neokantian

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by neokantian 6y ago
The hard part in the proof for Gödel's first incompleteness theorem is what would later become known as Carnap's diagonal lemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonal_lemma#Proof This proof consists of just
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by neokantian 7y ago
Religious people and atheists cannot possibly get along. That is a well-known fact. Never have. Never will. We look down on godless individuals and we despise them. That is simply a non-negotiable part of our religious beliefs. So, whenever
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by neokantian 7y ago
Well, that is the way it seems to work out. The divorce rate here is very, very low. However, when people move back, they get caught up in the same (high) divorce rate of the place where they are moving to. In my opinion, family breakdown i
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by neokantian 7y ago
> Very lonely, I ended up spending a lot of money going to cafe's to fill a social need. I usually work at the swimming pool of my condo here in SE Asia. I love taking swimming breaks. The other guys here at the pool do pretty much
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by neokantian 7y ago
> Yes, it wasn't legal. Legal or illegal according to the laws in what jurisdiction? As international users, we obviously benefit from decisively reining in any American attempt at extraterritorial expansion. That is why, for exampl
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by neokantian 7y ago
As international users, we have a vested interest in reining in the proclivity of American government departments to engage in extraterritorial expansion. We should wish to see them lose or be made to lose.
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by neokantian 7y ago
According to https://www.kik.com/terms-of-service , they seem to have chosen jurisdiction in Canada: "Kik Interactive Inc. is located in Canada at 420 Weber Street East, Unit I, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 4E7." Accordi
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by neokantian 7y ago
Abstraction, i.e. modelling, means leaving out details. Understanding then becomes knowing what details you can leave out for the given purpose. In this context, it is essential to remark that scientific abstractions, i.e. physical-world, e
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by neokantian 7y ago
A corporation is the prostitute of its controlling government. Similarly, corporate staff are the prostitutes of their corporation. Therefore, why not encourage these corporations to destroy each other?
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by neokantian 7y ago
The edcurve.js project( https://www.npmjs.com/package/ed2curve ) was apparently doing something similar already, but the author disclaimed: "Note that there's currently no proof that this is safe to do."
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by neokantian 7y ago
Apparently, they use psexec to remotely execute programs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psex... "Utilities like Telnet and remote control programs like Symantec's PC Anywhe
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by neokantian 7y ago
It is certainly not the only contradiction in the system. The only question left is: How do you hedge against or even personally profit from the inevitable collapse?
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by neokantian 7y ago
Well, if it is the result of birth rates below the replacement level, the question is: Is it uberhaupt possible to later on bring these birth rates up again? There will still be a need to replace the entire population every 75 years. If the
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by neokantian 7y ago
> Avoid stuff that could cause irreversible reputational harm, or slow down a security clearance ... avoid saying stuff online that you could regret later. Avoid jobs where it matters. A corporate drone cannot say what he wants, neither
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by neokantian 7y ago
They do not mention the real reason why governments are scared to death by systematic DNA testing: it trivially reveals paternity fraud. In the current climate of rampant promiscuity and related deception, it could very well affect the amou
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by neokantian 7y ago
I recently run into this jewel: https://www.gate.io/page/contacts Mail: PO Box 2804, Grand Cayman KY1-1112 , Cayman Island. I don't think anybody involved with the site has ever been to Grand Cayman. Apparently, t
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by neokantian 7y ago
> service providers on the web only have to obey the laws of the country in which they are situated ... What does it mean for an internet site to be situated somewhere? What country is that? For example, http://dreadditevelido
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by neokantian 7y ago
Bash is the love of my life. However, it has serious weaknesses. Its array/table concept is flawed. You cannot do tables containing tables. Secondly, out of the box it cannot load or invoke functions in libraries. Fortunately, ctypes.s
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by neokantian 7y ago
JQuery is an alternative to React or Vue. JQuery is philosophically another approach to solving the same problem. JQuery offers you functions to call without telling you how to write your program. JQuery is a philosophy about respect, and a
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by neokantian 7y ago
I really like JQuery! It is just a library in which you call functions. It does not tell you how to write your code. It is not one of those frankenmonster frameworks that sucks you dry and tells you what to do. I am not going to name what o
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by neokantian 7y ago
I suppose that mentioning Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande is just a ploy to enlist trad-con support for the bill. The real reason is that government power very much depends on controlling the official narrative while making sure that alternativ
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by neokantian 8y ago
I wonder what exactly they will be blocking? $ nslookup http://sci-hub.tw/ Server: 127.0.0.53 Address: 127.0.0.53#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: http://sci-hub.tw/ Address: 36.37.242.94 It is trivial f
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by neokantian 8y ago
https://msgpack.org is absolutely fine. I wasn't criticizing msgpack. You can also serialize the bytes of an array of C structs, if you see what I mean.
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by neokantian 8y ago
> ... if you can store your data structures directly in the database. ABSTRACT. Future users of large data banks must be protected from having to know how the data is organized in the machine (the internal representation). It provides a
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by neokantian 8y ago
The wikipedia page on "message passing" is in total disconnect with existing practice ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing ): "Synchronous message passing occurs between objects that are running
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by neokantian 8y ago
When I first read Bill Gates' quote (1995), "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten", I somehow knew that he was onto something, bu
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by neokantian 8y ago
"Other people must to do this. Other people must do that." Forcing other people is a form of spam, which naturally leads to anti-spam measures. Your form of spam will work until it doesn't anymore. Seriously, I do not care ab
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by neokantian 8y ago
Well, no, the sky is not falling. Some people need a world in which they have exactly one employer, as well as a fixed bi-weekly salary, dropped into their bank account, because that is how they want to live. Good for them! I like to scaven
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by neokantian 8y ago
I am free to make the deals that I want, regardless of what they include or don't include. Why would I need you to protect me from myself? Why do you want to micromanage other people's lives? Is your own life not interesting enoug
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by neokantian 8y ago
If you do not like the sharing economy, then do not participate in it. "Other people should not be doing this, and should not be doing that, ..." is one bridge too far. For heaven's sake, who the hell are you, to tell other p

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