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For better or worse, disk manufacturers have been using base 10 megabytes and gigabytes for a couple of decades now. Sure, that switch was marketing driven, but criticizing Apple for eventually switching to the same nomenclature universally
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Levitt addressed your argument all the way back in 2005: http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-wh...
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All benchmarks are flawed in one way or another.
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> Based on the foregoing, a falsifiable idea is not a truth, it is merely an idea that has survived falsification so far. You seem to be unaware of the incontrovertible fact of logic that a proposition can be both true and falsifiable
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It should be noted that Feynmann himself believed that science revealed truth, as he said so on numerous occasions. Here's one example: "[The Big Bang] is a much more exciting story to many people than the tales which other people used to m
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Cognitive Psychology is a scientific field. It is different from "Psychology" though, an in fact it repudiates Behavioral Psychology, for instance. Cognitive Psychology is quite distinct from CBT, so criticisms of CBT do not apply to Cognit
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Excellent point. Let me summarize the meat of the debate politely then: Mr Lutus's argument is that scientific theories cannot be truths because they must be falsifiable, which means that they are potentially false and a truth cannot be pot
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Or why don't we just look at what Richard Feynman had to say about science and truth: "[The Big Bang] is a much more exciting story to many people than the tales which other people used to make up, when wondering about the universe we lived
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> If a theory makes a true prediction, then it is not a theory. This is Science 101. That's just laughable nonsense. Theories make true predictions all the time. The theory of gravity predicts that when I drop my pen it will fall, and
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Falsifiable does not mean not true. And even if one does not wish to apply the term "true" to theories, this does not imply that scientists do not seek truth. They most certainly seek theories that make true predictions, and in this manner
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> Where do you get these ideas? Science is not about credentials, it is about evidence. Is it your assertion that science is not at all about scientists? The vast majority of scientists have serious credentials, and, in fact virtually
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> That's because scientists don't have time for philosophical debates about resolved issues. How about I go poll about 20 working scientists tomorrow whether they seek truth or not, and get back to you? You know, real scientists, th
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> I think all your classmates will be shocked and dismayed to hear what you're claiming in their name. You think wrong. In fact, I know for a fact that if I had asserted the sort of stuff that you are asserting in a public space in my
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That notion of truth is a straw man.
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> If there is no such thing as truth in science, that eliminates truth as a goal. And there is no such thing as truth in science. This is nonsense. I graduated from MIT and I and all my classmates would be shocked to learn that scienc
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I ate by myself at Gordon Ramsay's three-Michelin-Star restaurant in London, and got the 7 course tasting menu. It was awesome! I took photographs of everything and detailed notes. The maitre d' kept coming over to chat with me, and I was t
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Also, is it your claim that if it frequently took two weeks for Gmail to deliver some emails, then that would be OK because Gmail is free? After all, even if it took two weeks, you could still send E-mails, receive E-mails, and forward E-
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- and old-school physics professors at Harvard
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> Can you please justify how Gmail, an Email client used by probably millions of users suddenly turns out 'un-drinkable' to the author (and to you)? If I routinely experienced delays of two hours with Gmail, I would find it undrinkabl
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> If someone hands over you a free glass of wine, which they've tried their level best to make it perfect, you just drink it instead of trying to suddenly become a food critic I think this is a bogus argument. If someone hands me a fr
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> "Many years later, when NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M" Very interesting way to look at it. Really? I've always considered it the only way to look at it.
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Please don't lump us in with the Ivy League!
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I have two different male friends who were really very skinny and both were constantly picking up thin women. They just put themselves out there. I am not particularly buff, and I've had about a dozen girlfriends, and have "dated" another t
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For many geeky guys, this turns out to be a self-indulgent view that will virtually guarantee that they'll spend their life alone. I've met plenty of guys who think that they should just be able to find the video-game playing, D&D-, MtG
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I'm a guy and I've gone on a couple dozen dates from online dating sites over the years and met six of my past girlfriends this way. All of these dates came from women who wrote to me. Cultivate interests that appeal to women, write an inte
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I just use the standard release of Chrome. I Googled about the problem several times and all I could find out is that some people experience this issue and others don't, and no cure was known. The problem did not go away via numerous upgrad
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I use Safari because in my experience Chrome is rather buggy on a Mac. Particularly with regard to Spaces. E.g., if I move a Chrome window to a different Space, all of my other Chrome windows will tag along for the ride. It makes using Chro
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I've listened to and attended plenty of talks by Chomsky, and this "review" does not in the slightest represent Chomsky's actual thoughts on anything. This "review" is nothing but a caricature. Furthermore, it is hypocritical; i.e., it is g
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Perhaps for the same reason that the Secret Service raided (and nearly put out of business) Steve Jackson Games in 1990 because the author of their GURPS FRP module called "Cyberpunk" was a known "hacker". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stev
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Federal law overrides State law, just as State law overrides county law, which overrides city or town law. In this case, one would think the Federal government would have more important laws to enforce.

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