ectoplasm

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by ectoplasm 11y ago
The heat produced by humans is trivial compared to the heat produced by sunlight hitting the earth. That's why sources of energy that don't trap sunlight are desirable.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> As for running your unsigned extension, there will be six versions of Firefox available (stable, unbranded stable, beta, unbranded beta, dev edition and nightly). Of these six, only two will force addon signing. All the others are a tw
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
The first step is to just stop feeling guilty about doing what you want with your own property, and then you don't need to bother with these huge rationalizations either way. Would you support a law that made it illegal to run ad-block
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
If it's such a small number of people, is there a problem with substantially increasing the minimum wage?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I mean at the conceptual level. So many things are defined in terms of their opposite. If we have no knowledge, understanding, definition, experience of evil, we don't have a benchmark against which to compare our actions and make su
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
The point is that what you consider evil, somebody else considers good, and vice versa. Furthermore, we define good in terms of evil and evil in terms of good. The existence of one necessitates the existence of the other, whether in the p
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
So like 9/11 was awesome then?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
It's common enough to be both abuser and victim.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I'll take democracy over religion any day.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
That's interesting, could you elaborate?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
We both have a right to not be assaulted. I don't have a right to assault you, you don't have a right to assault me. However, if you assault me, you forgo your right to not be assaulted. I now have the right to assault you in s
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I would describe what you're talking about as "black swans cannot exist". That is an even stronger statement, because it also implies that black swans do not currently exist.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Sure, ok, makes sense.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
The statement is also true if he hasn't seen any games. It's just an anecdote about his experience, that's fine.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
It does if one of them is in a safety deposit box.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Maybe Popeye eats cold leftovers.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Ok re: IQ. Re: means, I still can't parse what you wrote the first time and I'm a native speaker. <noun> will be <verb> with <noun> <noun>?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
The problem is that mozzarella doesn't keep at sea.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
You could probably cook pasta with it.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
The better the quality of your education, the greater the influence of genetics on your IQ score. At least, that was my understanding of the WP article, which says poor environment means poor heritability.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
You could reasonably do some for loop stuff using a C AST as your IR if you wanted. Not really sure why you would do this if coming from another language, but you could.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Per the intro to that article, presumably high intelligence also has a large environmental component, in that you need a good environment not to squash the heritability. btw, I think you didn't finish editing: > normally distributed
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Hmmm, the other grammar and spelling errors made me think that "to" was also just a mistake.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Nit pick, but plenty of things compile to C / C++. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6498850/programming-lang...
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Do you have evidence to support that you do not 'troll'?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
The following program segfaults: main() { a(); b(); } You don't have a debugger. You don't have the source for a or b. Strategy? Sure printf works, but so does //.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
By all means, if you think processed food tastes better, then that's what you should be eating, at least as far as good taste -> enjoyment -> good mental health -> good physical health is concerned. But, it's worth your
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Also processed stuff usually doesn't taste as good. The enjoyment you derive from eating contributes to your physical health.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Is your belief falsifiable? Wouldn't the experimenter just be rationalizing their intuitive decision about the meaning of their observations regardless?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
By your own logic, you just made an intuitive decision about whether I have a point, and now you're just rationalizing it. Not much point in trying to have a rational conversation.

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