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Thanks for posting this, it was fascinating! I had to implement a hex grid recently, so when I started reading through this page and seeing some of the same things I had thought ab…

I think its fairly common for people to believe both that the US is the greatest, and it isn't what it used to be. There's obviously some tension between those ideas, noted humorou…

Hoogle could help with the searching problem: https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/

What does it mean for something to be 'a higher form of truth'? More valuable, according to some appropriate standard? More useful, according to some appropriate standard?

Even if something is effective at promoting a good cause, it isn't necessarily an unqualified good, even if one takes a utilitarian view of things. I don't disagree with the use of…

I would prefer to live in a world where, as much as possible, rationality guides decisions instead of emotivist social pressure.

At my university everyone in ROTC had full tuition as well as room and board paid for for all 4 years. And they received the stipend on top of that. They did have to commit after t…

Rust uses LLVM, I believe, and LLVM does as good a job optimizing as just about anything else out there.

Didn't know you could just use '!g'. Very cool!

I use duckduckgo mainly, because I like what they are doing. From time to time I will get search results that aren't very relevant. In these cases, I just prepend '!google' to my s…

The reason there is no hope for those in Dante's hell is because they are in death as they were in life. They are not so much being punished as they are simply extending the less t…

Just like to point out that this has been debated much over many, many years, and that this view is not the consensus (there being no consensus). See the following for a good summa…

The author seems to be saying that the main reason physicists should pay attention to philosophers is that philosophy can be useful in the study of physics. I think he could have m…