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but Neanderthals were short and stupid. I think the Nephilim, given the way they were described as tall "sons of God" who were "heros" and "warriors of renown" were an African peop…

to what extent is this Smalltalk all the way down ? Can I replace the drivers with Smalltalk code ?

- The projections were wrong + some of the projections were correct - The fatality rate is lower than feared + higher in some countries - Other diseases kill people too + like smal…

and often people answer not to help the questioner (and future readers) but to show off the little knowledge they have

there have been immediate shortages for basic sundry goods

He devoted a whole lecture to explaining his belief in free will, going in depth into the philosphical history of the concept and his personal reasons which come across as entirely…

by "sleight of hand" of are implying Conway isn't being honest ? I think he was entirely sincere.

aren't you mixing models of reality here ? You're describing a universe in which there's free will and determinism, somehow combined with many-worlds. It's hard to follow such hype…

and I reply that I just record the "fresh" random roll ahead of time and you look that up. Doesn't make any difference. I think you're confusing random with pseudorandom.

> What is the distinction you're drawing, concretely? There simply isn't one unless you're using some very non-standard definition of randomness. AFAIUI by noting that the dice cou…

maybe in that case you can help me see why Conway et al are wrong in this ? Because I'm only quoting here, and the paper is beyond me.

> That's a distinction without a difference - how would you tell whether the particle is magically looking up its results in the universe's big book of random numbers or deciding f…

Conway distinguishes Free Will from randomness by showing that randomness is just a special case of determinism. The random numbers could have been written down before the big bang…

easy. Imagine twin brothers each with identical wealth and then one of them steals the other one's money. Now one has twice the wealth of the other.

Along with health workers and delivery drivers they're the people society actually depends on

I've completely given up on giving advice and persuading people because it doesn't work and often people do the opposite. People are going to do what they want anyway. Doesn't stop…

are you posing your counter-advice as a question in an attempt to fly it under the radar ?

All of us are in hundreds of people's photos & videos every time we travel through a city and then FB/Apple/Google will recognize us anyway

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/in-open-offices-work...

completely agree. Silence is the only way to code

there will definitely be bacteria living there

err, that's not on the same level to compare

and there you have hit the nail on the head

no that would not be cool. Not at all

yep