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This would be great in voting terminals. Everything seems normal until you try to vote for someone hackers don't like.
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> You're not taking into account the illusory nature of thought ... How ironic. You've just articulated the postmodern position -- that there are no objective truths that can be conveyed from one person to another, that everyth
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> I just don't understand why the author would think this is something worth showing off. There's a large class of people who can be relied on to see this as a noteworthy accomplishment -- students. More experienced hands will
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> Call it what you like. It exists, and it's a problem. Yes, people who don't understand science is a problem. But that doesn't conflate religion and science. Call it whatever you like, but belief is not science. Were this
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> That might be their motto, but that's certainly not their practice. To whom does "they" refer? You're speaking as though scientists define science. That would be like arguing that, because murders are committed, the
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> The Platonic ideal of Science may exist in a realm of pure logic, but scientists and students are human and always subject to biases, preferences, hunches, and gut feelings. Yes, and that's why science exists. If there were no &qu
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> watch out for dogmatic belief in science "Dogmatic belief in science" is an oxymoron. Science is skepticism defined. Science doesn't rely on belief, it relies on evidence. Belief plays no part. In fact, the existence of
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> I would describe them as complimentary parts of a complete explanation. s/complimentary/complementary/ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complementary
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The article is all right. I would have liked to see somewhere a mention of the fact that the transform being described moves between the time and frequency domains, and that the relationship is reciprocal.
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That's true, but unlike atmospheric CO2, atmospheric methane is relatively short-lived. Not to diminish the effect of methane, which while short-lived, is a very potent greenhouse gas. And not to diminish the various feedback effects i
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> Would you say that it's a bad idea to mix a software engineer with a boat on the open sea? Not if one's satellite navigation system fails and one is then required to reduce sextant sights to get across the ocean safely, as ha
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> It's funny how multiple people mentioned topology. But the simple response is that you just went in a loop on a plane, because you don't know how to navigate properly. Yes, plausible explanation, which partly explains how bel
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> What's the goal with arch trees/flat earth theory? It's a very efficient fruitcake detector. It's sort of like a pyramid marketing scheme -- the dumbest people naturally float to the top.
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A quote from the flat-Earthers included in the article: "After watching this video, you will reverse your concept of forests by 360 degrees." At least these people understand their audience's intellectual limitations. For the
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This is another welcome step on our journey between psychology and neuroscience.
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Quote: "No programmers really work 60-80 hours a week, especially in a 5 day span." Wow -- this person doesn't know about hackers (granted that it's a term with multiple definitions). The problem with hackers is not gett
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> Atheism: myth busted :) If we find "friends in the sky," i.e. alien intelligences, that would be as likely to argue against religion as for it. Consider the dilemma posed for Christians by the idea of another planet with anot
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Yes, had I positively asserted the claim about all matter on the basis of some of it. But I won't do that. Rocks might just be rocks. And compared to some hypothetical beings far more advanced than we are, we might be rocks.
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You could submit such finds to one of the aggregators of hosts-file contents, so others could benefit. Just saying.
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One can argue that such contentless articles only reveal to us what we don't know (a "known unknown"). It might be true that we can't know this particular thing, but that's still an open question. But I agree that
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a. You're conscious. b. You're composed of matter. c. Therefore some matter is conscious. d. What's true for some matter might be true for all matter --- or not. That's the "hard problem" of consciousness.
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At the top of the article, memristors[1] are mentioned -- as artificial synapses they play a key part in the process of adding/removing weight (influence) to various pathways between neurons. This isn't strictly speaking a digital
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* sigh * another nightmare site that pops a nearly page-covering advertising overlay that, when dismissed, ignores the fact that the visitor has expressed a choice and continues to auto-play multiple video and audio streams. New rule -- sit
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> Why should someone volunteer to redesign their site. I didn't mean volunteer without pay. You must be aware that, for missions so unpleasant as to be sanity-threatening, the military only accepts volunteers. Same idea.
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Someone should contact this company and volunteer to redesign their website ( https://www.x20.org ). They should also be told that "complimentary" and "complementary" don't mean the same thing. They have a
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"What happens over time if each year I fire all my below average programmers and get better ones?" Easily answered: f(t) = 2^-t t f(t) ---------------- 0.000 1.000 1.000 0.500 2.000
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Two studies connecting violent video games and real-life behavior retracted(qz.com)
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Someone should create an index of sites that aren't s * * t. Then we can watch as the listed sites resist the temptation to sell out, once they actually have visitors resulting from their special status as non-s * * t. Google, are yo
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Most of the comments here contrast python or a faster language. I can't count the number of times I've prototyped a complex algorithm in Python, then, satisfied that the idea was sound, translated it into a faster language for r
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You're missing the point -- it's not an objection to advertising, it's an objection to advertising that cannot possibly work, that alienates consumers. Consumers aren't the only people who must live in reality -- adverti

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