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by cgmg 8y ago
> to use a real manly brush to do a real manly job What does manliness have to do with this?
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by cgmg 8y ago
> (and also enabling things like money laundering, drug trafficking, etc.). If you're trying to take a dig at blockchain technology for its decentralized nature and ability to circumvent government controls, you should be aware that
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by cgmg 8y ago
> In technological terms, it is old. Doubtful. In what sense is it 'old'? In the words of Roy Amara: We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
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by cgmg 8y ago
International mail is far from being a distributed system like OpenBazaar.
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by cgmg 8y ago
The recent SESTA/FOSTA debacle is just one example of why such decentralized networks are needed.
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by cgmg 8y ago
Why do you think that is damning?
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by cgmg 8y ago
> you rarely engage politically with the world Why do you think arguing on social media is the only or even best way to engage politically with the world? > So I'm left confused by your apparent inability to do the same. Inabilit
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by cgmg 8y ago
> Android bastardized Java > I feel real damage has been done to the health of the Java ecosystem by having billions of devices run fragmented Java-but-not-Java Your feelings are not a legal basis for punishment.
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by cgmg 8y ago
> The "easy-ness" diminishes the quality of interaction. For you, maybe. For me and others, it makes it easier to organize events and coordinate meetings with friends. Why do you assume your experience is universal? It might be
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by cgmg 8y ago
> Even to this day there are a lot of things that "normal" people do that are utterly foreign to me, like going to clubs or watching sports on TV. My idea of a good time is reading up on quantum mechanics or the ordinal hierarc
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by cgmg 8y ago
I’m not sure what you’re trying to argue here. So your value proposition is to make it harder to organize events and find out what’s going on?
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by cgmg 8y ago
So, guilty until proven innocent?
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by cgmg 8y ago
> The Immigration Act of 1990 limits to 65,000 the number of foreign nationals who may be issued a visa or otherwise provided H-1B status each fiscal year (FY). An additional 20,000 H-1Bs are available to foreign nationals holding a mast
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by cgmg 8y ago
Do you mind sharing what browser extension this is?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is correct. Facebook (or anyone else) can easily create more domains.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> I'm going to guess this dodge is here because you support, or at least wish to avoid antagonising, people who believe that killing other people is a legitimate criminal punishment and so somehow it's not "murder" if
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by cgmg 9y ago
This comment is relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/5hmduk/prof_sch... . > For example, nuclear energy is a real physical phenonenon. It doesn't exist because of various abstrac
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by cgmg 9y ago
What does all of this have to do with panpsychism?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Why do you think that? Your comment implies philosophers think panpsychism is true because it brings them "comfort" (i.e. your example "I want to be loved by a god and live forever"), which is a ridiculous claim you
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why should the person who profits most be held the most responsible? Suppose the person in charge of safety clearance makes less money than the original developer. How does that shift responsibility to the developer, as opposed to the situa
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by cgmg 9y ago
I stand corrected.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Obama was a senator for 13 years before being elected president.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why do you think panpsychism "ought to be treated as a reductio"? Why do you believe panpsychism deserves less time than it receives?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> The mind consists of atoms and molecules. This is a type error. It's like saying the number 3 is made of atoms and molecules, or Wednesday is made of atoms and molecules.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Sadly, there are very talented contemporary philosophers who believe in panpsychism. What saddens you about this?
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by cgmg 9y ago
What does this have to do with panpsychism? The contents of your comment lead me to suspect you didn't even know what panpsychism was when you wrote it.
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by cgmg 9y ago
In summary: Just as the complex numbers are defined by adding a new element i such that i^2 = -1, the quaternions are defined by adding elements i, j, k such that i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1.
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Checkmate in a transfinite number of moves(jdh.hamkins.org)
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by cgmg 9y ago
> I am sure once they have died Just because you want them to “die” doesn’t mean they will.
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by cgmg 9y ago
I agree. The scanl version is even more elegant: fibs = 0 : scanl (+) 1 fibs Replacing 0 with 2 yields the Lucas numbers: lucas = 2 : scanl (+) 1 lucas

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