orestarod (u/orestarod)

orestarod commented on Windows 11 Pro's On-by-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45% tomshardware.com/news/win... · Posted by u/belter

stg22 · 2 years ago

If it does, there's zero chance that Microsoft know about it. When your company is worth $2,427,000,000,000 , you'd have to be insane to risk it all like that.

orestarod · 2 years ago

Trillion dollar US corporations are still under US law, which does include security requests and gag orders from secret services.

orestarod commented on Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States pluralistic.net/2023/08/1... · Posted by u/tpaschalis

antisthenes · 2 years ago

What's your address and how soon can I move in?

DM is okay, if you don't want to post it on the internet.

orestarod · 2 years ago

Why should they welcome you in the house they use to LIVE in? As opposed a house they use to make money out of, without contributing anything to society, like landlords do?

orestarod commented on Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment (2019) blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/0... · Posted by u/mhb

323 · 3 years ago

But the body during evolution didn't have access to ice (studying polar bears and pinguins might be interesting).

So it could be that ice is a good thing, just like air conditioning is a good thing, but nature had no way of evolving that.

orestarod · 3 years ago

Well ice is there to UNDO some of our body's responses, so it does not do something the body could not theoretically achieve.

orestarod commented on Why fusion will never happen (2012) matter2energy.wordpress.c... · Posted by u/CharlesW

feet · 3 years ago

But why are lasers a bad option?

orestarod · 3 years ago

I guess because they can be used as weapons, if the said lasers can transfer enough energy with enough accuracy to cover real energy needs.

orestarod commented on Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/grogu88

JumpCrisscross · 3 years ago

> it most likely is not the most efficient way of doing something but it most certainly is the most resilient way

For that purpose. Photosynthesis is horribly inefficient for any use other than making more plant.

orestarod · 3 years ago

What do you mean? Does a more efficient way of biologically using sun's energy exist?

orestarod commented on Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/grogu88

wtetzner · 3 years ago

> These animals consume the same products the vegan alternatives are made with...

How many people are living off of grass?

orestarod · 3 years ago

That animals convert grass and plants in general to meat is undeniable. But I think the issue is, livestock is generally fed with human grown plants, which could be fed directly to humans and save a lot of energy (food and water) wasted in the process, because the amount of calories, for example, that you take off meat is nowhere near the calories contained in the food the animal consumed during its lifetime. Now, regarding if nutrients are missing from a plants only diet, that's another matter.

orestarod commented on The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature quillette.com/2022/11/18/... · Posted by u/tomohawk

thelopa · 3 years ago

That’s a nice tautology you’ve got there. Regardless, looking at people who explicitly say “we are not women” and then saying “they’re women” seems a bit rude and dismissive of their life experience if you ask me. Personally, if a person with a full beard, an imposing physique, and a deep voice says “I’m a man”, I take them at their word. I guess you might ask them to drop their pants to see if they’re really a “woman”, though.

orestarod · 3 years ago

What is the information given when someone states "I am a woman/man"?

orestarod commented on Show HN: Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp github.com/aleixrodriala/... · Posted by u/aleixrodriala

preisschild · 3 years ago

Meta/Facebook is the last company I would trust regarding their E2EE. They probably have a key themselves.

orestarod · 3 years ago

The E2EE here is not about privacy, but about being able to send whatever data you want (like binary) since WhatsApp will only see one type of data (encrypted) in transit, in contrast to needing to send data in a specific format to have it transferred at all. Meta can peek at the original "messages" all they want, they will see encrypted packet data anyway.

orestarod commented on American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/jdkee

kamaal · 3 years ago

>>Everyone is a millionaire down on their luck. You only need to work harder or be more clever—ideally both.

Race is an unchangeable, decided at-birth deal. Class on the other hand changes based on how you succeed to that end. People do feel class as something that is not fixed, and can be changed.

In some way getting rid of Racism means changing other people, and changing class requires one to change one's own ways.

orestarod · 3 years ago

The problem when you do not perceive class, is that you view those of the same class as adversaries on your way to the top rather than people on the same boat as you, needing to cooperate to improve your overall position and fix your problems. Lower class problems are other people's problems, because you are not really a part of it or won't be for long more (so you think).

Basic human life conditions should really not be up to a game of "success" that by definition has few winners. In my opinion at least.

orestarod commented on Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory singularityhub.com/2022/1... · Posted by u/cheinyeanlim

naasking · 3 years ago

> From this he concluded that he cannot differentiate when he decides to do something or when his body decides to do it, they both feel to him like he decided to do it.

Which arguably disproves mind-body dualism. "You" are your whole body, not a disconnected consciousness trapped in a physical form.

orestarod · 3 years ago

Well all decisions ARE made in the brain, conscious or not, and whatever consciousness is, it resides in those neurons. That is also influenced by various inputs of the rest of the body, of course, but I think we can safely assume "self" exists in the brain. Thinking it reversely, can we really say an organism with various complex parts but no brain has consciousness?

You are not a disconnected consciousness, but some body parts are more easily discarded than others, and I think the brain tops most (all?) of the others regarding survivability - and is irreplaceable regarding the "self".

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