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by jychang 4y ago
You need to read up on philosophy. Mostly Hegel’s Dialectics. These two statements are not contradictory and are both simultaneously true. dialectics (used with a sing. verb) A method of argument or exposition that systematically weighs c
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by jychang 4y ago
Do you think human nature is good or bad? And do you think if you every other human being and put them in his position at that time, do you think they would behave better or worse? Be honest with your answer.
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by jychang 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 > Managing CO2 levels was a particular challenge, and a source of controversy regarding the Biosphere 2 project's alleged misrepresentation to the public. [...] The cre
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by jychang 4y ago
Purchases, perhaps. Money transfer, definitely not. Bitcoin is a pretty cheap way to transfer money across international borders. A person probably wouldn't use bitcoin at the grocery store to buy milk, but it works better for sending
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by jychang 5y ago
> Chaitin's theorem That's already mentioned in the original article. > There’s just one drawback to Kolmogorov complexity: It’s incomputable, meaning that there is no program that can calculate the complexity of every possi
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by jychang 5y ago
"Medical care" for psychedelics really just means "strap them down so they don't hurt themselves thinking they turned into an attack helicopter so they jump off a cliff, and feed them water so they're not dehydrated
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by jychang 5y ago
That's like calling "getting a C- in a class so that you pass the class" or "not pissing your own pants" some sort of "theoretically ideal" behavior. Yes, it's "ideal" in the sense that not
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by jychang 5y ago
Lysol doesn't directly interact with the brain's reward mechanisms, undermining rational thought processes (unless there's people out there huffing Lysol that I'm not aware of). A car can kill you and all your children.
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by jychang 5y ago
That's clearly a bad argument. That's equivalent to saying that driving cars or flying planes should be available to everyone, without a driver's licence or pilot's license. Don't strawman what I said. I didn't
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by jychang 5y ago
Well, can you tell me if you got accepted into a college based off the size of the letter you got?
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by jychang 5y ago
YOU might be an adult, but honestly in the past few years, it seems pretty clear that plenty of people who are age 18 or 21 or even age 40 can't seem to act like adults. And I say that as someone who is a proponent of MDMA legalization
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by jychang 5y ago
Looking at the first 10 problems, the only thing that really required memorization for me was trying to remember how to define the foci of a hyperbola and ellipse (questions 3 and 10), which I've long forgotten since high school. Every
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by jychang 5y ago
I was wondering why the name sounded familiar. For a second I thought this was referring to ReactOS, which is something else completely different.
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by jychang 5y ago
That's like a person driving the Model T in 1908 saying "trying to reduce gas efficiency is so silly". Why are people so dumb when it comes to planning for the future? Does it require a 1973 oil crisis to make people concerne
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by jychang 5y ago
You can buy a used SE (2020) for only about $150 and that'll probably be supported for another 4 years. I've spent more than that from shopping at Costco on an empty stomach (rookie mistake).
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by jychang 5y ago
You've put into text format, something which most extroverts already intuitively understand. Communicating with more than one person at a time requires dumbed down slogans and short bits of summarized information. Nuanced long form com
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by jychang 5y ago
Well, digital art already allows you to copy/paste a layer and stuff that traditional art never allowed for. Imagine copy pasting a statue. This is sort of the same thing on steroids. You can copy/remix previous art by feeding the
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by jychang 5y ago
This DEFINITELY doesn't count as Ship of Theseus. All those parts are designed to be replaceable on the Thinkpad. If you really want to talk about Ship of Theseus-ing a Thinkpad, the hardcore guys have literally ripped out the motherbo
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by jychang 5y ago
I mean, you can apply that logic to other IPs like vaccines as well. Imagine if the polio vaccine was never public domain until 95 years after everyone involved in inventing it died. I don't see why being the first to come up with some
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by jychang 5y ago
The bird isn't flapping for 8+ days straight, burning calories. They're soaring with their wings locked, more akin to a glider. With lower energy use, lower food consumption is needed. No animal can actively move their muscles 8+
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by jychang 5y ago
I think that's the market Substack is trying to tap into, although not quite the same obviously.
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by jychang 5y ago
Yes and no. Sex work usually is tied to more Cluster B personality disorders, from my experience. But then, plenty of people I've dated (who hadn't ever done sex work) have the same issues. I'm aware that the demographics tha
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by jychang 5y ago
Oh it was definitely a slippery slope argument, in the form of an analogy. You analogy went as far as saying trash and mail are the same, you are aware of that? Clearly, that is absurd and is using a case of an extreme. Mixing trash and mai
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by jychang 5y ago
https://xorshammer.com/2008/09/04/a-geometrically-natural-un...
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by jychang 5y ago
Have you ever stopped to think about HOW MUCH wider the DOF is when you stop down on a DSLR? Because when it comes to macro, the answer is "usually not enough", even at f/22. And at such small apertures, diffraction becomes a
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by jychang 5y ago
Undecidability is not tied to only self referential definitions, though.
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by jychang 5y ago
Well, if that wasn't the worst slippery slope argument I've seen in a while. That's like me saying "dogs and cats are both mammal pets" and you jump in and say "WELL JELLYFISH IS AN ANIMAL WITH DNA TOO SO OBVIO
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by jychang 5y ago
> and there is no obvious preexisting mental model shared by non-specialists Strong disagree. Looking at the URL bar in Firefox vs Chrome is a great example of how Chrome nailed an "obvious preexisting mental model shared by non-spe
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by jychang 5y ago
It's not a software trick. Just one of the unintended benefits of having a smaller sensor. Full frame sensors have thin depth of field. Small sensors like an iPhone don't have that, so they fake it with portrait mode. But when you
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by jychang 5y ago
How much of that is replaceable though? Most of those are Intel/AMD/etc chips that you can't just drop in another foundry to replace.

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