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by mablap 10y ago
Usually one would mention that you need to consider the billiard balls as point particles. At least that's how the analogy was given to me.
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by mablap 10y ago
Oh friend, I am not American but we share similar childhood memories. I have traveled much in America and McDonald's/IHOPs/Denny's were a staple breakfast! When I was in Japan, I would often eat breakfast in a hurry by g
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by mablap 10y ago
Gah.... instead of shaking my head in disbelief/disagreement/disappointment/stupefaction once again, I will simply wish you the best of luck in your endeavours and bail out from this impass.
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by mablap 10y ago
I think you can’t accept that there are many concepts that can’t be expressed in any language other than English. I cannot accept such an absurdity, because it is false. I am also a scientist trained in theoretical physics and
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by mablap 10y ago
I am upset in the intellectual sense, not the physical. There is no discussion to be had. You are wrong. If you cannot accept the basic fact that any concept can be translated into any language (efficiency notwithstanding) then fine, just d
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by mablap 10y ago
You're right of course, and this is precisely why preserving languages is important. They are loaded with knowledge, and passing around this knowledge is time consuming, hard, or sometimes unfeasible if not enough speakers still live :
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by mablap 10y ago
I have read what you wrote - that is what upset me. You come up with ridiculous, blatantly false, unfounded claims and don't back them up. I understand it might be annoying to be called out like this, but letting this ignorance pass wi
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by mablap 10y ago
This was also my first reaction. The PGP part might have been audited... but what about the rest of the code? I highly doubt Electron is bullet proof.
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by mablap 10y ago
You can't write a modern scientific paper in classical Greek or Latin You're comparing modern day English with languages that have died more than 1500 years ago. Your arguments are incoherent and suggest a serious la
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by mablap 10y ago
What you're saying makes absolutely no sense. Do you even speak another language than English? Millions of people each year have their graduate education on languages other than English and are doing fine. They do learn English for bro
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by mablap 10y ago
Just because it takes more time does not mean the process is fundamentally different.
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by mablap 10y ago
most higher level scientific concepts can’t be expressed in any language other than English. Out of the total number of human concepts that have ever been communicated, the majority are only available to English speakers.
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by mablap 10y ago
Again, the article has a specific definition of what it means to speak "one language" - it means to renounce all knowledge trapped inside the dead language, cultural and all. Therefore yes, if you both only spoke English (in the a
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by mablap 10y ago
The process you describe is effectively translation. This works with natural languages as well.
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by mablap 10y ago
For one thing, all computers can run any PL with little effort. A counter example to this is that any children can be taught any language. The fact that an adult can't learn new languages as easily speaks more to the architec
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by mablap 10y ago
Noted. However I think the tone I used is different than what is given as an example. I was really asking the question, since depending on the answer, our disagreement would be on a different level.
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by mablap 10y ago
Have you read the article? The condition has to be stronger than simply not teaching it to your children. You have to absolutely and completely remove the worldview, cultural heritage, geographic knowledge etc that comes with it. Thus to ge
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by mablap 10y ago
Well there you have it. The vocabulary teens use varies from city to city. The vocabularies of (France) French and Canadian French are different to an extent, as are those of (England) English and American English. It seems to me completely
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by mablap 10y ago
Erm, Tillich could have chosen a better example: in French you also have isolement and solitude.
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by mablap 10y ago
Are you willing to stop speaking, reading, thinking, writing in English and use Mandarin? And what about the fact that some concepts and words are enunciated more succintly or clearly in different languages? I mean, you have the perfect exa
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by mablap 10y ago
I have always lived surrounded by animals, mostly cats, dogs, hamsters, rabbits etc. People who haven't usually completely underestimate the level of communication and emotional bonding that can happen between two species.
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by mablap 10y ago
Looks good! Can I buy the software and run it locally? I'm extremely interested for a client, but there is no way they will surrender ownership of their content to a third party - and I sadly won't suggest they do. I assume they c
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by mablap 10y ago
The miners have the authority. Nothing forces them to accept a transaction.
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by mablap 10y ago
Users don't have to worry. Here the miners are akin to the banks. They process payments and thus they get to decide if the money is spent or not. For the end user, there is no difference. The fork only happens if over 51% of miners upd
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by mablap 10y ago
Except that the Ethereum Foundation and developers have just issued a patched client that does just that: miners can now choose to prevent the thief from spending his/her coins. So in this sense it's really not so different.
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by mablap 10y ago
In that regard, they're not at all different from the regular banking system. edit: The Ethereum Foundation and devs have issued a new client that enables a soft fork, effectively freezing the DAO. The only difference with the traditio
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by mablap 10y ago
It is quite useful in the following sense: correctly predicting a war at the moment is not really possible. So I agree with you here. What is certain is that the (nationalistic) political class will use this situation to its advantage. Vi
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by mablap 10y ago
Both! I think the population has a right to vote. I just don't think most people are fit to vote on every particular issue. It's en emotional vote and it could have swung one way or the other. Interesting times!
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by mablap 10y ago
Yes, to an extent. 52-48 is quite too close to mean anything other than "the Leave vote won". A lot of voters could have changed their minds either way had the vote been a week ago, tomorrow morning, or in a month.
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by mablap 10y ago
What do you mean? I am not predicting a war, but pointing out its possibility is inherently volatile.

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