synetic

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by synetic 3y ago
Science ought to be unpolitical and we should strive to make it as unpolitical as possible. What we do with the knowledge gained from scientific inquiry of course is political and ought to be political. It is not weird to say the inquiry o
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by synetic 3y ago
A person who believes the bible is the word of god has to decide what they mean by bible. They have to decide on which translation to use, then which version: coptic, catholic, protestant, orthodox - they each differ on what the books of t
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by synetic 3y ago
…the source of the bible doesn't say what you claim it does.. You are being daft. I don’t claim it says this. The Christian experts who made the NIV claim it. I know of no Christian who thinks the Bible (not translations of it) is
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by synetic 3y ago
I don’t care about the Bible. I’m not particular about any versions of it. I picked NIV because its translation was different than the one you liked. I was making a point. I think you must be deliberately missing it. 1. Experts were invo
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by synetic 3y ago
Therein lies the rub. All translations have critics. All of them are wrong in some way according to some expert. Pick the one you like. Pick the translator you like. While you quote a professor who knows much more than me it doesn’t me
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by synetic 3y ago
Does it? The point about "Picking and choosing" seems to be in regard to what to do/follow. How does that translate… My perspective is perhaps clouded by the fact that there are, in my view, two equally morally repugnant ve
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by synetic 3y ago
Here’s the NIV version: If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. H
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by synetic 3y ago
You are absolutely correct. I’ve heard many people quote Leviticus as evidence that homosexuality is wrong but then also think it’s an abhorrent idea that a woman who is a virgin that is raped must marry her rapist.
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by synetic 3y ago
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also I like this phrasing. Thanks for sharing it.
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by synetic 3y ago
I don’t intend to come across as combative. I agree prosperity theology is nonsense from a Bible point of view. However, as I see things, a very large percentage of Christians and Christian churches act in ways contrary to Biblical teachin
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by synetic 3y ago
That’s a good one. Indeed they should. Then we can proceed to the next step and just have only corporations be allowed to vote.
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by synetic 3y ago
Thank you for this. I got a laugh out of it. I particularly liked the 100,000 lines of code line.
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by synetic 3y ago
The article is about the FTC requiring companies to make it easy to cancel. The article specifically stated that Disney and Netflix are in opposition to this. A person wrote a comment stating that they think companies should face legal co
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by synetic 3y ago
The post you responded to was about situations in which companies make it hard to cancel. Clearly the person was expressing frustration that for many companies signing up is easy and canceling is hard. They want this situation to be recti
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by synetic 3y ago
You are correct on the pedantic point of whether or not it is “extortion” under existing laws. Laws can be changed and definitions changed. Or use a different term. The essence of the point is clear. Why nitpick on whether or not “extor
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by synetic 3y ago
Having something this awesome in the U.S. would cut out so many billions of dollars of profit that there is zero chance of it ever being implemented in my lifetime. In the U.S. the purpose of government and regulations are to make it easie
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by synetic 3y ago
I wish the U.S. would just formally legalize politicians taking bribes. Our path toward becoming Ferenginar won’t be complete until we do so.
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by synetic 3y ago
My guiding principle is that it’s best to not let someone take money out of your bank account since putting it back in is a hassle. What happens in this scenario: You use a debit card to purchase something from eBay and what you got isn’t
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by synetic 3y ago
I don’t use debit cards because it’s less secure than using a credit card. If I dispute a charge on a credit card I’m more likely to have a positive outcome than if I use a debit card. With a debit card the money is taken out of your bank
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by synetic 3y ago
If a company behaves badly then I think it’s warranted to bring up their bad behavior whenever that company is the topic of discussion. In the U.S. we mostly have regulatory capture and so people need to fight back or otherwise hold compan
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by synetic 3y ago
My memory is that people wanted to sign up for Google Plus but the real names policy and that it was invite only to begin with killed it. People wanted a reason to leave Facebook. My memory could be wrong though.
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by synetic 3y ago
I think the real issue is that they only had 10 people working on it. I stand by my assertion that Threads is to Twitter what Google Plus was to Facebook. Google Plus showed that people wanted out of Facebook and Google screwed up the imp
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by synetic 3y ago
Right now Threads is to Twitter as Google Plus was to Facebook. I can’t believe they released such a terrible app. I can’t see who I have followed and click on their names to see only the things they posted. Instead I get an endless page
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by synetic 3y ago
For 30 years right wing pundits have decried “liberal press”. I suppose if you say it often enough people believe it. What would be nice are reasons for this belief other than my tribe says it is so.
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They endorse the war in Iraq. They don’t side with Occupy Wall Street. They have some famous conservative columnists. Etc. Is there a left lean to their factual reporting? Is there a left lean to the types of news they report on? Outsi
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by synetic 3y ago
What is the definition of left leaning as it pertains to a newspaper? Is this an impression you have or is there a roughly objective criterion that the NYT meets to called left leaning?
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by synetic 3y ago
I get the complaint. In the old days people would sometimes say “abstract nonsense” when talking about category theory related topics. It’s increasingly an important part of a basic mathematical education at the graduate level. Eventually
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by synetic 3y ago
The difference between China and the U.S. is that it is clear that corporations in China are to serve the government (CCP) and in the U.S. it’s the other way around.
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by synetic 3y ago
This is precisely the reason why narrative storytelling cannot work in VR… This seems like a big claim. Is it possible that someone could come up with a way to make it work? I don’t know anything about this stuff but it seems to me that
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by synetic 3y ago
They do this in the paper. They explain what they do and their conclusions. Any similarly trained expert will understand the proper implications of the paper.

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