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by aneth4 14y ago
> "One universe no babies are aborted" and the other "Universe where babies are aborted". The former has greater opportunity for outpacing the information than the second. This is the basis of your entire position and it is both false
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by aneth4 14y ago
These arguments are frankly ridiculous. > A. Destroys information from the universe. Does erasing a blackboard or wiping a hard drive destroy information from the universe? I can hardly think of an action that doesn't destroy informatio
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by aneth4 14y ago
From the second sentence of the Wikipedia article on ethics, they quote an "expert" (i.e. someone with "expertise") defining ethics as "a set of concepts and principles that guide us in determining what behavior helps or harms sentient crea
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by aneth4 14y ago
> that women have a right to do what they want with their own body This is not much different, since as a non-sentient individual, the fertilized egg is a part of the woman's body. I can't speak for others, but I certainly look for the
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by aneth4 14y ago
Most sexually reproducing organisms are genetically unique. That's hardly a basis for a moral judgement. Ethics and morality in philosophy are generally based on minimizing the experience and perception of suffering, not promoting diversity
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by aneth4 14y ago
Reasonable people can debate when the latest legal abortion should be. The parent comment simply referred to abortion. Generally those opposed to abortion believe that abortion should be illegal from egg fertilization, or even prior to this
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by aneth4 14y ago
The death penalty and locking up a fifth of the young black population is generally inconsistent with the other positions "people who oppose abortion" take, yet I don't see them doing much about that. If we can stop talking in such broad ge
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by aneth4 14y ago
There are lots of uses, thus why it is widely used. It's also impossible to fix, as there are other methods of doing the same thing, such as preventDefault.
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by aneth4 14y ago
>Since the birth of the web we've been trying to drill into people's skulls not to trust anything except what it says in your URL bar after "https:". While perhaps this should be true, I don't think it is. I don't recall any internet in
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by aneth4 14y ago
I have a hard time understanding why Dropbox would pay $100M. Compared to the Instagram acquisition, this seems like a blunder. The talent - Maybe worth $10M at the high end, probably same for Instagram Future profit - Difficult to see how
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by aneth4 14y ago
I had not remembered the traditional version though, so thanks for pointing that out. Sell is 買 with a 士 radical on top. The simplified version standardized the 買 portion, but it doesn't affect the observation.
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by aneth4 14y ago
And 卖买 are sell and buy respectively.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Interesting that there is no mention of ancient China, where money and accounting were invented. The Chinese for buy and sell are 买 and 卖 respectively, the first indicating spending money and the second indicating receiving money. Granted I
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by aneth4 14y ago
Not sure what an "illegal number" would be. Certainly someone could embed child pornography or political propaganda. Bitcoin seems subject to a vast array of DOS and other attack that could be seriously problematic if it became an important
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by aneth4 14y ago
Are Polish jokes funny because you know a dumb Pole? Unlikely. I don't think the humor in these jokes has anything to do with truth - they could apply to any group with a reputation for being dumb. What's interesting is they probably would
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by aneth4 14y ago
Thus why versions should be stored as strings or several integers, not floats.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Perhaps a valid point that Freakonomics had bad methodology in this instance, though this is similariy bad: > So drowning is is roughly 2x as dangerous as guns Drowning kills 100% of people who drown, so it's certainly more dangerous th
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by aneth4 14y ago
Difficult to get what was not said in the comment I'm replying to. So fine, I don't know my dating techniques. Uranium radiological dating sounds fine. Why not that? >> if it turned out to come from the future > I don't even… ha
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by aneth4 14y ago
Right, so if it turned out to come from the future or 10 billion years ago on that scale, then it's likely extraterrestrial. As you say though, it's not good in the billions.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Could they not carbon date the fossils to see if they correspond with the existence of similar lifeforms on Earth?
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by aneth4 14y ago
FYI, the comment directly above is all quoted from someone who might have had more experience on the subject matter than anyone in this thread - Albert Einstein. Touché
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by aneth4 14y ago
As mentioned in the original link, Times New Roman and every font has inappropriate and appropriate uses, though that in itself is an absolute judgement we can probably do without. Those inappropriate uses involving Comic Sans may be more f
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by aneth4 14y ago
And here I thought it was just to piss off pretentious typography fascists and give self-righteous design snobs something to huff about. Really, I've always been a defender of comic sans as appropriate where the intent is to be casual or pe
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by aneth4 14y ago
Those stickers look gorgeous and like they would survive a hurricane....
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by aneth4 14y ago
How is it hard to spoof a longer block chain? If you intend to do so, it's trivial. You can create an unlimited length block chain and screw the short one that is perhaps the honest one. This is one of the more disturbing defaults I've hear
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by aneth4 14y ago
That's certainly a consideration, but every PAAS is "unique" by definition. Something like Google Apps has more lock-in than others. Some like Heroku are attractive because they have features not available elsewhere that would take a lot of
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by aneth4 14y ago
Subjective experience exists objectively, as in, the subjective experience in your consciousness is an objective reality of the universe. We do not yet know how to model such things, and making useful predictions based in brain activity is
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by aneth4 14y ago
Honestly I have not looked into it so far and hope you're right. We also use a number of addons, though I don't think any would be too difficult to replicate. Regardless, it's a significant amount of work for a startup with just a few engin
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by aneth4 14y ago
"Scalable way" as defined by the platform Heroku was built and marketed for is single threaded. I won't argue that the lack of concurrency support in rails and ruby is not also a stupid horrible unacceptable choice - and I never understood
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by aneth4 14y ago
My startup is heavily invested in and tied to Heroku. We don't have the resources right now to get off of the platform quickly, but plan to as soon as possible. Like Rapleaf, we have spent an enormous amount of effort optimizing and searchi

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