Beldin

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by Beldin 5y ago
Nitpick: gravity waves != gravitational waves. Unfortunately, I don't know enough to explain the difference.
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by Beldin 5y ago
Base Rate fallacy. The gist: consider a yes/no test that has a small chance of being wrong (false positive and false negative). Examples: spam filter, virus filter, pregnancy test, testing for another illness, etc. How well it performs
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by Beldin 5y ago
I cannot speak for others, but I don't have objections to my students paying their own way. The two things I'll insist on are: - subject matches my interest, - we seem to get along. Okay, I'll probably also insist on a few p
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by Beldin 5y ago
> For instance it could be argued that natural immunity is far superior to vaccines Lots of things could be argued; some things shouldn't be argued without evidence. During a pandemic, statements that will be interpreted as sugges
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by Beldin 5y ago
I would have loved for the first question to be worded more MelBrookish, e.g.: You’re publishing your autobiography at the age of ninety-five. Why the rush?
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by Beldin 5y ago
Alternative system: the virtual queue is for free; every 15 minutes, there are only a limited amount of virtual queue tickets available for a specific 15 minute slot significantly later (eg. +2hr) in the day. If that also goes to capacity,
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by Beldin 5y ago
> Going to a Disney park is usually somewhere between a once-a-year or a once-a-decade treat for families with kids. 2 things: 1. You left out the "once in a lifetime" for most folk (eg. from countries without a park). 2. Dis
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by Beldin 5y ago
EuroDisney, outskirts of Paris. And you forgot to mention Tokyo Disneyland. And I didn't know about Hong Kong Disneyland. 11 theme parks between them at those locations, i.e. about 3 per location.
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by Beldin 5y ago
Indeed, I stand corrected. https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/
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by Beldin 5y ago
My takeaway was that they're not getting rid of dislikes, just not showing them to creators on their own videos. Something to do with less negativity for creators. I might be misremembering though.
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by Beldin 5y ago
No, they're not showing dislikes to creators on their own videos. The rest still gets to see dislikes. At least, that was my takeaway.
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by Beldin 5y ago
From there [1]: Primary Algorithm: The primary algorithm is Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) as defined in (ISO/IEC 14888–3:2006) section 2.3, using the P–256 parameters as defined in appendix D (D.1.2.3) of (FIPS P
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by Beldin 5y ago
The licensing part is most likely true. Can you download purchases for offline play in a random (non-Apple) video player? Or do you need iTunes to exist in order to watch "your" purchases?
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by Beldin 5y ago
The number of deaths is indeed low. How's the number of traffic-related injuries?
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by Beldin 5y ago
That analysis works only if everyone values the network in exactly the same fashion with exactly the same results. Controlling or even having Crypto currencies may be valuable beyond/outside their market cap to some (eg cybercriminals,
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by Beldin 5y ago
The problem is that there is easy too much stuff out there for anyone to be competent in the basics of all. Eg, everybody should learn to dance just to learn decent posture and how to move yourself. Everybody should learn how to grow a few
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by Beldin 5y ago
True, but I don't think you can keep the volunteers if you're in maintenance mode. The scale of volunteers needed requires some responsiveness, some support.
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by Beldin 5y ago
We observe the past all the time. It's most noticeable in astronomy, but since the speed of light is finite, it's impossible to observe the present. Ever. Any observation is based on light (or something slower) travelling to you.
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by Beldin 5y ago
Just go into the mountains to speed up a bit. Where "a bit" is measured in nanoseconds per day; nevertheless... it does work.
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by Beldin 5y ago
It all depends on your point of view (literally, frame of reference). The Earth can be considered: - stationery (geocentric observer) - orbiting the Sun (heliocentric observer) - spiraling about the Sun (galaxy-centric observer) All of the
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by Beldin 5y ago
Funnily enough, the example about the importance of capitalisation has a capitalisation error. It's "Van Gogh" when written without the first name. With, it becomes "Vincent van Gogh". Basically, the "filler wo
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by Beldin 5y ago
<ShifL>-<Alt>-<ShiftR>!! (To switch between 4.77 MHz and 8 MHz)
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by Beldin 5y ago
Crypto currencies' need for GPUs inherently outpaces their availability. That is literally baked in to these systems. You cannot sate the insatiable, even if Apple stopped eating.
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by Beldin 5y ago
> One of the big advantage of the mode X is that the pixels are square On the then-ubiquitous 4:3 resolution monitors. (Made this addition because on first reading, I wondered why square pixels would occur on anything but 320x320 resol
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by Beldin 5y ago
The karma threshold for down voting is 600 I believe. HN's interface felt very positive to me without downvote buttons. S
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by Beldin 5y ago
Are there no clothing-focused online shops in th US? I prefer to buy clothes in-person, but I imagine Zalando etc. are way better than this at being an online clothes store. That's their whole raison d'etre, after all. Probably no
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by Beldin 5y ago
What's "not accelerating" about going in an ellipse? Doesn't that imply constant (and varying) acceleration?
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by Beldin 5y ago
The degradation might also come from the fact that someone who is capable of steering a truck certainly is capable of wiping his ass and of not leaving an exploded loo behind... but they literally didn't care enough to clean up after t
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by Beldin 5y ago
An understanding of human impact on climate change Discovery of extra-solar planets (and even potentially an extra-galactic one) Self-driving taxis (waymo, in Phoenix) CGI in movies (and: cgi-movies) revolutionising entertainment Scienti
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by Beldin 5y ago
> Lastly, authorship priority is not taken into account in hindex. Given that there is no standardised way to determine authorship priority - given that this doesn't even make sense in plenty of cases - I really don't see tha

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