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by nendroid 6y ago
All mutations are accidental. Whether a macro feature on a biological lifeform is accidental feature or a feature driven through generations of natural selection can be judged through the complexity of the outcome. Complexity arises from ra
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by nendroid 6y ago
>You seem to imply that knowledge of human experience-centric matters (morality, religion, perception, language, social sciences, the list goes on) is lesser than knowledge centered around the nature (obviously excluding the human experi
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by nendroid 6y ago
>Correct me if I’m reading you wrongly, but It seems to me when you say high level you’re offering philosophy up as an umbrella where all things that fall beneath it are then equivocated. No we mean the same thing. Though I do not agree
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by nendroid 6y ago
There is evidence. Physical evidence in fact. You can find people with mental conditions that involve a complete lack of morality. If you scan these people with an MRI you actually find actual correlated differences in their brain. The term
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by nendroid 6y ago
>All moral systems may be arbitrary (a perspective that by the way is a part of philosophy), but some are useful, perhaps even necessary, for the well-functioning of society. Discussing how to make, extend, and enforce these moral system
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by nendroid 6y ago
>On the contrary if you take a critical thinking course, you'll see that your logic does apply to the human experience Of course it does. I didn't say otherwise. All things we talk about are technically experienced through huma
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by nendroid 6y ago
>The frontier of ethics is to consider a more generalized ethical framework that can encompass other forms of intelligence. You cannot derive morality from pure logic. Good and evil has nothing to do with a truth table. In addition there
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by nendroid 6y ago
Religion and morality is part of philosophy as well. Does this mean it is impossible to separate Morality and Mathematics? What is the mathematical formula for good and evil? >Philosophy is not intended to be a high level view but a low
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by nendroid 6y ago
Well of course you can get really abstract, but let's keep the topic on things that we know about to the best of our knowledge. As far as we're aware science and logic applies to things outside of our own experience. This is a sem
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by nendroid 6y ago
You can tweet racist stuff and still be president of the United States. The law protects him from the emotions of the masses. This law does not extend over to your employment at a commercial company. The reason why people lose their jobs fo
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by nendroid 6y ago
You say this, but most prison time is done for extreme crime that everyone agrees with. In addition this, prison time is usually reserved for not just crimes we agree with but crimes we all agree are extreme. Case in point for this specific
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by nendroid 6y ago
>Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. I largely agree with this perspective on philosophy. Philosophy poses as a s
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by nendroid 6y ago
Depends on the stage of the startup. Most CTO's don't do anything except control the overall direction of the company.
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If the aspiration is unrealistic than no, but when two superpowers are toe to toe in power, there of course will be a rivalry for the top spot.
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by nendroid 6y ago
This is horrid. What's going on here is that the targeting is going in both directions. They target the race because of the culture. In general if you live in the big cities but follow the cultural standards you will not be touched reg
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by nendroid 6y ago
The government isn't targeting people by race. It's targeting people by culture and behavior. You either conform to the affluent chinese westernized lifestyle or they will force you Assimilate. Very similar to what happened to muc
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by nendroid 6y ago
>Ultimately, what would such a system be optimized for? You're completely right. The purpose of such a system shall be used to maintain power but that's not the sole purpose of such a system. More than just benefiting the rulin
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by nendroid 6y ago
Try to get a man cave going. Anything goes in the man cave even this outlandish chair.
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by nendroid 6y ago
What's the benefit of coding a visual diagram over drawing it? I was at first thinking of automated verification rules that force your diagram to commute over a set of rules you specify but even drawing tools can specify this. Any peop
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by nendroid 6y ago
Yes, but overall static typing is trending again in the sense that more and more static typing is being used... just a little less strict because of the trapdoors as you say.
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by nendroid 6y ago
I get what you're saying but my point still applies. Did we discover the decimal form of representation out of all possible forms of representing fractional quantities or did we create that form? Was the english language discovered out
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by nendroid 6y ago
>I see a lot of comments on HN the last few years that just assume the dynamic vs static debate was settled at some time. It never ended. Static typing merely became trendy because dynamic typing was the trend for many years. Not always.
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by nendroid 6y ago
I wouldn't call windows development inferior. Just different and narrow. For C++ and C# windows has the best IDE for it. For C++ CLion is the next best IDE but it's nowhere near as fast or snappy as windows visual studio IDE. Also
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by nendroid 6y ago
>What we call mathematics actually exists as a single point in a space of an infinite number of sets of axioms and inference rules. No, the word mathematics actually describes this entire space. You can go a level below math down to logi
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by nendroid 6y ago
Sure math itself may be profound. But asking whether math was "created" or "discovered" is a language thing. Put this way. Whether something was "created" of "discovered" are human concepts materializ
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by nendroid 6y ago
Whether math is like an art or whether it is "discovered" is sort of a pointless question to me. To start off, math is simply the art of understanding the consequences and theorems from a set of axioms. Since there are an infinite
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by nendroid 6y ago
The reserve ratio is currently zero percent. https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
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That what they said about Go but the inclusion of a GC made it only popular among python like programmers.
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by nendroid 6y ago
>This test is so poorly done it feels like it must have been done for propaganda or bad PR. I disagree. The test is not poorly done. Such conditions are trivial for a human to recognize. You will not be allowed behind a wheel if you coul
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by nendroid 6y ago
Only the best journalistic sources can be trusted even when it's a live video because the entire thing can be completely fake! I mean who knows, if it's not from a "best" journalistic resource than it could be some rando

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