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by q-big 4y ago
> Superdeterminism is unscientific as it's utterly untestable. The same objection can be stated for the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretat
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by q-big 4y ago
> Have people actually constructed a concrete example of a theory that's super deterministic in a way that violates the bell inequalities but is complex enough to contain Turing machines driving the tests? I am not aware that such a
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by q-big 4y ago
If you have such an objection, you might be interested in section 4 (in particular section 4.1 and 4.2) of the linked paper Sabine Hossenfelder and Tim Palmer; Rethinking Superdeterminism > https://www.frontiersin.org/art
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by q-big 4y ago
> I do have a small gripe with the above comment, in that Bell's theorem only rules out local hidden variables. Some take the view that Bohmian mechanics is an formulation of quantum theory which employs hidden variables, just ex
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by q-big 4y ago
> There's a quote along the lines of "an intellectual is someone who has discovered something more interesting than sex". There also exists the humorous definition of asexuality as "an asexual person is someone who pr
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by q-big 4y ago
> Was this really a moment to bring awareness to asexual people The purpose was not to bring awareness (I do not care about all this awareness virtue signalling), but to come up with a hypothesis for this observation.
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by q-big 4y ago
> Genuine question: in this case, what is in fact the disorder? To quote from Appendix B of the Jargon file ( http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html ): "Many hackers have noticed that mainstream cul
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by q-big 4y ago
> Reading up on the stuff that's actually coming out of the can, it doesn't look like there are particles that are small enough to actually aerosolize into the air. I have my doubts whether breathing the small fibrous particles
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by q-big 4y ago
> Nobody's reading that article for the technology. I honestly did read it for the technology. P.S. It is very plausible that the number of asexual people is higher among nerds than in a representative sample of the whole population
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I also wondered why the model and the person who applies the spray-on dress on her do not wear some kind of protective mask (like varnishers do for their varnishing work) while the spraying work is being done.
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by q-big 4y ago
> [he] literally said he would no longer discuss the issue because the other parties were "trying to pressure him instead of convince him". Who says that RMS is not telling what the truth is from his perspective ?
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by q-big 4y ago
> Companies aren't the source of truth, but they do represent a floor of acceptable behavior for people working together in a group. To give a counter-example: in my observation, in academia (in particular math and physics departme
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by q-big 4y ago
> Also though the Web has been pretty much redone from the ground up since 02000. Rather: An insane uncontrolled growth of extensions appeared since 2000. The only in my opinion serious attempt to redo the web from ground up that exist
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by q-big 4y ago
archive.ph: https://archive.ph/VDIos
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by q-big 4y ago
> It is if the status quo is worse than the bad decision. This is exactly the point where people's opinions differ.
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by q-big 4y ago
> In-game chat isn’t bound by any requirement to support everything that stupid people can do in real life. Do you seriously claim that "not preventing" already means "supporting"?!
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by q-big 4y ago
> What smurfing refers to here is existing players with high MMR creating a separate fresh account, and tearing through new players (because new accounts, rightfully, get placed in a lower MMR matchmaking pool, along with other new playe
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by q-big 4y ago
> Admin can also be fickle and kick players for whatever reason, This also describes the behaviour of common game providers. The difference is: you can switch to a different server if you are annoyed by this, but cannot get rid of the ga
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by q-big 4y ago
> You can still have that relationship with your publisher, but if you want that in your multiplayer game, you have to go back to a day where people behaved differently on the internet. Those days are gone, and it's not the publishe
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by q-big 4y ago
Come on: also in real life stupid people say stupid things all the time.
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by q-big 4y ago
> It’s the type of behavior that you the good behaving, rule respecting, team player gets penalized for. This rather sounds like badly designed scoring rules.
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by q-big 4y ago
> If this helps censor the people who are interrupting the game to shout racist insults or read their manifestos, that seems like a win for gaming to me. Why not let stupid people shout stupid things ...
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by q-big 4y ago
> Microsoft edge non chromium was fine, but no one used it. So they went chromium based. Are people now using Edge because of this change?
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by q-big 4y ago
This is the official statement of the Raspberry Pi Foundation on this topic: > https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/production-and-supply-chain... Excerpt: "As we’ve said before, the current situation is as much a
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by q-big 4y ago
> and the fear that the bad press will scare away advertisers Why don't such sites have a similar fear that the measures that they consider to apply to appease the press will scare away users/visitors?
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by q-big 4y ago
> How are hackers responsible for mobile phones becoming closed? I think that falls pretty squarely on Apple. Even worse: a huge amount of (former) hackers defended this kind of golden cage because they loved the iPhone and worshipped St
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by q-big 4y ago
> No company wants to be the most lax company in the space Honestly, in my opinion having such a public image can also be a market advantage for such a company. For example in its early days, Reddit attracted a huge initial audience by
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by q-big 4y ago
> that relies on no vendors, or only small vendors that relies on many small vendors and one big vendor
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by q-big 4y ago
> 3. Kids and the Internet. About half the 10 year olds I know (which is more than a few) have phones with no filters on them. Kids running wild. If more things were more easily accessible than the culture around screens and handling tha
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by q-big 4y ago
> Most people don't need to be coincidentally picking up bomb-making information. And because they don't need to , we should censor this kind of information?

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