donutte

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by donutte 8y ago
The experiment demonstrates quantum entanglement. I gather you don’t believe this. So how about this: I don’t believe you. I don’t believe that you could, even theoretically , produce the data from a loophole-free Bell test without invok
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by donutte 8y ago
I’m not sure I follow your argument, but if I understand you right, I don’t believe what you’re quoting is relevant. From the article you are (I think?) criticizing: We measure a Bell signal S of 2.0732 ± 0.0003, exceeding the maximum valu
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by donutte 8y ago
Just to be clear, these are experimental results that are statistically impossible assuming a classical physics. Are you actually worried that they are somehow studying the wrong self-evidently non-classical thing, or what?
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by donutte 8y ago
Mmm, it sounds like we have some difference of principle, though not much in practice. I think I don’t see competing interests as zero-sum in the way you seem to. That is, suppose A desires to kill B, and B desires to kill A, but neither A
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by donutte 8y ago
It’s also worth noting that as of 2015[0], this has been experimentally verified. We’ve made real-world measurements here that correlate with measurements made at the exact same time over there in a way that mathematically cannot be
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by donutte 8y ago
Thank you for the candid response! I have to admit I’m a bit confused, though. In particular, these statements seem slightly at odds: > I really do have zero problem with animals killing and consuming other animals. > If the world cou
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by donutte 8y ago
I’m genuinely curious: you ask if one has any problem. Do you mean to imply that you have zero problem with this? When you watch a big cat torture and eat a prey animal, do you not have any sense at all that maybe the prey would prefe
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by donutte 8y ago
Why do you say that? It’s certainly in line with the spirit of the ADA, and a cursory Google suggests that lawsuits related to dietary restrictions have been successful. For what it’s worth, I’m a vegetarian and broadly in support of this p
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by donutte 8y ago
“Intensely terrible” is one way to phrase “illegal under the ADA”... I would assume there will be accommodations made for folks with dietary restrictions that require them to eat meat, whether that’s through a simple waiver or a massive law
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by donutte 8y ago
Should it? If I argue that it’s immoral to not vaccinate your children, am I failing in not arguing that wild deer should vaccinate their children?
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by donutte 8y ago
So, I’ve never finished Infinite Jest. My father once told me that’s okay— it ends in the middle. Cloud Atlas employs the same structure deliberately, with wonderful narrative impact. You have to climb up the mountain in order to climb back
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by donutte 8y ago
So did a lot of Nazis who enabled the Holocaust. Isn’t that the point? That’s maybe too flippant. “This is fake” is a way someone can rationalize doing something that they know is wrong. It’s important that they came up with that idea thems
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by donutte 8y ago
I don’t think that’s an accurate characterization of the criticism. The Milgram study, and its numerous replications, have pretty conclusively shown that most folks will do something they know is wrong if a perceived authority instructs the
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by donutte 8y ago
I hear where you’re coming from, and we seem agreed that there’s nothing internet sleuths are entitled to. I do think we’re going to have to agree to disagree on this: The implication is that the family either wanted to know or ought to
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by donutte 8y ago
That seems stronger than what I’m saying. The folks who can’t let it go, who are still trying to circumvent the family’s privacy, they obviously are motivated by something besides concern for the victim and his kin. I don’t have any sympath
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by donutte 8y ago
I think about this sometimes. I put together my own IoT infrastructure in our apartment. I did everything by hand: I wrote the embedded code, I wrote the server code, I pieced together the hub with a router and RasPi I had lying around. I s
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by donutte 8y ago
This is really interesting: It was then that the realization set in in the subreddit: after all these years, after hundreds of thousands of hours of theorizing and plotting and thinking and organizing, they might never find out the true id
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by donutte 8y ago
Reading further down in the docket reveals a few suggestive details. Of particular note, this filing which lead to the revocation of Schulte’s bail [ https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.480183... ]. Two
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by donutte 8y ago
For what it’s worth, I’m poly and I disagree with that characterization. Polyamorous relationships are held to a different standard. A monogamous relationship where everyone isn’t having their needs met can continue in perpetuity, for one r
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by donutte 8y ago
At least in the US... A psychiatrist is a physician. They go to the same schools as future radiologists, surgeons, and general practitioners. They learn gross anatomy by dissecting cadavers. They work 80 hour weeks learning to perform medic
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by donutte 8y ago
I’m not sure that’s a counterexample either? The claim is “if X is in moderation, then X is fine”. If we let X be necessarily not in moderation, the claim holds of X by impossibility of the antecedent. IOW “if X is in moderation, X is fine”