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by smaddox 11y ago
Next you'll tell me that Descartes didn't prove the existence of Zeus!
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Thanks, looks interesting.
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by smaddox 11y ago
Indeed; more generally, you're assuming people have any idea at all how the device in their hand connects to the internet, or even what the internet really is (it's a series of tubes!). Most people live in a state of ignorant blis
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by smaddox 11y ago
You just sent me on a long detour searching for the book he references: "Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants" by John D Clark For any other people interested, it's out of print, but a PDF is available
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by smaddox 11y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. Exercise is not sufficient to lose weight. A single coke offsets an hour or two of exercise. Anything that focuses on altering diet will ultimately be much more effective.
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by smaddox 11y ago
It seems to me that Aaronson's argument can be easily bypassed by adding non-local hidden variables in the form of a loosely connected network that essentially injects pseudo-randomness into the approximately flat Minkowski spacetime n
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by smaddox 11y ago
This is a fundamental philosophical question. The same question can be asked about more traditional physical models, e.g. what is Einstein's spacetime composed of, and how did his equations of general relativity come to be? Are they re
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That is one set of recommendations, but it's not necessarily the best. Under a ketogenic diet (high-fat, low-carbs), nearly all Carbs should be eliminated---including whole wheat, and fatty meats (red or not) should be consumed to sati