Hacker News: webdva

And you need not defend anything from an an elitist aristocrat like me. We don't live in the same reality—and that is okay. Because there are multiple realities. Unless you wish to object to this notion and assert, like an imperialist, that there is only one reality and that I have to "necessarily conform" to it. Otherwise, you may subscribe to your reality of God given rights, goods, and societies while hyper-reality cosmos-nauts traverse their higher and incomprehensible planes of existences like Lovecraftian antagonists.

New comment by webdva in "LA Teachers' Union Overwhelmingly Votes Against Reopening Schools"

webdva — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 18:48:45 +0000

Is the education of the average person worth it, or anything significant? Considering the average person does not have any significant production capability, a power-law probability distribution average. Not everyone can make things and contribute to society like Elon Musk or else everyone would be named Elon Musk. It's best to just classify only exceptional individuals as more important in large scale public policy. Idealistic socialists would disagree with me but productive reality and politics are not disjoint.

New comment by webdva in "How much your computer can do in a second (2015)"

webdva — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:50:49 +0000

How fast can a single board computer such as the Raspberry Pi compute the solution to a linear programming problem (i.e., a mathematical optimization problem of the form Ax < b) that has, literally, trillions of constraints? Or can it even be done at all what with the large pool of constraints to navigate through? And how is such a prospect and execution compared to the computations done in the middle of the twentieth century which used weaker computers?

Covers shouldn’t just be for musicians

webdva — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 02:57:04 +0000

Article URL: https://davidklaing.com/covers-shouldnt-just-be-for-musicians/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23799075

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by webdva in "From context collapse to content collapse"

webdva — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 13:44:27 +0000

Indeed, since truth does not exist, language and communication is impossible. But the truth predicate for propositions isn't necessary, as truth doesn't exist to legitimately create a legitimate need for any sort of necessity. So, instead of searching for the truth predicate, and as grammar and syntax, those subjective and arbitrary creators of languages and communications, are the ultimate sources of meaning rather than any inherent meaning itself, why not look for something else? Or establish something else? Like untruth and uncertainty?

New comment by webdva in "From context collapse to content collapse"

webdva — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 13:18:07 +0000

Thermodynamics and the quantum most certainly would not exist if you did not bring them up. You are now the master of existence. I dub thee Molecule Man.