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Yeah, some people only assign value to things in terms of money and economics. I will never understand these people. You are the art.

I have always thought that there are two kinds of programmer, the tinker and the mathematician. The tinker likes to code operating systems and shells, the mathematician likes to co…

Wait so how old is she?

Not really, no.

> Source bias is a real logical fallacy This is irrelevant because we’re not using the source to judge the strength of an argument . Logical fallacies have only to do with the stre…

Can't the same thing be said about literature and music?

And if you can’t see the difference between those things, you’ll probably never know.

> no brainer An excellent epithet for people who depend on AI!

Bad counterexample, c.f. the current obesity epidemic and the popularity of GLP-1s. I get what you're saying, it's just that I think what you're saying is not overlooked, it's simp…

Videos aren’t books, and ereaders aren’t TVs. The book/written word is also a technology that has preferences on how it’s used and transformations that it imposes on its users, and…

I know you know this, but for those reading, these detectors are bullshit.

If being a Luddite means I'm the only one who cares to understand anything, I'll accept the label gladly. You: I think it’s good to understand some things. This guy: If you don’t u…

And you can use a TV to read books, but nobody does. Every technology has ways it can be used, and ways it wants to be used. This one wants to be used in a way that produces outcom…

I think there's a fallacy where someone points out one instance of a larger trend which will, when taken to its logical progression, lead to an undesired effect; and then someone a…

People use the word "determinism" when they really mean something akin to "linearity", i.e. the predictability of a change in input on a change in output. Compilers for example are…

So neutrinos are changing mass and velocity constantly?

Comments are saying the vulns in that thread aren’t very impressive.

Sure, I don't have a problem with unions being restricted from political donations either. Just like corporations can be regulated for monopoly (which by the logic that "corporatio…

The flaw in this reasoning is that corporations are not merely associations of people; they are a special kind of association of people, which can be regulated specially. Hence, I …

I thought that the "corporations are people" meme was the actual rationale for why corpos "should" be allowed to spend money on elections: spending money for political purposes is …

This is making it sound way more complicated than it is. Sibling comment is much better. Thing changes over time -> thing experiences time -> it's not going the speed of light -> i…

> Americans are speaking less and less to one another. The number of spoken words uttered by the average person fell by 28% between 2005 and 2019. Is it just me or does anyone else…

Where do you go if you’re looking to leave the US with family and you only speak English?

I think the number to Iran grew since the $300b number.