Chinjut

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by Chinjut 12y ago
Right, English doesn't have a future tense (in the sense of tense as marked by inflection). So what's the contrast of note? That the one sentence marks the future by use of a modal auxiliary (in addition to the explicit "tomo
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by Chinjut 12y ago
How does "It rain tomorrow" not indicate a concept of the future? For that matter, how does "It rain tomorrow" not indicate a phrase in the original language that might as well have been translated into English as "
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by Chinjut 12y ago
Why should the concept of color be harder to wrap one's mind around or describe than the concept of sight itself? Or, considering any animal with any kind of sensory receptors other than those you yourself have, wrapping your mind arou
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by Chinjut 12y ago
But jenkem was a hoax, as your link tells us...
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by Chinjut 12y ago
I believe you are supposed to get notified when rated 4 or 5 regardless of whether you rated the other person at all.
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by Chinjut 12y ago
What are the thoughts of current mainstream economists on "basic income" proposals?
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by Chinjut 12y ago
If a language only allows you to specify programs with bounded memory usage, then it will fail to be Turing-complete.
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by Chinjut 12y ago
The original Mario Bros. is distinct from Super Mario Bros. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bros .
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by Chinjut 12y ago
A finite memory machine is a finite state machine. These are not Turing complete. The notion of Turing completeness becomes uninteresting if we can't even draw this distinction. "dynamic memory allocation" may not have been t
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by Chinjut 12y ago
Whether a call is a tail-call is trivially decidable; it's an entirely syntactic condition (a call to f is a tail-call just in case it's of the form "return f(...);"). It's true that it's not possible to make a
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by Chinjut 12y ago
What does it mean to abuse a program of universal healthcare?
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by Chinjut 12y ago
This business about having to wait months for treatment is always an odd objection to me. Here in the U.S., under our existing system, I have many times had to wait months to see a specialist or begin a particular course of (non-emergency)
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by Chinjut 12y ago
Step 4 seems a bit glib... :) It would follow straightforwardly if we knew that the largest rectangle in a circle is a square. The easiest way I can think of right now to see this is by Lagrange optimization (which we could also apply just
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by Chinjut 12y ago
Why (if an alternative is feasible, as the basic income proponents would argue) _should_ people be forced by threat of destitution to "work" for a living? Why does it upset you that people might seek some increased freedom over ho
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by Chinjut 12y ago
For what it's worth, despite the common perception that the Planck length is the the grid-scale on which the world is quantized, or the smallest measurable distance, or various such things, the Planck length is not actually known to ha
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by Chinjut 12y ago
In the article, Gates says that he was introduced to the book by Buffett, who recommended it as his favorite book about business.
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by Chinjut 12y ago
That's quite clever. Of course, only 2^800 hard drives can actually be represented in this way, but it would, by definition, be in principle capable of covering everything we would ever desire to place on a hard drive anywhere (during
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by Chinjut 12y ago
This is a very different sort of thing, isn't it?
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by Chinjut 12y ago
The cylinder is sqrt(2) (~= 1.41) times as wide as it is high. So... a little fat? (I don't know the healthy baseline for cylinders...)
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by Chinjut 12y ago
Rather, 2/pi. The nice answer (referred to above as a "cheat") is to note that the sought probability is the mean number of crossings made by a 1 foot needle with the lines on the floor, where we are implicitly supposing our
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by Chinjut 12y ago
The ignorant swipe at Haskell irked me, but "programmers have become plumbers and documentation-archaeologists mostly, which is sad and uninteresting" resonated strongly as a description of much of the workday grind.
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by Chinjut 12y ago
I'm sure it's true that avoiding sleep-deprivation is useful for "productivity", but, frankly, it saddens me that that this is the way it has to be pitched to get people to pay attention. Avoiding sleep-deprivation is al