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by simondw 5y ago
> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted Or maybe you have a different definition of "religious" than I do? But no, it
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by simondw 5y ago
Maybe you should petition the city of Monterey to change its name. And while you're at it, do the same for every other city in the world with a name that has changed slightly over time. By the way, does it bother you at all that "
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by simondw 5y ago
Does your hypothetical Mexican company have an established pattern of naming its products after cities in Mexico? And, in this scenario, is there an actual city in Mexico called "Niu York"?
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by simondw 5y ago
But why stop there? The Spanish name is just a couple of badly spelled Latin words ("montem" + "regem"). And guess what? The Latin words are just some mispronounced Proto-Indo-European words. Clearly Apple should have ca
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by simondw 5y ago
I suppose the point is that's there's little difference, practically speaking, between this situation and being fired 5 minutes into your first day on the job.
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by simondw 5y ago
Everything you say makes logical sense, but I wonder if you're overthinking this? I can't imagine any editor would let you get away with something like "the red big-ball."
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by simondw 5y ago
I'm not sure if you mean "big-ball" as a special object distinct from any "big ball." If not, I would still say "the big red ball, not the big green ball."
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by simondw 5y ago
"John" is another word for bathroom. So is "loo", at least in the variety of English that Ringo speaks.
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by simondw 5y ago
Well, from the perspective of a Ruby programmer, Python is terrible Ruby code. There are different rules and conventions in American crosswords; you might actually learn to enjoy them once you got past your initial "This is different!
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by simondw 6y ago
> there is a single correct pronunciation in their native language But see, that's the point. We're not speaking German when we use a borrowed word in English. It's no longer a purely German word, despite its origins, just
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by simondw 6y ago
But that just pushes it back a level. How does the outside force arrive at its decisions? Whatever it is, it has an effect on a body, so it must be measurable; could we perform something like Libet's experiment on it?
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by simondw 6y ago
> This is obviously about as far from the argument that Nazis want to make as you can imagine Without wading in too far here, I want to point out that picking a slightly different "master race" is no better.
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by simondw 6y ago
> they do not take into consideration that other things also cause autism Fortunately, we have figured out how to tease out the influence of a single variable among many: test vs. control groups. If the sample size is large enough, most
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by simondw 6y ago
Oh. I meant that we can't run this code: if (yourCondition) { crazyImplications() } until we know the truth value of yourCondition.
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by simondw 6y ago
When did I say that?
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by simondw 6y ago
Size, mostly, I guess?
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by simondw 6y ago
> has someone actually just been tortured to death I can't rule out the possibility that there are some qualia associated specifically with the neuronal activity corresponding to your mental simulation, but I can say that the leap t
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by simondw 6y ago
If I said yes, how would you prove me wrong?
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by simondw 6y ago
I think the idea is that the effect on the listener is not purely a function of the objective characteristics of the music, but also depends on historical context and conventions that may change -- or be forgotten -- over time.
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by simondw 6y ago
> Why should Silicon Valley play the roll of unelected police-state. Since when is a corporation deciding not to do business with someone equivalent to throwing them in prison?
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by simondw 6y ago
What about the dude with the zip ties and sidearm? What about the dudes who left IEDs in the building? What about the crowd who beat a police officer to death? No, of course the dude in the viking outfit wasn't going to single-handedly
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by simondw 6y ago
You think Gene Roddenberry is down there?
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by simondw 6y ago
Sure, morally speaking, I completely agree. It might mean the language ends up more awkward and complicated than it had to, though.
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by simondw 6y ago
It would have been nice and simple if Swift had used Smalltalk syntax from the start. It's quite another thing to reject it at first, and then also bolt it on later alongside the non-Smalltalk syntax.
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by simondw 6y ago
> "soul", for lack of a better word A better word isn't all we're lacking. We don't have a clear idea of what that thing is, or whether it even exists. > Clearly you won't be having the experiences of bot
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by simondw 6y ago
> What's actually different between a photon of a given frequency Well, none, of course. But the point is that white paper and a display's #FFFFFF probably won't send the same wavelength or number of photons into your eye.
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by simondw 6y ago
> There are no solutions, just tradeoffs. Don't think there's a perfect tech stack I completely agree with your point, but the absence of a "perfect" solution doesn't mean there isn't a global maximum. I thi
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by simondw 6y ago
Fortunately, that is how it's spelled.
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by simondw 6y ago
How are those related? I don't understand why you think that some people working from home means that others will be less able to, or that those who can WFH don't care about those who can't WFH. Given that some people are not
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by simondw 6y ago
I think the idea is that humans, despite being essentially no more than chemical reactions themselves, have developed the power to cause nuclear reactions (through technology).

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