Kednicma

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I would flip everything around: At scale, doesn't a private enterprise run out of money to support large codebases? This isn't a facetious suggestion. Every employer I've had in the industry has been drowning under their heav
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Resisting emotional blackmail – when 'compassion' corrupts(youtube.com)
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The equivalent in our industry is when somebody gets locked out of a Google/Apple/etc. multi-service account, has no backup or rescue access, but is put in touch with a friend of a friend who happens to work at the vendor. It&#x27
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My mental model is that humans are pieces of shit, each and every last one. There is no such thing as a good human. By insisting that MBS is some sort of specially evil person, I feel that you are devaluing the importance of genuine ethical
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I wonder how long this has been brewing and waiting for the right moment. It's hard to not contrast this with Docker's recent changes to their container registry [0] (discussion [1]). [0] https://www.docker.com/pri
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The RSS feed is sadly lacking the URL directly to the MP3 data.
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> A millenial himself, [MBS] spent his youth eating fast food, playing Age of Empires and first-person shooter games, and keeping up with friends on the internet, according to people who’ve known him since childhood. It's worth reme
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Show your work. Prove for us that the wavefunction of the universe is ontic.
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It's quite conceivable. I believe my eyes; I read your words. But you have no evidence from which to justify your disagreement. If you genuinely are simply airing your opinion, and don't care about whether it convinces anybody e
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The podcast doesn't have an RSS feed that I could find; the MP3 audio file is directly located at [0]. It's funny how American exceptionalism pops up over and over again. We're like Europeans, but different. We're like c
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by Kednicma 6y ago
All you're showing is that you don't know much of quantum mechanics either. Should you choose to change that, MIT has published a nice lecture series on quantum physics [0], the first in a group of three. Your bold claim "why
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Understandable, and yet, you did not read . The page I linked says, openly, > Dropping religious beliefs is only a first step towards freeing ourselves from eternalism. And continues to explain how your beliefs, about how there are defi
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I've not confessed to or recanted anything, silly; I merely have outlined my position more clearly so that you don't have any ridiculous dodges like "that's what an atheist would say." I don't have a straw man.
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An interesting and reasonable proposal. Similar practices are still alive today [0][1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence
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No amount of natural evidence (that is, empirical evidence) can ratify a supernatural belief. Following Popper, then, the burden of evidence is on you to overcome quantum mechanics. We're both deists, by the way. I follow the Flying
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The wavefunction isn't ontic. This means that, even if God can see the whole universe, they can't actually know the real values associated with each particle; they can only have an epistemic, partial view. You might do well to s
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No, she's wrong. The modern scientific models each form a kernel of truth from among the BS, and today we have to deal with quantum mechanics and its quirky bizarre predictions which invalidate the "just look at it" and &quot
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The article searches for meaning and finds God. Whoops! It was a good try, though. Let's use the opportunity to be productive, though. Meanings must live in their own realm apart from sentences, so that when we say that a sentence has
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Gene pools are at least three-dimensional. Just because humans are diverse, does not imply that the gene pool is not well-mixed. And there's a rather famous anthropological observation that skin colors correlate with latitude, as well
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No worries. It sounds like you don't have a problem with the latter part, just the former part, so we'll focus on that. You say that it's "easy" for you to determine whether somebody is "East Asian", just
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It seems perverse to worship the office, the job, or the employer. Zoom's unpleasantness does not cry out for a way to make Zoom palatable, but for an analysis of the purpose of corporate organization and the need for Zoom.
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Are accents cultural or racial? There's plenty of cultural traits which are heritable and measurable. The difference is that there's only one human race, while there's many different cultural memeplexes. Race literally doesn&
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Race is a little bit the issue, because there's no biological basis for the idea that humans aren't just one single species. A genuine observation and appreciation of "race" consists of understanding that humans do not h
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It's not exactly a great year for extrapolating trends about what people are doing with their time. I wonder how much of this is 2020-specific and not just due to the natural cycle of AI winters.
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I am deeply confused here. I recall a conversation with Scott where he interrupted me after I'd said something like, "Trump isn't as bad as Pence could be," and insisted that Trump was the absolute worst, the pinnacle of
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By wielding the Futamura projections [0][1][2], any interpreter may be turned into a compiler. Perl is handled as one case. Crucially, the resulting compiler need not be fast; if the interpreter is slow, then the compiler will be slow too (
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Parent comment and you could maybe bring some evidence. Right now, however, the vast majority of killings are being committed by police, with some additional killings by right-wing "militia" protestors, like those talked about in
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It's irresponsible to not mention that a series of results from the 1930s through the 1950s proved that generalized automated proof search is impossible, in the sense that we cannot just ask a computer to find a proof or refutation of
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YC deliberately cultivates these "leadership" traits in order to ensure that the abuses built into corporate hierarchies are perpetuated. It's all part of the system. In your example, YC deliberately advises conflating stubbo
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You seem to think that getting ahead in life is important; that is, you feel a need to be seen as superior to other people. Similarly, you seem to value other people having a high opinion of you. Your code profile boasts of over two decades

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