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by tossacct 14y ago
>>>3. Exponential growth is bigger than space Some people think that space is expanding as well. These people think that intra-galactic distances are relatively consistent, but inter-galactic distances are increasing in an acce
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by tossacct 14y ago
Part of the text of your citation is available on google books. It seems like an academic memoir to me - lots of personal accounts, some quotes from period books on cheating, little else. Certainly not scientific. Here's a quote: >&#
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by tossacct 14y ago
Please explain. Note, this is not a comment about the teacher. Nowhere in my comment do I reference the teacher. >>>That's no justification to sabotage a math Q&A site. I assume you mean: [learning a valuable lesson about
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by tossacct 14y ago
stdbrouw, here's your link :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty#Academic_di... The following is for anyone who hasn't heard of wikipedia: Wikipedia is often a good place to begin research. It can often provide a set of wor
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by tossacct 14y ago
OP's point could be that the bot could have "stimulated the american economy" in a way that fed "80 human beings in poor country", as opposed to buying him random things.
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by tossacct 14y ago
I'm not sure that the OP was "outraged at a person's lost productivity". It seems like badv0r may have thought that the project could have potential merit if it focused on something like "feeding 80 human beings in poor country" instead of
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by tossacct 14y ago
It seems like you think that baddox might be trying to make a "point" that is more complicated than what they have written in their posts. baddox>>>All patents, and in fact all forms of intellectual property protection, by defin
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by tossacct 14y ago
That said, I did not entirely agree with them :) I agree that Kickstarter is unlikely to raise 300 million dollars for the next Hobbit trilogy. I disagree that a huge blockbuster will never be crowdfunded. Transformers, Harry Potter, an
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by tossacct 14y ago
Someone who will not be named replied with the following comment, then deleted it. The commenter wasn't wrong, and it wasn't a bad comment. >> Kickstarter ain't gonna raise enough money to fund the next Hobbit trilogy. Sorry but
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by tossacct 14y ago
>>>Altruistic systems don't scale (see communism). Altruistic systems don't necessarily scale. GNU, Linux, and Apache would like to tell you that it absolutely can scale. >>I just can't believe that you think that b
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by tossacct 14y ago
This is not a comment about piracy. >>>I can assure you that vast, vast majority of people you might meet who work in film spend their time thinking about making films, not price fixing. I believe you. The people who create the
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by tossacct 14y ago
My friends and family were effected much more by the satire should be My friends and family were affected much more by the satire There were many effects of the movie - one was to make the watchers cry, the other was to make dinosaurs e
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by tossacct 14y ago
I would be shocked if I was the first person to put this into a flowchart. There are some very reasonable people who claim that it is very rare that anyone ever really "comes up with" anything. One of these people put it into the old test
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by tossacct 14y ago
I think that when speaking about small teams or individuals you are generally correct - it is generally faster to skip step 4, and always branch from step 3 to step 5. But like everything, there are edge cases: sometimes assigning blame ac
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by tossacct 14y ago
You offered two possible attitudes: "nothing is my fault" and "everything is my fault", then stated that the second was a "generally more productive mindset". It doesn't matter, because the most productive mindset is this: step 1 - Here is
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by tossacct 14y ago
Note: This is only tangentially related to our thread. The word "agency" is often used to describe the ability of a human to act as an agent, or the ability of a system to act as an agent. Philosophers like Marx often focus on systems as a
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by tossacct 14y ago
I mostly agree with what you are saying, and I don't feel like it is in conflict with anything that I said in my comment. One point about our trash - is it "simply thrown on a big pile", or is it "strategically centralized so that future p
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by tossacct 14y ago
That's an opinion(so of course it can't be wrong) that I have heard, it is being debated fairly intelligently downthread along with a debate about the fantastic King of the Hill and Office Space. Here is a list of movies that critics and no
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by tossacct 14y ago
Did the people in the show seem happy to you? Did it seem like Bobby, Peggy, Hank, or Dale were satisfied human beings? Boomhauer is the only person that really seemed to accept their role in life without regrets, and that's only because
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by tossacct 14y ago
I appreciate your responses in this thread, I feel I have learned something from them. I want to make sure I am reading you correctly here: >>>as long as the reduction [of Methodological Naturalism] remains provisional, it has
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by tossacct 14y ago
Can you briefly explain or point to something brief that explains the specific things that are significantly harmful or incorrect with relation to Descartes' Discourse on Method? I agree with you that dogmatism is probably a negative thing,
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by tossacct 14y ago
It makes me very happy to hear that there are parts of the world where my anecdotal experiences are not representative of the real statistics. Note, I expressed that among technologically inclined ethivegs there was universal acceptance of
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by tossacct 14y ago
summary: I am hoping for some clarification >>>Can I ask you a favor? If you do truly care about "responsibility" of "improving the world," please stop using exclusively strawman arguments against vegans, a group which adapts th
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by tossacct 14y ago
I am not an ethiveg. I ask literally every ethiveg I meet if they have heard of in vitro meat, because asking them is an incredibly easy thing to do, and if they spread awareness and generate support for the science then the world will be
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by tossacct 14y ago
Some people in western culture choose not to eat animal products or meat, and have historically referred to themselves as vegans or vegetarians, respectively. Some of these people make the choice due to their ethical concerns about the foo
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by tossacct 14y ago
The only value of the article is to briefly mention the existence of "in vitro meat" and the concept of a scientific approach to flavor and taste. The article also includes some namedrops that I don't think are significant, but is otherwis
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by tossacct 14y ago
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