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You misunderstood my argument. I did not assert the existence or nonexistence of libertarian free will or compatibilist free will. Such assertions were beside the point. I was only…

That argument is unsound. The color of the sky depends on atmospheric gases and suspended particles as causal factors. This shows that atmospheric gases and suspended particles are…

When providing a quotation, use quotation marks.

The article discussed all people in that age group, not just the people that you consider sluggish, vacant, vapid, etc. Please read and comprehend articles before commenting on the…

I agree with the author concerning places with somewhat-level terrain, with short distances between home, work, and grocery stores, with police officers posted around these locatio…

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Articles like these are annoying/depressing. They begin with strawmen, such as "scientists and even fellow philosophers are telling me that I'm a machine or a beast." No, they argu…

I have no objection to the website operator wanting to cater only to people who want serious relationships, but calling flings and hook-ups "smut", with the implication that people…

The headline is misleading. The study did not find a general distrust of the Internet. Rather, it found that certain things on websites inspire distrust, such as pages with too man…

There is no trouble in proving a negative that does not exist for proving a positive. For example, you can prove to your own satisfaction that there are no monkeys on your shoulder…

I visit many unpopular websites, often through search engines, such as to find out little details about video games, techniques for DIY organic lawncare, concepts used in unconvent…

I should have been more careful in choosing my words. I agree that {1,2,3,...} and {2,4,6,...} are both countably infinite and have the cardinality aleph-0. When I said they are no…

There are two mistakes in your reasoning. First, according to your definition of losing, gambling away 99% of your life savings would not count as a loss. A better definition would…

I reject the concept of self-plagiarism because I believe that people are entitled to use their own works as they see fit, provided that they have not transfered ownership or copyr…

The reason is more economical than technological. The most popular languages became popular by holding the strongest appeal for the lowest common denominator (LCD) of coders. For e…

Thanks for the information, batista. It does not surprise me to hear that JSON has gotten popular in Javascript applications and the datastores that interact with them, and likewis…

If a lexical item composed of alphabetical characters consists of one or more morphemes and communicates a meaning which can be comprehended from the context without reference to a…

XML may seem harder than JSON, until you actually try to work with the data. When you need to create an automated system that checks that data has a certain format, XML has support…

I think many people fail to notice that there can be many motivations behind someone's actions. When the motivation is some kind of business interest, for example, it does not make…

I think you lost sight of the big picture when you put the number in terms of miles. The light emitted at the time of the death of Jesus has traveled some 1,978 light-years (that n…