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mjh2539
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The problem with Galileo is that he did not yet have good enough evidence to assert what he was asserting (even though what he was asserting turned out to be true).
mjh2539
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The point of the Chinese room is to show you that the guy who has memorized the standard responses to various questions in Chinese does not in fact know Chinese. He's mindlessly parroting things.
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·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
All living things have souls. For most Ur-Platonists (which includes nearly all orthodox Christians, Muslims, Jews, and pagan Greek and Roman philosophers/theologians until the Enlightenment), the soul is:

* what makes a thing what it is (it's form/eidos/essence/universal/nature)

* what makes a thing a living thing at all

* what unifies and coheres the many disparate parts of a living thing

The relevant difference between those of us with human natures and those beings who lacked human natures is that our human nature (i.e. our souls) has the power to come to know universals/natures/forms themselves (albeit imperfectly), whereas other beings do not. For a dog, their senses are acquainted with many instances of cats, but they never are able to go from these individual sense impressions to the form/nature/universal of cat, or ficus carica, or what have you.
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·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> An example of a programming language with true Boolean logic is APL, where the logical truth values are the numbers "1" and "0" (which is very handy in expressing conditional operations on arrays), while all the programming languages that use "true" and "false" do not use Boolean logic, despite claiming to do so.

So Bash could be considered the red-headed, left-handed sibling to APL?
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·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
If Malaysia can't obtain 30% of its fuel because of the Hormuz closure, they don't just reduce their consumption of fuel by 30%, but make up for most of the deficit by buying it for a higher price somewhere else. But the fuel they buy to make up for the deficit simply means there's less fuel for other folks buying in that market to purchase, which drives up prices. This process repeats until prices stabilize worldwide, which ultimately results in higher prices for fuel in the UK.
mjh2539
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
When trying to obtain evidence, investigators or regular officers will make frequent recourse to lies and intimidation to get you to admit to things that you may or may not have done. For example, "If you don't tell us where you were that day, CPS will take your kids away" or "Look, if you just admit what you did, we can let you go" or "We've already detained your wife/brother/mother/father and they've fessed up; just yadayada."
mjh2539
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This is the most apt answer I've read thus far.
mjh2539
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Perhaps there is a stronger causal relationship between attractiveness in males and intelligence/academic performance than in women.
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·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> One of the biggest repairability wins: fully modular, individually replaceable Thunderbolt ports.

I think I'm going to cry...happy tears. :')
mjh2539
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Except, as a rule, Jews, Muslims, and some Hindus.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
In Germany, the state intentionally put children in the custody of pedophiles: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-exp...

I have absolutely no faith in German intuitions regarding what is appropriate or inappropriate about the care of children. Ask me again in a century and I will reevaluate my opinion.
mjh2539
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Tidings and good cheer to all.
mjh2539
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I only ever see him on HN. He's smart, kind, and talks about interesting things. Are you sure what you're feeling isn't envy?
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·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The cost of services will only decrease if labor inputs decrease in that particular sector more rapidly than the cost of labor increases (due to increased productivity).
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·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Feel free to leave the West Yorkshire police department a message: https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/form/leave-an-officer-a-...
mjh2539
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Without load balancing, AI datacenters are very swingy (which is bad).
mjh2539
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The skin of cucurbits is usually fairly high in cucurbitacins (usually much higher than the flesh).
mjh2539
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I'm not sure if this helps or hurts your point, but the IQ bump is only for Ashkenazi Jews, and not the Mizrahim, Sephardim, Temanim, Beta Israel, etc. So it's actually more remarkable.
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·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I usually use emacs-nox when running inside of a terminal. Not sure on how it's related exactly to emacs -nw. I do know it's a separate binary, so infer from that what you will.
mjh2539
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
There are dozens of us running it outside of a terminal. Dozens!