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I see, thanks for your reply. I'm still with physicalism so far, but I see your point. It gave me more room for thought. > You are a feature of the world that is impressed upon me.…

I find your position quite interesting but I feel like it still suffers the same issues I've seen in other "mind-first" arguments (I'm sorry for any ill-defined terms as I'm not a …

> So every restaurant you go to, you head to the back to run a purity test on the political beliefs and “happiness” of the people making your food to make sure they line up exactly…

You mentioned experience, but it's not clear to me if you mean that it's a requirement for "actual understanding." Is this what you're saying? If so, does that mean a male gynecolo…

I had the same experience with Java and its looong lines of AbstractFactoryFactoryBuilders. Tabs + spaces offered the best of both worlds, and enabling whitespace visibility. In th…

This is not about protecting the files you share, it's about spammers abusing the file sharing mechanism to send you notifications. THEY share a file with you in order to trigger a…

I also have been receiving lots of these lately. I don't understand why "blocking everyone that's not in your contact list" is not a feature. This thread below on Google Drive Help…

That's usually the case, but I was pleasantly surprised to read this book on my Kindle. The A5 format is quite readable, if you don't mind some of the tiny font size (I actually li…

You're trying to convert the 3D world as we know it to 2D, but there's no such restriction. There are other constructs in 2D that can be used for the same purposes. Take Game of li…

Or you could just count the number of times their names are mentioned... Except neither approach really represents character importance accurately. Why just go the naive route when…

Welcome to the people who want to participate in serious discussions. You still have threads, and whole subreddits for that matter, with jokes. But before this tag, people who want…

I thought they were talking about dichromatism, I missed the part where they say it fixes anomalous trochromatism only. It makes sense now, thanks.

> But there’s still the concern that wearing a colored filter while taking the D15 test will alter the relative brightness of the chips, providing a context cue that can help subje…

By " swarm of megastructures " and " technology designed to catch energy from the star " I think he's referring to a Dyson Swarm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_s…

> [...] especially because you can't type it anymore without waiting This was my thought when I saw this mapping for the first time, and when I started customizing my vimrc I opted…

He didn't have the right not to make a decision. As a responsible citizen he had the obligation take action and decide how to approach the issue, and he did the best he could as a …

Are you claiming that he could handle all of this by himself? Because unless you're claiming it, you'll have to agree with me that he would have to trust someone at some point. And…

I'm confused about what kind of straight answer you're expecting. Why isn't this considered a straight answer? > Snowden didn't decide which document's to publish - journalists did…

I don't know if the documentary Into Eternity[0] is related to this task force, but it was the first time I was exposed to the idea of preserving information for thousands of years…

The same Wikipedia page on molecules that says they have "two or more atoms held together" also says this in the next paragraph: In the kinetic theory of gases, the term molecule i…

The wiki[1] says that " Recent revelations have called into question the integrity of some of the implementations of basic cryptographic functions and devices used to secure commun…

One thing to keep in mind with HTTP/2 server push is that a server can only send a push in response to a client request. This was the difference that I was not aware of, thanks. So…

I never took the time to try WebSockets, so please forgive me if this question doesn't make sense, but, does HTTP/2 supersedes WebSockets? I'm under the impression that HTTP/2 cove…