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by thwest 14y ago
This essay is pure defensive talisman. People use this hand waving to dismiss models with conclusions they don't like all the time. Yes, every engineering model makes simplifications about the universe, but so does every political policy. T
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Do Americans working or visiting, say, New Zealand have legal immunity from murder prosecution? Were they imposed by an invading army?
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Yes but the all-encompassing rhetoric about regional political stability is just dog whistling about oil price stability [1]. [1] Alan Greenspan
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I don't believe I referenced qualia. The problem of language is an emergent phenomenon just as the utility of language is. I don't believe in subjective essentialism either.
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That is EXACTLY the stance that Chomsky is challenging here. Don't get me wrong, I think the probabilistic view has truth value and is a powerful predictive tool. However, I don't think it captures the phenomenological properties of the act
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I did not reference linguistics literature, but philosophy literature (a distinction worth making because they are approaching the problem at different levels). I've never been good at the 'language problem' elevator speech, but how is it p
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How do you approach Heidegger's or Derrida's arguments that 'language is complicated, something magical must be going on'? Will you allow for no qualitatively different meaning to language than probabilistic associations of sounds with obje
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Anyone tried to find themselves in the publicly available UAV surveillance data? https://www.sdms.afrl.af.mil/index.php?collection=csuav
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Bureaucratically it is easier to fight the most recently approved violation of privacy than an older one. The budgets are less entrenched, and the programs are under higher scrutiny for internal reasons. The EFF would strongly agree that th
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The production of news content -- like aid to the destitute or the military -- might be an obsolete business model but is still an essential social good worth protecting.
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I'm amazed and pleased at your self awareness and honesty in this thread. Thank you. If you could give some thought to the responsibility (and unique opportunity) us normals have to fight oppressive structures from within, I would personall
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For all that is lacking, the features that MSVC does support (lambdas, auto, std::move) are extremely valuable tools. There's no excuse for not implementing variadic templates or template aliases yet, but there's no reason not to jump onto
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intelcc is great, with error messages significantly more clear than gcc or msvc (not as good as clang), and solid performance. But it is more expensive than msvc and I don't believe there is a free version like visual studio express.
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Very few Zynga employees were from Austin, many are from CA/NY.
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You might be interested in this annual compilation http://americanalpineclub.org/p/anam
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If the reddit admins want to shoulder the same burden as the government in regards to free speech, I still believe in community self-policing of reddit by users. The admins won't shut down assholes, but neither shall they shutdown shaming o
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Regarding point 1: You are absolutely misguided. I have no obligation to defend them disgusting things until it is the government that is prosecuting the speech, rather than the community. We have a moral obligation to protect free speech f
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I don't think it is useful to frame this as forums drama (which it certainly is on the surface), but as community self-policing. Yes, /r/politics, /r/atheism and Gawker are pretty similar, featuring shallow identity politics in easily consu
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Another lesson from Fortran is to include arrays as a native type in your language. Intel continues to push their Fortran compiler whenever you shop for their numeric C libraries with some convincing benchmarks. https://speakerdeck.com/u/m
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I imagine that the less concrete requirements on the UX make it more difficult to negotiate design decisions via pull requests. Typically OSS code contributions don't include design changes (e.g moving proven core components from shared sta
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Yes. I switched to Chrome for a while because of performance, and for my use cases, they are back close enough to parity. I would also recommend Aurora, which gets newer features faster, but is much more stable than the nightly binaries.
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If you find yourself in the situation of the calculator-assuming woman, where you feel like you've made a comment that touches on cultural sensitivities, use the moment as a learning experience. Instead of leaving the awkward air, ask them
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What conclusion were you looking for exactly? It was an empirical recounting of events, peppered with an analysis of why the events are so frustrating for the author. Did you expect The Essay That Ends Racism?
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I don't the USA following Japan here. The US is more amenable to immigration and less amenable to providing universal healthcare that can afford a several thousand dollar personal robot.
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Coming from a c and python perspective, I'm amazed that you even can specify which ruby to run it with. Either its a compiled binary, or you call the interpreter with the code object as an argument. What is the design impetus for mixing scr
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Early first.last@gmail accounts had firstlast@gmail reserved for them. Google stopped doing that a few years after launch.
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Are any of these articles criticizing Apple calling for the government to forcibly open the AppStore? No. We are making demands as Apple customers.
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Appeals to some evolution-determined human nature fall flat for me. The greatest thing evolution endowed humans with is conscious reasoning that can overcome our cognitive instincts. You will see even great humans revert to their instincts
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Stifling of political opinions by a media corporation is no less censorship than actions undertaken by a government. You can check the dictionary, there are plenty of non-governmental definitions.
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Which also has nice links to the specs for each feature.

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