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Also unbelievably and unfortunately true. The arrogance of a statement has no bearing on truth. Keep your biases in check and examine the truth behind a statement rather then perce…

I feel UI designers are all imposters pretending that their job is some kind of ultra high value skill set. The UI designer is an important job but to compare it to a still life pa…

I have little respect for "artists" who do UI because the job requires little skill. Sites and exposes like the parent of this entire thread serve to inflate the worth of people wh…

We're in the habit of blaming the police for everything. No. When there is a call for danger assume the worst. Not doing so could mean a life is lost. It is very rare for someone t…

I've hit this as well. There are a number of deep technical falsehoods believed by the industry that are very widespread. These falsehoods are so ingrained that pushing against the…

Automated state tax generation. Historical house appreciation by state or even better, city. Option to account for income from money in sp500.

All cultures have anti poor sentiments as well as empathetic attitudes towards the poor. What is "interesting" here is prejudice attitudes from people like you towards america. Als…

Why is there an implied assumption that only americans think being poor is a moral failure?

As my retort to that common mentioned, he is wrong. That is still random. You are arbitrarily picking an encoding, (English) in this case. Why not a Russian programming language or…

> ketralnis is right that this only terminates if an algorithm exists, so the claim that this terminates is equivalent to the axiom of choice. No my algorithm above will never term…

You ever heard of Carbon based life? Guess where the carbon comes from. It's 100% converted into solid mass.

>Nope, you don't need the axiom of choice to define the sequence of all algorithms. No. I'm saying selecting an algorithm out of the set of all algorithms. I'm not saying defining …

Yes I know that's your point. I'm saying you can't enumerate algorithms without selecting an algorithm. One way of selecting an algorithm is to select a way to encode the algorithm…

Yeah, this clarifies the logic. So because the algo above doesn't terminate it is not a proof. The axiom of choice is an assumption that is neither known to be true or false.

Your own example used the word "alphabetical." So your example is false because it uses a "particular" encoding. Try to select an algorithm out of the set of all algorithms without…

Your assuming all algorithms are defined in terms of English that's how you can order them alphabetically. English is an arbitrary language that comes from human culture. Same with…

This is the weird fuzzy part with math. I can say arbitrary stuff like the set of all sets with positive numbers but when I say the set of all algorithms written in English and C++…

Your attitude is childish, immature and spineless. Someone like you wouldn't have the balls to say that in real life so you take it out anonymously on forums. Either way it's a tec…

So to simplify basically the algorithm I wrote above is bad because it's in spirit equivalent to this: def a(x): return a(x)

Fermis paradox is garbage. He can't make such a statement about probability when the circumstances aren't even known. We don't even know how life forms so how can we even know what…

Yeah I think that's the problem.

Can you iterate through a set without * selection *? I'm confused about this part. It seems to me in order to use an algorithm from the set of all algorithms you need to invoke the…

The algorithm that executes an element from the set of all algorithms one at a time until an algorithm succeeds to select an element from a set will work on any set and itself? a =…

> I think it’s quite narrow minded and unfair to discard their contributions off-hand simply because you feel like 100% of the money you pay for an iPhone should go to the worker t…

The economy is not a fixed pie but it's also not a source of unlimited riches. All production is limited by rate of available energy and/or available extraction of material. It is …