myWindoonn

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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Over three millennia ago, humans had the Bronze Age, which included two global markets (copper and tin) and had international trade without any central authority setting the prices.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
You just said it. Scientific fields are not differentiated arbitrarily; they drift apart as their experimental needs diverge. Chemistry and particle physics used to be one field, back before the cost of particle accelerators diverged from t
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Oh, you're not from the USA? So, uh, we have a lot of mass shootings. A common point of discussion is whether we should publically discuss the details of mass shootings, because discussion can easily excuse and glorify the shooters. Th
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Humans lost the war against memes, if there could have been a war, millennia ago. We are now ruled by memes like "language" and "currency" and "justice".
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Sure, and see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) But, uh, any evidence that that's real? We should be careful with Gödel's results here; the Gödelian incompleteness of the human mind is tha
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Weird hill to die on, IMO. Remember when we were younger and there was immense pressure on cable news to stop sharing the details of mass-shooting incidents because it was glorifying the shooters and their violent means? What Reddit is doin
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Well, most of the claims and structures of that period have been discredited. We do talk about them a little, but mostly in the same way as the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers: They were wrong, and it's interesting to examine how they
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
On one hand, I agree with you. I've had no problem studying philosophy just with what's free on the Internet, and haven't bought philosophy books since high school. On the other hand, you should not be in charge of hiring any
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Your snark is unhelpful. Here's some things philosophy undergrads should know from category theory: * Size issues. All the problems in set theory are back with a vengeance. Exploring size issues makes it clear that Russell's Parad
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Conway showed that Collatz-like functions are as hard as Halting, by creating a language called FRACTRAN whose programs are Collatz-like functions: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Fractran
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
In Lojban, "zoho" is an alternate spelling of https://vlasisku.lojban.org/zo'o which means "as a joke" or "in a joking manner".
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
As a PNW native antifascist, this reads like FUD. Evans isn't perfect, but you'd have to be completely out to lunch to miss what the Proud Boys are doing in the Portland/Vancouver area.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
The proposed PoS scheme for ETH will run afoul of regulators as soon as a big-enough crime is financed on ETH. I do not need to put effort into destroying those things; they are ticking time bombs. PoS separates participants into pigs and c
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
It's too bad that AGPL wouldn't have been more effective; this seems like a dead end for copyright-based copyleft in France. We'll have to make extra effort to phrase things in terms of contract-based copyleft. Although, does
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I imagine overwhelming miners with legitimate but expensive work. The way to generate this work is relatively sensitive to low-level blockchain parameters. BTC happens to fit the approach, but ETH doesn't. This isn't surprising be
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I think that you're overreacting a little to an imagined strawman. We already teach kids a decategorified set theory in order to give them an understanding of counting. We don't take the next step into category theory, which is
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Arithmetic is just decategorified set theory. The main advantage of teaching arithmetic via set theory is that it allows for building intuitions about counting. It shouldn't be surprising that two sheep plus two sheep is four sheep. We
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I'm working on destroying proof-of-work blockchains. I have a plan for BTC, but I'm not sure how to approach ETH. Advice would be appreciated.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
And yet, you provided none. Curious. (I've been attacked by dogs multiple times, and indeed, they warn before attacking.)
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
u'i xo'o xu la pygy ku jai logji .i pe'i so'i valsi .iku'i na'e logji
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Since nobody had the temerity, I'll answer. If nobody had to justify their existence, then our society would not need systems which destroy people. It's that simple, and the folks using downvotes instead of words should confront
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
You really don't want to try a Wikipedia slap-fight with me. From my original link, at the very top of the page, in the first paragraph: > In mathematical logic, Goodstein's theorem is a statement about the natural numbers, pro
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Proof-theoretic ordinal ε₀ isn't sufficient to prove Goodstein's theorem; the entire point is that PA has ε₀ as proof-theoretic ordinal and yet is not able to prove it. The better point to make in the context of the parent comment
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Goodstein's theorem comes with a function on the natural numbers. Whether we can prove that the function works correctly, and indeed whether we can implement the function, depends on how big we allow infinities to be. https:/&#x2
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I will give you the charity here. I see what you're saying, and this would be an interesting discussion, but the author's chosen framing ruins it. Nike is a poor choice for making this point, because their original business was ma
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
> It wouldn’t shock you to learn that Carlos hated the new Nike ads I texted to him. His exact words were, “I don’t want fucking activism from a sweatshop monopoly.” As somebody who grew up in Oregon, this is precisely it. I don't j
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
You're so close to having empathy for all people! Just keep going: What if nobody had to justify their existence? Edit: Downvoters, try a little harder. Engage your emotional core. Really work those empathy centers. Think about it: I
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
Tone policing is boring. It sounds like you don't have evidence. Stop spreading anti-democratic propaganda; you sound like a cryptofascist.
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
I don't know why people are disagreeing with you. Look how many people are begging for "thoughts and prayers", a totally useless gesture with no medical benefits. Religious cures are an example of alternative nonsense. Ironic
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by myWindoonn 5y ago
The author did not think through their argument very well. Mathematics is non-scientific (science requires maths!) and epistemic, so the existence of people who use science and maths for their epistemology is a counterexample to their ent

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