danielam

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by danielam 11y ago
Well, if mathematics is to say anything about the world, then the foundations must be sound (and drawn from experience which brings us back to empiricism). Sometimes the problem isn't necessarily with the concepts in our heads but the
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by danielam 11y ago
I know you're being terse, but I hate the way the word "doubt" is used here so I'll take the opportunity to pontificate. Doubt, too, must be justified as much as certainty. We tend not to doubt something until there is a
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by danielam 11y ago
> However, we can easily falsify a given theory if we can produce even one single observation where the theory does not fit reality [...] Actually, strictly speaking, it's not that easy. The Duhem-Quine Thesis quite nicely shows ho
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'Eric Shit' is the latest tech CEO to get a portrait made out of poop(theverge.com)
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by danielam 11y ago
Maybe because people in Europe are more likely to, you know, actually enjoy eating their food?
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Europe, Nationalism and Shared Fate(stratfor.com)
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What Borders Mean to Europe(stratfor.com)
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Shifting from ‘Mad Men’ to Strong Women in a Series Finale(nytimes.com)
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by danielam 11y ago
The same reasoning can be applied to the popularization of science, a contradiction in terms. If you want to understand a science, you've got to do the science. Trying to lure people into science by presenting an entertaining counterfe
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Yet Another Balkan Micronation: The Kingdom of Enclava(news.com.au)
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by danielam 11y ago
Another quote: "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." ―Louis Pasteur We cannot ignore the influence of prior knowledge on observation and reasoning. Observation is theory- and paradigm-laden. (See als
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Who is the Fifth Horseman?(l2inc.com)
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How Job Destroyers and Coffee Drinkers Rule the World(l2inc.com)
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Sweden to Russian submarines: 'This way if you're gay'(national.suntimes.com)
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Elon Musk denies telling an employee he should have skipped his child’s birth(marketwatch.com)
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by danielam 11y ago
“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!” ― Charles M. Schulz
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Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways(scientificamerican.com)
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by danielam 12y ago
Nothing to do with the OP, but where did you come up with this? Table salt is NOT composed of exactly two elements. NaCl is. The two are not the same. Table salt often contains additional anti-caking agents (e.g. calcium silicate) and stabi
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by danielam 12y ago
Nothing to do with bleaching, but have you ever bothered to look up the actual ingredients of table salt? Morton's, for instance, is >99% NaCl, yet also contains dextrose and calcium silicate. http://www.mortonsalt.com&#x
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by danielam 12y ago
Don't forget the contrarians.
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by danielam 12y ago
I think that almost everyone agrees that a free and independent media is preferred, but I think that you overstate the freedom the press had before. The press is and always has been highly dependent on its patrons. In "The Free Press&q
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by danielam 12y ago
This. I favor net neutrality, but I think much of the "moral outrage" comes from a combination of paternalism, self-serving attitudes and petty, pampered middle class arrogance and not a discerning realism. Vacuous and self-righte
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by danielam 12y ago
I have a better solution: electrified paint.
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by danielam 12y ago
I've always found this frustrating myself. I was never a fan of immaturity, but I have absolutely no patience for it at my age (it's one reason I hated my last company). The cultish character of some startups and tech companies al
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by danielam 12y ago
Here's a set of graphs showing the decline of certain academic fads (viz. postmodernism) that corroborate your claim: http://goo.gl/XgzkUG
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by danielam 12y ago
You have to distinguish two questions: 1) what color(s) is the represented dress? 2) what absolute pigments are present in the physical image? These are very different questions. Painters know this distinction, at least implicitly, since a