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Indeterminacy and Borges’ Infinite Library(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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by danielam 4y ago
> "color", "sound" […] are very clearly and perfectly described by modern physics. Except they are not, as objects of experience. They are redefined in physics. This is related to the problem of qualia. Materialists o
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by danielam 4y ago
He’s arguing against materialism, not physics. The point is that because physics deals with mathematical idealizations and only of those aspects of reality that can be idealized in such a way, it disregards large swathes of reality that can
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The hollow universe of modern physics(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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Xu Guangqi(en.wikipedia.org)
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John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of Liberal Hegemony” (2017)(youtube.com)
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Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you are an imposter? (2020) [pdf](worldatwork.org)
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Social Credit Industry Represents a $16.1B Opportunity by 2026 (2021)(businesswire.com)
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COH04S1 Produces Robust Antibodies and T Cells Against SARS-CoV-2(businesswire.com)
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Apart from the intellectual clarity, you don't need to employ all of the tools in this text to benefit practically from some use of formal verification, etc. If you're using a statically typed language, you're likely already
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Assisting vulnerable people in Ukraine’s conflict zones(caritas.org)
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They're base64 encoded[0]. (This is an approach I myself have used in the past for simplifying the archival of regulatory texts.) [0] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/15801c8ef4...
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by danielam 5y ago
"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." (mutatis mutandis)
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Is Prime Matter Energy?(tandfonline.com)
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Etymologically[0]: > mid-14c., enginour, "constructor of military engines," from Old French engigneor "engineer, architect, maker of war-engines; schemer" (12c.), from Late Latin ingeniare (see engine); general sense
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Cows are getting virtual reality goggles to feel like they’re outside(the-sun.com)
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Islamic Banking and Finance(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Mental Disorders That Gave Us Modern Architecture (2017)(commonedge.org)
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US Army close to developing vaccine against all Covid variants and coronaviruses(independent.co.uk)
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FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of Covid-19(fda.gov)
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Also, “sram na to” (“I shit on it”). (Another less vulgar, if somewhat irrelevant, alternative is “ani ziębi, ani grzeje”, or “it neither chills me nor warns me up”).
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Recollection(newadvent.org)
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by danielam 5y ago
The choice of Common Lisp is less flattering than one might hope because it was largely the result of familiarity (Carl de Marcken's doctoral thesis was in computational linguistics and he was most comfortable using Lisp). When I asked
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by danielam 5y ago
"The search engines run on databases of flights, prices, and seat availability, provided electronically over private networks by the 800 or so airlines of the world. The data is not directly available to the general public and access o
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Charles Munger and UCSB Deserve Each Other(theamericanconservative.com)
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And the reason for the shift was both political and economic: Verne's publisher was afraid of both losing the Russian market and souring relations between France and Russia, though public sentiment in France leaned in favor of the Po
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The Polish Aristocrat at the Helm of the Nautilus: The True Story of Capt. Nemo(culture.pl)
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"Robotnik" is still used in Polish to mean someone who does manual labor and the like. The pejorative "robol" translates as "prole" as in "proletarian".
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by danielam 5y ago
It better translates as "labor" as in "manual labor", or as "toil".
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Orthokeratology(en.wikipedia.org)
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