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Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 191

Sarifs are, in fact, for ease of reading, but point well taken. The justifications are wrong and the people making them are petty assholes.

It's true, seifs are for ease of reading ... but so is Calibri. However, I believe Calibri was created for ease of reading on screens, while this article talks about documents on letterhead. So it's possible the choice of Calibri was misguided to begin with. Furthermore, according to the article, the number of “accessibility-based document remediation cases” – which I take to mean instances where somebody requests a document be reformatted for accessibility reasons – has not declined. So he's saying that, while this is a purely subjective aesthetic choice, the original change to Calibri never helped anything anyway.

Comment But....why???? (Score 1) 222

There is a lot of argument here about the technicalities: CAN we do it? There is a lot of argument here about the politics of it: Would we be ALLOWED to do it? There is a lot of argument here about the COST of doing it: Can we AFFORD to do it? But the fact is this country is 3,000 miles wide (maybe 3500-4000 miles diagonally), 1500 to 2000 miles deep, so the question is: WHY do we want to do this? How many people really need to travel from Seattle to Atlanta with a suitcase? Either fly with the same suitcase much faster, or drive so you can take along the kitchen sink. Otherwise, use Zoom.

Comment How do you know? (Score 1) 186

Think of the physical brain as the TV set. "Consciousness" is the program sent to the TV set. Without the TV set you can't see the program, but no one would claim that the TV set IS the program. In essence the program manifests via the TV set. There is nothing particularly special about the brain. It's grey matter is as physical as the TV set. There is no reason why a sufficiently complex and advanced TV set cannot host consciousness. Karel Capek dealt with this very idea in the very first use of the term, "robot" in "RUR Rossum's universal robots" (They were actually androids, not mechanical, but the point remains.) One day this will become a serious issue.

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