MotoAsh

IMO, even the digitally sent person could be the original, depending on the philosophical concepts being applied (same ship of theseus style questions). If it's just the process of reading your atoms to that level of detail that makes you disappear, and the only information that is literally 'you' is being transferred over and reconstituted in a similarly one-way-by-function process, it's almost more of a phase shift to digital and back than a copy. Pretty much just side-stepping matter's inability to travel without acceleration.

If the machine is basically 'digesting' the person only to send over the results for reproduction, though... that's definitely a copy. Pretty sure Trek describes their transporters as the latter? They're definitely killing a bunch of people in that show. ha Though to answer it with any kind of conclusive result, I'd think we'd need a technical description for how it works, and it cannot exist, so... lol

That's why the late showers are "wisdom" teeth. Your brain is finally getting big enough to shove 'em out of there.

Y'know, the more I think about free will as a religous concept, the more I'm convinced it's supposed to be an allegory for how to treat others, like a more convoluted Golden Rule. The source was shifted to "God" simply to make the garbage people that don't normally care about others hesitate before they just ignore others' advice on how to treat people.

The reasoning is pretty simple: Nobody can actually do anything they want because others will interfere. Individuals restrict others' freedom all the time. If you're restricting others freedoms, you're doing an even worse version of judging others. The Bible pretty clearly says to leave such critical stuff that idiots can screw up in God's hands, because idiots can and will screw it up.

Same with free will. Peoples' freedom is, according to religous teachings, a gift from God. They describe such things as "from God" solely because idiots respect their flavor of Sky Daddy over other human beings.

If it's actually a gift from God, then it makes little sense that humans can simply remove a gift an all-powerful diety bestows. So... either historic humans are insanely stupid and bad at logic ... or it's actually an allegory for not trying to control others so much.

Because most people conscously or subconcously expect better treatment towards pets than other fellow humans. It's like children. Unless you're an Israeli or conservative looking at a brown child, nobody stans child abusers.

Not all advertising is equal. Yes, increasing awareness pays off.

That doesn't mean your product putting a one minute ad up on YouTube that gets pasted in front of a 10 second cat video will have a positive response.

lol so you defend that which you do not even use and that which you do not undertand? What a joke...

My hatred is anything but blind, and you calling it such is sealioning beyond belief. I love your hypocrisy... An Apple user without even using Apple products... Truly, your lot in life is more dreary than you could ever admit.

Definitely wrong, although I do not have a collegiate off-hand understanding of biology to really fully decribe it.

But it comes down to what does a "cell" mean in biology? Even your case in point specifies an object with many cells in it.

Cell membranes don't use simple diffusion to transport chemicals across. That's the entire point of a "cell". It's a defined region that at least attempts to control its own various chemical balances. Cells do have many gates that allow many molecules across, unfortunately including many viruses and prions. Unfortuntely, cell walls are also not impervious to truly toxic chemicals, either, so a "cell wall" still can absolutely break down with minimal effort with the right chemicals. They do attempt to control their own balances though, including basic ionic content. That's the whole point. The attempt.

I really have to ask... Why do you think humans aren't so big on the scale of life? Your perspective really come across as human-centric. Not "bad" by itself, but still wholly incompatible with reality.

The thing that does change in relation to diffusion at scale is the necessity of circulatory and respertory systems, which is a massive order of magnitude or few increase in complexity than cells.

Try literally trillions. Billions is literally several orders of magnitude less than reality.

Again, most people literally cannot fathom the scales. Not as an insult, but to point out the literal scale. (god I'm such a millenial with all those 'literals', but it's true...)

Agile SHOULD have a lot of the things 'traditional' management looks for! Though so many, including many college teachers I've heard, think of it way too strictly.

It's just the time scale shrinks as necessary for specific deliverable goals instead of the whole product... instead of having a design for the whole thing from top to bottom, you start with a good overview and implement general arch to service what load you'll need. Then you break down the tasks, and solve the problems more and more and yadda yadda...

IMO, the people that think Agile Development means only implement the bare minimum ... are part of the complete fucking idiot portion of the industry.

Fuck man, why don't more ethical-ish devs join to make stuff? What's the missing link on top of easy sharing like FOSS kinda' already has?

Obviously programming is a bit niche, but fuck... how can ethical programmers come together to survive under capitalism? Sure, profit sharing and coops aren't bad, but something of a cultural nexus is missing in this space it feels...

The result in the end should be an organized series of events, a process, that takes or produces data. The data can be anything from a single number in a calculator, to a text message, to your entire social profile. The process can be anything from basic math, to advanced math (i.e. machine learning, rendering, cryptography, etc), to performing simple operations on that data like shuffling that data somewhere else.

These processes are stacked on top of each other and utilized with basic logic (if, else, loops, scope, etc) and combined together with a myriad of programming patterns and algorithms, to produce higher and higher orders of complexity, that eventually solve a real-world problem.

The result is an ever increasing complexity of useful tools and processes that can either solve specific problems directly or at least provide discovery for other useful tools and processes that might.

It's translating higher order problems from something understandable at the task level all the way down until a piece of specialized rock that only understands on and off can eventually spit out a meaningful result.

ok ok electrical engineers get the claim for the last sentence, and plenty of the real-world complexity, but hopefully it illustrates my point that 'nothing' is ... just wrong. We cannot discount the absolute importance of abstract things. Everything from "imaginary" numbers to completely abstract things like philosophy have real- world consequences. If programming produces nothing, then MOST jobs that aren't manual labor produce nothing.

The new Naked Gun, actually. The idea falls in to the same FUCK NO camp as every other god damn nostalgia grab from Hollywood in recent years. The plot is stupid, even compared to some of the old Leslie Nielsen movies that worked the plot developments in to jokes a bit better and naturally had more of their own humor than references .... buuuuut, the execution still had me straight up laughing out loud at quite a lot of it.