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by 13415 5y ago
This looks like a big deal if it's true but is it? There is a phrase "For over 55 years, John Bell has misled the physicists community and made us believe that nature does show superluminal nonlocal interactions." that looks
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by 13415 5y ago
If this is really enforced, it should lead to a huge devaluation of crypto currencies. After all, the reason why Bitcoin was invented in the first place was to decentralize currencies. Moreover, most crypto wallets should still be offline s
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by 13415 5y ago
I know, I have myself provided camera-ready copies set in LaTeX to for-profit publishers - all of this for free, done in my spare time. I was referring to the end-control of the typsetting, which they still provide, and if it's only in
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by 13415 5y ago
Apple sells iPhones to children? Couldn't the just sell children's iPhones then? It's not uncommon to have two different products for adults and for children.
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by 13415 5y ago
They charge shitloads of money to universities for accessing their journals, these fees are so high that e.g. our university is very picky about which "packet" they buy and limit them to institutions on a case-by-case basis. The c
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by 13415 5y ago
It's how it has evolved. Journals with good reputations have been taken over gradually since the 1970s by a few larger publishing companies such as Springer, Oxford Journals, Wiley, etc. There are only very few independent journals lef
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by 13415 5y ago
FB uses a rather obscure and proprietary internal scoring system. You may be able to publish an ad campaign with lots of text once or twice, but it will make your ads account score go down and at some point it will likely be disabled - temp
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by 13415 5y ago
It could be extremely widespread if it is used by intelligence agencies, especially if the attacks are conducted by official embassy staff with diplomatic immunity abroad or by domestic intelligence operatives in the country. For example, I
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by 13415 5y ago
I was wondering how anyone could trust a "Private Investment Club" that cannot afford a technician who can fix the audio. I mean, this sounded like a crappy room mic picking up the audio from the speakers instead of a direct signa
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That's also my impression about CommonLisp, which I otherwise like a lot. Macros are really handy but in the long run they force new programmers to learn DSLs forever. The same for templates, of course. They increase programmer comfort
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by 13415 6y ago
I'm going to be the heretic and predict the opposite about Go and Rust. The reason is that Rust is overengineered, allows for macros, and is getting more and more complicated all the time. It's going to be as complicated as C++ in
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by 13415 6y ago
This depends a lot on your budget, voice and whether your room is treated or not. My room is not treated. I use a Røde M3 condenser mic just outside the camera range for Zoom calls, it's fine but sensitive to outside noise. A mic with
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by 13415 6y ago
The exceptions are odd and in my view indicate that some government agencies are already using deepfakes for questionable purposes or at least want to have the option to do so. Other than that, I agree. Having to clearly label deepfakes is
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by 13415 6y ago
> risk management should be a personal decision I think this is unrealistic for medical application, not only for vaccinations but in general for anything related to side effects of drugs. First of all, most people don't have the
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by 13415 6y ago
I was kidding, of course. Neither running an ad blocker nor running a website that runs script is stealing anything. However, I do run an ad blocker and I'm completely fine if every company that relies on ads for income goes out of bus
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by 13415 6y ago
On the contrary, the websites who display ads steal screen space on my machine without paying me for it, some of them even steal computing time by running unauthorized scripts.
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by 13415 6y ago
May I assume that you mean open access fees by "outrageous prices"? At least in my area of research not a single reputable journal asks for money for publishing an article. It's always free. You're right about the open a
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by 13415 6y ago
Well, nobody uses these sites but they try to get a larger user base, probably in the hope of later monetization. You can't blame them for that, maybe one of them someday becomes popular.
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by 13415 6y ago
Which goes to tell you how good their software is. It is better than anything other companies have to offer for video conference calls with many participants and screen sharing, which is why our university is using it after we had evaluated
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by 13415 6y ago
Some of the hardest professions? You've got to be kidding me... OP could have mentioned sculptors, theoretical physicists, athletes, or singers but chose to list completely normal professions. Just like programming. But the biggest mis
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by 13415 6y ago
The examples you give in support of your thesis are strange. The idea that programming is hard is about as pretentious and wrong as saying that being a doctor, architect, lawyer, welder, car mechanic, or airline pilot is hard. Almost anyone
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by 13415 6y ago
This was just a blog as part of regular press work by the European Commission in the UK. Every organization does that in publications and press conferences. It's normal to publish press releases to correct misunderstandings or point o
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by 13415 6y ago
I work in the humanities and disagree. I know plenty of people in neighboring disciplines, too, and can assure you that you won't need to read Foucault in any of them if you don't want to.
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by 13415 6y ago
If I could choose I'd currently take Pfizer-Biontech. My second choices would be a tie between Moderna and Sputnik V, third choice J&J, last choice currently AstraZeneca because of the lower efficacy and elevated risk of trombosis
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by 13415 6y ago
As if Foucault has had any major influence. He's literally one among thousands of philosophers and by far not the most popular one. I'm working in a philosophy institute and of all 60+ researchers there is but one postdoc who ta
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by 13415 6y ago
Yes, the property defined on the page is more commonly called asymmetry.
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The problem is that decades of experience has shown that only few programmers can discuss the advantages and disadvantages of programming languages for certain purposes in a halfway objective manner, and since few of them implement their ow
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by 13415 6y ago
It's pointless discussing this. There is no perfect language and every programming language I've ever seen has design problems at one level or another. I know enough of CL, Pascal, Modula, Ada, Rust, Nim, etc., to know their weakn
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by 13415 6y ago
Yes, that sounds like a flame war invitation. Issues with nil plays no role in practice.
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by 13415 6y ago
Yes, but giving nil a default type would be way more confusing.

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