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I always thought it was bizarrely tautological. If you wish something to be different and you personally can make a choice for it under your control to be different, then you make the correct choice. For example, I don't throw a soda can out the window of my car while complaining about pollution on the highway. Other people obviously don't care but I control the drop in the bucket I'm responsible for and I make the ethical choice.

But as I got older, I actually found and still find people that think they should be forced to do it the right way even while complaining about the abuse. Case in point, a friend in the medical profession was actually complaining about tax dodges while setting up his own backdoor Roth IRA. When I asked him about abusing the very rules he was decrying, he simply shrugged and said he doesn't make the rules he just follows them. He acknowledged it's shady as hell but pretty much felt like his hands were tied.

It was deeply troubling ... I get a similar feeling about this article. I understand it is sometimes harder to play by ethical rules than legal rules when everyone around you is benefiting from misconduct but ... it seems this is yet another example of the caste system thriving in India. It's simply stupefying on the "My dad is Li Gang" level.

It is a funnier argument when misapplication of science is involved.

Good but if everybody shared your position, god would have not come up in the thread earlier.

Isn't that how con men marketed houses in The Jungle?

It is pretty easy to show no scientific evidence of god is possible (you cannot distinguish a powerful enough entity residing in your reality from god), in fact the simulation example shows one case of a universe having a supernatural dimension and no way to get to it from the inside. So I know God is not a scientific concept.
But if it's not about god, or the supernatural dimension hypothesis, why would you consider determining if the universe can be formed from nothing? It is really one in a a zillion other equally arbitrary initial configurations if there is no god, and really one in a a zillion other equally arbitrary initial configurations if there is a god, but some folks mistake cosmetic differences for substantial ones.

That is an intermediate question.The final question is: once you proved, not theoretically modeled but proved, that the universe comes from nothing, can you deny god? Or you have simply declared that a hypothetical god started from an empty universe? Implementation details....

I can hear the hypothetical god laughing and saying: "Yes, I do like zero indexed arrays, you have a problem with that?"

Take a simulation you run, whose self conscious creatures reverse engineered the rules and the initial conditions and all of its evolution over time. Have they proved you inscrutable? Yes, you are. Have they proved you not existing? Impossible because you exist. And you are NOT a god of the simulation, because you are not controlling every aspect of it.

TLDR, derive the "why" or the "who" from the "how" and you have made an assumption. Every time.

Does a game of chess come from a number of things on a board? nope it comes from the understanding of its meaning.
Consciousness is in the brain, and possibly in the brain only, like a game is in a PC circuitry, but a game is not electrons traveling through circuits, it is an abstraction, electrons traveling are the implementation of the game. If all people forget about the rules of a game, the game does not exist anymore, even if it is running.

Why am I stating these obvious things? because it is pointless to link implementation details to religion, which is the possibility that reality is not the engine of all other abstractions but an abstraction itself for something else.

In other words, consciousness is obviously a thing in the domain of meaning, so consciousness, emergent or not, links the supposed creatures with the supposed observer. Understanding of the meaning is what links the two together. According to John's gospel you could say that consciousness is a magic that comes only from God, but you could also say that consciousness is sharing the meaning the same way the creator does, and only some do that (sons of god).

Incidentally this is why, when John 1 mentions The Word, and people think it's the scriptures, I rather get back to the greek word Logos, which describes the meaning rather than the utterance. Not an impersonal meaning, a personified one.

The problem with your logic is that die shrinks, if yield problems can be resolved, also provide cheaper costs per chip (thus boosting profits) and lower energy consumption. I have AMD chips that heat up the room when I use the computer for extended periods of time. A comparable Intel Core processor does not have this problem. The problem can become more pronounced with server farms and mobile devices.

Desktops will also be a smaller piece of the puzzle as everyone starts to buy more and more mobile devices. Thus, Intel is first focusing getting Broadwell into mobile devices such as tablets and convertibles. The desktop and server versions will follow later. I have a Dell Venue Pro 8, which runs Windows 8 on a tablet. It's not a perfect device, but there's something astounding and unholy about running a full on operating system on a freaking tablet. Once we start cramming Broadwells onto tablets, then we'll start to see AMD start getting more and more irrelevant.

The games I play feel different enough when played on the same pc, same driver, fixed function vs glsl path. But I agree. The problem is that many games are not benchmarks, as the entire category used to be.

Well, clearly from TFA beaches are being used to the point of disappearing, and from the actions of humans, not just nature. That's how it's working. As can a mountain.

The cost is about AUD 30 minimum, which is about USD 26 per package. Yes, it may be less than directly shipping individual packages, but it's still gouging.

On the other hand, inaccuracies for reason others than hiding or underlining AGW may well become statistical noise instead of sabotage

well, in a way it makes sense as a way to increase the likelihood that you consider getting a phone wth more space instead of a bigger card. Ridiculous that a linux based OS can't be flexible with storage devices.