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neokantian

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    Comment #23699853

    The hard part in the proof for Gödel's first incompleteness theorem is what would later become known as Carnap's diagonal lemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonal_lemma#Proof …

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    Comment #23548195

    The problem with SSS as an alternative to multi-sig is that the dealer (the person drawing the polynomial to distribute the secret shares) will also know the secret. Hence, this de…

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    Comment #23295779

    > giving U.S. staffers who are approved to work remotely until Jan. 1, 2021 to update the company on where they plan to base themselves What exactly does it mean to "base yourself …

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    The end of progress in software engineering?

    When we compare the performance of two equivalent programs in two different programming languages, we may still be able to test whether the one is faster than the other. That would…

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    Comment #22076064

    Religious people and atheists cannot possibly get along. That is a well-known fact. Never have. Never will. We look down on godless individuals and we despise them. That is simply …

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    Comment #22075886

    Anti-natalist remarks are the hallmark of the godless vermin. I repeat again: I do not take lessons in morality from the godless scum. We simply spit on the unbelievers.

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    Comment #22075506

    > You are basically saying that the main (only?) reason for your wife to stay with you is peer pressure because she would otherwise no longer be welcome in "the community" Not all …

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    Comment #22075362

    Well, that is the way it seems to work out. The divorce rate here is very, very low. However, when people move back, they get caught up in the same (high) divorce rate of the place…

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    Comment #22075327

    > Very lonely, I ended up spending a lot of money going to cafe's to fill a social need. I usually work at the swimming pool of my condo here in SE Asia. I love taking swimming bre…

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    Comment #22074959

    I can impossibly go back to an onsite job. I got married in a Southeast Asian jurisdiction where divorce rape does not exist. Going back onsite would undoubtedly mean dragging wife…

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    Comment #20102304

    > Yes, it wasn't legal. Legal or illegal according to the laws in what jurisdiction? As international users, we obviously benefit from decisively reining in any American attempt at…

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    Comment #20102280

    As international users, we have a vested interest in reining in the proclivity of American government departments to engage in extraterritorial expansion. We should wish to see the…

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    Comment #20101995

    According to https://www.kik.com/terms-of-service , they seem to have chosen jurisdiction in Canada: "Kik Interactive Inc. is located in Canada at 420 Weber Street East, Unit I, Wa…

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    My deep resentment for corporate employment

    As a software engineer, I have always sold a set of software revisions ("commits") that attempt to implement requirements/specifications. It is important to talk about the actual d…

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    Comment #20018583

    Abstraction, i.e. modelling, means leaving out details. Understanding then becomes knowing what details you can leave out for the given purpose. In this context, it is essential to…

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    Comment #20013362

    What we have here is yet another long list of vapid platitudes that attempt to create out of the blue some kind of fake morality. Morality is meant to be system of rules; not a col…

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    Comment #19969266

    A corporation is the prostitute of its controlling government. Similarly, corporate staff are the prostitutes of their corporation. Therefore, why not encourage these corporations …

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    Comment #19952708

    The edcurve.js project( https://www.npmjs.com/package/ed2curve ) was apparently doing something similar already, but the author disclaimed: "Note that there's currently no proof th…

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    Comment #19865947

    Apparently, they use psexec to remotely execute programs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psex... "Utilities like Telnet and remote control programs like Sy…

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    Comment #19809983

    It is certainly not the only contradiction in the system. The only question left is: How do you hedge against or even personally profit from the inevitable collapse?

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    Comment #19809908

    Well, if it is the result of birth rates below the replacement level, the question is: Is it uberhaupt possible to later on bring these birth rates up again? There will still be a …

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    Comment #19793139

    > Avoid stuff that could cause irreversible reputational harm, or slow down a security clearance ... avoid saying stuff online that you could regret later. Avoid jobs where it matt…

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    Comment #19739798

    They do not mention the real reason why governments are scared to death by systematic DNA testing: it trivially reveals paternity fraud. In the current climate of rampant promiscui…

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    Comment #19698167

    I recently run into this jewel: https://www.gate.io/page/contacts Mail: PO Box 2804, Grand Cayman KY1-1112 , Cayman Island. I don't think anybody involved with the site has ever be…

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    Comment #19698145

    > service providers on the web only have to obey the laws of the country in which they are situated ... What does it mean for an internet site to be situated somewhere? What countr…