOS on my attention. Had to turn down all notifications from Minibits. Little UX issue to solve.