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I appreciate care-filled counterexamples.

Who is "you"? Me, you, another, everyone, no one yet, or anymore. Only take it personally if you think it pertains

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just because you fixed a problem doesnt necessarily mean you made things better

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How do we even know that time and space are continuous? It stands to reason that fundamental noncontinuities would be outside of our range of perception, given we are inside the spacetime in question. We could just seamlessly pass over gaps, or be stopped by them entirely

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Underscore and hyphen are both too useful to be second order keys, they both deserve a space in the single-press category

Caps-lock on the other hand uses some of the most prime real estate on the board for redundancy and annoyance

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@AnkhAlpha @ProfFeynman In school? Maybe once you get into the higher levels, if youre lucky

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@ProfFeynman a hoop-jumper is not a student just because they fit into the legal classification. A student is someone who studies. Memorization is to study as watching a cooking show is to actually cooking. It merely appears to be similar visually

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I wonder if you could use a vacuum chamber on mac n cheese to drive the sauce into the center of the pasta

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@Wieneraaron Imagine youre stuck somewhere uncomfortable and youre scared you might hurt yourself if you try to get out. Your only hope is to yell for help. Someone comes, and theyre entertained and start to take pictures, conveying joy at your pain. This is why they dont care that much back

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Each piece being unique isnt lost because of robotics, it's lost because of mass production. 3d printing can make each piece unique too

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Non-developers seem to think robots are better at what they have been made to do and worse at what they have not yet been made to do than they really are

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@ProfFeynman Teach something to youtube and then get schooled by the masses, it's quite an effective way to learn

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@iammemeloper It just makes sense to have the negative space be represented by absence of light and the positive space represented by presence of light

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non-individualized advice is irresponsible

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Humanity as a unit is a proto-infant

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@sahajsarup @keylimesoda Thats a terrible metric, you can buy ps/2 cables on amazon lol

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In the modern world its considered normal to waste your emotions like they were shit to be flushed down the toilet, because people are constantly fucking with you and you can't do anything about it so you're disadvantaged for being authentic

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My computer telling me to uninstall flash player because it will harm my computer makes me highly skeptical. The fact they say "will" and not "may" when the right answer is "will not" hints to an agenda

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Certain ideas at certain times cannot be taught by others, only by yourself. If you need to learn by being explained to rather than exploring, you will always be playing catch-up with modern knowledge

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@ProfFeynman Fragile knowledge, thats a good way to put it. And those who grow up in a culture of fragile knowledge are judgemental of the idea of solid knowledge at its face. When presented with concrete ideas they view them as childish because for them certainty correlated with childhood

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@ProfFeynman Hmm... But if your idea of the universe contains blank space of arbitrary size to accommodate for the unknown, what actually exists outside your model of understanding? The space of unknown is unexplained but is still accounted for- outside and between. What exists beyond that?

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Rhetoric is more important than truth. It doesn't matter if an idea is true you can't just assert it. You would expect to be convinced of a true idea and you must give others that courtesy as well. If you override people they learn to resist you for their own safety

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The people who are wrong are justified in being obstinate because the people who are right have a history of using unscrupulous methods to control without consent when they believe themselves to be correct