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by Retra 7y ago
Your entire comment history is filled with the same "I don't have to answer to anybody" style of argument. You were not simply trying to answer my question. You didn't even bother to try to understand it. You're o
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by Retra 7y ago
I'm not asking if morality is subjective, I'm asking how to reconcile a difference between two moralities. Pointing out that people think differently on such matters is not only obvious, it is something I had to assume before even
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by Retra 7y ago
The reality is that truths without relevance are no better than fantasies.
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by Retra 7y ago
If you start with the assumption that 100% of purchases are aspirational, it is no surprise that you reach this conclusion. But I will seriously question that assumption, simply because there are many other reasons to purchase a product. Th
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by Retra 7y ago
What a useless sentiment that is.
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by Retra 7y ago
So you're saying if I can make money doing something, then it is both ethical and smart?
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by Retra 7y ago
Psychiatry is not the same thing as psychology.
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by Retra 7y ago
The importance of Turing Completeness is the capabilities it offers, not the model of the machine that offers them. The machine doesn't matter at all, which is precisely why the "strip of tape" is still used.
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by Retra 7y ago
Perhaps shipping simply produces more value for you than it does for them?
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by Retra 7y ago
If they're paying people to develop tools for solving general purpose computing problems and presenting those tools out in the open, then they are doing something that is good for everyone.
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by Retra 7y ago
And I wouldn't use a programming language whose designer didn't have this attitude. I also wouldn't use a programming language that is optimized for increasing the number of users at the expense of performance, clarity, stabi
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by Retra 7y ago
The mistakes that people make are not subjective. They can detect when they make a mistake, and must do so to correct it. When people make mistakes by using a syntactic construct, that's something can be measured, and people do measu
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by Retra 7y ago
Money is for engaging in economic transactions? Just because you would use it to better your own life doesn't mean that's its only possible purpose. If you're spending it, surely someone else's life should be improved as
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by Retra 7y ago
This is controversial because people run businesses on 20-year old software, and they don't want to run their business into the ground every time some outside developer wants to clean up their code base. People's livelihood is at
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by Retra 7y ago
Why do you say 'actual'? I can emulate a chemical reaction in a computer, but that does not mean I have produced an 'actual' chemical reaction.
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by Retra 7y ago
You compute every possibility in parallel, and defer the selection of the 'true' result to some time-at-infinity. Once you've done this, realize that there's no difference within this system between selecting the 't
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by Retra 7y ago
If you knew the characters were ASCII, you wouldn't want unicode support in the first place. It's pure overhead.
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by Retra 7y ago
Is the amount of energy you spend building and maintaining that network more than what you're already losing to inefficiency?
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by Retra 7y ago
There's no excuse to consider software obsolete after a mere 6 years.
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On top of that, you can easily emulate non-determinism in deterministic systems and vice versa. So why would it even matter?
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by Retra 7y ago
Even if people in cities weren't using cars it would still be a problem if they were designed badly, and worth discussing. Conversely, even if cars' electronics were designed well, that would mean very little to the discussion of
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by Retra 7y ago
The answer is to break up the monopoly (assuming it really is one.) Then it doesn't matter so much if they boot people off their platform.
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by Retra 7y ago
The irony being highlighted there is that you've provided a knee-jerk reaction instead of trying to understand how much time and effort people put into making an enjoyable game for you. Nobody would just assume you're propping the
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by Retra 7y ago
Grass is green. Water is wet. The sky is blue. It's ok to be white. These things being true does not imply they are relevant. "It's ok to be non-white" is true and poignant social commentary , and thus I value it for th
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by Retra 7y ago
What if all you have is a human brain?
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by Retra 7y ago
It is ok to be white, it is just not something that needs to be said, and derails the discussion from things that do need to be said.
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by Retra 7y ago
Many people have tried this, and they invariably end up creating propaganda cesspools like conservapedia. Progressivism fundamentally values objectivity, so I don't think you can easily exclude the former without also losing the later.
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by Retra 7y ago
Even if individual waste were the problem, it would be woefully inadequate to engage in moralistic posturing. People tend to just form counter-cultures. If I were a more careless person, I would have half a mind to increase my waste in resp
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by Retra 7y ago
>When somebody says "it's okay the be gay" they're actually saying it's not okay to be straight? This line of reasoning doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny. If I said "it's ok to be gay" and s
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by Retra 7y ago
You're assuming the language is inherently symmetrical by focusing on the technical meaning rather than the meaning derived from usage. "Black Lives Matter" is a slogan. It means "Black lives also matter." If someon

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