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She mentions free will as an illusion. To me this is a purely philosophical question and I prefer Daniel Dennett's take on it. He's saying it has nothing to do with determinism or …

Not great. His predictions for the outcome of the Ukraine/Russia war were way off, and I haven't seen a mea culpa video for that just yet. There's a good debate between him and Ian…

I think you mean they doubled something with some equivalence to money .. what would that be?

Of course not everyone gets the vote. Not everyone gets the worker protections or can be women with equal rights, as you put it. The issue here is not if we should provide these th…

I agree with you, but nudging can be a good thing if it's meritorious. Lincoln, for instance, had to manipulate people to some extent to achieve his goal of emancipation. Similarly…

My understanding is that jdk8 has support from Oracle until 2030.

stable less violent right up until the revolution ..

linux user (kde, cinnamon, etc.). I have been using ctl-f1,ctl-f2, etc to switch between virtual desktops since about 2000. Each virtual desktop is labeled like 'email', 'docs', 'b…

rent did not go down in 2020

depends on what you mean by "detractors of net neutrality" are you talking about the concept or the actual implementation that was in place

implicit here in your thinking is that we actually benefit (more than the cost of enforcing) from the previous net neutrality regime

Or was that just a classic liberal-progressive over reaction?

I have no trouble at all cleaning cast iron skillets as long as I put it under some water while it's still hot and give it a little wipe. Doesn't seem to affect the seasoning eithe…

I want a new version of SSI Strongholds from the 90s. I guess there's no point though .. that genre has sort of evolved to something far better and I'm just nostalgic.