1) Ability to post anonymous comments 2) Instead of deleting a comment a user can choose to make it anonymous so that it is no longer associated with his/her account

Maybe "no tracking + no ads + no low-effort content + no clickbait + no paid content" club.

> Without consciousness you experience a single unified reality: your reality.

To me the word "experience" is what consciousness seems to be about. In that case without consciousness you can "step outside" and everything, but you would have no "internal experience" of any sort. i.e. be a "philosophical zombie" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

I fail to see why consciousness would be necessary for prediction. Any more context here?

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1. The outcome of the election here is not a probability. It is the population value - the ratio of people voting for candidate X on the election date. It doesn't have to be repeated in the same way measurements of height for all people in United States would not have to be repeated, if instead of vote we were measuring heights.

2. Frequentist probability doesn't require to physically repeat things. It can reason about what would happen in the repeated sampling under certain conditions, and then draw inferences about those assumed conditions. With the election example: if you get a survey of 100 people with 70% voting for candidate "A" we don't need to repeat this survey in order to know the likelihood (frequency) of this result happening if the real proportion of people voting for candidate "A" across the US is 50%.

To me - this one sounds most plausible.

The title answers the question to some extent - I prefer Vim over IDEs because I am allergic to "auto-magic". Also, unlike most IDEs, Vim will still be there after 5 years, 10 years, or 15 years.

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Same with European art. The prefix "European" would only be added when the author of the picture tries to contrast it with something else, or push some agenda about "European art". Otherwise it would just be under "art".

Case in point with another term: look at "American scientists" and "white American scientist". The second one will have more results of black people. This is again, in my opinion, because the addition of "white" is mainly added by those who concentrate and write about things related to race.

Another case in point - try looking for "thin woman" and observe how the proportion of pictures with obesity in them is bigger compared to searching for "woman" only.

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> magnetars (highly magnetized neutron stars) are one possible source of the mysterious "fast radio burst" signals

Somewhat disagree. That particular research programme must still have reproducible experiment as a unit. A million irreproducible experiments will generate exactly zero knowledge.

Maybe someone here has an idea about possible copyright issues?

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