deadbeeves

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by deadbeeves 3y ago
From talking to people, I would say it exists on a spectrum. I can imagine an apple, the color and texture of its skin, how it feels to touch it, its weightiness, its smell, the sound it'll make when I bite into it, as well as its tast
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I'm a strong advocate for front brakes, but to me it seems damn near impossible to drop a chain on a fixed gear transmission. Some foreign object would need to be overlapping the chain plane somehow, which sounds like you're alrea
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
That would disable certain mechanisms that are occasionally useful. For example, to implement user-mode context switches and function hooking.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
He would be pretty lucky if he got to serve 1% of such a sentence.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
A'ight. Good luck with that.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I'm unclear on what your point is. It sounds like we're more or less in agreement. Unless you're saying Nazis should be executed for being Nazis.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
If they're not threatening then there's no point in punching them, beyond perhaps satisfying one's own violent urges.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Yet there are still Nazis.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Nazis are not monsters, they're people just like you. Their existence does not cause suffering per se, and punching a Nazi does not reduce suffering, it increases it. If you think a particular worldview is inherently evil you're n
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
No reason is given why being intolerant of trans people is bad, it's just asserted. If the reason why being intolerant of trans people is bad is because trans people are a subset of people, then it follows that it's bad to be into
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
>And we use evidence to figure out who's right. I believe very firmly in objective reality and I think moral relativism is bad. Are you saying morality is a physical magnitude that can be studied and/or measured? Because if we
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
If the people designing the storage system get to decide what is and what isn't a file, then the database does store files, because the developers of the database system are telling you that it does. That those files have properties un
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
We're talking about hundreds of thousands across several countries, not in a single facility. If you have 50 prisoners per building, you only need 4000 buildings like that to get to 200k. This could be happening anywhere, even in large
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Early operating systems did not support directory trees, and I'm sure some didn't even support timestamps and such. Would you say that those system do not store files at all? What even is the defining characteristic of a "fil
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Affirmative action does not eliminate discrimination, it enforces discrimination up to an arbitrarily defined standard. Suppose you're applying to a company that's posted 10 openings and has already filled 7 of them, and that yo
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Okay, but it's posted here, so the GP's reaction is not unwarranted. If it was not meant to be seen by anyone other than those people then it shouldn't have been posted.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I've been using urbackup for years. It does disk image-based backups and/or file-based backups. Disk image-based backups are incremental at the block level, and file-based backups are incremental at the file level (so if a single
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Yes. However, the instrument being better just means the sound it makes will be better, not that the music the musician makes with it will be better. EDIT: I should say the sound will likely better, not just better.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
It sounds like you're saying that because one is more expensive than the other it is therefore better.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Even if there was white powder in the trash, there's an enormous number of substances and products that appear as white powders when desiccated.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I didn't think I needed to specify "that you can't do without a philosophy degree". You can get into law school without a philosophy degree, too.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
The implicit argument is that I don't see what else one could possibly do with a degree in philosophy. > Philosophy has one of the highest average incomes of degrees, because of the number of graduates that go into law and business.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
> Again this is your viewpoint. What is my viewpoint? Exactly what that I have presented as if it was an objective fact is subjective? Please enlighten me, because I have no idea what you're trying to say. >Very naive of you to
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Sure, but my question was about the purpose of studying philosophy in university. "It's easier than doing it by yourself" is not a purpose. There's still nothing you can do with what you've learned, other than bec
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
It's not really an apt analogy. Law is not a field of inquiry like science, philosophy, mathematics, and theology are. Lawyers do not push the boundaries of understanding, they're clerks. That aside, laws are not divorced from rea
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
That might be the case for other disciplines, but it certainly isn't for philosophy. There are no special techniques, you just read what other people have said on the subject. What else is there?
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
No, I'm not talking about something as banal as whether a god exists. I'm saying theology doesn't study anything real. It doesn't have the tools to determine whether a god exists, because it doesn't study reality, i
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
>Many otherwise intelligent people think that religion/philosophy is purely subjective, merely a word game Well, "subjective" is the wrong word, but I get what you mean. However, aren't they just word games? It's
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
>We cannot be sure that these advancements don't lead to anything significant in the future. We also cannot be sure that this service won't cause huge damage. If we're going to assign value to it based on its unknown pot
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
We're not talking about dreaming, though, we're talking about expending actual resources and dumping actual contaminants into the actual atmosphere just to, as the sibling comment puts it, give rich people space rides. Scientific

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