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by nzp 13y ago
Seems like a complete waste of time, so you should probably drop it. Unless, for some reason, you formally need the diploma.
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Will the Real sRGB Profile Please Stand Up?(ninedegreesbelow.com)
1 points by nzp 13y ago|0 comments
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by nzp 13y ago
What are you talking about? (serious question)
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by nzp 13y ago
What's depressing and ironic is that these people are anthropologists and yet they are "shocked" and "surprised" by the results. Breaking news: Anthropologists Discover Sexuality in Humans. What did they think woul
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by nzp 13y ago
AMAZING enthusiasm! :)
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by nzp 13y ago
In addition to all convention others have mentioned, I expect a lot of oddities have to do with hacks to make justification and spacing perfectly uniform. The 42-line Bible font was composed of well over 200 unique characters.
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by nzp 13y ago
I am not sure we positively know every single detail there is to know about neurons, but we know an excruciating amount of details. At the level of a single neuron, it's physiology and connections to neighbouring neurons, we know ev
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by nzp 13y ago
> The parent post (for this comment) contains a rant about physicists but has no specific rebuttal of the article. It's not a rant about physicists (I am one, for the record), it's just that this is what I noticed--whenever the
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by nzp 13y ago
Right, I remembered him after I posted. I don't know what to think of that. He obviously knows quantum theory. He can open any undergraduate textbook on neurophysiology and read all about how neurons work. So is he merely crazy, fi
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by nzp 13y ago
I actually catch myself sometimes saying or thinking the tooltip text. :) But what Deutsch writes here is somewhat opposite in approach to the problem of how to be annoying--he's trying make a non-physics research area seem fundamental
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by nzp 13y ago
I can just say that Deutsch is another victim of what being good at theoretical physics tends to do to one's mind. The amount of intellectual hubris and arrogance we can develop is staggering. Sheldon Cooper is not really a parody, i
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by nzp 13y ago
Why thank you, how very Buddhist of you. :) EDIT: ... to assume so much.
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by nzp 13y ago
How? I don't see that in what he says (I see other problems which I mentioned previously). It's not "do not kill under any kind of circumstance, willingly or not, consciously or not". There's a lot of nuance behi
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by nzp 13y ago
But he's not distorting, what he said is actually very much in line with at least Theravada Buddhist view on morality. Here, I've posted this[0] a few hours ago because of this discussion and a comment I made above. Straight fro
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by nzp 13y ago
It's refreshing to come across such an open minded person in discussions on this topic (people generally feel extremely defensive when it comes to meat eating, on all sides of the argument, I'm not sure why this specific topic str
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by nzp 13y ago
I think ESR is an idiot for a lot of reasons, but to be honest you're taking that quote a little out of context. The whole point of that blog post was to show his superior rationality and analytical introspective prowess--despite the
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by nzp 13y ago
There seems to be quite a number of people who embrace the reasoning that it's more ethical to eat animals if one kills them themselves. (I'm not sure if I'm not reading this into what you're writing, if this is not you
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Ask A Monk: Mark Zuckerberg, Vegetarianism and Killing(youtube.com)
1 points by nzp 13y ago|0 comments
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by nzp 13y ago
Yeah, I was kinda hoping people would touch on those questions here. I haven't managed to read the actual paper, but it's just 5 pages longs so I doubt it speaks much about these questions. But a piece discussing these particula
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by nzp 13y ago
You made a well designed front page. The colours are nicely fitting and the logo is great it associated with some kind of food immediately (made me think of spring rolls or something like that)! Just wanted to say that after a day of repe
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Metals in your smartphone have no substitutes(theconversation.com)
6 points by nzp 13y ago|6 comments
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by nzp 13y ago
Do note that I'm making a distinction between Marxism and Marx's theory (in the sense that he was just one, although first, Marxist philosopher/sociologist/economist). So, it may be that USSR was not a test of Marx&#x27
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by nzp 13y ago
For some reason it asks me to login to see the page. Google cache to the rescue: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?biw=1600&bih=78...
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by nzp 13y ago
Absolutely, I agree. No group, every ruling structure benefits from the ignorance of the masses. I was replying under the impression you are arguing against the need for everyone to be properly educated (in the sense of high level of lite
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by nzp 13y ago
As far as I know, PISA tries to test for understanding, not things like memorizing the periodic table. The reading test is specially aimed at this--do these children actually understand the meaning of what they just read. These kinds of s
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by nzp 13y ago
> ... equally be unlikely to do anything outside of what he is technically being paid for. "Technically" being paid for? There is absolutely no reason for anyone to do any commercial work unless being paid for. People are not
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by nzp 13y ago
I never knew about the challenge, now I know, so thanks! Great idea! I was wondering for a few moments what's the point of GitHub here. My first thought for such a thing would be a wiki (I know, I'm so 2000s). But I guess GitHub
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by nzp 13y ago
Yep. When I said it's interesting, I meant in the context of this controversy, it's gender neutral in meaning and it's grammatically female so it satisfies PC rigour from two sides.
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by nzp 13y ago
It's a common situation in a lot of inflected languages--words get suffixed to agree in number, gender, etc. and it's hard to escape "gendering". What I usually do is construct the sentence to say that a person [has do
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by nzp 13y ago
"Reality" was my word, I tried to condense the essence of his argument. That chapter is online[0] and as far as I see, only the "deconstructing" exercises part is missing. I've read it some time ago, so I'm n

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