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by chousuke 7y ago
I'm not sure that calling science "social control" in any context is fair. It's certainly replaced religion as a tool for explaining things, but that's what it's for. Your wording makes it sound like there&#x27
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by chousuke 7y ago
I'm trying to advocate for more intellectual honesty and clarity. It can certainly be a lot of fun to just take a thought and run with it, and while the exercise can lead to useful insights, people are also prone to seeing patterns whe
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by chousuke 7y ago
I think advice like this is always geared towards people who don't yet understand the reasons. It'll prevent them from making some real messes. When you really understand the implications of changing public history, you will also
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by chousuke 7y ago
it's a process, and thus far the only one that seems to work. It can't be very special (in the sense of "extraordinary") if it's what everyone who succeeds is doing. I usually see the phrase "ways to attain kno
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by chousuke 7y ago
I don't think there was any special "way of attaining knowledge" prior to science; it's always been, and still is, trial and error. Science is just the formalized and most advanced version of the same thing humans have a
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by chousuke 7y ago
I have some fundamental disagreements with that sort of thinking. I think it's dangerous to allow people to hide non-subjective claims behind the "it's just my opinion" veil. It's intellectually dishonest, even if y
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by chousuke 7y ago
The problem with having "opinions" about reality is that reality doesn't care what your opinion is, at all. If you actually formalized your idea that black holes create space, I'm fairly certain you'd find out that
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by chousuke 7y ago
I think that intuition would imply that objects could randomly escape even black holes, even if the sequence of random jumps required would be very unlikely. Also it would mean that matter somehow affects the distribution of those dots. If
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by chousuke 7y ago
The only point I see for injection is when OpenSSH runs the AuthorizedKeysCommand. I'm pretty sure OpenSSH handles it fine.
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IPtables/netfilter can already filter traffic by process. I don't think you need namespaces.
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by chousuke 7y ago
I don't really get most of this stuff about Firefox vs. Chrome. I guess Chrome might be slightly faster or something, but for me personally I don't have a reason to switch. It's fast enough. I originally went to Firefox becau
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by chousuke 7y ago
As far as I understand it, you can think of spacetime as having a shape. All objects travelling through spacetime must conform to its shape. Einstein's insight was that objects with mass affect this shape of spacetime, and thus there
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by chousuke 7y ago
I guess it was more of an ELI5 for kids with exceptional vocabulary. :P One thing I neglected to mention is that the effect of gravity gets weaker with distance, so conversely it must get stronger the closer matter is pressed together. And
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by chousuke 7y ago
It's the other way around. If you choose not to be vaccinated when there is no medical reason that you couldn't be, it is your duty to stay out of public areas where you would be a danger to others.
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by chousuke 7y ago
I'm not an astrophysicist but I think I can provide a reasonably accurate answer anyway. Basically, you get a black hole when you push matter together tight enough. This happens when some stars die, and the processes inside the star ca
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by chousuke 7y ago
As far as I can tell It's compelling because people tend to dislike uncertainty and making up stories and hypotheticals can feel like knowing. I don't have an issue with that per se, but the pretend "knowledge" tends to
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by chousuke 7y ago
I do experience hypnagogia sometimes. I dream very rarely though (a couple times a year, maybe). If I really stretch the definition of "imagery" I can sort of invoke the feeling that I'm seeing something, but your description
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by chousuke 7y ago
I think it goes both ways. I don't really understand what people mean when they say they "picture" something. What's the sensation like, compared to not picturing something?
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by chousuke 7y ago
I sometimes like to argue just for the fun of it, but I do recognize that there are some arguments that are not worth getting into, or that the context is not suitable for an argument. I try to restrain myself to calling out the most obviou
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by chousuke 7y ago
Surely you can prove that something doesn't exist if you can show that assuming its existence leads to a contradiction? I'm pretty sure the whole "can't prove a negative" thing is a meme, or I'm just misunderst
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by chousuke 7y ago
This reply is a bit late, but I think I'll clarify myself anyway. The way I see it, it's not my brain or body that's "me". It's the ongoing process, which doesn't really exist as anything concrete (even th
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by chousuke 7y ago
As a Finn, I really can't imagine doing an office job 16 hours a day for a sustained period of time; even the standard seven and a half is a challenge to fill with productive work every day (certainly you could idle at the office but t
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by chousuke 7y ago
> The only pain point that I have as a software engineer, I have no clear idea on how to not shutdown the software before loading in to another medium. It's not a problem. Live migration of running software is a thing. Whether it&#x
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by chousuke 7y ago
Of course it is arbitrary, just like every other moral compass out there ultimately is (as far as has been demonstrated). Practically, we already have a decent idea what "wellbeing" and "suffering" mean. That means we ca
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by chousuke 7y ago
In the philosophical sense, I'd say truth is what reality is. In the practical sense, truth is what the evidence indicates, and anything else either remains unknown or is false if it contradicts the evidence. We're limited to neve
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by chousuke 7y ago
> I assume you're using science's rhetoric of false here. Which is really just can it be observed using the tools & vocabulary of science. What useful definition of true and false exist besides the scientific one? And why w
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by chousuke 7y ago
I, personally, am perfectly open to the possibility that there's some kind of "reason" to nature. However, until such a time that it is demonstrated, I remain indifferent. Until it is established that the "reason" i
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by chousuke 7y ago
I'm not quite sure what it is exactly that you're trying to say, so apologies if I misinterpreted it, but to me you seem to suggest that science and religion are somehow complimentary; two different ways of seeing "truth&quot
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by chousuke 7y ago
Assuming "evidence" in this context is something that has been sufficiently scrutinized and no alternative hypotheses pass muster, why would any of those three things matter? And if you're leaving open the possibility that th
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by chousuke 7y ago
I believe that for some philosophical insight to be truly profound, you need to be able to state it in a manner that is completely unambiguous. It is easy to make yourself sound smart by allowing the listener to "fill in the gaps"

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