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ToxicWaste

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  • Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?

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  • why would anyone spend time to disprove mediums (if not for the fun of it)? like anything in science I have to prove MY hypothesis. so if a medium wants to claim what they are doing is actually ghosts, the burden of prove is on them.

    i would claim, that a reasonable person would attribute the medium (not a ghost summoned by the medium), if they are seeing things, hearing things, whatever a medium does... while they are in the room with that medium person. again, the medium needs to prove anything happening is not just them messing around. i guess they could put some LSD into my coffee before leaving and make me see things alone. but i am pretty sure the LSD would be detectable and the person responsible for drugging me arrested.

    a medium and other trickery cannot be used as explanation for those people who experienced the third man factor. while it is totally OK for you or anybody to say "{...}, and that’s where I would stop, I can’t explain it, I don’t know what this is.". the scientific approach would be to form a hypothesis, and start doing experiments to either prove or disprove the hypothesis. the problem is, that i cannot think of an ethical way to do such experiments. which is why, i don't believe we will be able to prove or disprove such a thing. so let's go with Occam's razor and prefer the explanation where people hallucinate things, due to body and mind being pushed beyond limits.

  • Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?

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  • mediums are a completely different thing, as they peddle a 'wonder product'. claiming things without proof and asking for money. but that modus operandi is not restricted to non-science. radioactive underware was a thing...

    i am talking about people who did experience something and how they choose to interprete that experience for themselves. if you ask me, it was most likely their body and mind being pushed across certain borders - which made them feel things that where not actually there. if you asked me about my grandfather, i would tell you that he is most likely not here or there and it is just my imagination. but it gives me a little bit of comfort to at least allow the possibility that he is somewhere.

    those are all personal choices about personal experiences, which do not affect anybody. but if someone start selling a product or even a religion. they crossed a line and are (trying) to affect other people.

  • Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?

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  • it is not irrational, to observe (or experience) something and not being able to explain it.

    i do not have any reason to assume my friend is a liar. so she heard her fathers voice. how or why she heard it we will never know, as she was not hooked up to a brainwave scanner or similar.

    apparently we have different people from different times having experienced similar things. thanks @Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works for pointing to the Third Man Factor! so i would say it is quite reasonable to believe something can happen to us humans in extreme situations. is it just our imagination? quite possible! especially considering the more extreme stories mentioned in the wikipedia page surely drove those people to or past their individual limits. but that brings me back to my last paragraph: it doesn't change anything or even matter. those voices, or whatever they where helped those people survive extreme situations and live to tell the tale. whether it was a deceased loved one, a valkyrie from norse mythology, friendly tree spirit, their subconsciousness wanting to survive, ... or just hallucination due to thirst/starvation/exhaustion.

    the effects didn't change. so whatever the cause is, shouldn't change my, your, or anybody else's life

  • Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?

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  • thanks! didn't know there is a name for it

  • Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?

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  • ghosts are like religion: can neither be proven nor disprofen. what do you even consider a ghost? i do faintly believe in spirits:

    when i am sitting at the grave of my grandfather, it does feel as he is around somehow. is that because i miss him and wish he is still with us? likely...

    a friend of mine recently lost her father. they are both accomplished mountaineers. on a solo tour, she told me, she heared her father's voice reminding her to be careful - while not paying attention during a dangerous passage. was it her father reaching out? was it her subconsciousness taking the persona of the father? we will never know...

    in the end it doesn't matter in the slightest, what these feelings of ghosts or spirits really are. if our ancestors keep watching out for us, that is great. if our subconsciousness keeps watching out for us, while taking on different personas, that is great. life goes on the same - even if it all was just imagination.

  • Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer

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  • a POS, but a good politician and he had his principles. not many lanisters could claim that much...

  • Veteran: "My nation is under attack."

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  • way to go and alienate allies. you should apply to the orange monkey admin.

  • Well, this is awkward

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  • stroking a tyrants ego has never really worked in history.

    sure canada and mexico should dig trenches and prepare for the worst. but they should also just decouple from usa by making trading, defensive and free travel agreements with other nations (every country should do that)

  • Oh No, Corruption

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  • i mean, the bush family has a lot of money in the weapons industry... but they where actually politicians and have plausible deniability between personal gains and political actions.

  • BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit

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  • what is the reason to put that tool into a browser? if i use the thing on my private computer, it increases complexity compared to a local installation (not an issue for many ppl here, but for my grandma surely). if i use it on a corporate environment, wouldn't more employees use it if it was the default PDF viewer on their managed device?

    what did i miss?

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • I have to write so much boilerplate code to make sure my objects are of the correct type and have the required attributes!

    That is the trap that, sadly, my company fell for too. The POC was written in python. very fast i might add. but it was only that: a POC. if the whole backend crashes due to unexpected user input - noone cared. if the frontend displayed gibberish because the JSON made wrong assumptions about not defined data types - sweep it under the rug, don't do that during presentations.

    but if it came to building a resilient system, which can be shipped to customers and preferably maintained by them (with minimal consulting contract for access to our guys)... we cursed the way python worked.

  • Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

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  • STEM

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  • Boar Stew with Spätzle and Rotkohl

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  • if you run into the same problem again: use a soaking wet cutting board and knife. use the back of the knife to push single spaetzle over the board into hot water. dont forget to re-wet before putting the next load onto the board.

    obviously the thing OP suggested is much better. but i am certain you make better progress than with a juicer.

  • This is kind of getting out of control

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  • maybe this is more symptomatic. i have been through the academic wringer and have worked with ai technology in a professional way. from experience: ai is good at doing things, which have been done thousands of times (how else would it have learned it). and it can save you some time doing stupid tasks.

    look at this the other way around: if ai is good at writing scientific papers, it has been done thousands of times and is unimaginative. this covers with much of my experience in academia.

    i am not saying, that there are no scientific discoveries to be made anymore. quite the opposite. but i do believe that we overload students with stupid tasks and stress them beyond reason.

    academia is very important. but as institutions of learning, discovery and preserving knowledge. over the years it has accumulated a lot of dead weight.

  • Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support

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  • you are mostly right. anti cheat is somewhat more effective with kernel level access. also, it is infinitely more dangerous and creepy to run on your machine.

    however, if the devs can get rid of just a couple more cheaters - they will absolutely insist on the more intrusive versions. it is not their machine after all.

    i see two variants on how to solve this issue:

    • let your wallet speak. this failed long ago IMO
    • remind the devs, that a client is never to be trusted. if i had the time, i would probably make a sport out of breaking kernel level anti cheat and distribute it for free 😈

  • Linux Antivirus?

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  • Linux Antivirus?

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  • I like to consider myself part of the exclusive and oh so elite club of linux users. everyone here saying that AV is not needed, because the best security is not to be stupid, is right. but is your grandma tech literate enough to not do stupid things on her computer? your teenage son?

    as the linux user base grows, the platform becomes more interesting of a target. even for stupid attacks. and lets be honnest: lots of legitimate open source projects still use an install script to curl and pipe into the terminal as a suggested method to install. which is just horrible!

    while an anti malware is a patch. it is the last line of defense after a stupid mistake. so it would be great to have an actual desktop AV for linux. eset used to sell one but it is long out of service.

    i use clamAV. but i maintain it for the family, so it is not as simple as telling them exactly what to install and run with default configs.

    anyway, for those interested: here are two videos of malware attacks against lunux in rather different fashions:

  • Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser

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  • Radon

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  • still bad quality. but compression hasn't gotten that bad yet...

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    GIT the Princess

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    Heroes & Villains of software development

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    IT jobs explained with a broken lightbulb

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