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by Attrecomet 3y ago
A fitting reply to a total non-sequitur, more like. A huge corps handling of browser extensions has absolutely zero to do with encryption algorithms, and security is such a big field that "care about security" means nothing at all
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Taking criticism of string theory hogging all the budget as "it's literally taking over the entirety of physics budgets" instead of "in the field of fundamental high-energy physics, there's no budget left over for a
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
I don't know if Woit explained it, but there are multiple attempts at explanation by other people who have been pointing out the self-serving nature of string theory publicity. Lee Smolin's "The Trouble With Physics" men
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
The author tried the exactly one client that was available from element in the app store. Hard to fault him for that.
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Not really OT, but what a beautifully formatted page. I especially love the convenient footnotes next to the text when on a wide screen, while being at the bottom for narrow windows. This, however, is just hurtful, no need calling my tech s
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
>Oral tradition can be pretty good That's very vague. Oral tradition was replaced by writing because writing is better, and the information content decays far slower. Do you have evidence of information transmitted orally across tho
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
My point wasn't that each flood has always been detrimental, but that there has never been a collection of people living in a place where there aren't also dangerous floods that kill people, so wild stories of floods destroying
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
> It seems that most early civilizations that developed on alluvial flood plains... I'd go even further: there is no human habitat at all where floods are not dangerous catastrophes. The coast and alluvial plains trivially so, but m
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
That is a good question, and one where I had to do some self examination. I think it is because of the closeness of these claims to just-so stories, despite their posing as science ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-s
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
"Ancient people where to stupid to imagine measurements in a fictional account, therefore the presence of measurements is evidence of the story being factional" is a quite arrogant take, don't you think?
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
I find it so wholly unconvincing that it annoys me whenever it is presented as anything more than quite idle speculation, even if by academics (not here in this particular comment chain, mind you). It fails to convince me because it rests o
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
The letters ß and ss are pronounced exactly the same, a hard 's' sound. Their effect on the preceding sounds is slightly different, though -- 'ss' makes the vowel short, 'ß' keeps it long. In all, a rather minu
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
German has an official and fully information preserving transcription to basic latin (which is really what all this talk about "anglo letters" is, just the basic latin letters in common use in the early modern era, with no diacrit
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
How so? Or rather, taking change for a given, what are believable indicators that a secret organization outside normal systems of law and publicity has changed _for the better_? After all, the Snowden relevations lead not to the NSA decidin
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Easier said than done if your main source of light during the day is the sun through a window.
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
The heavyside-function is integrable and differentiable?
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
The correct function to minimize would be θ(-f(x))*(-f(x)), using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Isn't collective punishment in boot camp primarily used as a tool to increase the group cohesion of the trainees? In that case, it doesn't really fit into the other use cases, and must be argued against individually. I'm not
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Why would we put any weight to that promise in general? Or is the philosophical premise that humans never lie?
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Wait, that's still around?
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Just as smart people agree that the manufacturer knows nothing about the situation at the appliance, and a forced update mechanism a la the first iteration of Windows forced updated ("update's here, restarting, too bad you're
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Software engineers shouldn't be, and shouldn't want to be, licensed engineers. Being licensed a pain in the ass, a huge bureaucracy (have fun learning about thousands of ISO standards for trivial stuff for your license) and stifle
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
That certainly sounds like bs. The pre-soviet famines' causes were directly the repressive, backward, exploitative and simply evil system that existed and forced the peasants to starve so the nobility and select bourgeois upper class m
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
This is beautiful, thank you Edit: aww, ninja edit takes away all the fun :/
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
This is literally just a string of buzzwords connected to form a grammatically correct sentence.
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Corporations are "training" their people in MS products by showing them how to save and open documents. A half day of being shown that gives you some useless certificate or other that is often even required you hold (by corp rules
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Well, Amazon did try to lock him out of his smart home, and there is zero evidence that they would have cared had that meant him being homeless for a week. It just happens that he luckily was technically competent enough to have a flexible
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
That's true for a recipe that was developed in a past millennium. Trade secrets are still very much relevant for companies that work with more modern technologies than soda from before the Great War, and a useful protection against com
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
> You should require positive proof that code does what you want. That's just saying you should only ever solve simple problems with your computer.
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
No. For one, even taken literally the way I wrote it it's about two different sets of people -- the EU must defend their citizens (and residents, BTW), of course! For another, if one looks past my vague wording, the EU (or at least Ger

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