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811.
by cygx 8y ago
Care to carify? What would be the European equivalent of the Social Credit program?
812.
by cygx 8y ago
Reeducation camps, mass surveillance, the Social Credit System - China has made last century's dystopian fiction its playbook.
813.
by cygx 8y ago
You should claim uncertainty about anything you cannot prove in any way, shape or form. All ontological claims are unprovable, resting on axioms that have to be accepted on faith. I can't prove I just wrote you this message, I just b
814.
by cygx 8y ago
According to one definition among several possible definitions. Which definition is more useful will depend on the question you're asking. For example, agnostics are not theists, therefore they are a-theists - according to one possibl
815.
by cygx 8y ago
Depends on your definition. Hand out sheets of paper and ask people to write down all the gods they believe exist. What's your term for people who hand in empty sheets? For many of us, that's non-theist, aka atheist. Also note tha
816.
by cygx 8y ago
Because he's no longer a working scientist, but an economist.
817.
by cygx 8y ago
See also https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23632-how-to-test-wei... and https://motls.blogspot.de/2017/11/weinsteins-view-on-quanta-...
818.
by cygx 8y ago
Where is that technology now? https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34542/how-do-i-set-up-and...
819.
by cygx 9y ago
I mean: it was not a problem with heliocentrism (the jesuit scientists supported it) They favoured the Tychonic model, which was geocentric.
820.
by cygx 9y ago
It's a reference to a study where they had an algorithm fed with a certain number of facebook likes compete against personal acquaintances (including spouses) in predictig personality traits. The algorithm won: http://www.pn
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by cygx 9y ago
For liability reasons, the municipalities would have to enforce certain rules and organized structure. Good luck selling that to anarchists...
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by cygx 9y ago
That's not the only logical conclusion one can draw: Consciousness could be an emergent phenomenon requiring a certain amount of complexity that an individual rock lacks.
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by cygx 9y ago
Assume, for the sake of the argument, that we'll eventually have computers powerful enough to simulate brains to the accuracy we think necessary for it to function. There are several ways this experiment could go: First, we could fail
824.
by cygx 9y ago
What's your take on brain simulation?
825.
by cygx 9y ago
No, I'm hypothesizing that brains can be understood within the realm of classical physics.
826.
by cygx 9y ago
But hardware can be simulated in software.
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by cygx 9y ago
Which is probably not relevant for the problem at hand: I would be surprised if brains were able to maintain quantum coherence, which means quantum effects will effectively reduce to classical probabilities...
828.
by cygx 9y ago
Hypothesis: Troy existed Prediction: There's a buried city in Asia Minor Test: Go there and dig it up
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by cygx 9y ago
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1867:_Physics_Con...
830.
by cygx 9y ago
The scope isn't quite the same, but Germany went through a series of left-wing terrorist attacks in the 70s. There's a (German) article[1] by Günther Nollau, former president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constit
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by cygx 9y ago
Depends. The core of the canon is still essentially the same as described by Athanasius[1]. He had the following to say about the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books: there are other books besides these not indeed included in the Canon,
832.
by cygx 9y ago
Roman Catholicism and Papistry perhaps resembles Islam somewhat, but that's in contradiction to the New Testament. Half of all Christians are Roman Catholic. There are still a couple of Anglican, Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox state c
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by cygx 9y ago
In a way, I guess its a sign of Turkey and AKP’s success that we are now being held to European standards. As far as numbers of imprisoned journalists are concerned, Chinese standards would be an improvement. 150 journalists[1] doesn&#x
834.
by cygx 9y ago
What's the proper way to only show 'new' comments on HN?
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by cygx 9y ago
GR is fine with that - what will happen is that there'll be a sign change in the metric (the 'time' coordinate will become spacelike, whereas the 'angular' coordinate will become timelike), making it impossible to s
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by cygx 9y ago
So, if you wanted to use one you would need to redo all your math and effectively use a non rotating frame in the middle of all your calculations, or add fictitious forces and flexible constants. That's what the Christoffel symbols a
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by cygx 9y ago
Later we learn that mass is determined by energy and momentum, both of which are conserved, so mass must be conserved too. Not in a meaningful sense - the square of the total momentum 4-vector is of course conserved (and even frame-invari
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by cygx 9y ago
The philosophical difference is that without collapse, all of the eigenstates contributing to the intial state will get entangled with their own 'copy' of the environment, which is where the moniker many worlds interpretation co
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by cygx 9y ago
Arguably more interesting: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=perl%20t...
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by cygx 9y ago
It took a while to design the language, which went through significant changes in both semantics and implementation (Parrot was abandoned for MoarVM, until recently, the main banch of the repository still was called 'nom' for &#x2

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