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by drostie 14y ago
"Wait, what? Searle claims that functionalists are dualists? And that therefore they must claim not to be? This makes no sense." He claims that they, as monists, are inheriting the dualist categories and arguing that one of them doesn'
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by drostie 14y ago
I should like to warn people of this sentence: 'If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by "mere
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by drostie 14y ago
It is worth noticing that Dennett, while not taking Penrose out of context per se , is using him to illustrate a much narrower point than you're making -- and your quote of him therefore does take Penrose out of context. He continues tha
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by drostie 14y ago
Those words were indeed ill-considered; the concept dates at least into the English Bill of Rights about a century before the US one -- and of course it was also a value in the French revolution. However , the point of the comment you're r
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by drostie 14y ago
One subtle point: there are sometimes legal processes for declaring independence from a host country. The most clear example of this is the Statute of Westminster 1931, which the Parliament of the UK passed in order to create a legal proces
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by drostie 14y ago
Well, saying that it's "compressing as it falls" doesn't quite explain the observation either. What you see is the original slinky with a sudden catastrophic "sound wave" at the top propagating across it. It doesn't look like the whole slin
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by drostie 14y ago
Strictly speaking, the moment you ask "Is -2 prime?" you are asking a fundamentally different question from "is 2 prime?" because -2 is not in N = {0?, 1, 2, 3, ...}, the set over which the notion "prime" is defined. There is a more general
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by drostie 14y ago
Domestic flights in the US are much better, yes. The other thing that's better is getting out of the US. I'm actually often heavily questioned on my way into the US. (And never on my way out.) That happens twice: once at the airport, once a
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by drostie 14y ago
Uh, they do, and it has. I was twice "randomly selected" (read: I was nearby when they were finished with whoever they were inspecting) by TSA officials before check-in, who went systematically through my to-be-checked luggage looking for t
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by drostie 14y ago
Sorry, it was a very weird request. We seriously need a social protocol for situations where A says something which makes B feel very sorry, but the proper recipients of B's apology are no longer available to hear it. It felt way too cheesy
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by drostie 14y ago
I prefer to teach rather than scold and am seldom sarcastic. Self-deprecating and joking, yes, but not sarcastic. As to whether an illegitimate apology means anything, that I leave to liedra's discretion.
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by drostie 14y ago
On this off-topic excursion, I must say: I have to give Unity another shot. I tried it and ran back to KDE screaming, but it occurs to me that it wasn't really fair and I didn't spend a couple weeks with it, to get over the "new interface a
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by drostie 14y ago
Though I have never been to PAX East I would still say: I'm sorry. It's incredibly perverse, the way I was socialized in the US. I was taught essentially that love was always "at stake" in every discussion with the opposite sex, and that if
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by drostie 14y ago
If the comments below are too laborious for you to read, here is the TL;DR of them: (1) Use your personal discretion. Some anecdotes are funny. Others can be perfectly cogent rebuttals, especially when people make overbroad statements.[a] (
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by drostie 14y ago
I sometimes `wget` the URLs in my spambox out of genuine curiosity as to what people are actually sending me, and there are a bunch of common patterns. What's very surprising is the "obfuscated eval" statement -- some term which ultimately
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by drostie 14y ago
I don't know if anyone else noticed, but I appreciated this little joke from the article: in saying that 0 = 1 "allowed you to prove anything" he created a circular reference from the article to itself and then stated that the reference its
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by drostie 14y ago
This is entirely why I haven't been submitting my own content. So, right, I sometimes discourse in HN comments on these sorts of topics. We're facing a crisis where authenticity is vanishing from the everyday life; and the traditional pro
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by drostie 14y ago
You may occasionally want to use its little brother, `sed`, which has substantially similar syntax. It is often the case in Unix programming that you have a pipe full of text data and you would like to transform every line of it; `sed` allo
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by drostie 14y ago
Look, there are two things you are saying. One is "you can't do this with Ruby/Python" -- which is a superiority-of-PHP argument -- and the other is a plea of "PHP has done a lot, so let's not be too hasty dismissing it." You made both of t
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by drostie 14y ago
"It’s been very interesting beginning my trajectory in web development in 2012... [PHP] might be the best language to use in gaining an understanding of the fundamentals of web development... No web development language outside of PHP grant
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by drostie 14y ago
The freaky thing is that the YC rep appears, from these transactions, to have no idea how to communicate with the HN production database. (Perhaps the costs are so high that they simply refuse to do so.) They appear to have made no effort t
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by drostie 14y ago
Empower women. I'm serious. If you want to curtail the out-of-control growth rate, and consensually so, women need to be able to choose birth control; they need to not fear rape; they need to not be viewed as an economic liability (where e.
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by drostie 14y ago
Reminds me also of "Real Men Don't Play GURPS": Mark Rein·Hagen, the designer of Storyteller, was once asked, "How do you pronounce the dot in your name?" He replied, "It's unpronounceable, and symbolises how meaningless are t
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by drostie 14y ago
That is quite understandable, but think of it from a scrupulous person's perspective. You could make your default search Google, in which case you're sending your user a mixed message: "I am giving you the popular search" versus "I don't ac
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by drostie 14y ago
Yeah, the one big thing that this one has going for it is its noiselessness due to using its case as a heat sink. Torvalds has also talked about how he wants a "whisper-quiet" computing environment; I'm surprised that so few companies treat
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by drostie 14y ago
One thing which I remember seeing once was that Lawyer A had emailed site B with some threat of a lawsuit, and B's lawyer immediately filed in court for a declaration that A's threat was frivolous and harrassing, so that B should get some s
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by drostie 14y ago
As someone who is building a religion in his spare time, I must say that I don't see something intrinsic to religion which says "they must exert as much control as they can" and "they don't give up control willingly," just as I don't see
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by drostie 14y ago
More importantly, if you read the article, the text is in Nederlands and the more you excerpt, the more you will have to translate.
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by drostie 14y ago
I guess maybe I wasn't clear. Some modern chess algorithms begin by telling the computer, "here are some numbers you must determine, and how you combine them into an assessment of the game's winnability. Go and analyze a bunch of games and
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by drostie 14y ago
I agree that syntax rules are themselves also a huge obstacle, and mostly for the same reason: we often teach languages by saying "here are some valid grammars for you to use in sentence construction," it's not hard to declaratively specify

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