JohnStrangeII

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by JohnStrangeII 5y ago
I have a bit of a stupid question related to the topic. I'm self-publishing German sci fi and fantasy novels, nothing special, just some good entertainment (if you like my writing style). Since you cannot have a readership without Amaz
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by JohnStrangeII 5y ago
Some companies just create new needs out of thin air and even manage to replace better technologies with inferior ones. It's mostly a matter of marketing. If you want, many companies sell prestige, lifestyle ideas, and grand illusions.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
Aren't there good container libraries for C?
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
In almost all cases I can think of I'm also against canceling individuals, so I agree with you. If NYT openly spread hate speech or called for murder and violence, then they should be "canceled" (boycotted).
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
On the contrary your original comment exemplified the thought pattern very well. I fully understand why you claim it doesn't, though.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I've noticed this thought pattern with many people who argue against freedom of speech and for tighter control of media or "canceling" them recently: 1. The arguer claims that negative consequences follow from the exercising
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
> It's ok to be politically biased, but still factually accurate for things that fit their political bias? Everybody is biased. You, me, and every journalist on earth. Of course, that's okay. The NYT also does not go out of t
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
Well, if you start arguing this way, then you can also go all the way back and muse about what the word meant in Proto-Indoeuropean. It's still obvious that the modern use of the master/slave combo comes from centuries of slavery,
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I didn't see it immediately either, it's amazing how good my brain auto-corrected "maximalize" and "minimilize" without me even noticing.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
It's not just for legacy purposes. I've written a few useful personal tools in Purebasic, for instance. BASIC dialects tend to provide the functionality needed and can be handy for quickly throwing something together when you don&
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
Some could be both...
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I've listened to one or two and would say he's a very good interviewer who is always well prepared. The ones I've listened to were about the philosophy of AI and related issues. For me personally, his podcasts are too long, I
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
There are no neutral actions, though.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
Sorry, I've seen your post only now, so my reply is a bit late. I think we mostly agree, but it appears to me that you might not be fully aware of the magnitude of the metaethical problem and persistent disagreement about them. To give
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I'm working in formal ethics, mostly on formal aspects of value structure, and agree with you. This article is a hodgepodge of many different ideas, some of them interesting, others a bit naive, and has almost nothing to do with formal
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I can't really put my finger on it, but this article seems slightly biased against Silicon Valley CEOs.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
This kind of sensualism was often defended in the debate, but it has problems, too. I think the history of mathematics makes the position implausible. For a long time, up until recently, mathematics was way ahead of the applications of math
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
The observers are part of the universe, too, as is my pocket calculator.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
This is a rather interesting article. I'm a Platonist. From what we know today, real numbers cannot exist in a finite space, but they seem to exist mathematically. The same can be said about many other mathematical structures, includin
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I'm not very convinced of this AI. I got 96% for http://peppermind.com and only 68% for https://talumriel.de - I'm almost certain that most users would prefer talumriel, and both scores them seem overrated
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I have a question about this. Is SEO really still relevant and necessary? Is it really effective? I've been wondering about this for a while. It seems to me that everybody is doing it anyway, and that in the end what counts is that man
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I found it almost unreadable, and I can tolerate a lot. Maybe something gets lost with the translation. As for the worst, I forgot the author's name. It was a military sci fi novel with an alien invasion theme, so you'd expect it
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
In my experience the best software is the one that no longer distinguishes between the markets. For example, I've just found the Serif Affinity graphics software suite. Each of their programs can be used as substitute for ten times mor
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
It will substantially harm sales of B2C products, but it may make sense for B2B products that require support and training and aren't based on any substantial know how/trade secrets. In that case releasing as open source might eve
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I've got to agree, The Three Body Problem was the second worst science fiction novel I've ever read - to be honest, I only read 3/4 of it. But he's not an English author so he doesn't count.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
And how do you intend to find out what your government does without reading the news? Do you get all of your "information" from bloggers? Social media? Hearsay? What an excellent way to end up watering plants with Brawndo - becaus
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I agree, what you describe is what terrorists think. Obviously, at some point in their life they persuade themselves that their political goals justify the intentional killing of innocent civilians. They go at great lengths with these justi
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
You can, see my definition above. The crucial feature is whether civilians are intentionally targeted or not. You can add all kinds of clauses (e.g. to conveniently exclude military forces of nation states), but that's the morally rele
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
No, not according to a reasonable definition of terrorism. It's terrorism if a group is intentionally attacking civilians (non-combatants) for political goals. Freedom fighters may or may not be terrorists, depending on whether they in
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
The same happened with HIV, these kind of conspiracy theories are inevitable. People always want to blame someone, even when there is overwhelming evidence that a natural catastrophe occurred. Remember the Italian seismologists who got sued

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