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by Double_Cast 10y ago
Suppose a 10 m/s gust of solar-wind accelerates a space-balloon from 0 m/s to 10 m/s. And suppose I want to further accelerate the balloon from 10 m/s to 20 m/s. A second gust at 10 m/s is NOT enough to further
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
> 18atcskd2w > 3rjs1la7qe I wonder what these two mean.
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
"multidimensional indexes" sounds like something obscure and rarely used. But plain-old Decimals are a special case of this, and people use Decimals every day.
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
"Two's Compliment represents a linear automorphism over a cyclic group" is what I think you're trying to say. russdill & co are hinting that Modular Arithmetics are cyclic groups. I think for most people, the aha-m
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
But is it inaccurate? Whatever its ideological biases, I nonetheless believe my definition is more accurate than "anything regarding the exchange of power or money". Such a wide definition includes the purchase of groceries. Yet a
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
I agree. "Polis" is the root of both "politics" and "policy" [0]. The modern definition of policy extends to groups both larger or smaller than cities. I don't know which claim is under dispute. [0] http:
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
In the context of Dang's experiment, I think a better definition of politics is "anything which involves coercion onto an unwilling party." Politics is etymologically related to policy. Which is a set of norms over a group. I
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
Nah. Intel tried several times to quit the x86. They couldn't because the market rejected anything that wasn't backwards compatible.
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
Conversely. Einstein once said that if he had one hour to save the world, he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. And of course each would think this way, given their backgrounds. E
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
"Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend."
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
aka "use of Effectual Reasoning where Causal Reasoning is more appropriate".
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
> you're only chance is to advance the liberal agenda. How convenient for you. The reason why you believe UHC is a useful stepping stone is probably because making UHC a reality will pull UBI within the Overton Window. But perhaps
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
> Finish the job on healthcare, and you'll discover that it becomes easier to advance the cause of UBI. This suggests you believe UHC is a useful stepping stone to UBI. Is this actually your opinion? Because it doesn't reflec
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
Voters' power over a coalition varies directly with the voters' volatility. If I pledge my vote to the democrats, that gives them confidence to do what they want. Which means they'll be less likely to incorporate ideas from t
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
Do you not see how this argument is symmetric though? It's like when Alice says to Bob "Your vote for the green party was wasted, it could have gone towards the democratic party". Sure it could have. But was Alice's vote
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
Why are those sequences equal? Does it generalize, or is it just a coincidence.
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
I use both FF and Chrome. Chrome is more heavy-duty, so I use it for Dedicated Browsing. I've set it such that when something calls me away and I close Chrome, the tabs will reopen so I can continue where I left off. But sometimes I&#x
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
How does an actuary get by without having learned trig? Surely, they must understand statistics at least. Is the job description the same deal as engineers, where they just look up numbers from a reference table and multiply them?
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
The key is to recognize how it's not just that TOP and TOC both measure X with different models. It's that TOP measures X while TOC measures Y. It's as if we claimed Spell Checking were as complex as Natural Language Processi
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
> You’re free to think about computation as acting on bits… but for those bits to do us any good, they have to actually represent something (e.g., data structures). I suspect this is a case of confusing epistemology with ontology. Gala
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
Why is information within a sphere bound by m * r? Naively, I'd expect it to be bound by r^3 or m * r^3.
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
What a coincidence. Not only is the gesture supportive, it frames the speaker in a positive light! Just like how startups offer perks like catered lunches because the company cares about work/life balance, right? "How convenient,
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
It's absolutely fair to criticize the gesture. You know how SJW's tell outsiders to check their privilege when they make the discussion about themselves? Platitudes similarly make the discussion about themselves instead of the can
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/1489/
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
The root symbol (as a multi-valued function) returns the roots of unity (multiplied by a scalar). Which is like, the posterchild of imaginary symmetries. </pedantry> More seriously. The selling point of the triangle operator is t
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
> Similarly, note that filling in all three corners of that symbol is actually an equation. I'm also not aware of any other symbols that constitute entire equations on their own. Multiplication and division can also be put into a
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
> One thought that comes to mind is that I'm not convinced the bottom part of the triangle should be there. It implies a direction connection that I'm not sure exists. I should have included this quote to begin with. I'l
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
> One thought that comes to mind is that I'm not convinced the bottom part of the triangle should be there. It implies a direction connection that I'm not sure exists. The operator in question is actually quite common. >
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
According to the trivium [0], the path to learning consists of a sequence: grammar; dialectic; and rhetoric. In my head I think of it in terms of vocab, logic, and application (respectively). Notation may not be the hardest part. It is howe
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
In one of my (middleschool?) science classes, my teacher explained the density equation in terms of a triangle. Of course, we didn't adopt it into our notation. But I think that just having shown the class the diagram helped a lot of m

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