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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Animal Rescuers, e.g. https://bemagazine.org/direct-action-everywhere-trial-finall...
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
The appropriate notion here seems to be Differential Privacy, which is a mathematical definition informally saying "a scrambling of the dataset that is information theoretically indistinguishable from that where one arbitrary person is
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
By that notion my home kitchen also has something for everyone because I have a tomato in the fridge. Where's my HN praise for being so culinarily flexible?
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
There are a few more options when generalizing beyond entrées, but still five of the items listed on that page are salads, with the other four being a side of beets, asparagus, artichoke, or edamame. Which, at double digit Calories, is only
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
"Something for everyone" is stretching it when they have one vegan entree: The Impossible Burger. The closest second option, if it even counts as a separate option, is the "Skinny" Impossible Burger, which comes with may
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Sears is an amusing example given their mail-order history. Ultimately they shut down as a direct result of making no attempt to innovate or even mimic the innovators since those glory days. Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc. embraced the 21
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
This reply feels a bit tangential. The amount of land taken to raise livestock is a small fraction of the land used to grow their feed. You discuss the lack of nuance with respect to the former, but OP was talking about the latter. The land
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
The Collatz conjecture isn't a decision problem. The natural corresponding decision problem (given an x, does the conjecture hold when starting at all positive integers k less than x) is decidable in constant time. We don't know w
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
The <pre> tag has existed since HTML 2 for displaying preformatted/whitespace-sensitive text, and HTML 1 had the mostly similar <LISTING> tag (plus <PLAINTEXT> which is a little different).
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Since it had stickers, why not just move them around instead of smashing the clock?
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
There's a long-standing effort by Nation of Islam (the American hate group that is only nominally Islamic) to rewrite the history of slavery in the US as largely orchestrated by and for Jews. Nonetheless the actual numbers show that th
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
You're never concentrating the PFAS, so at worst you're bringing poor sap's new PFAS concentration closer to your own pre-transfusion levels. So the question is whether they need the blood more than you did pre-transfusion. I
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Not even surrounding Paul with water emojis could stop the fire.
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
I'm not using it. Same goes for the rest of the junk operating system it's built for.
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Not the person you replied to, but from a privacy perspective Apple won't allow Westerners to disable all network access per-app. Something that's been around in Chinese iOS releases for nearly a decade. I'd love to use many
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
(sorry, that's the sum of 2n+1 terms, but the analysis doesn't appreciably change)
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Saying (2n)! ≈ 2^(2n)*(n!)^2 means he's approximating the central binomial coefficient (2n choose n) as 2^(2n). In reality, 2^(2n) is really the sum of all binomial coefficients (2n choose k) for k=0..2n. So clearly this is going to be
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Many humans also evolved to tolerate ethanol but it's also bad for you unless you specifically need the calories.
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
I'm not sure even the first statement is entirely fair. As far as I can tell this result is indistinguishable from "a sufficiently powerful model can distinguish data generated by two different popsynth models". I would have
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Netcraft now confirms: Beowulf cluster memes are dead.
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
The diameter of the cube group is 20, but speedcubers go for natural/memorized sequences of moves they can execute extremely quickly ("fingertrick") over technically shorter but awkward move sequences that require grip adjust
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Why is it Justine posts and seemingly only Justine posts that always get this type of comments? Do people regularly comment on the authors of other content, for better or for worse, and I miss it?
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Why not use the MATE edition?
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Heap sort's worst- and average-case running time are both provably within a constant factor of optimality (both in running time and number of comparisons), but it's either likely or straight up provably not actually optimal in any
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Light bulbs are also nearly 100% efficient, minus whatever fraction of light seeps out through windows or similar. As is just about anything else electric. Unfortunately that heat is usually suboptimally distributed, and pales in comparison
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Not that I envy the ducklings thrown into the sewers for those videos, but I'd still rather be that duckling than a ferret into whom scientists have been stuffing colloidal tungsten to see if its LD50 differs from that in hamsters.
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
I don't understand how this is obvious -- non-locality does not inherently imply that iteration increases complexity. For a concrete not-entirely-trivial counterexample, von Neumann's middle-square method also appears "non-lo
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
Reddit Founders Made Hundreds of Fake Profiles So Site Looked Popular https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
> The fines, totaling $30.8 million, represent a fraction of Amazon's $3.2 billion first-quarter profit. What fraction of their first quarter profit should Amazon pay for the alleged activities at Ring, all but one of which was befo
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by CaptainNegative 3y ago
It entirely depends on the description language. In Python, the opposite is true for basically the reason you gave: an asymptotically positive constant fraction of valid Python programs will begin with code searching for a contradiction to

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