myWindoonn

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by myWindoonn 5y ago
We should teach the bulk of Lawvere theories only once. Students should get to know groups and rings as two flavors of a similar construction, and also be introduced to the mysterious fact that some objects, like fields, don't fit into
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
From WP: "Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of US civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to critically examine the intersection of race and U.S. law and to challenge mainstream Ame
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
"White" is meaningless, isn't it? At best it's a judgement about skin pigmentation.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
The sequences use terms like "intelligence", "smarter", and "cognition", purely to place themselves in what they conceive to be the scientific genre of philosophy.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
A company without investors is a bootstrapped small business. Investors without a company are venture capitalists. Without investors, a company never becomes a startup, never has front-page articles in newspapers and magazines, never gets i
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
No. The reason why insulin is expensive is because the USA has a free market for pharmaceuticals and allows manufacturers to set high prices. The reason why there are hundreds of thousands of homeless is because the USA has a free market fo
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Python and Scheme are the two classic examples of non-declarative functional languages; they are both instructing low-level VMs to mutate machine state, but also both have functional-programming tools and first-class functions. The Scheme (
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I wonder why HN doesn't have anything to say about this. The closest we can get is to have a pseudonymous account offer a half-hearted congratulations. Surely HN appreciates efforts to undo Nazism and historical revisionism?
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Ah, to be reminded of high school, where one could be not popular simply because they are weird. I think that they've confused functional and declarative?
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I wish that philosophers had to take science classes. It is completely unimpressive to announce a theory for consciousness without having experimentally tested it, and Nautilus should not have run such a self-congratulatory article withou
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Sure. A large amount of expensive art is sold in order to facilitate money laundering, and NFTs are expensive art.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I like this recent history, but it's worth remembering that we invented this sort of statement millennia ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
As a former editor, I wish I had her gumption.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Theranos was obviously impossible because the amount of blood drawn was too small. Just like with homeopathy, there simply aren't enough atoms to make everything work. Despite the physical obstacles, they were able to raise enough mone
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Is a scarcity of top-level research doctors the reason why insulin is expensive in the USA but not other rich democracies? Similarly, is a scarcity of luxury mansions the reasons why the USA has hundreds of thousands of homeless but not oth
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
It is only your perception that coops are somehow being held back. Cooperatives have succeeded in every industry. The vast majority of industry requires Free Software, a cooperative system. I went to the store yesterday and bought milk, egg
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I usually pick three specific markets -- food, housing, and healthcare -- and I want to double-check: You believe that we have scarcities of these things? We certainly have artificial scarcities, but those seem like they were created by h
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Your comment was the only useful one in this entire discussion. It is shameful that folks here claim to be scientific and yet cannot read a single WP article.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I use https://hckrnews.com/ to browse HN. I can easily see flagged and dead articles.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Folks interested in this line of thought can also check out https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/ and https://old.reddit.com/r/techtakes/
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
We've had experimental evidence for decades that particles can be forced to make quantum choices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime...
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Quantum choice is not pseudo-science; the poorly-researched writer here is you, not the article's author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_contextuality
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Sure, except that there's a race to the bottom; genuinely Free Software will always be cheaper than corporate offerings. The author is not asking for people to compete with e.g. Google and Stripe, but asking for Google and Stripe to de
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I gave you three days to rise, but your words are still impotent. Read a book besides the Bible already.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Hi, again, we're talking about the USA. A serious number of people believe that Fox News is not only reputable, but the only reputable news organization operating in the USA. CNN is considered trusted and mainstream. Who do you think w
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Correlation doesn't always imply causation, right? For example, there's a correlation between IQ and income. There are several causative possibilities: * IQ causes income * Income causes IQ * Some unknown thing causes both income
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Hello, fellow mathematician. The first step in your proof which doesn't convince me is the claim that, in general, "levels of intelligence" exist, admit a partial order, and can reliably predict whether certain people can lea
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Yes; why should we give degrees in understanding the parts of philosophy which have been disproven or refuted? The word "mathematics" literally means things which humans must teach each other. Mathematics is philosophy, but with p
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I gave you all weekend -- Friday, Saturday, and Sunday -- and you didn't reply with actual evidence. So, let's actually see what Christian philosophers have given us. For starters, they all assume Jehovah exists, or seek to prove
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Atrocities of dehumanization are always started by these sorts of discussions. The USA has perpetuated decades of organized state-level violence against Muslim-majority countries halfway around the world, and the main fuel is stories about

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