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by drdeca 4y ago
Their investment/"investment" is still in relation to bitcoin. It doesn't seem entirely incongruous to call it "investing in bitcoin". If I buy some shares in a company that does things with [X], I think it mak
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by drdeca 4y ago
I thought that allegation was shown to be made up?
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by drdeca 4y ago
What kind of relationships between beer mugs are you interested in? "can contain more beer than"? "is both at least as deep and at least as wide"? What about beer mugs are you trying to model?
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by drdeca 4y ago
I think I can give some sufficient conditions for a case in which I would consider someone to have “ceased to have free will”. If someone X with some manner of advanced brain altering technology was able to temporarily force someone Z’s act
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by drdeca 4y ago
got 4/6 on PureScript, and 5/6 for Elm, and I don't know either language. The page could probably stand to have a sentence saying that it is a quiz about "can you tell which of these 4 names of functions are the name of
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by drdeca 4y ago
Are any of them truly free of drag? Like, are there 0 molecules of atmosphere at some height, or just entirely negligible amounts of atmosphere for all practical purposes?
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by drdeca 4y ago
Maybe you could use it as an autocomplete to make an actual support person able to handle more queries simultaneously? Idk.
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by drdeca 4y ago
Thanks! So, I had interpreted your previous comment as saying that using the average miles driven per day is a bad way to estimate the total energy (per day) needed. But I guess you instead meant, not that the problem from averaging came fr
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by drdeca 4y ago
In the particular case of the "miles driven", what's wrong with the average? Is it because the amount of power used by an individual with an EV differs from being proportional to the distance they drive with it, in a way that
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by drdeca 4y ago
If you want to do it with a law, then the government should pay for it, not punish people for providing benefit to others.
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by drdeca 4y ago
ok, not willing-and-able then.
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by drdeca 4y ago
Then either whoever wants to fix that problem should pay for the additional costs, or accept that they aren't willing to do what is needed to fix the problem.
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by drdeca 4y ago
Dark matter and dark energy aren’t part of the standard model. You object to it allegedly including those things (it doesn’t), despite apparently not knowing what those phrases refer to? As, dark energy and dark matter are both ideas relati
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by drdeca 4y ago
Not really, I don’t think? Just determinism (sorta.)
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by drdeca 4y ago
I can believe that, yeah, that sounds likely enough. However, even if my fingers overall can easily exert the necessary force, it isn't clear to me that this should imply that any individual molecular bond between atoms in my fingers s
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by drdeca 4y ago
By “fingers” do you mean “things which can apply precisely controlled forces to individual atoms”, or..? If you have two atoms in a vacuum with one moving directly towards the other at a not very high speed, I’m pretty sure they don’t fuse.
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by drdeca 4y ago
I think "being able to describe exhaustively the conditions under which something is conscious" is sometimes called the "pretty hard problem of consciousness", as opposed to the hard problem? (Also considered unsolved th
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by drdeca 4y ago
Well, seydor's comment that they actually used induced pluripotent cells derived from skin cells, rather than stem cells from fetuses, makes me feel better about it. I'm of course not against, in general, "culturing human c
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by drdeca 4y ago
My understanding is that they don't just differ between species, but they differ substantially between different types within the same individual. My understanding is extremely limited. That being said, my impression is that some of th
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by drdeca 4y ago
This is why natural language should add support for defining named variables. Can we get that in the next edition of the standard?
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by drdeca 4y ago
Maybe I should have included this small note previously, (I had figured it was a small typo or something) but, x cos(x) / (2pi) does not actually produce integers for integer values of x (other than for x=0) . I imagine what you mean i
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by drdeca 4y ago
That’s not really what I associate with EA? With Nick Land, maybe, yeah, I guess. Honestly it reminds me most of how some people try to spin Bitcoin’s power use as a good thing. The comment does have some similarity to a point which I think
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by drdeca 4y ago
The proposed response is not uniform in either case. Wouldn’t some think that it would be e.g. justified to set fire to a police station or something? I mean, seeing as riots include things like other places being set aflame.
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by drdeca 4y ago
The right to say that one ought to be able to, certainly is. If something is a crime, it might not be legal to instruct people on how they can go about doing it? Which does seem like it could be problematic. I’m not certain quite what you
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by drdeca 4y ago
If a large majority did, yes, it could be changed. And obviously a piece of parchment cannot force people to do something if people unanimously decided to do otherwise. But preventing the whims of the just-barely-a-majority-of-those-who-v
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by drdeca 4y ago
My point is that if another human person came up with this sequence themselves, this would not by itself convince me that that person is aware of Euler’s identity. There are many other ways to produce this sequence. For example, ceiling(n&#
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by drdeca 4y ago
I’m pretty sure people were aware of trig functions before they became aware of Euler’s identity, and became aware of the general idea of “oscillation” before that.
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by drdeca 4y ago
I don’t see how the sequence (-1, 1, -2, 2, -3, 3...) demonstrates having found Euler’s identity.
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by drdeca 4y ago
I misinterpreted your original comment. I suspect the other person may have misinterpreted it in the same way.
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by drdeca 4y ago
They didn't say it was? They were contradicting your claim that the state having a monopoly on violence is limited to democratic states.

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