ardillaroja

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by ardillaroja 8y ago
field: A particular field is a particular subject of study or type of activity. So the authors are using 'field' to mean area of study which has standard usage in English I think so probably didn't need to be explained furthe
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
Was halfway through an almost identical reply when you posted this haha (also enjoyed Sapiens!). I think the level of absorption is as high if not higher than reading but I have been wondering if it 'counts' (and wondering what I
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
Makes you question our free will...
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
Yeah absolutely. I don't agree with his 'examples', but I'll defend to the death his right to use them in the same breath. It seems absurd to claim a handful of humans to have free will and others not, not really sure wh
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
As I understand it there's pretty firm evidence that both Jesus and Buddha existed and arguably they both had some pretty cool ideas...
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
I'm no fan of May and this is probably giving her too much credit (and oversimplifying) but is it possible she's nailing this? Her "Brexit means brexit" and "No deal is better than a bad deal" rhetoric has kept
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
But let's say the 48% that voted to remain in the EU had grown to say 55% that didn't like the sound of the Brexit deal being hashed out and would prefer the status quo. Would it be reasonable for our politicians to try and use th
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
I think the analogy may still be useful/interesting. It's just that with financial debt you have borrowed money, with technical debt you have borrowed time. Financial debt reduces the efficiency of future available money (interest
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
Reminds me of Pratchett's Octarine. And seems reasonable to assume that impossible colours are only visible to wizards and cats.
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
"ISP's hate him!"
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by ardillaroja 8y ago
Not OP but this guardian article mentions some figures supporting that from UK, compiled by Press Association based on on ONS data. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/29/women-in-20s-e...
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by ardillaroja 9y ago
How hard would it be to create a gun that produced this new knightship and is that something the community would be interested in doing? I could imagine it being trivially easy or mind-blowingly hard and have no intuition on what's mor
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by ardillaroja 9y ago
Relevant xkcd ( https://xkcd.com/989/ )
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by ardillaroja 9y ago
> reasonably diverse backgrounds and worldviews Definitely agree with the rest of your comment. Not sure about this bit though, I love the HN community but I think we're a pretty homogenous bunch. I would guess a lot of us work in t