mjh2539

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by mjh2539 1y ago
Every single laptop I've bought off of ebay (all of which were used) over the past ten years has functioned perfectly and flawlessly. You just pay attention to the number of recent sales the account has had and their overall rating.
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by mjh2539 1y ago
Because it's in the national interest to not let them go bankrupt (because without food you die).
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by mjh2539 1y ago
arbitrary-precision/bignum library
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by mjh2539 1y ago
Buy a kill-a-watt wall wart.
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by mjh2539 1y ago
You didn't read closely enough. He is condemning the notion that evolution explains the origin of all things (as ridiculous as that sounds...it was a kind of ontological darwinism; no reasonable person holds this opinion today).
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by mjh2539 1y ago
Historically, in the West at least, the ability or inability to reason one's way to the existence of God determined whether you needed to rely on faith or not. https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/e
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by mjh2539 1y ago
If you can't observe it, test it, and reproduce it, then it lies outside of the realm of (natural) science and may lie within the realm of mathematics, philosophy, or (gasp) theology. > There is no law of the universe that guarantee
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by mjh2539 1y ago
For the superstitious perhaps, but not for those that have the virtue of religion! https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14339a.htm
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by mjh2539 2y ago
The author made two mistakes: 1. Disclosing the existence of the speed bump they installed. 2. Disclosing that they installed the speed bump. If they had "forgotten" to do at least the first of these things, in all likelihood the
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by mjh2539 2y ago
The trend reverses above $200k (in 2021).
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by mjh2539 2y ago
I have anecdata that shows that plenty of intelligent, highly motivated, affable people with (hard science) PhDs still struggle to obtain employment of the "club" caliber, even after they're in the "club".
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by mjh2539 2y ago
Most people are stupid and incredibly short-sighted, most of the time. If pre-modern serfs and slaves had access to a fairly reliable, inexpensive means of avoiding contraception, none of us would exist and the human race would be caught be
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by mjh2539 2y ago
It would be a headache but it wouldn't be the end of the world. At the end of the day there are other fabrication plants to manufacture microprocessors. And it's not as if China invading Taiwan would suddenly make all of the exist
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by mjh2539 2y ago
This is too simplistic. The ROC has not had any formal military alliance with the United States since 1979. TSMC was not founded until 1987, didn't start producing chips until 1993. It was not even publicly traded until 1994 (and that
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by mjh2539 2y ago
Your life doesn't belong to you. You need to reread the Phaedo.
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by mjh2539 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylisascaris
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by mjh2539 2y ago
Nearly every racoon in North America is a carrier of roundworms. Their eggs are nearly impossible to kill, and if you ingest them, they hatch in your intestines and begin migrating through the rest of your body, resulting in severe and some
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by mjh2539 2y ago
This is mostly a myth. It's impossible to actually keep only the soil underneath one's home a consistent degree of wet. If you water the soil under your house, the water eventually gets sucked out by capillary action to all of the
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by mjh2539 2y ago
Where is here?
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by mjh2539 2y ago
Its primary vector is the asian citrus psyllid. But you're right, once the bacteria is present in the plant tissue it can be transmitted to other healty plants via diseased grafts.
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by mjh2539 2y ago
No created or temporary thing can ever fulfill you in the way you recognize that you are unfulfilled.
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by mjh2539 2y ago
It's not the plants themselves that fix nitrogen but endosymbiotic microorganisms in the soil.
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by mjh2539 2y ago
As a comparison, one habanero (not the crazy ghost/chocolate cultivars, but the plain jane habanero) is 150k Scoville units. Serranos top out at 25k.
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by mjh2539 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_abbey
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by mjh2539 2y ago
Eventually it will get cheap enough to where people can be buried on the (shot at the) moon.
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by mjh2539 2y ago
It was visible as far south as northern San Antonio last night.
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by mjh2539 2y ago
Gorsuch and Thomas want to rein it in. Read the article.
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by mjh2539 2y ago
In Latin American countries (and Spain) the paternal surname goes first, followed by the maternal surname.
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by mjh2539 3y ago
I used it in a graduate course on formal semantics ( https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Semantics+in+Generative+Grammar-... after I graduated I wanted to learn how to program so I googled "lambda calculus programming lang
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by mjh2539 3y ago
The favorite "philosopher" of non-philosophers.

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