You misunderstood my argument. I did not assert the existence or nonexistence of libertarian free will or compatibilist free will. Such assertions were beside the point. I was only pointing out that the argument to…
That argument is unsound. The color of the sky depends on atmospheric gases and suspended particles as causal factors. This shows that atmospheric gases and suspended particles are causally potent. At the same time,…
When providing a quotation, use quotation marks.
The article discussed all people in that age group, not just the people that you consider sluggish, vacant, vapid, etc. Please read and comprehend articles before commenting on them.
I agree with the author concerning places with somewhat-level terrain, with short distances between home, work, and grocery stores, with police officers posted around these locations to ensure good traffic, and so on.…
Articles like these are annoying/depressing. They begin with strawmen, such as "scientists and even fellow philosophers are telling me that I'm a machine or a beast." No, they argue that humans are animals, not beasts.…
I have no objection to the website operator wanting to cater only to people who want serious relationships, but calling flings and hook-ups "smut", with the implication that people who engage in such activities are…
The headline is misleading. The study did not find a general distrust of the Internet. Rather, it found that certain things on websites inspire distrust, such as pages with too many advertisements that create the…
I visit many unpopular websites, often through search engines, such as to find out little details about video games, techniques for DIY organic lawncare, concepts used in unconventional programming languages,…
I should have been more careful in choosing my words. I agree that {1,2,3,...} and {2,4,6,...} are both countably infinite and have the cardinality aleph-0. When I said they are not the same size, I did not mean to…
There are two mistakes in your reasoning. First, according to your definition of losing, gambling away 99% of your life savings would not count as a loss. A better definition would be: having fewer resources at the end…
I reject the concept of self-plagiarism because I believe that people are entitled to use their own works as they see fit, provided that they have not transfered ownership or copyright. Even so, that is beside the point…
The reason is more economical than technological. The most popular languages became popular by holding the strongest appeal for the lowest common denominator (LCD) of coders. For example, Java bests Haskell in this…
Thanks for the information, batista. It does not surprise me to hear that JSON has gotten popular in Javascript applications and the datastores that interact with them, and likewise with key-value datastores since the…
If a lexical item composed of alphabetical characters consists of one or more morphemes and communicates a meaning which can be comprehended from the context without reference to a dictionary, then that lexical item is…
XML may seem harder than JSON, until you actually try to work with the data. When you need to create an automated system that checks that data has a certain format, XML has support for schemas and there are many…
I think many people fail to notice that there can be many motivations behind someone's actions. When the motivation is some kind of business interest, for example, it does not make much sense to reinvent the wheel. On…
I think you lost sight of the big picture when you put the number in terms of miles. The light emitted at the time of the death of Jesus has traveled some 1,978 light-years (that number equals 2011 AD minus 33 AD). The…
You misunderstood my argument. I did not assert the existence or nonexistence of libertarian free will or compatibilist free will. Such assertions were beside the point. I was only pointing out that the argument to…
That argument is unsound. The color of the sky depends on atmospheric gases and suspended particles as causal factors. This shows that atmospheric gases and suspended particles are causally potent. At the same time,…
When providing a quotation, use quotation marks.
The article discussed all people in that age group, not just the people that you consider sluggish, vacant, vapid, etc. Please read and comprehend articles before commenting on them.
I agree with the author concerning places with somewhat-level terrain, with short distances between home, work, and grocery stores, with police officers posted around these locations to ensure good traffic, and so on.…
Articles like these are annoying/depressing. They begin with strawmen, such as "scientists and even fellow philosophers are telling me that I'm a machine or a beast." No, they argue that humans are animals, not beasts.…
I have no objection to the website operator wanting to cater only to people who want serious relationships, but calling flings and hook-ups "smut", with the implication that people who engage in such activities are…
The headline is misleading. The study did not find a general distrust of the Internet. Rather, it found that certain things on websites inspire distrust, such as pages with too many advertisements that create the…
I visit many unpopular websites, often through search engines, such as to find out little details about video games, techniques for DIY organic lawncare, concepts used in unconventional programming languages,…
I should have been more careful in choosing my words. I agree that {1,2,3,...} and {2,4,6,...} are both countably infinite and have the cardinality aleph-0. When I said they are not the same size, I did not mean to…
There are two mistakes in your reasoning. First, according to your definition of losing, gambling away 99% of your life savings would not count as a loss. A better definition would be: having fewer resources at the end…
I reject the concept of self-plagiarism because I believe that people are entitled to use their own works as they see fit, provided that they have not transfered ownership or copyright. Even so, that is beside the point…
The reason is more economical than technological. The most popular languages became popular by holding the strongest appeal for the lowest common denominator (LCD) of coders. For example, Java bests Haskell in this…
Thanks for the information, batista. It does not surprise me to hear that JSON has gotten popular in Javascript applications and the datastores that interact with them, and likewise with key-value datastores since the…
If a lexical item composed of alphabetical characters consists of one or more morphemes and communicates a meaning which can be comprehended from the context without reference to a dictionary, then that lexical item is…
XML may seem harder than JSON, until you actually try to work with the data. When you need to create an automated system that checks that data has a certain format, XML has support for schemas and there are many…
I think many people fail to notice that there can be many motivations behind someone's actions. When the motivation is some kind of business interest, for example, it does not make much sense to reinvent the wheel. On…
I think you lost sight of the big picture when you put the number in terms of miles. The light emitted at the time of the death of Jesus has traveled some 1,978 light-years (that number equals 2011 AD minus 33 AD). The…