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> You would expect to be aligned with experts? Wouldn't that make you an expert, by definition? No. Ibelieve lots of things experts believe, often because they believe them, in fields where I have no expertise.
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Right. I think your parent comment was pointing out that it's not that the legal theory failed, but that it was never tested, and so might (or might not) still be sound.
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> > his overturned conviction only for wrong jurisdiction > What are you getting at? > If an appeals court says “wrong jurisdiction”, that’s an “rm -rf” on the whole entire case. There’s nothing left to argue about. I think your
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I think that's arguably an a posteriori explanation: you can find orthogonal coordinates with respect to which the L^2 norm has a nice form, but you can also single out the L^2 norm in various ways (for example, by its large symmetry g
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The reference to Firefox 3.0 probably helps with the vintage feel.
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I think a problem here is that everyone has a different idea of when you hit the boundary between obvious/non-surprising and confusing, so you can't just say that overloading is OK as long as it is unsurprising.
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> But when I was learning linear algebra all I could think was "who cares about linear functions? It's the simplest, dumbest kind of function. In fact, in one dimension it's just multiplication -- that's the only line
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I think that, to be frank, it's a combination of (1) a curriculum developed before it was clear how ubiquitous linear algebra would become, and (2) the fact that it's a lot easier to come up with a standardized assessment for algo
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Or perhaps the commenter just aged a lot while writing the post.
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I think that the really typographically professional thing, at least to US standards, is an em dash set off with hair spaces, but it's easy to insert an em dash on macOS and there's no immediate keyboard shortcut for hair spaces,
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Direct link to Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-29/trump-s-g... The first two paragraphs, which are all that show up for me: > Most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were
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This seems to be saying "you shouldn't bother supporting your local businesses because not enough people do it to make it worthwhile." But, if they're what we want, somebody has to be the one to start shifting support
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Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. (Also, UM has, or had back when I read it, the best school newspaper I've ever read.)
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> Type theory isn’t particularly heavy in terms of jargon compared to other foundational theories like category theory or set theory. And anyone who thinks their own area doesn't have jargon has just forgotten how to recognize it.
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In case anyone else finds this question before the other one, it was answered at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804178 .
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Prolog as a security model.
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As somebody, maybe Sagan, said, pi seconds is approximately a nanocentury.
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> I also figure he, like Elon Musk, pays orders of magnitude more than his fair share, if we consider the definition for "fair share" to mean everyone pays the same amount of direct cash transfer into the system and gets the sa
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> Books aren't user interfaces that are learned. They definitely are! We just learn them so young that we forget that we had to.
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> Owners do not possess the authority with which to force workers back to work. Lacking the authority to do something is different from lacking the ability to do it, and I think that the labor environment in the US is such that owners ve
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> I adore the idea that someone is so pro-union the only outcome they support is a perma-strike that results with no one having any jobs. Beautiful. Well done. "Ended a strike" almost certainly does not mean, in this context, &
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What is IR?
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I always thought "the banality of evil" wasn't about minimizing the horror of his actions. It's not saying "what he did wasn't so bad," but "these horrible actions were done not by an obvious villain,
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> I don’t really get why anybody would want to rule over an uneducated populace. What’s the long term plan? Modern industry is high tech. Modern war is high tech. Even modern propaganda is high tech! I think that, for exactly this reason
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> Whole Foods, and other more 'local' choices. Whole Foods used to be the place to go for quality throughout the store. It seems to me that now you can still get plenty of quality, but it's not guaranteed if you just go a
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At human levels of expense, I think it's not. I traveled Amtrak sleeper on a 24-hour ride. There was no shower, so I couldn't have gone 48 hours, but otherwise it was end-to-end way more pleasant than any international flight I&#x
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I also used to use Macports exclusively (and Fink before that!). For me the reason behind the switch, after resisting it a long time, was simple: everything I used from Macports was also in Homebrew, but I just kept running into things I wa
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> Generalizing an associative binary op to an n-ary op just requires an identity element Id (which isn't always obvious, e.g. Id_AND=true but Id_OR=false). Only for n = 0, I think. Otherwise, generalizing associative binary f_2 to
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It probably matters that, despite the title mangler, this is the HALO effect, not the halo effect.
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Wow, seeing someone (presumably) unironically saying "This is why we love Google" was definitely a throwback to an earlier time. https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-m...

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