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by davesims 15y ago
We need a new law that predicts how long it will take for someone to invoke Godwin's law after anyone mentions anything related to Nazis.
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by davesims 15y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but it would seem gratuitous and over-reaching on AirBnB's part. Your other suggestions I agree with.
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by davesims 15y ago
Reminds me of this Google Easter Egg: http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
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by davesims 15y ago
"The logic underpinning such an argument - that Kant's view of the mind does not match popular current scientific theories and therefor does not constitute science - would also place Newton's Principia outside the realm of Physics." That's
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by davesims 15y ago
Galileo was a first-rate philosopher of science as well as a scientist. He was a contemporary and co-belligerent with Bacon in laying the foundation of modern science. His role as a serious philosopher is often overlooked.
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by davesims 15y ago
This attitude towards philosophy -- 'quietly ignore' -- has been the status quo in basically every discipline since the turn of the twentieth century. It certainly isn't unique to neuroscience.
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by davesims 15y ago
That's one way of looking at it, and certainly the scientific community would like to think so -- as if Kant and James did a bit of theoretical work that the scientists fleshed out in practice. But this is really quite naive, and when you l
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by davesims 15y ago
"...there is no body of widely accepted answers to commonly encountered questions like reason for belief or standard of proof, such as might be found in a natural science, for example." I laughed out loud at this. "Science" is not distinct
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by davesims 15y ago
It's what you always wished Firebug's css view would actually do.
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by davesims 15y ago
I was in DC yesterday, walking by the patent office and saw this quote from Lincoln over the door: "The Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity" I wonder what Lincoln would think of Lodsys.
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by davesims 15y ago
Tom Sholz, guitarist from Boston -- MS in Engineering from MIT. Guitar Hero and Nerd. The only one in captivity?
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by davesims 15y ago
Agreed. As pointed out by others, this is a perennial problem with GCs in general. Obviously it doesn't happen very often, otherwise the business risk would have forced Matz or the Ruby community to fix it, else no one would have ever deplo
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by davesims 15y ago
If edge case segfaults were fatal flaws Windows should never have shipped. I say 'edge case' because obviously there are millions of lines of Ruby code running for years on MRI/YARV/REE that have not encountered this error often enough to c
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by davesims 15y ago
This post is a weird mix of careful technical analysis and douchey, Zed Shaw-style hysterical overstatement. However, I would like to see Matz' response to the recommended steps for a fix at the end. Sounds like a reasonable goal to add for
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2.5 Gigabytes in a Radio Wave(arstechnica.com)
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by davesims 16y ago
Android was not written as a general-purpose OS, it's a mobile-centric API/OS optimized for low footprint and low CPU. Some of those concerns translate to a netbook/tablet environment, a lot of them don't, but IMO Android would have to have
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by davesims 16y ago
Harris is a good writer and a great popularizer of certain reductionist ideas, but far from a great philosopher. Statements like this from him are to be taken with a grain of salt the size of the Western Philosophical Tradition.