Confusion

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by Confusion 7y ago
I wonder whether you can't write this story about almost any SF author. If you write a dozen books and stories each with a plethora of new ideas, you are sure to get some things right. Pick out all the things they got right, add a few
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by Confusion 7y ago
The reality is we as developers choose not to give languages enough context to accurately infer the lifetime of objects. The reality is we as developers choose not to give languages enough context to just do what I mean. inst
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by Confusion 7y ago
No, if you're a serious professional cyclist. There is huge difference between driving in front and driving in second place. Between having one good teammate with you and not having one. Between having a good day and a just-so day. How
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by Confusion 7y ago
What I would be very interested in seeing in an introduction to a new language is an explanation of why the authors think other languages that intend to support a similar combination of features have failed to achieve that or have failed to
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by Confusion 7y ago
How many people died similar deaths in the outdoors before mobile phones? How many where neither a phone nor camera is, or was, involved? Without numbers to compare the reported numbers against, this tells us nothing.
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by Confusion 8y ago
The Black-Scholes equation is literally the basic heat diffusion equation [1]. [1] https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/84/transformation-...
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by Confusion 8y ago
No, there’s some confusion here. There are two distinct benefits you are entitled to when you become a father. One is that you get exactly 1 week of paid leave. The other is the right to take 26 weeks of unpaid ‘parental leave’ during the f
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by Confusion 8y ago
Yes, you only get paid 80% of your former salary.
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by Confusion 8y ago
When would I want to use this? What problem that people currently have does this solve? The website tells me what Radicle is and what you can do with it, but as far as I can tell it doesn’t explain why/when I would want to do that.
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by Confusion 8y ago
I think the average joe is generally more reasonable and able to develop critical thinking skills than most people think You think wrong. You would like this to be the case and you let the desire cloud your judgment. It's
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by Confusion 8y ago
No, this sentiment is very wrong. 10% of the population is functionally illiterate. Another 10% can't do basic arithmetic. Another 10% has more important things to worry about than vetting all their sources. Another 10% just can't
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by Confusion 8y ago
And [1] explains why this is the case. In short: patents. [1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
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by Confusion 8y ago
I think the abstract pattern here is: own it.
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by Confusion 8y ago
You are assuming moral reasons where simple business reasons suffice. That’s why I said I hoped you were trolling, because the alternative is that you have a strong opinion about something which you have thought insufficiently about.
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by Confusion 8y ago
I hope you are trolling.
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by Confusion 8y ago
If you are asked to swipe some IP of your employer, with a subtle reminder you still have family in your home country and they know where to find them, what would you do?
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by Confusion 8y ago
Mozilla is subject to US law. Mozilla has no obligation to enable certain addons only for visitors from certain countries.
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by Confusion 8y ago
The US of course. Look at the list of sites the plugin works for: none of them cares if you ignore their paywall. The likelihood that you would subscribe is negligible. It’s American readers they are after. And for them the jurisprudence
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by Confusion 8y ago
Folks, you can downvote me, but that doesn’t make what I’m saying false. Look at the law cited in TFA.
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by Confusion 8y ago
No, it’s not. The jurisprudence is pretty clear.
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by Confusion 8y ago
You are not allowed to circumvent paywalls, just like you are not allowed to circumvent locks, no matter how easy they are to circumvent. As far as I have always understood, you may publish a locksmithing guide, even an “entering your home
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by Confusion 8y ago
Thanks, reread and adjusted it a bit. Better like this?
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by Confusion 8y ago
Rename the plugin and change the description. The message from Mozilla states that the problem is the intent of the plugin. The technological measures it actually takes are not illegal per sé, but are illegal when used to circumvent paywa
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by Confusion 8y ago
Meanwhile geeks are marvelling at the speed improvements of their latest SoC's over the previous generation and over their competitors.
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by Confusion 8y ago
I was going to ask the same. According to the regular definition of 'strong typing', Ruby is strongly typed. You cannot take a bunch of bytes in memory and pretend they are a different type. If something is an Integer, you can onl
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by Confusion 8y ago
before the world can build artificial intelligence, it must explain human intelligence so it can create machines that genuinely work like the brain Why must intelligent machines work like the human brain? It’s just an accidental
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by Confusion 8y ago
You are assuming this was 'reasoned talk'.
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by Confusion 8y ago
Only if you think hiring decisions should depend only on certain measurable professional qualifications. Which they of course never are. If someone has a specialization that you already have in your portfolio, while a competitor has a diffe
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by Confusion 8y ago
> The proper scientific answer is a peer-review, Not necessarily. This can be viewed as a case of vaccines-cause-autism. The proper scientific answer there is to prevent endless repetition of the same boring, already sufficiently disprov
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by Confusion 8y ago
Only if those houses make them money or their money yields more than the debts cost.

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