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any intersection with val.town use cases?

allowing functions to treat nil arguments as empty versions of their expected types

i would love to see a version of this for the antikythera

have you written about this anywhere, or hosting any examples?

that's one way to combine three plus signs!

I don't even know what science is anymore.

Most of what I know about Catholicism I learned after becoming Orthodox. I've been seeing more Catholics here, which makes sense, as the history of Western thought is rooted in pos…

Braid (2008)

sorry, I was tempted to draw a connection between the coincidence of dustified steel recorded during a magnetic disturbance and the locations of megalithic sites, but I’m not commi…

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I think debates are interesting because it’s obvious that people are temporarily imprisoning any devastating arguments within their higher sense that something about it is wrong. T…

Maybe a “heresy” is simply that which is valid but not sound. The ecumenical councils were in some ways the means by which they imprisoned and cut away what is valid (according to …

The differences between East and Rome are very substantive in my mind. The Holy Spirit operates in the Church differently (decentralized vs centralized), and they experience God di…

But consider how each sect defines unity and the criterion for uniting to others. In my mind, to simplify: Evangelicals: we must agree to a common *subset* of beliefs Catholics: we…

> mortality is fundamentally ingrained in not just the human condition, but the fabric of our universe church fathers say that creation fell because of the fall of man > Without th…

> "interpretations"... which are different from what the law literally says. We have to remember that the letter and spirit of the law can grow apart over time, and loopholes are o…

The St Nicholas Orthodox church sat at the base of the Twin Towers, because it was there for 100 years and they wouldn't take the money to rebuild it elsewhere. They probably serve…

I was on a break at work reading a lot about 9/11 for some reason. Went back to fix an easy bug where our timestamps were printing wrong dates (milliseconds vs seconds) so I became…

Cool link though, thanks. So the worst historical event of the information age happened right at the billenium.

9/11 happened 1 trillion milliseconds after the unix epoch.

> Trust but verify What does this mean?

vflat is good for this

I know our engineering discipline is in shambles, but there are probably better ways to argue against hype without ourselves using hyperbole.