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I know what metaphysics is (and your description isn't accurate--science is a knowledge-producing method that doesn't depend on metaphysics in order to be meaningful), but that has nothing to do with my statement. And it's called "metaphysics" because Andronicus placed that volume after the "physics" volume when he organized Aristotle's writings.

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> It’s not just an analogy or a coincidence that the word “entropy” is a word used in both physics and computer science (information theory).

Shannon asked von Neumann what to call it, and von Neumann said "You should call it entropy, for two reasons: In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage."

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Prove any of this. Or at least provide a cogent argument for it. To me it looks riddled with mistakes, like

> metaphysics is (tautologically) the domain of humans

which is frankly incoherent.

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> Obsessive hacker tools like Emacs are not a productivity enhancer.

This is intellectually dishonest framing. "obsessive hacker tools" is incoherent -- it's not the tool that is obsessive or a hacker. I don't obsessively hack emacs--I barely know elisp--and emacs is very much a productivity enhancer for me. The main benefit of the hackability of emacs for me is that hackers write useful packages for it that I occasionally run across and install.

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Ginger Bill is not AI-friendly so that's absurd.

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No doubt it's frustrating to carefully head off a strawman misreading of your points, and then have someone like sph completely ignore that and attack the strawmen anyway ... but it's well known that people like that exist, else it wouldn't be necessary to head off their strawman attacks in the first place, so don't take it too hard when you actually encounter them.

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When appropriate I use M-S-! or M-S-| to run a shell command in emacs.

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> with appropriate rules, restrictions and discipline

This completely misses the point.

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The pathetic bad faith whining in response is hilarious.

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If pi is normal, which is likely but unproven.

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Your correspondents are arguing in bad faith and out of ignorance.

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I used to work for the first CDN company, Sandpiper Networks Inc. Akamai drank our milkshake.

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> Strong said it was not known when the bacterium entered the water, only that it was present during routine fecal bacteria testing on the discharged water.

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I'm not the liar here -- none of those family pardons are for "white collar crimes", they were to protect them from retribution by Trump.

Again, Trump pardons people for a fee, and the motto of his pardons office is "no MAGA left behind". The fraud that he has pardoned amounts to about $2 billion to date.

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The first is true, the second is a lie. The motto of Trump's pardon office is "No MAGA left behind."

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Trump pardons people for a fee.

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> If any of those people were politically connected, they probably just got a new identity and shoved off to somewhere else in the country.

It's great that you provided evidence of that ... no hypocrite you.

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In the U.S. you get pardoned for a fee. The pardon office's motto is "No MAGA left behind."

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If you actually studied philosophy you would realize that your comment is riddled with fallacies.

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I don't have to guess because I'm smart enough to look things up.

P.S. The response is a ridiculous non sequitur -- I didn't say anything either for or against such terms, just that their meaning can be discerned.

But I would note that all of language requires all readers to be familiar with terms and their meanings. And specifically, if people aren't familiar with the notion of language-independent code then they aren't likely to understand what "internationalization" refers to, and if they are familiar with the topic then they almost certainly know what i18n means ... and the time and effort that it took to learn it is infinitesimal relative to all the other language and meanings that they have acquired.

Further, the whole argument from this person is intellectually dishonest nonsense. They claim that terms like HTTP and NASA are "at the expense of the reader", which is simply false. I and most other readers would far prefer to see these acronyms and initialisms than to have them spelled out every time. (And it would be a disaster if http were spelled out in URLs -- and it would be a disservice to the reader to spell that out.)

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