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by benpbenp 13y ago
Really? Very strange logic? I experience future versions of myself in the future, and present version(s) of myself in the present. That seems normal. You say, "they [future versions] are also you." But your tense is wrong. Don
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by benpbenp 13y ago
What if the copy is running while I'm still alive, would I experience what the copy experiences? No, right? So what gives? Why should I expect to live on in my software copy?
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by benpbenp 13y ago
When I see "she" it makes me reflexively stop and look back to make sure I haven't missed something, wondering, "who is this 'she', I must have skipped the paragraph introducing the subject." This is defin
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by benpbenp 13y ago
Wealth is meant for people. All of a company's wealth is ultimately destined for somebody's pocket. Why can't we just tax it when it gets there, and abolish corporate taxes? Naturally I'd assume in that case that dividen
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by benpbenp 13y ago
Probably due to my sloppiness, let me try to sort it out... Free-will is a third possibility opposed to determinism of choice and pure randomness of choice . But it is compatible with a either a deterministic or a probabilistic universe
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by benpbenp 13y ago
Indeed, what I am saying is that you can have the deterministic universe, or the random universe, and still have free-will, properly understood. Note that from the outside, free-will is by definition apparently "random". It is a b
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by benpbenp 13y ago
If my choices are not deterministic, they must be random. But this is not what is classically understood by free-will, and I suggest that it is your dilemma which is false. Quoting Aquinas, "Free-will is the cause of its own movement
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The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable(wired.com)
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by benpbenp 13y ago
Here's something I like to point out any time the subject arises. Let's use 39 per 100,000 population as the current accidental death rate[0]. Perhaps you have reason to believe it is lower for you (you don't have a dangerous
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by benpbenp 13y ago
> Have you ever heard anyone say "I don't like books and reading in general"? Well, I have heard engineery types saying they don't see the point of reading fiction ("it's just made up stories"), and mor
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by benpbenp 13y ago
Indeed. Based on current mortality statistics[1], only 2% of us would manage to live 10,000 years without succumbing to accidental death of some kind, and the number that would make it 100,000 years is just vanishingly small. EDIT: This is
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by benpbenp 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote but UK and London based strongly preferred I am looking for two separate freelancer-types to help with some overbooked client work of mine. First, I need a fairly junior PHP + frontend developer. It would be gra
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Chuck E. Cheese's, Silicon Valley Startup: Origins of the Best Pizza Chain Ever(m.theatlantic.com)
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Why we need to simplify our corporate tax system(ft.com)
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The bossless office trend(nymag.com)
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by benpbenp 13y ago
One idea I keep returning to is a "laned" system for elevators/lifts. Two shafts for going up, and two for going down. One of the two in each direction is the "passing lane"-- and you fit dozens of elevator "ca
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by benpbenp 13y ago
Is this named after Whit Sunday (today this year, 19 May) or is that just a coincidence?
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Adobe kills Creative Suite, goes subscription-only (m.cnet.com)
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by benpbenp 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER remote, prefer (but don't require) UK-based Looking for someone fairly junior to help out with some client work on a regular basis. Please ping me with your rates at my hn username at gmail.com. I could use either one: 1)
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by benpbenp 13y ago
I would be interested to hear more detail on this as well. Keeping in mind we are talking about taxation on the municipal level, doesn't it make sense that a tiny, not-so-special town will have difficulty getting away with higher taxes? You
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by benpbenp 13y ago
I just discovered that site while looking into this question as well. It seems really useful. Here are two charts that backup your point further. Education since 1900: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1900_2015... Defens
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by benpbenp 14y ago
> If a trained human can recognize spam in its many forms, then it's possible for spam detectors to do the same without relying on obscurity. You mean... it's theoretically, some-time-in-the-future possible? What, we are all to put up
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8,000 artefacts and rising: City dig the 'most important ever' in London(independent.co.uk)
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by benpbenp 14y ago
Well, yes and no. I think it's true that a simple inequality argument likewise doesn't apply in the case of anti-miscegenation laws. However these laws denied individuals a natural right for no good reason and were therefore immoral and ill
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by benpbenp 14y ago
What is your response to this point though? I don't see how it is anything but completely valid; the point is that there is no objectively defined action that is prohibited for one group and allowed for another, so the "equal rights" argum
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by benpbenp 14y ago
You may be aware, but for the edification of others I would point out that these ideas find their roots much earlier than Grotius. For example Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica , "In cases of need all things are common property." [1] [1]
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by benpbenp 14y ago
Does any one know, is there any chance that any advanced, isolated civilisations arose-- tens of thousands of years before the agricultural revolution that we know of?
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by benpbenp 14y ago
I agree that it needs some work now, but I think it was pretty good for the time when it first came out: http://web.archive.org/web/19980130005011/http://www.vatican...
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by benpbenp 14y ago
You could word it like "anyone may ignore any law that doesn't conform to such and such requirements." That would be effectively binding.
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First 256 digitised manuscripts from Vatican library(vaticanlibrary.va)
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