speedchess

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by speedchess 2y ago
Which makes it worse in many ways. The entire tech, business, etc world has adopted the same censorship regime without government orders. So who is giving out the orders?
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by speedchess 2y ago
> One of my physics lecturers at university made the offhand observation that the distinction between physics and mathematics is a twentieth-century idea: It's actually a 19th century idea. The discovery or acceptance of non-euclide
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by speedchess 2y ago
> They installed double and sometimes triple undulations think smooth short speed bumps that exponentially amplify lift when traveling over them over the speed limit. You must have dumb drag racers where you live but then again, most dra
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by speedchess 2y ago
> Or we could build our roads so that people can't comfortably drive 100MPH with zero feeling of danger. What about emergencies? If cops, firefighters or ambulances need to get somewhere quick? > I've seen people drag racing
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by speedchess 2y ago
But Bob was paid. That's the point. Also most of 'intellectual' property is owned by corporations, not the creators. If Bob prints a book and you take it without paying for it, that's stealing. If Bob prints a book and y
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by speedchess 2y ago
The same thing applies to computer science. Try figuring out even the basics, like merge or quick sort, using pseudocode in a traditional algorithms book. It's an extremely difficult and time consuming nightmare. But watch a video of
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by speedchess 2y ago
> Carthage was much more powerful than Rome was No it wasn't. The roman republic won the 1st punic war. The carthaginian empire was older for sure but not much more powerful. > and Rome really had no business thinking it could ha
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by speedchess 2y ago
> We're not the only intelligent life on earth. We cant even define intelligence or measure it meaningfully. If we can't define or measure intelligence meaningfully, how can you even claim we are 'intelligent' to begi