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by derleth 13y ago
> scientism's self assertion as the one true belief There is no such thing as 'scientism' and science is a method, not a belief system. There are people who go through life without dogma. Every idea they have can be challe
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by derleth 13y ago
Then you only look at the posts which are downvoted to oblivion, which is a strange tactic to take.
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> It's just a neat informative article, not a challenge to your manhood ffs Aside from the completely unfounded assumption I must be male, you completely misread my post. I was just pointing out something tangentially related that I
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I thought planned parenthood type places gave condoms away.
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> Why do you think they know the claims are false? It's just as bad if they don't know the claims are true. Bullshitting when someone's health is on the line is simply sociopathic. > It would also render a large fractio
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> The answer is "love", you robots. Because "love" totally makes condoms not work.
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> A lot of 'rouge' ssh traffic comes from hacked machines. And they're owned by the Hell's Angles or Red China, I bet.
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That just makes me want to feed people poison eels.
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by derleth 13y ago
> What is a "non-unicode character"? A character with no representation in the latest Unicode standard.
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by derleth 13y ago
> What if their name uses non-unicode characters? Learn to fix the problems you can fix, and only the problems you can fix. Ignore the problems you cannot fix because, as per hypothesis, you cannot do anything about them. In other words,
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You could just as easily say there are zero trigonometric functions and do everything in terms of complex exponentiation. Euler's Formula guides the way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_formula http:&
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> I don't think a simple claim that can be shown to be false qualifies as fraud. Then what does? If they're using claims they can't back up, or that they know are false, to sell their product, that's pretty clear-cut
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When raw milk sellers list the potential of disease risk their product carries on their packaging, I'll consider them equivalent. Oh, and any claims that raw milk is better for you must be backed up with real studies or else it's
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by derleth 13y ago
And, because game developers know the precise specs of every console they target, they can reduce load times and make texture rendering... sorry, sorry, I can't do this with a straight face.
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Because Monster Cables use those emotions to rip people off. Unless you really and truly think there's no moral problem with selling cables at a multi-thousand-percent markup based on claims which are trivially disproven, in which case
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by derleth 13y ago
> Matrices were multidimensional arrays (I know, not quite the same in terms of maths, but hey I was young). In math, if something has all the properties a kind of object is defined to have, it is that kind of object. Mathematics is ba
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> "The thing I was missing is that math is just a bunch of symbols that you manipulate to get new symbols out." This is the Formalist philosophy of mathematics, which isn't the only one (as you might imagine given that it
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by derleth 13y ago
As long as it isn't hidden in the dead pool, I don't care much where one of my comments' karma is. BTW, it's at 30 now, so no damage done.
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My point is that analyzing languages on that basis is silly. I thought the rest of my post was silly enough to demonstrate that.
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> every single 'web designer' in the known universe should be forced to make a full HTML site (tools of their choice!) that is compatible back to IE8 (bonus points for IE6) But they only pass if it's backwards-compatible t
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by derleth 13y ago
Prolog's only a waste of time if you let it be. It's a good introduction to declarative programming and the logic implicit in all other programming. Also, yes, I'll throw Python out there as the best beginning intro languag
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by derleth 13y ago
> Yes, C++ will let you make mistakes. It's not your nanny, it's a programming tool for... GASP ...programmers... Yes, assembly will let you make mistakes. It's not your nanny, it's a programming tool for... GASP ..
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> Have your male coworkers ever been threatened with rape? Do you actually think they'd report it if they were?
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> I'm not really clear on what you mean by "hyper-privileged". If we're doing this, it's privilege to not be starving on the streets of Calcutta, it's privilege to know how to read, and it is damn sure privi
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by derleth 13y ago
TERFs go way beyond Tumblr, and the fact you likely don't know what TERF means is a big part of the problem.
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On the flip side, the people on your side need to stop thinking privilege is absolute instead of relative to context, and stop imagining that individuals can be judged based on what group they've placed them into. Yes, even if those th
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> I don't agree that it has in the past. Good for you. The rest of us can look at history with less bias on this subject.
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> Poor people not learning to read does not follow from having privatized education. It has in the past. Which is my point.
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> Yes, and that is not going to change unless we privatize education. Because poor people don't really need to learn how to read! Yeah, go back to the glory days of the Forties. The Eighteen-Forties.
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Bullying is violence, and I wonder how you know there was no rape.

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