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gowld
·9 uur geleden·discuss
This is how the criminal courts operate (juries).
gowld
·11 uur geleden·discuss
That is "correct" grammar, English as she is spoke.
gowld
·14 uur geleden·discuss
Put your home address in the comments. Problem solved.
gowld
·3 dagen geleden·discuss
Written communication serves separable purposes:

* Replicating speech, Archiving speech, and separating the acts of speaking and listening from each other. There are alternatives to written format.

* Speech that can be edited easily, until it is perfected.

* Speech that be sped up, slowed down, and jumped around with random access and search.

* Silent speech.

These features can be achieved with alternative technologies.

Written communication also has drawbacks. It is a lossy compression of spoken speech.
gowld
·3 dagen geleden·discuss
The train paths are drawn on a 2D layer above the buildings, not at z-index that matches the proper 3-D position. So the paths appear to weave around and over the tops of buildings.
gowld
·3 dagen geleden·discuss
A PhD is a doctor of philosophy. Science is a natural philosophy.

Philosophy is a broad, vague category.
gowld
·3 dagen geleden·discuss
> Search all government auctions in one place, *know what they're worth before you bid*

So the blog post contradicts the entire premise of the site.

This is just an ad for their valuation service.
gowld
·3 dagen geleden·discuss
An option to disable animation and show the paper links in a simple list would be helpful.
gowld
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
It's amazing that business would tolerate paying staff to build products on one person's prototype hobby language.
gowld
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
"wrong" or "random" is not the same as "fiction"

"non-fiction" doesn't mean "correct".
gowld
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
arXiv enables peer review!

arXiv users are the peers doing the review.

"Peer review" has existed for centuries before journals created their own bad for-profit version.
gowld
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
Your comment is not responsive to the comment you replied to, which was a critique of point 19.
gowld
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
Have you tried reading the news?

Perhaps the shoplifters are less iportant to the surveillance state than the people protesting government abuse and getting chased around the country to their workplaces and vacation hotels?
gowld
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
The ads are getting shoved regardless. The content of the ads are based on personalization data.
gowld
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
Google doesn't make money from you "paying a cent". They make money from you paying advertisers who pay Google. So the relevant metric is how much you spent on Google advertisers.
gowld
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
Geometry pictures are absolutely not "rigorous definitions". For 1 thing, pictures of lines aren't finite in extent, and pictures of points are finite in extent.

Some of Euclid's proofs are wrong, because they relied on those non-rigorous picture definitions.

* Book I, Proposition 1 (constructing an equilateral triangle)

* Book I, Proposition 4 (Side-Angle-Side triangle congruence).

* Multiple theorems throughout the Elements rely on the visual "betweenness" of points.
gowld
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
Words are like atoms. We also have sentences (molecules) and paragraphs (structures) and more. Complexity matters.
gowld
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
Please define "conscious".

Please give an example of an interaction with an animal that suggests that the animal is conscious, but not using language.

Challenge round: Please demonstrate that conscious animals are not using internal idiolect (language with 1 user) and lack the physical ability to develop a form of shared communication for that language.
gowld
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
Congress should end the AMA guild's chokehold on linking "Medicare" to medical training at all. It's a complete grift.
gowld
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
How can you tell when you are reading a paper?