aeneasmackenzie

Wow, this is terrible. Obviously we need increased CPS funding to resolve this :^)

> Is the United States Exceptional?

Fun fact, it is a formal heresy to believe (a historical form of) this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanism_(heresy)

> After his [Erdos] mother's death in 1971 he started taking antidepressants and amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking them for a month. Erdős won the bet, but complained that it impacted his performance: "You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. I'd get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You've set mathematics back a month."

How could we give these to children indeed.

Of course this article is about Ritalin which is not comparable.

Leslie Lamport had an essay about this. Without a spec, even if it's just "Serves the user's homepage", your program is not even wrong.

If you need multiple letter variable names, your function may be too long, or you are using a language that does not let you express yourself.

It sounds like he wants a GUI so you’d just drag and drop.

That’s not why. Better your cheap scammer than your enemy’s anything.

A comment there mentioned “human panspermia” such as Niven’a Protectors, but I’ve also seen “humans evolved independently on every planet in the universe exactly the same.” I hunk this was the justification in Dickson’s Wolfling for example. I really like the absolute lack of concern for this entire list and the mindset behind it that drives a decision like that.

“Condemn us all to death”? COVID has like a 1% fatality rate concentrated entirely in the elderly and the unhealthy (damaged immune system, obese, …) you are overreacting.

40K said it best: “An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded”.

Rather than control theory you can use geometry to reduce the problems with cable driven robots. There are more but I like the Ambidex: https://youtu.be/aLaqMreVj9o

Can you be specific? I anticipate that the people you are thinking of are heretics. I mean specifically that they deviate from dogmas of the church, not any colloquial definition.

I don't know about Shakers, but dragging Catholic religious into this is laughable.

> Breaking away from families of origin and remaking them into families of choice were not incidental for ... Catholic men and women, but should be understood as a deeply political act. The alternative structures of ... monastic family life and the intimacies they created without sex built an explicit, nonnormative sexual culture in a society that rigidly presented heterosexual love and family as the only legitimate and legal option.

Catholic religious will be happy to tell you that "heterosexual love and family" is the only moral option.

This is false. It is true that the church teaches that you can be saved without going through the church, but this does not apply if you are aware of the church. Invincible ignorance does not apply to those who are not ignorant.

What will he get from Permutation City? It's a work of fiction, entirely supposition.

They have moved on from both into shakedown rackets.[0]

0: https://mobile.twitter.com/deangeliscorey/status/12975304053...

A while back I walked into the mall of america to buy my wife a tablet to draw on. This was when the stores were right across from each other. Walk into the apple store, pick up an iPad, can't get it to vary line width by pressure with the stylus. Walk across the hall to the microsoft store, surface stylus works perfectly. Easy choice.

Yeah these efforts always fall flat. Buttbuttination is my favorite example.

A while ago I was arguing with someone online about the best way to structure a matrix library. Then around four years later I realized he was completely right and I just didn't know enough to realize why. I'm sure this is a universal experience.

1. implement the patch category that Pijul uses

2. compose the patches

3. either you have a nice diff to show the user, or an explanation of why that is not possible, like "Can't show you the composition of A, X, Q because X depends on C"

Unfortunately they keep rewriting pijul from scratch.

Ever heard of the october revolution? That was the starting point.

Check out lentil: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lentil

Says who? Yudkowsky? Why are you listening to him?

Which is absurd: It's illegal for me to take several million pictures of a tv show and sell it.

Anything like this:

    foo(a,
        b)

Sadly doesn't work if the language typical format wants you to align things. Works perfectly in lisp or C though.

Everyone's using QGMLWB now.

>Which makes some sense; until at least Pope Urban, the Catholic Church was happy to perform both mixed sex and same sex marriages

That's not what your [3] says.

>Nevertheless, Historian John Boswell argued that Adelphopoiesis, or brother-making, represented an early form of religious same-sex marriage in the Orthodox church.

>Alan Bray saw the rite of Ordo ad fratres faciendum ("Order for the making of brothers") as serving the same purpose in the medieval Roman Catholic Church.

John Boswell died of AIDS. No mention of how Alan Bray died, but he was also homosexual. Hardly impartial sources.

The Douay-Rheims translation is the most accurate. You can directly reconstruct the latin[1] from it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douay–Rheims_Bible#Modern_Harv...

This is limited: what about all the people who like the unique community that formed on anonymous imageboards? There's no posturing or attempts to build a reputation. You just throw out your piece and it stands alone.