hexer292

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by hexer292 2mo ago
I'm probably way off the mark here, but my instinct tells me there's nothing intrinsic about the human condition that makes it the exclusive vessel of thought. It is theoretically possible, after all, to simulate a human brain at
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by hexer292 6mo ago
The same way expecting you understand what a Kelvin is isn't respectful to you.
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by hexer292 6mo ago
Saying something is false and then asking for citations doesn't seem that helpful to me. To support your argument, take the following example: Lets take some water at 273.15 Kelvin and add 1 Kelvin of energy to it. The water is now at
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by hexer292 6mo ago
Also, the way Kelvin is defined necessitates that both degrees are identical. If 10 degrees Celcius defined the boiling point of water at 1 atmosphere (or whatever the actual definition is) then Kelvin would be smaller by a factor of 10. An
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by hexer292 6mo ago
This is probably the most ridiculous comment I've read in the history of this website. There is no difference in the amount of energy 1 degree Celsius delta and 1 degree Kelvin delta represents. The only (and I really mean only) differ
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by hexer292 6mo ago
Just like increasing taxes incentivises people not to work.
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os: An operating system for the IBM PC written in machine code(github.com)
4 points by hexer292 7mo ago|1 comments
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by hexer292 7mo ago
After seeing a post on an x86 kernel in zig ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055262 ), I thought people might be interested in my project for an os for the original IBM PC. I had built this project many years ago, and
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by hexer292 8mo ago
There is no line. Killing one person while saving a thousand is just as bad as killing one person.
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by hexer292 8mo ago
I think it's different to the trolley problem in terms of trying to measure the outcome. If we make decisions based on what will have the best outcome, well the trolley problem is trivial; minimise the negative outcome. In the scenario
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by hexer292 8mo ago
How would you compare the two? I think no matter what the good was, you're still left with "yeah, but x happened".
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by hexer292 8mo ago
I guess my point is you will always be bad as a result of doing this very bad thing, no amount of karma can counter it.
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by hexer292 8mo ago
Moral distance is an interesting concept, because it implies two acts are comparable at some level. If someone cured cancer, do you think they couldn't be tried for murder?
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by hexer292 8mo ago
People have always told me I'm too hard on myself. Then again, I've made mistakes to know I wasn't hard enough on myself. If you're worried about causing a negative effect on someone and then you do, the solution isn&#x2
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by hexer292 8mo ago
> You can save thousands of people, but murdering someone still should mean a life sentence. I've struggled with this point of view since my early teens, and possibly even earlier. There is no amount of good one can do to compensate
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by hexer292 9mo ago
As a discord user, it's the kind of platform that I would want to have running to receive notifications, sort of like the SMS of gaming. A large part of my friend group use discord as the primary method of communication, even in an in
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by hexer292 9mo ago
Not giving men any authority on abortion is taking a hard stance that abortion is a female issue over a human issue. I won't pass any judgement either way, but it's an interesting perspective. With 100+ Million orphans in the worl