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by fvdessen 8y ago
the universe doesn’t expand into something bigger. It’s like multiplying the set of the real numbers by two, the set doesn’t become bigger and its boundaries do not change.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
Too long to fight against it, or to make Hitler comparisons ?
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by fvdessen 8y ago
When a politician starts to literally call for the end of democracy, freedom of speech, genocide of people, conquest of neighbouring countries, nationalisation of major industries, etc ?
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by fvdessen 8y ago
The concept of 'Godwin Point' seem to have been completely forgotten in the last two years. Gratuitous Hitler comparisons used to mean that the discussion had degenerated into meaninglessness. Now it's in opening paragraph o
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by fvdessen 8y ago
Maybe the state should provide hosting services so that the public can express itself freely without fear of being excluded.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
I remember national TV talking about UFOs, proofs of WMD in Irak, Homosexuality being a disease, conspiracy magazines in every gas station shop, and no easy way to verify anything. I have the impression that the general quality of available
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by fvdessen 8y ago
> just the few who requested conspiracy materials by mail. I remember conspiracy theory / UFO magazines being more widely distributed than regular newspapers. There's even a joke on that in the first Men in Black movie.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
That would be fun for me as the first word on the name field in my passport is my nobility title, which is not supposed to be part of my name; On my national ID it’s in a different field.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
If you measure worker productivity, different workers at the same position will have 2x to 4x productivity differences. If you organise pay or working time based on that measure you will run into huge social issues. Do you think that if Bil
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by fvdessen 8y ago
In most European countries it is actually forbidden to pay people by how much they really produce, or it is highly regulated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work
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by fvdessen 8y ago
Can you expand a bit on why a satellite would need the planet's gravity to keep a spherical shape ?
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by fvdessen 8y ago
Well yes, especially if they fall vertically as the bottom cannonballs would pull the top ones and that would make them fall a lot faster.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
A lot of people did move though. In the last 15 years, the population of Belgium increased by 10% due to migration. Those are incredible numbers.
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> On can't/rarely provide services and choose not to be aware of local customs/traditions. [...] To provide services, one would be incentivized to integrate. It is completely possible to provide services without integratio
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by fvdessen 8y ago
A large part of what makes the first world so productive is its culture and welfare system. When new people come in they need to be trained to understand this culture and system. This training takes work and time and that puts a limit on th
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by fvdessen 8y ago
I really like python's array slices, a[5:] b[2:3], and list comprehensions, [x * 2 for x in array if x > 0]
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by fvdessen 8y ago
They're not families according to the usual definition, and I don't see how two parents could live with their children together as a unit without them being monogamous.
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The common definition of a family, and the one referred to by the article is "a group consisting of two parents and their children living together as a unit."
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by fvdessen 8y ago
> Personally I think re-establishing the importance of family values and monogamy will make our future a lot better off Which is why the declaration of human rights recognises the family as the fundamental unit of society and requires th
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by fvdessen 8y ago
> Personally, I think we'd all be a lot better off if we adopted open and polyamorous relationships in a large way. What you suggest seems to go again the Universal Declaration of Human rights (Article 16.3) which states that: &quo
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by fvdessen 8y ago
Into cold and empty space ?
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They do it simply because it's the most cost effective solution overall.
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Ironically the thick air pollution seems to drastically impair the performance of their surveillance solution.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
The difference is that business partners are completely free to set the terms of their partnership. Whereas in marriage, the terms are fixed by the state. No business partners would enter a deal with equal shares if one brings 1M in assets
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by fvdessen 8y ago
P-Zombies are a logical impossibility; For p-zombies to be indistinguishable, you would need consciousness to have no effect on behaviour, which is clearly contradicted by the discussion we are having.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
Aren't there specific ethnic groups indigenous to Japan, that one might refer to collectively as the 'Japanese' regardless of nationality ?
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by fvdessen 8y ago
They put the narrative people want to read about. Have you seen what's on the clickbaity ads ? That's what people click on ! Most people want garbage.
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Or maybe you substitute her consciousness with your own.
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It is hard to know for dogs since they lack the language necessary to ponder. But if we have an intelligence with the necessary language to ponder, and we see that it doesn't, then I think it is reasonable to assume that it doesn'
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by fvdessen 8y ago
How is the experience of consciousness secondary to behaviour when the concept of consciousness emerged from and influenced our behaviour ? It seems as strange to me to imagine that we could have two identically behaving beings, one with co

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