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by lisper 2mo ago
Apparently they don't teach you about straw-man arguments. I didn't say philosophy was useless, I said a lot of philosophy is bullshit. That is not the same thing. A lot of physics nowadays is bullshit (like string theory) but
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by lisper 2mo ago
> people who aren't philosophers said some bullshit Wow, I didn't expect to be vindicated quite so definitively when I predicted: "The most likely outcome of that exercise would be for you to invoke the no-true-scotsman fa
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by lisper 2mo ago
Then by all means please do enlighten me: what is that criterion?
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by lisper 2mo ago
How would you expect me to defend it? It's my opinion. I could give you a long list of things in philosophy that I consider BS, but what good would that do? Do you really doubt that I could provide such a list? The most likely outc
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by lisper 2mo ago
Well, yeah, obviously. I didn't say that all philosophy is BS, only that a lot of it is, including a lot of what is included in SEP. But as a source for making the field accessible, SEP is excellent.
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by lisper 2mo ago
There's a lot of BS in most fields. The problem with philosophy is that it has no criterion for separating the wheat from the chaff. All other fields have some kind of external forcing function. In science, its experimental data. I
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by lisper 2mo ago
It doesn’t help that a lot of philosophy is actually bullshit.
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by lisper 2mo ago
Here is what I wrote about it at the time: https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/08/snow-leopard-is-disaster... Consistent with this article's take on the situation 17 years later.
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by lisper 2mo ago
Newer CA homes also tend to do better in fires.
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JetZero(jetzero.aero)
256 points by lisper 2mo ago|268 comments
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by lisper 3mo ago
No, they are not testing these wings in the present, they are planning to test them in the future : "Over the next three years, Airbus will design, build and flight test full scale wing extensions."
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by lisper 3mo ago
AFAICT they don't exist at all today. They are just renderings. So double clickbait. A more accurate title would be, "Airbus announces plans to develop foldable wing extensions, with non-foldable versions as the first step&quot
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by lisper 3mo ago
Making polio great again.
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SF judge OKs lawsuit against United over windowless window seats(sfgate.com)
4 points by lisper 3mo ago|2 comments
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by lisper 3mo ago
I wouldn't think the glass and fire would do them a lot of good either.
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An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein's theory its most precise test yet(arstechnica.com)
3 points by lisper 3mo ago|1 comments
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Qubits can be cloned at will if encrypted with a single-use key(arxiv.org)
3 points by lisper 3mo ago|0 comments
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by lisper 3mo ago
You should take a look at this: https://www.uptoplay.net/wordiest-online-game/com.concretero... Very similar in spirit, but IMHO a lot more enjoyable than your version. It's untimed which takes the pressure off,
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by lisper 3mo ago
Yeah, I actually meant to post this comment in the comap thread. Both comaps and SC were on the home page at the same time.
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by lisper 3mo ago
See also: https://gurumaps.app/
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by lisper 3mo ago
See also: https://gurumaps.app/
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Cirrus Introduces the TRAC10: A Purpose-Built Aircraft for Flight Training(cirrusaircraft.com)
6 points by lisper 3mo ago|1 comments
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by lisper 3mo ago
When the journal in question is called "Studies in Liturgy", yeah, a blog post is better. At least the blog post isn't manifestly biased.
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by lisper 3mo ago
> Look at your source — hardly authoritative! Still better than the source you originally gave, which was non-existent, or the one you've given now, which is Catholic propaganda. It might be true that Christmas was not a direct rip-
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by lisper 3mo ago
No, it isn’t: https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/how-saturnalia-beca...
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by lisper 3mo ago
Hm, hadn't thought of that.
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by lisper 3mo ago
For technical requests, one of the most effective ways to demonstrate that you are serious is to cite something about the person's published work that is relevant to the request. There is no more effective way to get someone's at
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by lisper 3mo ago
You need to search for "Why China can't build jet engines." Just because China hasn't been able to do it doesn't mean it's not possible.
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by lisper 3mo ago
> you can't blame over regulation I absolutely can. If nuclear power had not been over-regulated for 50 years the technology might be much more advanced now than it is. We will never know. It's kind of like pointing to the f
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by lisper 3mo ago
> the modularity of modern reactor design failed to deliver So? Just because one particular approach failed doesn't mean it's impossible. My father was a nuclear engineer so this is something I happen to know something about.

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