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> The debt is already so large that this barely affects the momentum.

The idea that a 66% increase in the deficit "barely affects the momentum" is absurd reflects either your ignorance or your bad faith. Apply that logic to your personal spending and see how long it takes before you're bankrupt.

Valuable for who? Open source (at the margin) is more valuable for everyone--except the inventor, for whom it is not as valuable. So the inventor keeps the design proprietary, and keeps more money for themselves.

But, as is often the case, decisions that are optimal at the margin can often lead to suboptimal outcomes in aggregate.

I'm not convinced that's the case in IC fabrication, but its not impossible.

It's the simplest interpretation of the data we have.

The Bell Theorem shows that any local hidden variable theory wouldn't match the experimental data we already have.

There's other options for getting around the weirdness of the Copenhagen interpretation that aren't ruled out by the data we have, but most of them are even weirder.

> Law of physics implies a casual relationship in nature

This is simply wrong. That is not what the term 'law' means in physics.

> It takes years of education before people realize that the known laws of physics are just approximations or historically refined by discovering new details.

It's in high school chemistry textbooks. Typically in the first chapter or two. I'm assuming the audience of this site has taken at least one chemistry class in their life. Whether or not they paid attention is their own problem.

It's been a long time since my QM course, but, assuming by unitary you mean deterministic, then the answer is that time evolution of a particle's state is NOT deterministic. It is probabilistic. For large collections of particles, the probabilities come to overwhelmingly favor a single average state, but the state of any single particle remains non-deterministic.

This is in contrast to, for example, classical statistical mechanics where individual particles are considered to behave deterministically, but we simply lack the ability to measure their behavior. In (the Copenhagen interpretation of) QM there is no underlying determinism at all.

You might not like this idea (it's certainly non-intuitive), but decades of experiments have shown that the alternatives are all, most likely, wrong.

This sounds like semantic befuddlement (though, not on Wheeler's part; he was just engaging in wordplay).

Physical laws are not 'laws' in the sense that nature is required to abide by them. They are simply features of natural behavior that have been so overwhelmingly observed that we treat them as axioms.

An example of this is the 'law' of conservation of mass. Strictly speaking, nature does not follow this law. Nuclear reactions and subatomic interactions do not conserve mass. They conserve other quantities, but not mass in and of itself.

The idea that there is no ultimate law of physics is not novel or interesting. It's obvious on its face, unless you do not properly understand what 'law' means in the context of physics.

Headline is super misleading--it's an electron app that wraps the web interface for Evernote. It's not its own application.

There are a lot fewer people applying for jobs local to me than there applying to jobs that will let me work remote. By a factor of over 100.

It's subsidized by those volunteers' time. Time that could otherwise be spent on other things.

Granted, there's nothing nefarious about this, but there isn't anything necessarily nefarious about the fact that anything you get for free is being paid for somewhere else. Just potentially nefarious, if you don't know what's paying for it.

And full of people applying for them.

The two kinds of functions are also more clearly declared.

Whichever team published VS Code seems to be not evil, at least.

There's also the fact that Walmart achieves low prices by strong arming suppliers into giving them lower quality goods masquerading as the "same" model.

Buying anything that you expect to keep more than a year is a waste at Walmart, even if its cheaper.

This, a thousand times this.

All zero of them.

This eruption has been going on for 35 years, and there hasn't been a mass evacuation yet. I wouldn't worry about it.

> Ordinary legislation only requires a 50% + 1 majority.

That's not really true of any non-budgetary legislation (for now).

> I don't think that juries decide what's true and what's not.

In a legal sense, that's exactly what they do. Juries are, by definition, deciders of fact, i.e. they decided what is legally true based on the evidence presented to them.

Whether legal "truth," epistemological "truth," and physical "truth" coincide is an entirely separate (and largely pointless) issue.

> We abolished slavery a few centuries ago.

Slavery has never been abolished. It was simply made illegal in most places under most circumstances. By any definition of slavery there are more people in bondage today than at any time in the past.

Even taking your claim of abolition at face value, the only reason chattel slavery was "abolished" in the US was because its abolition became a way of ending a particularly bloody war by taking away one sides motive for fighting. Before that (i.e. before a majority of the citizenry saw abolition as benefitting themselves) there was not enough popular support for abolition.

Nothing that isn't wrong with metabolic syndrome and diabetes.

Oh, you sweet, summer child.

There's a reason sweat shops and slave labor happen more in some places than in others.

It's also not done because it is mathematically impossible to certify software as 'bug-free' in the general case.

Software isn't like civil engineering where you can mathematically prove that a design is sound.

Relative to Atom, which I left for VS Code: Code is faster and lighter, just as extensible. Better git integration and code analysis, even for Javascript (I finally understand what devs from other languages were talking about!). My workflow is just smoother for everything except Clojure and system admin (but I use emacs for those, atom isn't any better there).

VSCode won me over grudginly. It's faster, lighter, and just as extensible. I was conditioned at an early age to throw holy water at anything Microsoft, and still, I like VSCode better than Atom.

> No question that mentality exists, I'll argue that it's a very small minority of eg millionaires in any society that hold such a view.

I'd say it's the majority of millionaires that I've met (all successful small business owners).

They all worked very hard for their wealth and built it over a lifetime, as you said, but every single one of them relished screwing over others and being better than others. They worked like they did for their egos, and not much else. And all of them are virulently committed to making sure they stay on top, even if the top is sinking.

It has little to do with the ACA. This has been happening in retail and restaurants for DECADES.

It's incredibly liberating in fact. My life is so much better without it. And I'm not missing anything of value. The people who matter can get a hold of me if they want.

The idea that the patient should be influencing treatment BASED ON WHAT THEY SAW ON TV is absurd.

It's like you didn't even read what you responded to. What is this, reddit?