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by b450 2y ago
This is a great demonstration of the fact that people coming from very different perspectives can, through good faith inquiry, find much to agree on. I think there are a lot of thoughtful arguments and conclusions in here even though I gene
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by b450 2y ago
Given the scale and variety of transformations in the 20th century - technological revolution, mass urbanization, the integration of billions of new workers into global markets, nuclear weapons, mass media, environmental change, and unprece
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by b450 2y ago
My guess is we're supposed to read this sentence as: Ɐh G(h) (for all my hats, the hat is green) or whatever similar formulation: Ɐx (H(x) ^ M(x)) → G(x) (for all x, if x is a hat and x is mine, then x is green) Either way, the general
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by b450 2y ago
Seeing the image come into focus is pretty satisfying, and the half-solved puzzle looks pretty cool. Nice job
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by b450 2y ago
It's hard to take too much issue with the general argument. Seems like there are loads of examples of theories developed out of "pure" intellectual pursuits that found practical applications later on. But I quibble with the b
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by b450 2y ago
I guess this is just a silly little thought experiment, but the final estimate (6.97s 100m) is quite ridiculous on its face. The heavy lifting seems to be done by the study linked in the "anatomical studies suggest peak speeds up to 15
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by b450 2y ago
> This week’s edition is a guest post about spooky Kindle A.I. slop from Leah Beckmann, an L.A.-based screenwriter and journalist and Chief Kindle Bullshit Correspondent for Read Max. I had to reread this a couple times before understand
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by b450 2y ago
It's not just the input. The playback is pretty screwy. Try filling every slot with hi-hats. At least in my browser, the playback is quite stuttery and I can't really entrain to it. It sure is neat though! I love how the icons for
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by b450 2y ago
I agree that life drawing is of tremendous importance, but your characterization here disagrees with my experience: > [life drawing] forces you to reason about physical space and the structure of objects in ways that neither drawing from
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by b450 3y ago
> Participants gave poorer ratings to images they thought were created by artificial intelligence. > “It seems that where the image actually comes from doesn't matter, rather what people believe is what governs their feelings. Th
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by b450 3y ago
> Goff knows what he’s proposing sounds “extravagant”, but, he says, new ideas always sound extravagant, especially in the West where we’re “trained” to be sceptical of anything that smacks of religion. We don’t often think of our “secul
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by b450 3y ago
Yeah, I spent too much time this morning mastering this (thanks for sharing!). For me the key was realizing that - unlike most modern platformer controls - jump height isn't affected by the length of the key press. So you can quick tap
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by b450 3y ago
This strikes me (a total ignoramus) as the generally balanced and correct take. One question I have is, how much of that inflationary period has been due to supply issues that would have occurred regardless of stimulus checks? I share your
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by b450 3y ago
You must not have happened upon the master-pupil attack..
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by b450 3y ago
Wow, all these "why is this still so hard" complaints feel so off-base to me! As the article says, Flexbox straightforwardly solves centering in every simple case. When it doesn't solve it for you, you're doing something
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by b450 3y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm gonna trash the review now, but really just because I'm a bit bored at work and I enjoyed the review and it got me thinking. This review is kind of funny - it's like, "look how presci
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by b450 3y ago
I can personally attest that some medical professionals have a pretty dismal broad understanding of genetics and evolution. And besides, even if the book isn't breaking new ground, or is targeting a more a popular audience, a good writ
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by b450 3y ago
> This is how I view the world and it is why it upsets me when people voice concern about crime in a city or something like that and people respond with "ACKSHUALLY" followed by some sort of statistic. It feels like people just
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by b450 3y ago
I have several well-worn Far Side collections, including one with a lovely introduction by Jane Goodall, which has a funny story behind it [1] Linking my favorite below [2] > Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwarzman becomes t
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by b450 3y ago
I've only read partway, but some of these stories of elephant behavior are very touching. It's clear that elephants have very rich social and emotional lives. Given how similar elephants are to humans (long-lived, highly cooperati
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by b450 3y ago
> Reddit is perhaps the web's best example of enshittification. I've never seen such a level of self-sabotage before as seen with the old -> new reddit UX change Browsing (new) reddit on a phone (or at least Safari on my dev
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by b450 3y ago
Maybe not the right term. My point is that many philosophers believe that reality (a) is basically as it seems, and/or (b) is basically knowable. It's very odd to say that those views are exclusive to Rand. edit: one nice example
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by b450 3y ago
Setting aside the significance of Rand in the philosophical canon (which is minimal, though that almost certainly reflects a bias against her politics), the claim that Rand is the only realist philosopher is pretty outrageous.
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by b450 3y ago
The argument is sometimes made that philosophy is the mother of all other academic traditions - once a philosophical idea reaches a sufficient level of promise or maturity, it spins off into its own discipline, as in the speciation of &quot
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by b450 3y ago
Did you notice, though, that rebase advocates use very "emotive" terminology when talking about git history? Like it's a subject they care about? Seems awfully touchy feely.
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by b450 3y ago
It's not really a reflection on utilitarianism. That's just philosophical ethics, at least in the form that predominates in Anglo-American philosophy departments. The game of coming up with "counterexamples" to moral the
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by b450 3y ago
It is very hard to read philosophy in this phenomenological/continental tradition. There is a real resistance in that tradition to plainly stating a core thesis. There may well be defensible reasons for this - maybe it preserves the su
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by b450 3y ago
The flip side of this is that chord shapes (in terms of hand shape, not intervals) are constant on the guitar (assuming no open strings). Learning piano after guitar, I was intimidated by the fact that – for example – an Am and Bm had diffe
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by b450 3y ago
In replying to something this deranged, one runs the risk of responding with sincerity to a troll, and thereby being Owned. Nevertheless, my ethics require me to implore anyone who sympathizes with the section on Square Brackets to seek hel
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by b450 3y ago
Anytime some even vaguely anti-realist claim shows up in a HN headline, such as "the past is not true", a bunch of predictable and dull comments inevitably show up to perform some table thumping about reality being factual and obj

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