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by jf- 8y ago
I think you’re assuming tabula rasa here; that there is no innate human nature, that everything is socially constructed. If there is such a thing as an innate, biologically derived measure of attractiveness, then your point doesn’t really h
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by jf- 8y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Something that is absolute needs an absolute reference frame, in other words. Here you’re saying that the absolute reference frame is what God intends. I’m not sure that there is such an absolute reference frame
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by jf- 8y ago
> If, on the other hand, moral rules and ethics are due to the natures of things then there must be someone who intended things to exist in the manner they are intended to exist. This is not at all clear to me. Can you clarify?
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by jf- 8y ago
Balanced vs. ill health due to old age and dying earlier in your child’s life. I’ll agree that having children somewhat later, circa thirties, is better due to stability than twenties, but pushing into the forties is too much for me.
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by jf- 8y ago
YMMV there. This is assuming that everyone is the same and these are absolutes, they are not. Every trait is a distribution.
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by jf- 8y ago
Have you asked them all? Why do you make this assumption?
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by jf- 8y ago
The pace of change over the last century makes the pace over the last few thousand years look like a crawl. Agriculture was not invented and brought to the point of industrialisation within a single human lifetime. I’d wager that spoken lan
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by jf- 8y ago
They probably shouldn’t though, being an old man when your kids are teenagers isn’t very fair on anyone.
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by jf- 8y ago
That’s more a value system, or maybe an ideology, than a religion. Though I’ll agree the two do more or less occupy the same cognitive space. There is no need for anything mystical to be involved. Today we are experimenting with new phenome
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by jf- 8y ago
I think his view is fairly correct. I also don’t see it as being negative, you’re making your own value judgement equating commitment with positivity. Men do tend to want to have a lot of partners, and many of those who can, do.
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by jf- 8y ago
It’ll last about five minutes. The first issue will see the reviewers and editorial board subject to a hail of condemnation that will threaten or end their careers. Even if the authors are anonymous, everyone identifiable will be attacked f
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by jf- 8y ago
This is how I feel as well. Hype takes on a life of it’s own as it becomes fashionable to repeat other people’s talking points about a technology you know nothing about, have never used and have never critically considered. But that’s sort
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by jf- 8y ago
There is no official cross platform desktop GUI solution for .NET core. There are third party efforts however, take a look at avalonia and eto.forms. Or alternatively think of doing a web app in ASP.NET core. If you don’t need a bells and w
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by jf- 8y ago
CRISPR Cas9 is present in somewhat varying forms across many (all?) bacteria. I don’t have the quote to hand but I know CRISPR from bacteria that rarely or never come into contact with humans (think extremeophiles like deep sea thermal vent
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by jf- 8y ago
Funny you should mention drag drop, it’s now built in as of version 7, just released a few days ago. Look up the CDK for more details. Whenever I’ve needed drag and drop functionality in the past I’ve found it in existing UI components. A f
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by jf- 8y ago
Non-narcissist here, apparently. I do find the premise somewhat troubling. If you’re supremely confident and never doubt yourself, even in situations where you should, you could be described as a narcissist. And if you’re lacking in self-co
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by jf- 8y ago
I can’t say I’ve had that much trouble bringing in third party libraries, nor have I had a need to change how the framework works internally. I think this is the same as with most frameworks, you tend to just use them rather than doing stuf
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by jf- 8y ago
Sure, there are lots of Angular 1 apps still in production, as there will be with most legacy systems. My point is that Angular 1 is no longer the current version, and with the latest version it’s much better to use. I think the main issue
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by jf- 8y ago
Which is all just censorship by the back door. With the possible implied accusation of racism aimed at me. I’ll spare both of us the usual freedom of speech rationales, I assume you’ve heard them before. It seems from your posts that you pe
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by jf- 8y ago
I think the Angular resentment is a little behind the times, the days of Angularjs 1 and the beta versions of Angular 2 are behind us. The new Angular is worth a look, especially if react is now having various extras bolted on ad hoc.
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by jf- 8y ago
Out of curiosity, have you actually tried the latest version of Angular to see if your preference does hold up? It’s come quite a way since the bad old days.
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by jf- 8y ago
Your post is utterly and needlessly condescending. Exactly what prompted you to respond to the other poster like that?
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by jf- 8y ago
Thanks! Honestly I don’t know. However, since basically all the search results I’m getting are for uranium enrichment, I’m guessing gas centrifuges are not in common industrial use for any other purpose. That probably means they aren’t well
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by jf- 8y ago
What a lovely message. Thanks for that.
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by jf- 8y ago
I’m not sure that compressing to a liquid would be necessary. https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Gas_centrifuge , which is describing the uranium enrichment process mentioned by Ichengify, states that the separati
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by jf- 8y ago
Put it through a process to solidify it. You may be able to extract other useful gasses from the air to help with this. If the end result were stable, either put it in landfill or use it as fuel, so it becomes an energy reservoir. Then it’s
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by jf- 8y ago
Here’s my crazy idea: nuclear powered high pressure differential centrifugation. Under centrifugal force fluids separate into bands based on mass. The same principle as oil and water separating under gravity. Use giant centrifuges to spin c
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by jf- 8y ago
Hmm. So you can’t see any differences between a flash drive and cash? If you withdrew your life savings in cash, that cash couldn’t become corrupted, unless by physical damage. Your life savings in cash would also be large enough that you w
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by jf- 8y ago
Would that be a good idea? Do you want your money to be in a state where it can very easily become unrecoverable?
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by jf- 8y ago
That seems more like an argument for a cheap foreign exchange service, of which I believe there are several now.

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