debit-freak

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by debit-freak 2y ago
I'm not sure what "logic" has to do with this, but I am confused why one would presume others share this mindset.
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by debit-freak 2y ago
Oh absolutely, I'm just shocked at the idea the author would presume others feel this way too.
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> There comes a moment in life, often in the quietest of hours, when one realizes that the world will continue on its wayward course, indifferent to our desires or frustrations. Is this not trivially obvious at all moments of consciousne
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by debit-freak 2y ago
Can you quote the evidence here? The link is paywalled.
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by debit-freak 2y ago
Is there any materially demonstrable evidence that tiktok is worse than other social media networks?
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> SpaceX control system also has to compensate for the fuel moving inside their rockets so the control algorithms probably involve some kind of fast numerical fluid simulation. Surely this isn't necessary with a small enough sensor
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> Your 1st sentence is just classic whataboutism It would be if I were arguing against sovereignty for tibetans; I am not. I merely ask that people don't treat the movement as any more or less urgent, necessary, or obvious than any
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> (Bell Labs researchers -> C -> Oak -> Java -> JavaScript.) It seems like Javascript inherits more directly from lisp than any of the other languages mentioned, except for the syntax. As a result Javascript is a lisp without
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> but this was changed to a more Algol-like syntax due to the prevailing opinion among many that an Algol-like syntax would be easier for C/Pascal/C++ programmers to adopt Did this not cripple macros?
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> How does zen buddhism rank on the ‘major world religion’ scale? Or (by followers) Taoist/Daoists? Well if you're just going off "popularity" then yea, you're going to end up with a lot of dogmatic belief that i
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by debit-freak 2y ago
I quoted the James bible for a reason—not because it's a good translation (it's obviously not) but it formed the English preconceptions that people structure their understanding of christianity around in the anglo sphere. I chose
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> what's more effective than having a pre-defined term be what it means, rather than what the speaker intends internally? Trying to understand the speaker, presumably, and not wielding your pet definition like a semantic argument. I
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by debit-freak 2y ago
How is that a problem? Even within christianity the bible is not considered "true" or "absolute" or "the word of god" or "sacred" outside of niche literalist communities. If you're chasing cohere
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> No major world religion I’m aware of is all that friendly to anyone who disagrees with the answer once ‘given’ Eastern worldviews (tao, buddhism—particularly zen buddhism) are inherently contradictory. Regarding these your perspective
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by debit-freak 2y ago
The costs of propagating such a text are significant enough this act implies serious buy-in from the community (if only its ruling class).
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by debit-freak 2y ago
I don't think that's a serious barrier in this case. The above poster just would rather dismiss a statement rather than give it serious thought. It's easier to simply claim to know the one true meaning of "simple" r
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> Referring back to your example of Abrahamic religions, their most famous work opens with an explanation of how the world was created. Was that not the work of somebody interested in how the world works? I absolutely agree! Although in
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> In other words, average Americans exhibit similar limitations on their reasoning as good LLMs. It's not even clear this is a good example of "reasoning". You can progress all the way through multi-variable calculus with
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> using language wrong There is no wrong use of language; there's just people who don't bother to communicate well in the most effective language available. In this case you could simply cohere the two viewpoints since you have
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> the original small talk-y beauty of The Good Parts Javascript seems much, much, much closer to Lisp than to Smalltalk. Granted, all three are very dynamic, but message passing needs to be bolted onto javascript. Meanwhile pretty much a
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> I feel like a large slice of JS’s complexity comes from footguns you aren’t really supposed to use anymore I'm not inclined to use a language that can't be fixed.
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by debit-freak 2y ago
Any distinction is likely only about 500 years old at most. Though I do very much dislike the term "religion" for interpreting history as it connotes so much that's specific to abrahamic religions and in particular Christiani
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by debit-freak 2y ago
Presumably you're not chewing on or eating from synthetic textiles. Meanwhile an enormous amount of food is shipped in, and even cooked in , plastic directly. Of course you're right in the sense that when it comes to our general
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by debit-freak 2y ago
...or someone attempting to blame palestinian activists. This smells a lot more like someone trying to ape activist language.
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by debit-freak 2y ago
> The model breakup for antitrust people was the breakup of Standard Oil, and the owners (the Rockefellers) were richer after it was broken up, and still had control. Exxon (Standard Oil New Jersey) is still the largest oil company. This
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by debit-freak 2y ago
How do you figure?
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by debit-freak 2y ago
Sure, a lot in absolute terms. A pittance in relative terms.
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by debit-freak 2y ago
I’d argue that more so than anyone alive having “chosen” this structure, it’s what the structure itself wants to perpetuate. Eg people who go to elite colleges tend to see elite colleges as a reflection of “the system working” or whatever a
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by debit-freak 2y ago
I think a lot of the traditional teachings of "rhetoric" can apply to coding very naturally—there's often practically unlimited ways to communicate the same semantics precisely, but how you lay the code out and frame it can m
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by debit-freak 2y ago
Presumably they would be forced to formally divest. > I had assumed that the division would simply force all alphabet companies to operate fully independently. I'm not sure this makes sense if the same party has a controlling intere

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