Jesse_Ray

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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
You misunderstood my argument. I did not assert the existence or nonexistence of libertarian free will or compatibilist free will. Such assertions were beside the point. I was only pointing out that the argument to which I responded contain
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
That argument is unsound. The color of the sky depends on atmospheric gases and suspended particles as causal factors. This shows that atmospheric gases and suspended particles are causally potent. At the same time, atmospheric gases and su
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
When providing a quotation, use quotation marks.
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
The article discussed all people in that age group, not just the people that you consider sluggish, vacant, vapid, etc. Please read and comprehend articles before commenting on them.
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
I agree with the author concerning places with somewhat-level terrain, with short distances between home, work, and grocery stores, with police officers posted around these locations to ensure good traffic, and so on. On the other hand, man
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
Please elaborate.
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
Articles like these are annoying/depressing. They begin with strawmen, such as "scientists and even fellow philosophers are telling me that I'm a machine or a beast." No, they argue that humans are animals, not beasts. The terms mean differ
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
I have no objection to the website operator wanting to cater only to people who want serious relationships, but calling flings and hook-ups "smut", with the implication that people who engage in such activities are "smut-makers", is extreme
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
The headline is misleading. The study did not find a general distrust of the Internet. Rather, it found that certain things on websites inspire distrust, such as pages with too many advertisements that create the impression that the content
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
There is no trouble in proving a negative that does not exist for proving a positive. For example, you can prove to your own satisfaction that there are no monkeys on your shoulder, even though that is a negative claim. The problem of proof
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
I visit many unpopular websites, often through search engines, such as to find out little details about video games, techniques for DIY organic lawncare, concepts used in unconventional programming languages, explanations of physics and phi
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
I should have been more careful in choosing my words. I agree that {1,2,3,...} and {2,4,6,...} are both countably infinite and have the cardinality aleph-0. When I said they are not the same size, I did not mean to invoke the idea of set ca
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
There are two mistakes in your reasoning. First, according to your definition of losing, gambling away 99% of your life savings would not count as a loss. A better definition would be: having fewer resources at the end of an act of gambling
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by Jesse_Ray 14y ago
I reject the concept of self-plagiarism because I believe that people are entitled to use their own works as they see fit, provided that they have not transfered ownership or copyright. Even so, that is beside the point because the issue ha
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by Jesse_Ray 15y ago
The reason is more economical than technological. The most popular languages became popular by holding the strongest appeal for the lowest common denominator (LCD) of coders. For example, Java bests Haskell in this regard because LCD coders
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by Jesse_Ray 15y ago
Thanks for the information, batista. It does not surprise me to hear that JSON has gotten popular in Javascript applications and the datastores that interact with them, and likewise with key-value datastores since the data mapping seems rat
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by Jesse_Ray 15y ago
If a lexical item composed of alphabetical characters consists of one or more morphemes and communicates a meaning which can be comprehended from the context without reference to a dictionary, then that lexical item is more of a word than m
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by Jesse_Ray 15y ago
XML may seem harder than JSON, until you actually try to work with the data. When you need to create an automated system that checks that data has a certain format, XML has support for schemas and there are many software tools for creating
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by Jesse_Ray 15y ago
I think many people fail to notice that there can be many motivations behind someone's actions. When the motivation is some kind of business interest, for example, it does not make much sense to reinvent the wheel. On the other hand, when t
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by Jesse_Ray 15y ago
I think you lost sight of the big picture when you put the number in terms of miles. The light emitted at the time of the death of Jesus has traveled some 1,978 light-years (that number equals 2011 AD minus 33 AD). The distance is gargantua