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by zeroer 10y ago
Exactly. I forgot which exact essay but Paul Graham has a great point about most controversies in philosophy being an argument over imprecise definitions. Exceptionally intelligent, young would-be philosophers see this and thus choose not
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by zeroer 10y ago
In all honesty, I would if it meant not having to smell cigarette smokers' smoke in public places. And the obscene amount of refined sugar in our diets isn't doing us any favors. A couple months sugar-free and everyone's pal
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by zeroer 10y ago
100% agree. Isn't this the same situation with alcohol and tobacco?
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by zeroer 10y ago
If it means anything to you, I enjoy being hyper-critical, and shitting on strangers on the internet has a special place in my heart, but that poem is pretty good. I'd read more if you published it.
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by zeroer 10y ago
I'm not questioning that your lecturer said that, but in any particular case, shouldn't adding scientists and engineers be zero-sum? Must it not help one side and hurt the other?
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by zeroer 10y ago
Do you know where you're posting?
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by zeroer 10y ago
Looks complicated.
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by zeroer 10y ago
> 1/0 less lives on the line It's just 100% fewer lives on the line.
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by zeroer 10y ago
The solution is they should worry less.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Who's downvoting personal responsibility?
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by zeroer 10y ago
Don't the unemployed get vacation? Like, as much as they want? I'm currently unemployed, and it feels very much like a vacation.
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by zeroer 10y ago
And what about personal responsibility? In the calculus of renting vs buying a home you gain flexibility in renting. You can pick up and leave with minimal hassle. The risk you incur by doing so is that housing and rental prices might go
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by zeroer 10y ago
I didn't pass judgement on anybody, but I understand how the question could come off that way. It's more that I just have a suspicion that the asshole brother probably has a very different story to tell. But, we'll never kn
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by zeroer 10y ago
Come on, everyone is a potential racist.
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by zeroer 10y ago
> I can ask my brother for money > we have a trash relationship Do you have a trash relationship because you've asked him for money too many times?
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by zeroer 10y ago
I'm sorry, but you need to spell out clearly what you're saying for some of us.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Gas station hot dogs with mustard is f*%&ing delicious. And the orange chicken probably has MSG, so it's not for me, but most people like it.
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by zeroer 10y ago
> visum Is this supposed to be some kind of faux-Latin plural? I defy you to find an English dictionary that contains this word.
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by zeroer 10y ago
His visa expired the day before he left "the place". That his train would make it across the border in the wee hours of the morning is not legally relevant.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Do you think we're in the mid-2000s?
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by zeroer 10y ago
This is true even without the train.
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by zeroer 10y ago
What of it?
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by zeroer 10y ago
> if users dislike the way Microsoft do it, then they have other alternatives they can easily switch to. All evidence seems to suggest that the French are not big fans of the free market, because that would create winners and losers.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Precisely. Adding 0 to the front of an infinite series is shifting every term by one to the right. It's not clear that shifting terms in series keeps the sum the same. For instance, re-arranging infinitely many terms in conditionall
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by zeroer 10y ago
> Obviously this is pure nonsense. This is begging the question. Why can't 1 + 1 + ... = 0? Also, I wouldn't be so sure that S2 == S1. You can't re-arrange infinitely many terms in an infinite series and still be guarant
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by zeroer 10y ago
This is normally called the integers modulo N, and this is not a useful way to look at this infinite sum. One way to tell is that if you didn't already know the answer, there's no way to get it from the construction.
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by zeroer 10y ago
I thought it was humor, and not a bad attempt at that.