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posted by dennisn on October 28th, 2008 at 5:44PM

But, isn't the universe deterministic? (In which case I don't think you could arrive at such a precise answer.)
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posted by Nylorac on October 29th, 2008 at 9:26AM

I feel like this website is too ugly for me to begin a discussion on determinism.   =(

Ok, so party at my place this weekend for me and Diana.

posted by dennisn on October 29th, 2008 at 11:22AM

The site deliberately makes use of /your/ font face and size settings and /your/ text and page colors. So, it's not the website that is ugly--it's /your/ settings.

Also, there's not really too much to debate on determinism. It either is or it isn't, and this can only be determined by experiment. But, that being said, I'm pretty sure everyone (that matters) thinks it's deterministic--the alternative is like believing in deities--sure they can't be conslusively disproven, but for ALL intents and purposes, there is no god. A non-deterministic world doesn't really make any sense--like god.

posted by dsk on October 29th, 2008 at 11:35AM

>The site deliberately makes use of /your/ font face and size settings and /your/ text and page colors.

Isn't that the reason why God created CSS?

posted by dennisn on October 29th, 2008 at 12:18PM

The devil created CSS. And flash.

God created the font and color settings in your browsers.

(What are you getting at anyways? I remember in one of Dave's older versions, he had an option to customize CSS layouts--and nobody did. It's good in theory, but nobody cares--we only come here (or to any website) for it's content.)