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by DC-3 6y ago
> Except you criticized the left with "paganism, witchcraft, and the occult" that are totally fringe groups Well the hard-left is itself a fringe group, and fringe groups have overlap. Certainly mainstream leftists don't t
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by DC-3 6y ago
I meant pervasion. It was a typo. I think it could be demonstrated empirically that certain anti-rationalist attitudes have increased in recent years, especially on the left. Since we're not doing science here I don't see why I ne
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by DC-3 6y ago
Well, I'm happy to criticize the right for associating with anti-science too. I'm not trying to denigrate anyone per se, just give my own explanation of the trends and forces in our societal attitudes. Maybe I shouldn't have
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by DC-3 6y ago
I didn't say I'm "into the humanities" and it was only meant to be a brief summary. I don't really see how any of this refutes what I said. I've never watched a Ben Shapiro video in my life.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Where did I mention postmodernity?
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Please take it with a pinch of salt. Like nearly everyone else here I'm a CS student first and an appreciator of the humanities second. While I try to approach and learn about this stuff with an open mind my visceral reaction to anyone
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by DC-3 6y ago
It's very hard to prove with evidence the perversion of an ideology. I can only cite disparate evidence. I think once you become aware of these ideas you start seeing their influence though.
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by DC-3 6y ago
I'm talking about the meta-level above what science is. There is no dispute that science is the scientific method, the rationalist process of inferring knowledge from formalised analysis of empirical evidence. I'm talking about th
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by DC-3 6y ago
I never said that scientists aren't still doing science. My post was about our society at large and its changing epistemological attitudes.
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by DC-3 6y ago
It's post-modern in the sense of being chronologically after (and a reaction to) the philosophical school of modernism. That's not to imply some great cosmic arc (in fact, post-modernism explicitly refutes such grand narratives -
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by DC-3 6y ago
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... > It will be seen that we have no cause to be ashamed of our cookery, so far as originality goes or so far as the ingredients go. And yet it must be ad
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by DC-3 6y ago
Well the Carthaginians were semitic people from modern-day Lebanon IIRC, so it's a bit of a stretch to call them African.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Except that uninitialised memory is substantially more likely to be 0 than any other value.
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Europeans were the first to gain the ability to project power on a global scale and thus became the colonisers. There is a borderline racist trend in some parts of academia to frame colonialism as being a consequence of the inherent value s
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by DC-3 6y ago
Damage estimates in some cases may underrate the explosion because that grain elevator which remarkably remained largely upright seems to have acted like a huge sandbag, subtending an angle so large as to shield the heart of the city of Bei
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by DC-3 6y ago
Well, if I know they have a high IQ I might infer that they have strong mental faculties, are able to cope well with complex problems, etc. If they graduated from a good University, I might infer that they are intelligent and have a reasona
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by DC-3 6y ago
It's funny, in a society with an intellectual obsession with recognising and deconstructing systems of privilege, we largely overlook what is possibly the single most powerful inborn advantage one can have - attractiveness. It's r
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by DC-3 6y ago
It is going to be a little bit geopolitically terrifying if Taiwan/TSMC monopolizes cutting edge chip fab.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Expenses scandals are a pointless distraction. The lowest hanging fruit of corruption in the UK is the stuffing of the House of Lords.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Interesting story, but the article reads like it was written to be used as an exercise for teaching English to 15 year olds.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Invoking Godel to assert that people have inconsistencies in their personal beliefs is like using a DNA test to determine whether an animal is an elephant or not - technically correct, but absurd overkill for the task at hand.
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by DC-3 6y ago
> “I’m always arguing with bird people on the internet,” said Kory Evans, a fish biologist at Rice University who wasn’t involved in the study. “I say, ‘I bet these deep-sea fish are as dark as your birds of paradise.’ And then boom, the
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by DC-3 6y ago
Certainly in the UK it's out of the hands of the victim.
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by DC-3 6y ago
Could someone break down the significance of this for those of us who are less hardware-acquainted? Does this represent the cutting edge of RISC-V CPU design? And how difficult would it to implement this design properly instead of simply em
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by DC-3 6y ago
The proposition of Gemini is that it creates a separate, deliberately incompatible, ringfenced part of the internet that is self-sufficient; not operating as a subset of a larger whole but as something sovereign and self-contained. This fos
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by DC-3 6y ago
Gemini's creator solderpunk wrote about this here [1]. [1] gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/cornedbeef/why-not-just-use-a-subset-of-http-and-html.gmi
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by DC-3 6y ago
There's no point abstracting away the nitty-gritty. OS dev is the nitty-gritty.
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by DC-3 6y ago
I tend to think of this xkcd [1] comic when people talk about 'solving the big problems we face' instead of doing blue-sky research. [1] https://xkcd.com/1232/
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by DC-3 6y ago
I agree it'll happen in time but my point is that Apple adopting ARM will not necessarily cause an instant chain reaction across the industry. My concern is whether my next laptop (perhaps 4 years away) will be ARM - and I'm not s
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My original comment discussed the prospect of ARM becoming the leading architecture for the entire range of machines that at the moment tend to be x86 - that's laptops, desktops, workstations, and servers. For this to happen, ARM needs

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