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> one that every practicing biologist would agree with Where are you getting this from? As far as I'm aware biologists, practicing or not, are not particularly concerned with the s…

It depends on what you're working on. If you're doing real algorithmic work, often the algorithm is a lot more complex than its spec because it needs to be fast. Take sorting a lis…

The article does go into cache coherency which is very much intertwined with multicore parallellism: > The cache coherency protocol is one of the hardest parts of a modern CPU to m…

You are coming to a wrong conclusion due to a misunderstanding of what the separation of powers means. I will first try to illustrate with a thought experiment, after which I belie…

Your statement is wrong in two distinct ways: - Fundamentalists never hijacked the FSF, they founded it: Stallman is about as fundamentalist as possible about free software. - In t…

> most lived at subsistence levels with starvation always at their doorstep Genuine question: is this something we know from evidence, or an assumption? I vaguely recall having rea…

I don't think it was a primary motivation, but at least the slowness of mtl is mentioned as one of the motivations for the existence of the library. https://hackage.haskell.org/pac…

AFAIK the first somewhat widely-known language to do this was Haskell (through libraries). I'm not 100% clear on the entire history, but I think it goes something like: 1. Initiall…

That's not providing material support. It's just speech.

Especially the set example is also just confusing for 7th grade kids (or anyone who doesn't already understand sets, really). It's technically correct to say that you can store the…

I think the primary positive feature of democracy is simply that we have regular peaceful transitions of power. I'm not sure that the fact that the people choose their own leaders …

That would be a crime. Khalil was not charged with any crime. The only conceivable reason to not charge him at this point, is because there is no evidence of him committing a crime…

> The government is not prosecuting for speech, which is what the free speech protections can and should guarantee. This has absolutely started happening, albeit not yet on a large…

It's not undemocratic. The behavior of the parliament reflects the reality that only a tiny minority of the population care at all about this issue. One might be tempted to blame a…

I watched this video years ago and found it interesting. It's a talk by Kevin Buzzard, a pure mathematician who got really interested in theorem proving software, and he explains h…

I'll re-order a bit based on perceived importance. > That's a good point. One thing though is that our actions today can't impact people in the past. So from an ethics point of vie…

> I'm not making up this boundary. This is the scientific definition of an organism. To begin with, you did not volunteer a definition for the term "organism"; you limited yourself…

> I think there's a clear biological difference between an entity receiving nutrition, and 2 entities, each with half of a set of DNA, coming together to make a single entity with …

> One way to define a human is any living entity that is either an adult human, or will/would grow into an adult human as long as no problem has happened or will happen to the enti…

> If we were to survey those biologists, what would they say? Same regarding an infertile person, and cancer. I think scientists have already resolved the questions you're posing. …

That does not resolve your problem, it only shuffles it around. You are defending the case that personhood begins at conception, and your argument supporting this case is "It's a u…

Would you consider a chimera resulting from the fusion of two embryos as two people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)

In this context it seems pretty wild to assume that OP was intentionally deceptive instead of just writing from memory and making a mistake.

Learning primarily through listening and talking only works if you have an enormous amount of high quality data, ie, the situation you're in as a baby when you're surrounded by nat…

I don't think it's simply a stylistic matter: it seems reasonable to assume that text in books tends to have higher information density, and contains longer and more complicated ar…