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by abtinf 7y ago
The current headline, "Internet in Iran gradually shuttting down due to protests" is a massive injustice against freedom seeking people. An accurate headline would be "Totalitarian Iranian Regime Shutting Down Internet".
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I wish they would take advantage of the thickness of the panel to make a bigger camera with a bigger lens. I don’t care about resolution at all, but I suspect conference call image quality might increase dramatically if it the lens could ga
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by abtinf 7y ago
There are many obvious cases that have made it to the Supreme Court. All it takes is a pig headed state or federal attorney general who insists on trying to uphold oppressive laws.
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It is not at all obvious that would the case in the US.
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The idea that the second amendment exists to protect us from a tyrannical government has never manifested in reality. What history has demonstrated is that the only time second amendment advocates have shown any willingness to defend their
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Use the uMatrix plugin with Firefox.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Starting at 1:12:35 in this video, there is a discussion of those experiments with an academic neuroscientist. He explains why he believes they do not disprove free will. https://youtu.be/X6VtwHpZ1BM
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There is a lot here. For now, I will simply assert that morality, which means that which helps or harms man’s survival, is objective and knowable. I’ve enjoyed this discussion. It has been civil beyond what I normally expect from HN. From o
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by abtinf 7y ago
Your comment reminds me of the first line from Peikoff’s Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (OPAR): “Philosophy is not a bauble of the intellect, but a power from which no man can abstain.” There are many intellectual exercises that
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by abtinf 7y ago
It involves symbolic manipulation, but it’s more than that. Math is the science of method. Science requires reason. If one were to say computers do math, they would be saying computers reason. Reason requires free will. Only man can reason;
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by abtinf 7y ago
I think part of the confusion stems from the word “computer” itself. Ted Nelson makes the point that the word is an accident of history, arising because main funding came from large military computation projects. But computers don’t “comput
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> It doesn't lead to free exchange of ideas and values, it has created polarized societies Technology created polarized society? Before internet search, we were better educated and understood each other better?
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by abtinf 7y ago
So the world was free of bigotry prior to social media? Does it matter what one is extreme about? Shouldn’t we be extreme on certain issues, like the difference between food and cyanide?
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by abtinf 7y ago
So life was better before google—when there was still the risk of wasting time and money, and only limited means of research?
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You are describing a serious psychological issue. I urge you to seek treatment with psychologist or psychiatrist.
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I believe gogs is mostly developed in China. I don’t know if it is developed by individuals or if it backed by the Chinese state. Maybe someone here knows?
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The world is held together with nothing but human thought. Man must be free so that his mind is free to think. A doctor working under compulsion should terrify those under his scalpel. Likewise for the engineer, and his customer, who design
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by abtinf 7y ago
> And if you hired me then as a mobile developer, I'd have quit, so you don't want to hire non mobile engineers into mobile roles. That is a great point. I’ve also had the experience of working for a short time on a system, kno
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by abtinf 7y ago
> It was a little painful but everything shipped on time. Your last sentence would seem to contradict the entire body of your comment. You describe mobile development as a fundamentally different thing, but then your first gig was to wor
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by abtinf 7y ago
Directive 10-289: In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that: Point One. All workers, wage earners a
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by abtinf 7y ago
This sounds similar to a more recent Zachtronics game, Shenzhen I/O. How does it compare?
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by abtinf 7y ago
Certificate is commonly used as a verb in the United States in education. I've personally heard and seen the phrase "certificated teachers" in California, Washington, and Texas. I've never seen the phrase "certified
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Can a Federal Judge Sentence You for a Crime Your Jury Says You Didn't Commit?(reason.com)
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by abtinf 7y ago
I’ve found the commit message guidelines at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-... to very helpful for clarity. “ The last thing to keep in mind is the commit message. Getting in the
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by abtinf 7y ago
Oh, I see—you mean from the perspective of the voter/pundit/analyst/politician trying to understand what an election means and their mandate for action. Sort of like the debate over electoral vs popular vote. I hadn’t thought
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by abtinf 7y ago
XKCD on "Curve-Fitting Methods and the Messages They Send": https://www.xkcd.com/2048/
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Gerrymandering is an intentional act to achieve specific outcome. Simpson's Paradox can strike even the most committed truth-seeker trying to understand and interpret the available data. Edit to add: Simpson's Paradox could concei
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by abtinf 7y ago
Another option: CA universities become the least desirable place for the very best high school athletes. The objective of the very best players is not to merely pay for college, but maximize their chance to join professional teams. Those od
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It seems like we are constantly learning more about human microbiomes, but it’s an area I found highly unintuitive. “Poop pill” transplants, food with special bacteria to help digestion, now this. Are there any frontiers still left in this
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by abtinf 7y ago
My apologies, I’ll be more civil.

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