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crimethinking
Vietnam765 Posts
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Seuss
United States10536 Posts
On March 25 2015 04:15 jcarlsoniv wrote: That's what Locke would want me to think... ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/UfDnEcK.gif) Edit: Freaking new page + post making me look like a psychopath. | ||
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kingfr0st
Germany4 Posts
Anyways, how was the day LiquidBuddies ? | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On March 25 2015 04:19 kingfr0st wrote: Wow. Just a few hours and this thread gained like 4 more pages. I guess i'm not able to keep up with the amount of posts that get posted here. Anyways, how was the day LiquidBuddies ? Hah, you'll fit in just fine here. And, my silly German friend, there are still several hours left in the day. Just a couple more hours before I can go home and dick around til Iris*. *for your reference - community D&D campaign in a world created and run by our very own Asmodeus | ||
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Frudgey
Canada3367 Posts
On March 25 2015 04:18 Seuss wrote: Edit: Freaking new page + post making me look like a psychopath. Yeah I was wondering about that. But then I decided that it's best not to question you, in case I invoke your ire. On March 25 2015 04:19 kingfr0st wrote: Wow. Just a few hours and this thread gained like 4 more pages. I guess i'm not able to keep up with the amount of posts that get posted here. Anyways, how was the day LiquidBuddies ? Off-topic can move pretty fast when it wants to. It's pretty slow on weekends however. And my day was great! It's not over yet though so anything could happen. | ||
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Crusnik
United States5378 Posts
It's pretty sweet. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On March 25 2015 04:18 crimethinking wrote: Yet another plane dropped. I'm taking a transpacific 3-course flight home for the summer and it's not fun. If it makes you feel any better the only reason why planes dropping is news is because it's so rare to happen. It is still one of the safest forms of transport if not the safest one. | ||
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Prog
United Kingdom1470 Posts
On March 25 2015 03:26 MoonBear wrote: Sort of. More accurately, the problem is that it is technically impossible to prove anything if we don't have a system to prove it in. But because that system has assumption in it, it means our proof relies on those assumptions become correct. And if we can't prove those assumptions, we ultimately just have to have faith that it just actually works. For example, you might remember back to highschool where you had to solve problems like "What's is the angle in this corner of a triangle if I give you two other angles?" and you'd use the the rule that all triangles have 180° degrees and figure out the answer. That's a case where you solve a problem ("What is the angle?") within a system ("Triangles have 180°"). But the thing is, we can't technically prove that all regular triangles have 180°. It's something we just have to accept is a fact of life! And if we change our system we work in then these assumptions don't apply any more and we have to start all over again. For example going from regular geometry to hyperbolic geometry we find suddenly triangles can have less than 180°. Oh dear. This seems very deeply unsatisfying. Doesn't that mean that basically all our human knowledge is based on some assumptions and if we proved those assumptions wrong then the entirety of human knowledge collapses? Yes. It does. Now we could detour into philosophy (or more specifically epistemology) about how we try to reconcile this fact, such as the use of empiricism and falsification. However this is probably going a bit too deep for my post but you might find it interesting reading. Disclaimer: I've taken a lot of liberties writing this post so it isn't crazy boring. Don't actually use what I wrote in a philosophy exam. (That's also plagarism lol) I think the general thought that the fundamental basis of mathematics needs to be proven is mislead and the contrast that anything unproven is an assumption is not the right one. And there are alternatives to this picture. For instance, mathematical platonism is a beautiful dissolution. We do not rely on assumption, we rather grasp mathematical entities, relations and propositions. And just as no non-skeptic is going to demand proof for the outside world, we need not demand proof for the most fundamental mathematical entities. Or alternatively you can go the Wittgenstein "hinge-route" and claim that to use a word/proposition without justification does not mean to use it without right. Some propositions are just constitutive of the justification game and thereby themselves not subject to justificatory evaluation. Again, the aim is to get rid of the demand for proof while not dooming us to unjustified assumptions. | ||
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crimethinking
Vietnam765 Posts
On March 25 2015 04:26 Numy wrote: If it makes you feel any better the only reason why planes dropping is news is because it's so rare to happen. It is still one of the safest forms of transport if not the safest one. I know. But flights are not fun, especially in economy class. | ||
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
and transpacific isn't easy on a train | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On March 25 2015 04:19 kingfr0st wrote: Wow. Just a few hours and this thread gained like 4 more pages. I guess i'm not able to keep up with the amount of posts that get posted here. Anyways, how was the day LiquidBuddies ? i like you i'll miss your starry eyed innocence once the EUROS get their filthy, cancer-ridden hands on you | ||
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Slayer91
Ireland23342 Posts
On March 24 2015 06:52 PrinceXizor wrote: When alaric is the only euro avoiding mod action lately you guys need to reign it in. <3 you foking wat mate i avent been warned in ages swear on me mum On March 25 2015 04:27 Dandel Ion wrote: trains are the only thing that's safer IIRC and transpacific isn't easy on a train filthy casuals | ||
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On March 25 2015 04:27 Dandel Ion wrote: trains are the only thing that's safer IIRC and transpacific isn't easy on a train Trains depends on region a lot more I think. Here if you go on trains in KZN you'll get mugged and killed more often than not but trains in CT are safe-ish. I hear they sometimes just mug and rape you if you're a male so you'll be too embarrassed to report the crime. Better than dying I guess but that was more a Joburg thing. | ||
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
Haven't taken the plane ever, and my goddamn mind's tendancy to worry about stuff it gets shoved in his face that nope, once you're doing it it's not that bad in the end, the pre-flight 2 hours at the airport or whatever would be pretty bad for my serenity of mind. Goddamn mind. | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
lazy mod didn't bother checking lel but that was old TL, such things certainly wouldn't happen here. We have only the most responsible and healthy moderation on LL On March 25 2015 04:30 Numy wrote: Trains depends on region a lot more I think. Here if you go on trains in KZN you'll get mugged and killed more often than not but trains in CT are safe-ish. I hear they sometimes just mug and rape you if you're a male so you'll be too embarrassed to report the crime. Better than dying I guess but that was more a Joburg thing. that's not the train's fault though, it's you getting mugged and killed. if the train derailed and killed everyone, while you were being mugged and killed, then we could have a jolly argument | ||
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kingfr0st
Germany4 Posts
On March 25 2015 04:22 jcarlsoniv wrote: Hah, you'll fit in just fine here. And, my silly German friend, there are still several hours left in the day. Just a couple more hours before I can go home and dick around til Iris*. *for your reference - community D&D campaign in a world created and run by our very own Asmodeus Is this some sort of Pen & Paper ? | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
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