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That's pretty much what Descartes proposed! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactionism_(philosophy_of_... . My favourite argument against this idea is that it would violate the…

Heating up a stove takes considerably more energy than using a microwave. On my microwave, it takes about 96,000 joules (800W x 2') to heat up a plate with leftovers, while doing i…

Why not use a 24 hour clock then? In Europe, 24 hour (digital) clocks going from 00:00 to 23:59 are commonly used. My French friends even use it even when speaking (I admit is kind…

how on earth did he come up with putting the laptop in the fridge?

In my experience most of the time "attackers"/script-kiddies just scan over a range of IPs for port 22, and if it's not open on your computer, they just move on to the next IP. Tha…

I stopped doing Coursera courses because of this.

Indeed. How does using the stack makes windows any less closed? Since you can't even tell to which degree it was modified, I think the answer is "it doesn't at all". And I think th…

As I understand it, the BSD licence (which BTW only some elements of Mac OS X have, as happens with some elements of Windows) allows to redistribute binaries, modified or not, prov…

I think you can "escape" a programming language by sketching in quite the same way you can do it for natural languages, if not more easily. After all, we'll been using Flowcharts a…

I think it's more correct to say that Portuguese is a modern version of ancient Galician (usually known as Galician-Portuguese), just as modern Galician is.

I know many people enjoy screencasts, but they are just not for me. I can't copy-paste code from a video. Searching is orders of magnitude slower than just pressing "Page Up"/"Page…

In fact, its air-cooled engine was so reliable that it remained in production until 2006, and is still widely used for propulsion in dozens of light aircraft designs such as the So…

I guess the problem is there's no such a thing as a person having "a 10% chance of being innocent" Either he is or he is not. He might have certain probability of being declared gu…

I guess HN is not immune to the Eternal September after all

I am no historian, but what I was taught in high school is that "dark ages" are called so because of the little knowledge we have about them compared to the comparatively well docu…

I agree with you, but I think it's safe to say that contemporaries didn't think that Rome had fallen at all. As you say the western emperor felt about 400, but the Eastern lasted t…