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by Jedd 3y ago
I'm kind of happy with this pithy summary - plucked from the internet just now - of the definition of, and differences between, rationalism and empiricism: "rationalism is the knowledge that is derived from reason and logic while
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by Jedd 3y ago
Similarly keen on sticking with Pixel handsets. As a sibling noted, LineageOS would be the answer to 'what to do when Google EOL's this', in no small part because this is going to be a popular device. My old top-of-the-line
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by Jedd 3y ago
Well, I'd say that empiricism is a) a subset of what science is / means, and b) empiricism by itself would rule out any supernatural, by definition. Did you have an existing commitment to a belief in a deity before you came to c
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by Jedd 3y ago
> teeny bit of compute You mean, a whole other processor + memory + firmware + microphone + network + ... ?
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by Jedd 3y ago
What have I said that suggests I'm denying science? What have you said that suggests you're facing the science? I note you came in with 'life proves the supernatural'. This is not a unique claim, and repetition does not
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by Jedd 3y ago
You did - you used the capital-g version of god, which suggests you had a particular one in mind, and you mentioned the unproven virgin birth of Jesus, who according to that particular mythology was the son of / the actual christian de
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by Jedd 3y ago
"BRETTON WOODS A system for international financial management and stability which was put in place by the Allies, minus the Soviets, in 1944 and destroyed in 1973 by President Richard Nixon without consideration being given to a rep
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by Jedd 3y ago
> ... when the world moved off Breton Woods ... When Nixon decided to end Bretton Woods.
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by Jedd 3y ago
Search for people running PDC's - Permaculture Design Courses - in your area. These are variably well monitored / established syllabus, usually run for 5 days or so. I'm sure there's one-day intro courses, but I suspec
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by Jedd 3y ago
If I'm ever convicted of large-scale fraud / sociopathic crimes, I'd definitely like Amy to write a story about me. > .. in 2017. They did not anticipate that she would be indicted. They did not anticipate that she would
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by Jedd 3y ago
I suspect everyone acknowledges the existence of life, but only a small subset of people think it's because of any particular god, so I'd argue your claim that the former definitely proves the latter. Objectively, a virgin birth
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by Jedd 3y ago
There's a few comments - seemingly from our American friends - that seem to suggest that left / right socks are a thing. I'm hoping I'm parsing those comments poorly, but ever since the revelation that Americans don&#
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Yes, we pay to defend Europe from Russia, and we do it for free. If 'we' is the USA, then I'd suggest the USA pays to maintain a very lucrative industry, and as far as anyone can tell, they pay way over the going rate, a
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by Jedd 3y ago
> They miss many things including Scale. Yes, it's very easy to completely miss scale, as well as missing sensible priorities, etc, and embrace a mantra of exceptionalism as a convenience. Apropos ranking, the United States spends m
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by Jedd 3y ago
> If your pool of possible homeless is 5M and they gather in a city the size of 600k it is a hugely different situation than say San Francisco, which is 800k and draws from 330M possible homeless I'm struggling to follow your logic
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by Jedd 3y ago
> ... in the South. Well, most of Europe is south of Norway, and there's a lot of comparable cycling culture and facilities there. Unless you mean south of the equator, like here in Australia, but unfortunately we're not so goo
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Subscribe to my private email list to read articles that were too sensitive to share online. In an article discussing the nuance of language, and leveraging power imbalances for fun and profit, that's a nice way to sign off. Anywa
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by Jedd 4y ago
Chris is an absolute legend in the Amiga world. In addition to a bounty of youtube videos, fantastic troubleshooting & restoration work, he also puts together the amazing PiMiga distro (the compressed image size of 22GB gives you a hint
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by Jedd 4y ago
> [christianity ...] rigidity and dogmatism which pushes everyone in the same direction in a way that the relativist streak of atheism can never hope for. This is a pretty incredulous assertion to make - given the existence of six broadl
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by Jedd 4y ago
Well, sure, but my mostly abandoned personal blog has some good messages, similarly due to me pinching the wisdom from other people. Attributing it all to me would be a tad disingenuous, though. Like many others before me (here's a p
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by Jedd 4y ago
Weeellll ... the context is an evidently quite rational / science-driven human seemingly being obliged by regulation or tradition to swear on a physical object, subsequently choosing a piece of non-fiction written by one of the more
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by Jedd 4y ago
Well, yes, there's obviously some confusion and ambiguity there. Exodus has a couple of sets, but that one I cited is the third one from 34. If you're constrained to the OT then it's tricky, as the NT suggests JC only mention
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by Jedd 4y ago
> ... his fundamental ideas about The Golden Rule (i.e. that you should treat others as you would like to be treated yourself), Would you clarify the fundamental phrasing please? The Golden Rule existed long before the Jesus mythology wa
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by Jedd 4y ago
> What’s interesting is that many theologians believe swearing to God in public this way actually breaks the third commandment. I'm curious how that may break "Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat brea
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by Jedd 4y ago
> Makes watching a film more of an event. Very much this is a big part of it too, for us - we're not 'TV in the background' people. The (very) few people I know who are find the idea of a projector-only infeasible. For us
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by Jedd 4y ago
We've been a projector household for a decade - started with a A$1000 short-throw, then upgraded to a A$1500 long-throw 4y ago after moving to an apartment where the layout didn't lend itself to short-throw, and I also needed blue
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by Jedd 4y ago
All? And all equally? That's where the original argument fails to compel. There's ~ 50 countries with nuclear reactors, and about 30 with nuclear power plants. (Australia's an example of having one reactor, for research, bu
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by Jedd 4y ago
Good points. In addition, military spend capabilities will more readily compensate for the other two sides of the project management triangle. And AIUI a lot of those systems, once initial development occurred, were cookie-cutter / e
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by Jedd 4y ago
Sure, but the NPT(T) can't explain this. I'll reiterate my earlier two claims slightly more succinctly: a) we should see a strong correlation between nation states with laxer attitudes towards safety AND more fission nuclear powe
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by Jedd 4y ago
Nuclear fission power apologists frequently make a claim like this when trying to establish why costs are so high (it doesn't necessarily explain why cost overruns are so high, as presumably the regulation set is known at the time of

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