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>With rationals you can only approximate. Approximate relative to what? All actual measurement is implicitly or explicitly approximate such as L = x meters +/- epsilon. There is no…

This is an interesting development. I think trying to program a computer to be "intelligent" without a valid theory of concepts is a fool's errand.

Unless things change we are going to end up like Cuba keeping old '57 Chevys running into the 80's. From what I've read nobody wants these modern ipads on wheels and used car price…

Yes, this is the same argument used when the Biden admin during covid pressured the media companies to cancel people and news they did not like for "misinformation" instead of call…

I am old enough to remember when the fax machine first became ubiquitous in the 80's and read about how the Soviets were threatened by it. Unauthorized use was a crime and they sta…

So everyone is on the same page on this issue. The First Amendment is the right to anonymous free speech. I doubt they teach it in the govt schools but the Federalist papers, which…

Good point. I don't know how liability works in the Waymo case.

I think the human "driver" of that car will be charged with at least recklessness. Even if you are in a botcar you still have ultimate responsibility for safe operation. From the v…

>Now, to be sure, the end product of science is supposed to be science, not grants or tenure. "To be sure" and "supposed to be" are doing some heavy lifting here. I am not so sure …

FYI, En effet = Indeed. Toutefois = However. I had to translate so I thought I'd share.

> we made the intentional decision to not include email on the dumbphone 2 to stay aligned with our values. we created a communication device with essentials that help guide you of…

So far, so good. I just let Kagi renew after my first year. The nicest thing is getting relevant search links on the first page or two and not pages of SEO links or ads masked as l…

My working hypothesis has always been that Satoshi was a CIA or NSA working group partly to fund black ops. Also, it could be that Bitcoin was a psyop to get people used to digital…

Now do Onedrive.

> And besides, when I make phrases, is it really me who is speaking? How can anyone ever say anything original, personal, unique to him, when by definition language obliges us to d…

>Scientists define the stages of life in biological, societal, and chronological terms—but none of them quite capture what it’s like to grow up. Because unlike the lesser animals, …

As is tradition, HN has downvoted your legit comments to the twilight realm. I agree with everything you say. Onedrive should be flagged as a virus. Why do they get a pass for thin…

Setting aside i, math symbols that stand for irrational numbers can be treated as numbers in theorems or derivations or proofs but one needs to be careful that a symbol such as Pi …

Yes, you can call it "finitist" if you like but that is an error too. Define "exist". Not "most" but all real numbers are similar to Pi, i.e. they are symbols that stand for an inf…

Pi is not a number, it stands for a method (i.e. infinite series) to calculate a number. Conceptually it is the ratio of circumferance to the diameter of a circle which are incomme…

>Infinity invites resistance. Aristotle rejected the existence of the infinite entirely; to him, infinity was simply a limit that could never be reached, not a true mathematical en…

Check out Zorin OS. As Win10 was approaching its event horizon back in Oct I was thinking of jumping to ZOS. It is similar enough to Windows to be usable. I never made the jump and…

Subreddits have dropped off too. I assumed the migration was to discord or tiktok or other plublic squares. Specialized forum content, discussion and community suffered with the Ve…

Interesting post. I noticed that your Optimal: L=2997mm is the same four leading digits as the speed of light 299792458 m/s. I always thought there was a connection between geometr…

I think that now that IPV6 has 2^128 addresses that some of these can be assigned to individuals as a unique ID, maybe at birth like SSN. It could serve as the base of a public key…