silent_cal

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   by silent_cal 2y ago

   This has worked pretty well for me on iPhone: 1. Pacific Block app to block images and videos on the web 2. AdBlock Pro 3. Text Font Extension to make all fonts the same on Safari 4. Delete all social media apps 5. Block social media URLs S
2. 32.▲
   by silent_cal 3y ago

   I can't speak for everyone, but I have virtually no trust in it at all.
3. 33.▲
   by silent_cal 3y ago

   I am amazed at the ability of the JS community to consistently make things more and more complicated.
4. 34.▲
   by silent_cal 3y ago

   Girard was a Roman Catholic, not a hippie.
5. 35.▲
   by silent_cal 3y ago

   Am I misinterpreting this, or was your rabbi recommending that you deceive people?
6. 36.▲
   by silent_cal 3y ago

   You can set your priors equally. 100% / number of possible outcomes.
7. 37.▲
   by silent_cal 3y ago

   And yet nobody asks "how did you come up with that .05 significance level?"
8. 38.▲
   by silent_cal 3y ago

   It's funny because there's really no difference between arbitrarily setting priors and arbitrarily selecting a p-value. Both are basically just a line you draw beforehand to see if it gets crossed.
9. 39.▲
   by silent_cal 3y ago

   I agree with you, but putting let's not pretend that neocons are the only ones looting the treasury. There's plenty of Democrats getting fat and happy too.
10. 40.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Give me a break. Try telling everyone you voted for Trump and see where that gets you.
11. 41.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Might as well put porn on TV and billboards and tell parents to cover their kids eyes and change the channel. It's about time government did something useful for once.
12. 42.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Especially when everything's on 2 week sprint cycles, and all of those new features are rushed. We can refactor later!
13. 43.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    I don't think there's a causal connection there. I didn't take the commenter to be suggesting one.
14. 44.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    This makes me happy as a Catholic.
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    by silent_cal 3y ago

    I think this is just propaganda that you've accepted. You think it's bad if things get cheaper? And you think people would just sit there while their employer decreases their wages every year? Not going to happen. Also, we already
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    by silent_cal 3y ago

    This isn't true historically. In ancient times, a day's labor was the unit of currency. A "talent" in the Bible, for example, is a unit of metal representative of a day's wages.
17. 47.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Let me know when you find out
18. 48.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Probably that somebody killed him
19. 49.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Love this book.
20. 50.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Good answer. Inflation is just a euphemism for stealing from working people.
21. 51.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Thank you
22. 52.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    I'm not about to comb through threads on Hacker News and synthesize a theory from comments by people who may or may not know what they're talking about. But thanks.
23. 53.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Can someone please present the argument for why gravity is not a force? This makes no sense to me.
24. 54.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    This is my first time hearing this. I don't study physics much but this doesn't sound right at all. You're telling me if I drop something there is no force pulling it down? That makes no sense.
25. 55.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    I think there's a big opportunity to re-write Regex as a SQL-type language. It's too bad I don't feel like trying.
26. 56.▲
    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Yes that's true, I was moreso trying to make a point about how much the cost of living has changed in general.
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    by silent_cal 3y ago

    I'm going to be a downer but this is honestly how I see the situation. Most jobs that can reliably support you nowadays are very boring, but you are more or less stuck with them because it's simply becoming too expensive to live o
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    by silent_cal 3y ago

    Yes that is the key contention. I don't think that our minds are material, because if they were then we couldn't handle any immaterial concepts. Although obviously our brains are involved in the operation of the mind, they cannot
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    by silent_cal 3y ago

    They cannot handle immaterial concepts such as goodness, truth, justice, etc. because such concepts are not reducible to material components. They cannot abstract at all, because to abstract something is to consider it in a universal way, l
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    by silent_cal 3y ago

    There's a difference between a term being imprecise and being equivocal. Yeah, we use the term "think" in different ways. But it primarily refers to the operations unique to the human intellect with which we're all famil