SmirthsDAC

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by SmirthsDAC 5y ago
An oppressed people - the Jews, have become oppressors? This comment doesn't even attempt to draw the distinction between the government of Israel and the Jewish people. How would it feel if we said “The formerly oppressed Hispanic p
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by SmirthsDAC 5y ago
> I'm going to strongly disagree with that, and not sure how you decided that was objectively true. My argument was to point out a lack of good reason in the first place to have concerns over the age gaps. I agreed life experience c
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by SmirthsDAC 5y ago
> It strikes me as a genuine and reflective post from someone who cares, and I would hate to see others use "you are both legally adults" to avoid doing similar reflection. However, 7 years is not a significant age gap (even w
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by SmirthsDAC 6y ago
>> Organic for the most part is a myth. What they do is either spray with a pesticide that can be classified as organic That's demonstrably untrue. Many organic methods use no pesticides at all because they use things like row
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by SmirthsDAC 6y ago
Organic and sustainable methods are more efficient, even without GMOs [1]. It is a myth that GMOs or high-tech is the answer to food production/land scarcity concerns, as simply managing a farm properly can lead to yield increases
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by SmirthsDAC 8y ago
True, but the Great Oxygenation Event took an extremely long time to effect most species though, and there are certainly exceptions, but that's just it, they're exceptions. Humans are pretty much guaranteed to introduce change (we
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by SmirthsDAC 8y ago
>But it's no more or less "natural" than ever. "Natural" is probably not that useful a concept in general, it doesn't really mean anything in general, just like it doesn't mean anything on your food lab
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by SmirthsDAC 8y ago
Requiring that it has "plane-ness" seems like an unpackable ambiguous criteria. I am speaking on a simple functional level. Rather, a given iron atom is one of the atoms that make up a given 747, so it absolutely is (and here&#x27
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by SmirthsDAC 8y ago
>Now, if you want a particle to be conscious, your minimum expectation should be that the particle can change. The crux of the argument seems to be here, and is simply a fallacious equivalency of free will/agency and consciousness.
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by SmirthsDAC 8y ago
Layman here, are there any serious limitations to your approach, or is it fair to say with the algorithms and hardware you have that motion planning has essentially been "solved"? Thanks.
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by SmirthsDAC 8y ago
So a wider age range is inappropriate for your age? 27-35 seems fairly narrow. What are your limits for appropriate age range?
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by SmirthsDAC 8y ago
So people should ignore a counterargument that makes sense to them because Terry Gross has more experience? We should blindly follow authority in spite of our own reasoning abilities? I'm always disappointed when these dismissive appea