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by ethn 8y ago
Heh no, linguists are sure it's the most similar dialect to Old English, the only difference is maybe the tempo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=mNqY6ftqGq0
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by ethn 8y ago
I understand and agree with the overall stirrings of your comment, but it's not necessarily relevant in this case. Taleb is about making choices in uncertainty where it's a reiteration of Biblical, Aquinas, Augustine of Hippo, Ber
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by ethn 8y ago
It's refreshing to see such critical thought on HN; it's too often that the intent and aesthetic is of more concern than the consequences.
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by ethn 8y ago
Cellular cybernetics is about to become very interesting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis
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by ethn 8y ago
No it doesn't. BLS acknowledges and discredits this misconception. This data is not relevant to your claims, instead it shows unemployment insurance claims reducing over 2017-2018.
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by ethn 8y ago
In the USA, unemployed and abled are forced to be "job seeking" whether they give up hope or not to continue receiving benefits.
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by ethn 8y ago
It's never been measured like this anywhere, ever. Don't make things up, especially some intuition that purposely makes another party seem foolish when it is actually quite the opposite. Even people who declare themselves as &quot
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by ethn 8y ago
Yes, it's necessary to live in the world.
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by ethn 8y ago
It has many types of transactions, in fact it has an entire script language for creating different types.
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by ethn 8y ago
What was unique about their business model? Licensing their hardware/software?
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by ethn 8y ago
Ridiculously terrible analysis. The obvious assessment is that when people use their tether to buy coins, thereby leaving exchanges, the price goes up as there is more demand. This generally occurs when investors believe they can get an ass
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by ethn 8y ago
"Plato's influence on Western culture was so profound that several different concepts are linked by being called "Platonic" or Platonist, for accepting some assumptions of Platonism, but which do not imply acceptance of
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by ethn 8y ago
>If you really did mean to imply that an ideal Santa Claus literally exists in a literal universe of perfect ideal forms In philosophy, this is "Platonic Realism" quite different from "platonic", the lower case helps
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by ethn 8y ago
Bold, passive, and mistaken accusation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun But I do see how it could be confused with platonic love, albeit I'm comfortable using it without clarification in the appropriate
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by ethn 8y ago
The platonic "Santa Claus" does exist, so it's completely valid. The statement "Santa Claus doesn't exist" is stating there is no judgement from experience which adheres to the concept of Santa Claus.
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by ethn 8y ago
See my above comments but what else would "true" mean?
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by ethn 8y ago
No, Experience is forced upon you, it is neither an assumption or something discovered through reason. Additionally, words like "real", "exists" or "reality" only have meaning in this way, otherwise it would be
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by ethn 8y ago
To be clear this trilemma is only a problem for rationalists, like Hans Albert. This problem doesn't exist for German Idealists like Kant or Schelling or even the empiricists. You escape the problem of infinite regression through ackno
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by ethn 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis One of the most important scarcely explored phenomena.
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by ethn 8y ago
The article isn't true. It was once thought that cordyceps and other parasites control the mind of their hosts but something much more sinister happens; the invaders take control of the nervous system of the creature moving the limbs a
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by ethn 8y ago
Land is a store of wealth, that's not the source of wealth. If we look at the Forbes top 20 richest people compilation, we would be hard pressed to point out anyone who made the majority of their wealth through land.
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by ethn 8y ago
Or what the article and research by AEI and Thomas Sowell has implied: you'll be able to afford a house when you're older since nowadays you become more valuable the more knowledge you gain.
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by ethn 8y ago
It's great, it use to be the opposite. For centuries prior the elderly were subjugated to the mercy of the young (like many Asian economies and as one could imagine in primate hierarchy groups), due to physical labor being the largest
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by ethn 9y ago
"Harmonic analysis in phase space" by Folland who illustrates the Fourier Transform with physical applications. "The Analytic Theory of Heat" Joseph Fourier who explains the realization at length.
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by ethn 9y ago
He has a convoluted (no pun intended) center of mass explanation that the equation does not describe, admits that this is incorrect, and then goes onto another incorrect explanation of a strange ellipse where there is another center of mass
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by ethn 9y ago
3Blue1Brown makes great videos and offers good explanations. However, particularly with his latest Fourier Transform video, he not only gives the incorrect explanation, he makes it unnecessarily and overwhelming complicated. It is still bet
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by ethn 9y ago
Bankers aren't the cause of the financial crisis. Societies have always had a scapegoat to conveniently break societal tensions, previously with physical sacrifices, and presently with sacrificing the money of scapegoated individuals.
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by ethn 9y ago
If you like Kuhn, you'll like "Theories On The Scrap Heap" by Losee. A chronicling and criticism of the different views of science.
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by ethn 9y ago
Standard size transaction is up to 100KB.
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by ethn 9y ago
All true except that a transaction can have around 400 inputs per standard size transaction. You were assuming a single input. This means Bitcoin-based protocols can handle 8B users per month, which is more payments than the ACH handles per

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