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by vehemenz 4y ago
Doubtful. It's more to do with population density, climate, and concentration of services.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I don't really follow. I interpret "there is" and "something" as quantifications, not predicates. What would be the predicate here? The general notion of existence, at least in natural language, seems to be a shorth
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Yes. One is a statement that describes the world, the other is an ontological claim about what "exists" (whatever that means). What is added by saying the laws of physics "exist"? Note that we already know they are true.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
The laws of physics are true; why do they need to "exist"?
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by vehemenz 4y ago
As a philosopher, I recommend that anyone read up on ontological anti-realism before they get too invested in the answer to questions like these. Carnap and Quine (to say nothing of Kant) wrote extensively about the problems that arise when
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Uncharitable metacomment aside, I can't clarify much more. You said he's a "hack," I'm saying it's relative. If Fukuyama is a hack, then that doesn't leave many public intellectuals left.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
This is demographics in action. Reddit leans heavily under-30 and educated. More importantly, why is a more left-leaning Reddit front page your exemplar? The social, moral, and intellectual decline of the post-Trump Republican Party seems f
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by vehemenz 4y ago
You make it sound like there's a large roster of public intellectuals worth listening to. Why lump him in with the Tucker Carlsons of the world?
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by vehemenz 4y ago
A little slow, but it's working for me.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I imagined, based on the title of this article, that Dilbert had turned into something like the Babylon Bee. (If you don't know, the Babylon Bee is a deeply unfunny attempt at a right-wing Onion.) Instead, I found myself laughing at al
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by vehemenz 4y ago
There's no social capital to be gained by actually having the illness. Pretending you have it garners sympathy, elevates your voice, and ingratiates yourself into a community of like-minded people (most of whom also don't have the
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by vehemenz 4y ago
That would only make sense if these young adults were in a position to self-diagnose. These contagious social phenomena seem to arise most in young adults, especially women, who are heavy users of social media.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I agree if they have serious thinning/balding, but plenty of men have relatively mild thinning that can be treated with only minoxidil.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
There are plenty of applications that read ePubs, PDFs, etc. via TTS, not to mention screen readers. Plus they are more customizable than generating a wav file.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Interestingly, the OED's etymology suggests that "ampersand" is a corruption of "a per se and" instead of "and per se and." 1777 H. L. Thrale Diary Aug.–Sept. in Thraliana (1942) I. 145 The Letter co
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Manuscripts were very large and time-consuming to create. Ligatures save time, space, and materials (paper and ink). Most of these conventions carried over into the printing age and were slowly phased out.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
In many typefaces the "et" in "&" is still completely legible. It's common to see "&c." in older texts instead of "etc."
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by vehemenz 4y ago
There are a few problems with this idea. A forward position is much faster, both in terms of aerodynamics and the muscle groups involved with the pedal stroke. It allows even a relatively unfit cyclist to ride 20mph quite easily, rather tha
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I've gotten more farmer's tan from a single 100km ride than the cyclist in the photo. That second one though... wow!
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I've felt neck fatigue around ~250 miles in a day. My solution is to regularly look down when it's safe to do so (not drafting). One idea I have is a Hololens-like setup, with a camera mounted to the front of the bike to allow the
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M2 MacBook Air vs. the Rest(youtube.com)
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Please note the inverted commas around 'exists' in my comment. They are there for a reason. I can imagine the layman ascribing some mystical quality to ontological anti-realism, but, ironically, the view acts to dispel the mystica
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Or we can reject ontological anti-realism. That is, what "exists" in the first place are linguistic conventions constrained by physics, our understanding, and practicality.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I don't know. Even if this anecdotal narrative has any merit, I'd still take doom-and-gloom over the recent infantile direction of popular music and film. Thankfully there's some decent TV still.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Good point. Either way we wouldn't be any worse off, and we'd have cleaner air to boot.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
A larger vehicle full of passengers is often more efficient than a smaller one. Are we going to regulate minimum passengers per vehicle size? I'm not sure this proposal solves the intended problem in a meaningful way. I'd rather
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by vehemenz 4y ago
The percentage of macOS users who want to play Skyrim and haven't already on a PC or console is probably pretty low. None of these demographics are mutually exclusive. Besides, iOS pulls in more revenue for Apple than does Steam for Va
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I understand the point and have a little bit of sympathy for it, but a similar rant targeted at rampant consumerism or tribalism would be more productive. Our appetites might get in the way of a purer, intellectual life, but at least food
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I think they are still manufacturing TVs, which would be 16:9 anyways.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Presenting religious education as an alternative to mainstream secular education ignores the fact that most of the religious teachings are false. Teaching things that are false is not education. If you want to call it education, then it&#x2

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