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by vacuity 3y ago
Prove is a very strong word. Science is empirical, an endless journey of testing hypotheses, gathering data, forming theories, and examining gaps in understanding. We do have more or less incontrovertible evidence for the Earth revolving
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by vacuity 3y ago
While that's an impressive article, it seems to only prove, if it indeed proves anything, that science can't disprove the existence of God. It must be said that nothing can prove or disprove the existence of God, so the fact that
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by vacuity 3y ago
You're certainly correct that everyone has beliefs beyond rationality. The notion of "live and let live" is less reasonable when it involves controversial topics such as how induced abortions or rapes are treated. A multitude
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by vacuity 3y ago
In the US: Pizzagate? Jan 6 Capitol riot? I'm not sure the whole "go with your gut, bro" thing is working out. Tribalism, confirmation bias, fundamental attribution error, etc. are real obstacles to understanding each other a
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by vacuity 3y ago
Tell that to the "little unscientific followers of science". They really need to hear it.
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by vacuity 3y ago
I'll subvert this and say that any religion and atheism aren't rational. Ignoring the case of supernatural compulsion, a given person has ingrained beliefs/values, as well as a personality, that drive what they accept and don
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by vacuity 3y ago
> Space and time is quantized at the planck scale, which strongly suggests that our known universe is a simulation. I don't get the reasoning for this part. It seems analogous to, but even more absurd than looking at abstract art an
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by vacuity 3y ago
Even if this does point to some higher being or reality, it isn't necessarily any conception of God. Also, true randomness in fluctuations in quantum fields could refute 2, no? Also, trying to extend the notion of time to some point at
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by vacuity 3y ago
I try to use people's names directly but sometimes I forget and sometimes it just reads weirdly. On HN I'd use "parent", "grandparent", etc. anyways because it's a fun little quirk here. I don't like
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by vacuity 3y ago
> For me, the lack of free will follows from my study of physics, which seems to allow no room for free will. We don't understand enough about thinking/consciousness to reduce them entirely to physics (the literal brain). >
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by vacuity 3y ago
Fantastic work! This makes for a great resource to dive into OS dev. There's a lot of detail but it's easy to digest. I suggest slightly revising the end of note #2 for chapter 2 to reflect that some async paradigms in programming
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by vacuity 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by vacuity 3y ago
Is "sleazy pedophile hiding behind the teachers union" a significant occurrence that warrants paying teachers poorly? If that is even a stated reason for low pay, it seems more like fearmongering. Pay teachers well and punish the
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by vacuity 3y ago
That's fair, but that means it's all the more dangerous to blindly accept things as facts. The field is important too; the more objectively data can be gathered and analyzed, the more trustworthy the research is. There are always
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by vacuity 3y ago
> 2. POSIX compatibility layer. Even embedded OSes without the concept of threads or processes can implement POSIX. Do you have resources about this? I can't quite fathom how it would work, but then again I have no expertise. > 3
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by vacuity 3y ago
Too late now. Profits are more important. Maybe the people who benefit don't even understand where you're coming from because they're so greedy. Doesn't excuse them for it, though.
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by vacuity 3y ago
> just pointing out that things are pretty fucking good all considered. That might be true, but we can do a lot better in terms of eliminating poverty. > I’m not in favor of a wealth tax though I frankly still don’t see any evidence t
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by vacuity 3y ago
Monero is the one cryptocurrency I will endorse for having a genuine focus on private transactions. For people living under authoritarian regimes, oppressive families, or just whoever wants privacy. My only misgiving is the energy usage.
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by vacuity 3y ago
While it's a thought-provoking short story, it's somewhat orthogonal to this article.
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by vacuity 3y ago
By that model I wouldn't be able to say anything about the Holocaust (extreme example, I know) or its implications.
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by vacuity 3y ago
I think that people tend to mix emotion and reason too readily. To an extent we are governed by our emotions, but we shouldn't let them consume us. Negativity bias is definitely detrimental but so is positivity bias. That's differ
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by vacuity 3y ago
I think this gap in understanding is more of an underlying psychological phenomenon, that those people struggle to grasp the concept you're describing because they just don't get it. Like how people learn, say, math differently. I
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by vacuity 3y ago
Half-joke: HN scrapes first few text lines in HTML (in case the very first one isn't the title) and one of them has to be used as the title.
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by vacuity 3y ago
I'm not sure if parent is correct about adding lifetime syntax. To my understanding, the new trait solver will fix bugs and make features more consistent ("why can I put a trait bound here but not there?"). People have mentio
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by vacuity 3y ago
What baffles me is that so many people argue solely about affirmative action, as if it's the only possible maybe-solution. I wrote more details here[0], but I think affirmative action can't be effective because it's so narrow
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by vacuity 3y ago
Aside from my thoughts on discrimination in general, which I'm willing to concede isn't a strong argument here, I think describing affirmative action as necessary is naive. Ensuring that disadvantaged groups grow up with quality s
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by vacuity 3y ago
The constraints of performance and whatnot limited the options for Rust's async model. It's not bad given the constraints, but it's not great, and how developers use async Rust vs. Go matters even knowing this.
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by vacuity 3y ago
It was more "it fits best with our needs as a systems language (overloaded term, yada yada) and we should support a robust concurrency model sooner rather than later". The Rust devs were aware of green threads and the like. It is
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by vacuity 3y ago
Ideal for library users but not for library authors...
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by vacuity 3y ago
The lengths that the Rust devs went through to minimize the overhead of async/await is impressive but also horrifying. And unfortunately, async/await certainly isn't a zero-overhead abstraction if you consider ergonomics&#x2F

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