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Off Topic / Re: at how many frames per second does the universe work

« on: August 29, 2016, 12:02:52 PM »

The universe does have an update rate, the plank time constant

Planck time is just the time it takes light to travel 1 planck length. And a planck length is just the smallest length that is theoretically possible to observe. Nothing about that implies a "cpu tick rate" or "space is quantized" or anything of that nature.

Even the best physicists in the world don't know if space is quantized or if there's a "tick rate" to the universe.

There is currently no proven physical significance of the Planck length; it is, however, a topic of theoretical research.
Because the Planck time comes from dimensional brown townysis, which ignores constant factors, there is no reason to believe that exactly one unit of Planck time has any special physical significance. Rather, the Planck time represents a rough time scale at which quantum gravitational effects are likely to become important.

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Off Topic / Re: Triple Birthday 2016: Me, Foxscotch and SquartleTurtle

« on: August 28, 2016, 03:20:19 PM »

ayyyy happy bday foxxles squart and u

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Off Topic / Re: Got some nasty computer viruses and I'm not convinced they are all gone

« on: August 28, 2016, 03:14:44 PM »

If you have really NASTY viruses, they are already in your hard drive. So basically, the only way to get rid of them is to take it to a pro dude (no regular teens at computer stores) or get a new hard drive. Really rare these days to get nasty viruses, so that's "new", I guess.

do you know how a harddrive works
i dont think you do

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General Discussion / Re: Glass Hosting Poll

« on: August 28, 2016, 02:23:12 PM »

But the key I'm using now they have the first 4 digits, and nothing has been done with it.

I have your first 5 digits... AA8HY

But really, your first 5 characters of your key is just your BLID encoded in base 32, as Scout said. You can get anyone's first 5 characters, it doesn't compromise your key

Of course. I wouldn't be taking people's money on something half-assed.

Alright cool. Good luck to you!

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Off Topic / Re: Christianity Megathread

« on: August 28, 2016, 02:03:29 PM »

The weird thing about pascal's wager is a bit funny. It says "You have nothing to lose, come join us!" yet the only argument made to join specifically christianity instead of literally any other religion is literally an appeal to popularity. Your religion having the most people in it does not make it any more likely to be true than the religion of any random african tribe. Even if you do "become a christian" solely because of pascal's wager, can you truly say that you actually believe, or are you just saying that you do so that you have a tiny, tiny chance of being saved? I don't know about you, but I don't think any God would appreciate that kind of intellectual dishonesty.

I would just say that there's no perfect agreed upon definition/clarification for the words Atheism and Agnosticism.
Your approach, that of agnosticism being a subset of atheism is one view I've seen, mostly on this website.

It's not just on this website. It is an actual thing, believe it or not. Here's the wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism

However, the curriculum of my A Level Religious Studies course had a different view. That being that;
 - Agnosticism is a choice to neither believe there is or isn't a God/gods. It accepts that there could be a deity and therefore isn't atheism.

That seems to directly contradict the definition of atheism.


Of course, if you for some reason want to make atheism more restrictive (I don't know why you would) then you could use the less broad definition, but that just seems silly to me. By this seemingly generally accepted definition, atheism is not a belief that no gods exist, but rather a lack of belief, which allows for the possibility of one existing. That would be called, as I linked earlier, agnostic atheism. The belief that no god exists on the other hand, would be gnostic atheism. There's also agnostic theism (Theism while admitting the possibility of no gods existing) and gnostic theism. (Theism being absolutely certain that your god exists.) These definitions would make you an agnostic atheist. Nothing wrong with that at all!

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Off Topic / Re: Christianity Megathread

« on: August 28, 2016, 12:35:50 AM »

also the chart is just flat out wrong. Atheism is just a lack of belief in a god. Answering "I don't know" means you lack a belief in a god, making you an atheist. It just makes you an agnostic atheist. Answering "No" would make you a gnostic atheist.

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Add-Ons / Re: New Duplicator 1.4.4 | Keybinds

« on: August 28, 2016, 12:33:50 AM »

flushtexturecache();

No, that function causes lag like crazy.
Use flushVBOCache();
It works almost instantaneously even with 256k bricks.

My opinion is incredibly strong and I will fite you irl

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Off Topic / Re: Shark is bored ask me anything

« on: August 27, 2016, 11:58:25 PM »

do you know tayasaurus

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General Discussion / Re: Glass Hosting Poll

« on: August 27, 2016, 11:49:40 PM »

I don't think they got the full keys, so they weren't revoked.

Well the thing is they definitely could have, though I suppose it's possible they didn't, but that doesn't matter. The point is, please make sure that this service will actually be secure or don't have it at all.

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Off Topic / Re: Christianity Megathread

« on: August 27, 2016, 11:16:28 PM »

Every person is responsible for their community on not being respectful to resources.=

So you admit you were wrong then and that you are responsible for your resource usage? Alright, that's all I wanted to hear.

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Off Topic / Re: Christianity Megathread

« on: August 27, 2016, 11:11:13 PM »

Nope.

Because you have to count the entire population as a whole person, not one by one. Which was my point that you loving left out of the quote so you can take it out of context.

Uh, no.
It's simple logic, tony. It's a simple A is B, B is C, therefore A is C kinda thing.

Premise 1:  Every (person) is an (individual)
Premise 2:  Every (individual) is (not responsible for their resource usage)   (This is what you said)
Conclusion: Every (person) is (not responsible for their resource usage)

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Off Topic / Re: Christianity Megathread

« on: August 27, 2016, 10:59:33 PM »

I can't be held accountable for the resources I waste. I'm just one person.

By that logic nobody has to be held accountable for any of their waste, after all, they are just one person.

what is the point if you aren't banking on an afterlife?

not a nihilist but this rings true, and you can also make goals, like "make other people happy" (a la foxxles), "make the world a better place," "forward scientific progress," etc etc etc.

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Off Topic / Re: Christianity Megathread

« on: August 27, 2016, 10:52:16 PM »

Gasoline isn't infinite you know.

stuff man, you worded your post poorly I thought you meant air.

We're already making big pushes towards electric vehicles and renewable power, and we're not set to run out of oil for another century or so. We'll be fine, dude.

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General Discussion / Re: Glass Hosting Poll

« on: August 27, 2016, 10:48:56 PM »

Care to explain what that is and what happened?

It was a hosting service that hosted around 40 peoples servers. Basically the most popular one at the time. The security on it was so abysmal that you could access everyone's stuff, even the stuff that wasn't yours, through your web browser. I forgot the exact details but there's a drama on it somewhere. Everyone's keys that were stored on cbmhost were taken that way. Thankfully, none of them were revoked.

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General Discussion / Re: Glass Hosting Poll

« on: August 27, 2016, 10:37:30 PM »

please only do this if you can know for sure that you can keep it secure. We don't want CBMhost v2.