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by Retra 8y ago
None of the other things you listed are illegal? Anyway, something being bad in excess doesn't mean it should be illegal in moderation.
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by Retra 8y ago
It's generally safe to assume nothing is ever obvious. Better to write simple things out than to write nothing at all.
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by Retra 8y ago
Plenty of Americans hate it too. Just not the ones that are likely to remain in this person's social environment.
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by Retra 8y ago
If you want to know what I have in spending money, I expect the other party to show me what they have as well. It's not a fair negotiation if you play with lopsided rules.
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by Retra 8y ago
You can't really write a compelling story where your logistics make the hero rather than... heroism.
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by Retra 8y ago
A propeller works by pushing off of the air. A jet works by exploding fuel. It's not clear how you'll get super-fast in thin air without the exploding fuel part?
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by Retra 8y ago
I thought it was well-known he was based on Doc Brown, and transitively, Albert Einstein.
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by Retra 8y ago
The epistemological reality of those events are not as simple as you assume. For the most part, that annihilation event is a short-hand analogy for a term in an equation. Another way to think of it is that this 'happening everywhere&#x
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by Retra 8y ago
The idea is not to be driven by simplicity per se , but by composability. Build software wherein you take it for granted that it will be used in many contexts, and that it is only ever able to solve 'part' of the problem because
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by Retra 8y ago
I used to play a lot of emulated games with save states, and afterward, I kept getting small bouts of depression every time I realized I couldn't save the world and perfect something crazy.
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by Retra 8y ago
Mathematics being a language does not preclude it from being a computational or physical process, so I don't know what you're objecting to. Nothing I would assert, anyway.
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by Retra 8y ago
A random signal is incomprehensible. The fact that the signal is random is not. The medium is not. And you can't have a signal without a medium, so there is always structure. Mathematicians study randomness, and what they study about
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by Retra 8y ago
In my experience, most information is classified by virtue of it being aggregated and manipulated on a classified system. The only way to declassify that information is to have someone laboriously scrub all the data you want to put on an un
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by Retra 8y ago
True randomness has the structure of randomness. You can measure and identify it. A random number generator will generate numbers at random. That's structure. If you want to think about something without structure, think about what hap
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by Retra 8y ago
Maybe you need to communicate better instead.
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by Retra 8y ago
A true random number generator definitely has structure. That's the structure in the definition of randomness. And I would not take it as a given that the effectiveness of mathematics is in any way unreasonable.
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by Retra 8y ago
Intentionally attempting to do something illegal is illegal. Not merely succeeding at it.
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by Retra 8y ago
You can't make that bet. Mathematics is just a language; if there were phenomena that couldn't be explained by mathematics, they could not be explained at all. And we probably couldn't communicate about them in any consistent
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by Retra 8y ago
Being free but indebted is not really as bad as being forced to work someone else's land. I owe my bank a significant sum, but I am able to find work that schedules both a repayment of that debt as well as a nice profit and accumulat
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by Retra 8y ago
You're assuming people don't see taxes as the preferred means of providing aid to those that need it.
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by Retra 8y ago
TIL IBM is a tech startup.
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by Retra 8y ago
General Relativity is based on familiar observations, not mythical beings. It's not nearly that complex. Crystal healing and astral travel likewise don't even have a mathematical basis that is compatible with observations about re
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by Retra 8y ago
They do not have the same features, and undoubtably the reason for that is because some users needed features the other doesn't have.
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by Retra 8y ago
So you found a sleeping pill that only works when you're very very tired? What a breakthrough.
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by Retra 8y ago
And blockchain peddlers can certainly over-promise/under-deliver without contradicting any of those points.
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by Retra 8y ago
Yes, I think that's the point. What fiction offers is less than what non-fiction offers.
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by Retra 8y ago
Leases are only a mechanism for achieving housing. People will need homes for the rest of their lives, so the length of the lease is not 'definitional' for establishing anything. The length of the lease is only the length of a com
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by Retra 8y ago
Without this process, someone else can post those ads in your name in order to get the locals to harass or kill you? If it is too risky to put ads out under your own name, then facebook's ads are probably the correct place to fight f
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by Retra 8y ago
No, I'm saying people will continue to be garbage men because they want more money. Basic income is not going to stop people from wanting more money.
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by Retra 8y ago
"Millionaires don't exist, because who would ever want more money?"

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