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All sibling recommendations are excellent. In addition, I offer https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf "Physics, Topology, Logic, & Computation: A Rosetta Stone". It has a fair…

We should teach the bulk of Lawvere theories only once. Students should get to know groups and rings as two flavors of a similar construction, and also be introduced to the mysteri…

From WP: "Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of US civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to critically examine the intersecti…

"White" is meaningless, isn't it? At best it's a judgement about skin pigmentation.

The sequences use terms like "intelligence", "smarter", and "cognition", purely to place themselves in what they conceive to be the scientific genre of philosophy.

A company without investors is a bootstrapped small business. Investors without a company are venture capitalists. Without investors, a company never becomes a startup, never has f…

No. The reason why insulin is expensive is because the USA has a free market for pharmaceuticals and allows manufacturers to set high prices. The reason why there are hundreds of t…

Python and Scheme are the two classic examples of non-declarative functional languages; they are both instructing low-level VMs to mutate machine state, but also both have function…

I wonder why HN doesn't have anything to say about this. The closest we can get is to have a pseudonymous account offer a half-hearted congratulations. Surely HN appreciates effort…

Ah, to be reminded of high school, where one could be not popular simply because they are weird. I think that they've confused functional and declarative?

Yes offense, but shut the fuck up about COVID-19 already. Concern-trolling is unhelpful and you show no signs of scientific nuance.

I wish that philosophers had to take science classes. It is completely unimpressive to announce a theory for consciousness without having experimentally tested it, and Nautilus sho…

Sure. A large amount of expensive art is sold in order to facilitate money laundering, and NFTs are expensive art.

I like this recent history, but it's worth remembering that we invented this sort of statement millennia ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu

As a former editor, I wish I had her gumption.

Theranos was obviously impossible because the amount of blood drawn was too small. Just like with homeopathy, there simply aren't enough atoms to make everything work. Despite the …

Is a scarcity of top-level research doctors the reason why insulin is expensive in the USA but not other rich democracies? Similarly, is a scarcity of luxury mansions the reasons w…

It is only your perception that coops are somehow being held back. Cooperatives have succeeded in every industry. The vast majority of industry requires Free Software, a cooperativ…

I usually pick three specific markets -- food, housing, and healthcare -- and I want to double-check: You believe that we have scarcities of these things? We certainly have artific…

Your comment was the only useful one in this entire discussion. It is shameful that folks here claim to be scientific and yet cannot read a single WP article.

I use https://hckrnews.com/ to browse HN. I can easily see flagged and dead articles.

Folks interested in this line of thought can also check out https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/ and https://old.reddit.com/r/techtakes/

We've had experimental evidence for decades that particles can be forced to make quantum choices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime...

Quantum choice is not pseudo-science; the poorly-researched writer here is you, not the article's author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_contextuality

Sure, except that there's a race to the bottom; genuinely Free Software will always be cheaper than corporate offerings. The author is not asking for people to compete with e.g. Go…