Chinjut

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by Chinjut 7y ago
Your position is that if your employer pays you a sufficient amount of money, you mustn't ever consider anything your employer does to be unethical to the point of pushing for them to stop doing it?
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by Chinjut 7y ago
Man, yours is the only comment on this entire page that understands the central point of the linked article.
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by Chinjut 7y ago
Ice cream isn't comparably addictive and unhealthy to beer and cigarettes. C'mon. But yes, I also believe the poor are equally deserving to enjoy a beer or a cigarette as the rich. I also think both the poor and the rich should be
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by Chinjut 7y ago
"Their lives of excess"? No one on EBT is living a life of excess, and they are just as deserving to enjoy ice cream or other pleasures of life as you are. There's nothing irresponsible about buying ice cream or anything else
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by Chinjut 7y ago
What is meant by a serious defense of slavery?
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by Chinjut 7y ago
Whoops, all the newlines were lost here, oh well.
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by Chinjut 7y ago
If it weren't for finiteness restrictions, you could write the following in Haskell and it'd make a natural number type that acted basically as expected. data Zero = Zero data One = One data Two = Two ... data NaturalNumber = Zero
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by Chinjut 7y ago
Sure, in the same sense that every set is a disjoint union over singletons of all its values. But whether you would or could naturally specify it that way or not depends on the set. You likely wouldn't sit down and specify the type &qu
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by Chinjut 7y ago
Whoa. Smell was more important than sight for brain evolution? Is there somewhere I can read more about this?
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by Chinjut 7y ago
I hadn't been aware he was mean. What are examples of this meanness?
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by Chinjut 7y ago
Looks like this is an idea that resonates with people here! A cheering antidote to many other "Sell your whole life away working and working on businessy nonsense to make rich people richer and maybe, maybe get rich yourself" stra
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by Chinjut 7y ago
"Phoenician" and "phonetics" aren't etymologically related; the latter is etymologically related to "phone", as in sound.
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by Chinjut 8y ago
I agree. This integral cannot be constantly zero in that region, as the integrand is not itself constantly zero. Also, there's no reason to expect this integral (merely the last term of the explicit formula, the one arising from the tr
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by Chinjut 8y ago
Where? I don't see it anywhere. There's some discussion of total volume perhaps being non-independent from box to box, so an underfilled box is followed by an overfilled one, but this isn't the point the grandparent is making
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by Chinjut 8y ago
This works for getting rid of bias in individual flips towards heads or tails, but not for getting rid of dependences between separate flips (the very problem noted in the OP that humans are bad about).
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by Chinjut 8y ago
What a facile response. EVERY complaint is "Fuck! The world does not work the way I want". That is the nature of complaint. It doesn't mean it's pointless to ever complain. One can reasonably desire and agitate for the w
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by Chinjut 8y ago
To precisely the extent that a vector is an array, we have also that a tensor is a multidimensional array. A multidimensional array-of-scalars type is precisely the tensor product of the appropriate one-dimensional array-of-scalars types, i
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by Chinjut 8y ago
Is this true? The few references I find indicate 1921 works became public domain only in 1997. Perhaps it was 1920 works which became public domain in 1977?
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by Chinjut 8y ago
How does it benefit the public to allow this kind of competition? Corporate competition exist to serve the public, and when it doesn't, we may as well make rules to force it to. Competition isn't an intrinsic good.
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by Chinjut 8y ago
You think the examples are all before the 60s? There were some very prominent political assassinations during the 60s, Watergate happened during the 70s, etc.
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by Chinjut 8y ago
Ah, but actually that part is still a little arbitrary. This technique is fully general; variants describe ANY linear recurrence with ANY initial values. In particular, the Nth value of the Fibonacci-type sequence with 0th value x and 1th v
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by Chinjut 8y ago
Fundamentally, the thing to do is to understand the N-th Fibonacci number as a + b, where φ^N = a + b * φ, where a and b are natural numbers and φ^2 = φ + 1. It's not important to understand phi as a floating point value; we can just w
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by Chinjut 8y ago
What do you think capitalism is, if not this clear example of a system affording great power to capital? The definitions of the words aren't simply "capitalism = good" and "socialism = bad", so that the moment somet
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by Chinjut 8y ago
The British East India Company being perhaps the largest, most "successful" (in an imperialistic sense, not a moral one) example of this.
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by Chinjut 8y ago
All references and depicted cultural practices in movies, novels, plays, etc, become dated over time anyway. The world keeps changing.
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by Chinjut 8y ago
Longitude, you presumably mean.
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by Chinjut 8y ago
Love too live in the VC mall, "The Company Town, But Tech!™".
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by Chinjut 8y ago
Buddy, it's an e-book. There's no genuine cost here; the publisher's thrilled to arrange for the publicity.
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by Chinjut 8y ago
Oh, cool, I'd be excited to see this video. What is it on?
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by Chinjut 8y ago
It is very much not a "by definition" truth that the people who, say, happened to snag nice tech industry salaries for their coding abilities (or their visionary decision to process credit card transactions online, or whatever the

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