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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Is the upgrade to windows 10 worth it? Have stupid questions |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2015, 9:24 pm
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| Earlier today I got the thing on my task bar to upgrade to windows 10. I'm on windows 7 at the moment and I believe it's a free upgrade to 7, 8, and 8.1 but only for a year and after that you have to pay? But I'm just so used to 7. I do prefer the task bar on vista but the upgrade from vista to 7 w... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Mathematics: This Will Blow Your Mind |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2015, 9:22 pm
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| Don't use the internet. Estimate the value of these sums: a) 1+2+3+4+... b)1^2+2^2+3^2+... The solution involves the Riemann zeta function but tell me what you think. Neither series converges. If a series converges then its n-th term approaches 0 as n goes to infinity. Clearly this does not happen ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Why is Freud still given recognition? |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2015, 9:20 pm
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| Freudian psychology is largely pseudo-scientific and debunked. There is little basis for the psychosexual stages of development or the existence of an independent subconscious mind. Yet when I read up on anything related to psychology (childhood amnesia, development,etc) - Freud is always given cre... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Artificial Superintelligence by 2040? Seriously scary stuff! |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2015, 9:16 pm
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| A very good write-up about artificial superintelligence: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html It's pretty long, but well worth the read. What makes it really scary is that this isn't some baseless speculation like "we should have flying cars by 2100", it... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are these things illusions? |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2015, 10:31 am
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Replies: 54
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The_Walrus wrote: Space, time, and number all have objective existence.
Free will is an illusion, unless you have a different definition of free will.
I am compelled to agree with you.
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should there be a law against public institutions that lie f |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2015, 10:28 am
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Replies: 79
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| Should there be a law against public institutions that lie for money? Religions and many charitable organizations of all stripes make their revenues by lying to people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ9oBCLwwL0 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835947/The-Great-British-rake-really-happens-... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should there be a law against public institutions that lie f |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2015, 10:25 am
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Absolutely Not!! !!
The only time lying should be actionable is
1. Commission of fraud where there is property or monetary loss
2. Lying under oath (perjury).
If uttering untruth were otherwise actionable, writers of fiction would be put in jail and promise breakers would be legally punished. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: the periodic table |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2015, 10:09 am
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| What is really amazing about the Periodic Table is that Mendeleyov was able to piece together the known elements and was able to predict three new elements along with their observable chemical properties. And it was done before quantum physics was invented. it was a triumph of purely empirical obser... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Shooting in Chattanooga Navy Facility |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2015, 10:04 am
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Replies: 7
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why was the British Monarchy so Pro Nazi? |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2015, 2:23 am
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The Royals have German ancestors, so their initial attraction to Germany was understandable.
Queen Victoria was married to a German here children (of which there were many) were all half German. Britain had a German kind, George I. It goes back a long way .
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should There Be a worldwide Moratorium on eating dog meat ? |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2015, 2:19 am
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why a moratorium? As long as one owns the dog and slaughters it humanely why should there be a law against it?
We are a meat eating species, so why forbid a particular kind on non-human meat?
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Dissecting existence and the result |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2015, 2:16 am
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| Does anyone else feel like there just isn't anything left that's interesting? Or as if you understand the very fabric of the world and it's all gone dull? For example: There is nothing you need to know about anyone except for what they identify with. People are just mirrors walking around looking f... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: This board needs a "Aliens Exist" Thread...! |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2015, 2:12 am
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| Has anyone found an artifact that could not have originated on this planet. Has it been scientifically studied? Have the findings been made public? Until there is hard evidence we can assume no aliens have visited us. The nearest star that might have a type M planet is Tau Cetti which is 11 ly dista... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Charleston Shooter: Racist or Mentally Ill? |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2015, 2:05 am
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Replies: 110
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Probably both.
The kid's daddy is going to have to wrestle with his conscience. He put a gun in the kid's hand.
I hope this does not turn into a witch hunt against mentally deranged people or our right to keep and bear arms.
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: LIFE; What is it? |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2015, 7:03 pm
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| There is a whole heap of difference between the chemistry and physics of a live organism and a dead one (even a virus). That difference, I suggest, is the stuff called "life" which is transmitted from a "live" thing and never from a non-live thing. So where did the first living ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: new prototype fluid dynamic computer runs on water! |
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Posted: 14 Jun 2015, 6:57 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,229
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