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Re:Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @11:45AM (#44952916)
I do think it’s possible that God and evil are a set of norms that help society (or actually their leaders) thrive, but are presented as universal values.
I think there is a huge distinction to what it’s good for the average person in society vs what is good for the rulers, and it is unclear which one of those you mean.
Most religions are here to support the rulers.
Re:Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:49AM (#44949256)
I agree science doesn’t give good answers for good and evil, for me religion gives even worse answers. For example the Bible is clearly in favor of slavery as an institution. Other religions like Buddhism are for me better.
The scary part is that there may not be a good or evil, and the answers we have are just made up stuff.
Re:Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @02:34AM (#44948850)
The goal of science is to disprove our theories so we can find out if they are true, and hopefully replace them with improved versions.
The goal of religious study is to try to prove that it is not impossible, not that it is a probably reading of what happened. To find some absurd way of reconciling different stories. I have no idea how you can call that an answer.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:37AM (#43216317)
Please tell us why WW2 started and how that is related.
Re:Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash
on Monday February 17, 2025 @07:39PM (#43084737)
But he said it was a meme coin and not an investment opportunity? I mean I think Trump should be impeached yesterday, but maybe not for that one?
Re:BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @07:48PM (#43020392)
Isn’t that including tax breaks? Yes after checking the cheapest is $42k the advertised price includes 7500 tax break and 5000 in gas savings.
Re:IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:17PM (#43016158)
Being helpful to 2/3 might be enough to lay off 1/3
Re:Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again
on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:24PM (#42843422)
I don't think most people would agree on what is an A, B or C.
Re:Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again
on Monday January 27, 2025 @12:21PM (#42843391)
At least for me that was not true, I came back to Google after more than two years and did not have to interview.
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
on Friday January 03, 2025 @07:46PM (#42591109)
Race is clearly cultural in todays society because we can make it so. Very unlikely to be genetically culturally if that is what you are saying (but of course, who knows).
Re:Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature
on Thursday December 19, 2024 @02:58AM (#42459408)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe is almost 4000 years older. Not sure if it meets your definition of city, but it was some sort of human settlement
Re:Sitters and Standers
on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:18PM (#42323838)
I work for a FAANG and a month, well planned, vacation is totally OK. If I want to take a week of I more or less need no notice, but for a month it would be expected I plan ahead what the people I work with should do.
I have 5 weeks vacation and unlimited sick days every year.
Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF p...
on Friday November 15, 2024 @09:46PM (#42153691)
I think Apple does not specify to give themselves flexibility to change. It’s not sure everyone will get the same panel.
Re:Kagi Translate
on Thursday November 07, 2024 @07:51PM (#42082949)
This is kind of natural for a new service, one of the advantages the big players have is a giant test corpus. For less mainstream languages and terms it will be more noticeable.
Re:UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
on Thursday October 03, 2024 @11:25PM (#41737500)
Parliament can for sure overrule the will of the people, and very often do.
They might get punished in the next election or they may not.
More precisely only the PM can call an election I believe.
Re:UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
on Thursday October 03, 2024 @11:15PM (#41737448)
China threatened to cut off water. UK did not have any meaningful way of keeping HK without strong US support.
Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
on Monday September 16, 2024 @10:35PM (#41563468)
Which is why we are seeing return to office right now.
Re:T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what ha...
on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @02:56AM (#40655362)
That’s also what CA does
Re:H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is wid...
on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:18AM (#40168477)
I think there have already been cases of human crossover this year
Re:The NYPD sent a warrantless subpoena for a copwatcher's Twitter acc...
on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @11:14PM (#39687735)
Isn't QI fully something the supreme court made up and unlikely to go away whatever congress does?
Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the Eu...
on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:18PM (#39134641)
This applies for other app stores so is not related to Apple bandwidth.
Re:The golden age of Kotlin and its uncertain future
on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:24AM (#38948900)
Maybe in the backend but for mobile (android) kotlin is still a thing and will be for a long time.
Re:What Happens in the Brain While Daydreaming?
on Saturday December 16, 2023 @09:03PM (#38669720)
Not really, I had some I was remembering but it was from the paralyzed state in between sleep and awake.
Other than that, no don't remember anything at all.
Re:What Happens in the Brain While Daydreaming?
on Friday December 15, 2023 @06:33PM (#38660201)
I (think, not formally diagnosed) have aphantasia, and I also don't remember my dreams. So I have not "seen" pictures ever. Or I think so, it is so hard to know what others are "seeing".
Re:Always paste without formatting on macOS
on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:44AM (#38142082)
Is this why it’s so annoying to copy and paste in the terminal on Mac?
Re:Pubs replaced banks in Ireland in 1970 and the economy was fine
on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:15PM (#37727410)
Or more importantly in Ireland, religions based discrimination
Re:Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reve...
on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:03AM (#37044713)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240400/maternal-mortali...
The US maternal death rate is sky high for a western country with reliable statistics.
Re:Japanese population falls in all 47 prefectures for the first time
on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:10AM (#36967923)
What is economic growth other than numbers getting larger?
Re:Japanese population falls in all 47 prefectures for the first time
on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:41AM (#36903166)
That article tackles growth to consumption, and consumption to energy use. This does not have to be true.
We could all decide to multiply every currency with 10x and nothing would change except the number and we would have 10x economic growth as measured in the currency.
That is an obviously simplified example, but it is not that contrived. Modern money is not tied to energy use. Money is created out of thin air every day and that is ok.
Re:Japanese population falls in all 47 prefectures for the first time
on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:04AM (#36889518)
Economic growth doesn't need to have any anchoring in reality, it can grow as much as we want it to.