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by dempseye 8y ago
But this is not possible because the scientific method is based on inductive, rather than deductive reasoning. Once you get into deductive proofs, you're not doing science anymore. You're doing maths.
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by dempseye 8y ago
That doesn't counter it, though. It could be true that "the wiring in the brain that makes people creative" increases the risk of depression while also being true that there are other things that increase it too. Your comment
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by dempseye 8y ago
They could easily serve it to us without breaking the law. The difficult thing is staying within the law while keeping as many of their data collection efforts going as possible.
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by dempseye 8y ago
I've watched the first two videos. You're an engaging lecturer and this is a fascinating subject. Thanks for putting them online. I have an MA in philosophy and your friendly dig at philosophers' penchant for stuff like &quot
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by dempseye 8y ago
This is a common strand within protestantism, imported from northern Europe into the United States. It is quite at odds with the catholic view of things and with what Jesus is reported to have said in the bible.
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by dempseye 8y ago
This was just irritating.
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by dempseye 8y ago
Well, your comment contained a bit of a generalisation. It may or may not be true depending on the size of the app, its purpose, the number of developers, their level of experience, and a bunch of other factors. The response contained a gen
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by dempseye 8y ago
You left out persistence, which is the most annoying bit of setting up a Flask project, imo.
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by dempseye 8y ago
The UK and Ireland had cards representing Premiership soccer players. You would buy a book in which to collect the cards and the goal was to fill in every player on every team in the league. The cards were sold in packs of ten or something,
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by dempseye 9y ago
Why do you think that is? How would you describe the tenor of the comment?
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by dempseye 9y ago
Ah yes, the old Ambien trick.
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by dempseye 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that's a backronym and that "ricer" is a contraction of "rice rocket," i.e. a pejorative and slightly racist term for performant asian automobiles.
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by dempseye 9y ago
That's no problem. So you were on a 1750 calorie deficit on average per day?
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by dempseye 9y ago
What was your starting BMI? What was your finishing BMI? Did you experience any of the symptoms the guy in the case report got (stomach cramps, blackouts when standing up, belching, etc.)?
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by dempseye 9y ago
Not sure what your point is.
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by dempseye 9y ago
> Godwin’s Law... isn't a principle of reasoning Turns out what I was referring to was not the law itself, but a principle that is mislabeled as it, which I object to people using as a "checkmate" move or as a thought-term
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by dempseye 9y ago
Just shows that invoking Godwin's Law as if it had probative force was nonsense in the first place. Valid principles of reasoning can't be suspended by fiat.
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by dempseye 9y ago
I wonder if the instinct to lick wounds is related to this.
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by dempseye 9y ago
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/formula?s=t Definition 6. They are using the word "formula" as in "baby formula."
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by dempseye 10y ago
> No they are not. How do you know?
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by dempseye 10y ago
He doesn't like PDF because it doesn't reflow to fit his screen, but that is precisely the point of PDF.
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by dempseye 10y ago
When I see this claim, I usually take it to mean something like "handouts make people poorer in the long run because they inculcate learned helplessness and remove people's incentive to take control of their own financial destiny&
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by dempseye 10y ago
Yes.
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by dempseye 10y ago
I'm from Ireland. In the version of English I grew up with, we refer to the nearest big town or city - wherever the business, social and cultural life of the area is concentrated, basically - as "town." We would say, for inst
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by dempseye 10y ago
I usually find that comments in which the author explains how things are "in Europe" are full of generalisations.
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by dempseye 10y ago
It all seems perfectly normal to me apart from the capitalisation. Is that what is notable about it or is that a tic of this author? "On the way up to Town..." "We started back to Town..." "I'd come up to Town
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by dempseye 10y ago
Says what, though? I'm just looking for a single sentence that demonstrates the particular usage.
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by dempseye 10y ago
Europe is much too diverse to give you proper recommendations without knowing what city or country you'll be in.
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by dempseye 10y ago
> unless you're someone in high society, in which case it is just 'Town' Please give us an example of this usage.
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by dempseye 10y ago
Surely you mean 1800, not 18000. Learning 18000 less would give them a negative vocabulary, as the normal vocabulary size for a 5-year-old is much less than that.

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