Kednicma

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by Kednicma 6y ago
But children aren't obligated to pass on their genes in order to appease their parents. Parents only get to pass on genes for one generation, and get no further control over the process. To worry about having children because they migh
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I am not talking about shunning in the sense of social disconnection, and neither is the article. First, let's note that, for companies in particular, there is no way to cancel them other than to not purchase goods and services from th
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I don't want to be the preacher yelling that nothing is new under the sun, but I feel like I'm reading an article written by somebody who doesn't know what a boycott is. I feel like the only major difference is that boycotts
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Turns out that no meaningful ideas for improving our society can come from a culture of doxxing, brandishing weapons in public, and targeting public figures for vigilante justice. It is good for Twitter to deplatform Q's followers.
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Twitter should probably kick Spronson, Betts, and Hodgkinson off of their platform, then.
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Honestly, it doesn't bother me at all. I'm used to slogans like "syntax and semantics are adjoint functors" or "meaning is a functor from syntax to semantics" from category theory. In the opening definition, fo
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by Kednicma 6y ago
As an antifascist, I'd like to list some things [0] which I haven't done and which I do not imagine are parts of healthy antifascism, but which I can understand that Twitter might ban folks for encouraging or doing: * Doxxing * Br
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I wonder whether Wittgenstein would be satisfied with how things have turned out. We now know that what he considered "useless language-games" are in fact the building blocks of the universe, or as close as we're going to get
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Maybe folks on "the right" would do well to realize that there is no monolithic left. This mistake comes up time after time, with folks on "the right" mistaking hashtags for movements, mistaking flash mobs for cults, and
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by Kednicma 6y ago
This is a little disingenuous. There exist locks that he cannot pick, but the vast majority of his uploads are three minutes or fewer and include a successful picking attempt. More on-topic for this thread, a common LPL theme is that bike
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I'm curious why they chose CollectD and not Prometheus or another pull-based ("scraping") solution. Pulling is more compositional than pushing and requires fewer machines to be touched when monitoring configuration is changed
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What's really frustrating is that Bourbaki's way of approaching set theory and abstract algebra remains canon today. As a result, even though category theory and modern mathematical logic are nearing their first centennials, folks
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You are spot-on. I would just add that there's another relatively beautiful reason why, in practice , folks pick the mean and variance for their summary; it can be done online with live data, for O(1) time and space! [0] If we extend
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It is poignant to see a Louisiana congressperson pushing for disinformation to be unmarked, especially climate change disinformation, since Louisiana is continually falling into the sea due to climate change. In some sense, they do it to th
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This is a big post. I'll point out what is especially interesting in terms of equivalences. A square matrix on the Booleans is indeed also equivalent to a directed graph, as explained. It is also equivalent to a Chu space [0], specific
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In the "Behind the Bastards" special podcast series "Behind the Police", which ran only a month or two ago, one of the running themes of the police is that they historically are not just entangled with corruption, but ar
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Yikes, let's break apart your claims. Why am I arguing this? Your initial claim, that protestors are trying to burn down the federal courthouse, is totally unsubstantiated and smells like bullshit. It's worth arguing against becau
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Feds, right-wing media paint Portland as ‘city under siege.’ A tour of town show(oregonlive.com)
1 points by Kednicma 6y ago|1 comments
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How would they do it? Heck, how would you do it? This isn't idle banter, nor am I trolling for a ban or an FBI watchlist. The federal courthouse building [0] is one of several stone buildings downtown, built out of massive blocks of st
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Hop on a bus and go across the river; go downtown. Neighborhoods which are on the western "downtown" side of the river, but north of Burnside, are fine. Drive up MLK and you'll see nothing out of the ordinary. If you are look
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The Hyksos are traditionally not associated with a race, but with the chariot-and-archer techniques that would come to characterize Bronze Age Egyptian military power and conquest. Indeed, it is usually the other way around, with the Hyksos
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I've noticed that using youtube-dl seems to prevent my recommendations from changing much. Are there other tricks that one can use to avoid getting bubbled?
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There is a way to read pickles without running them, but it is Python-only and still requires one to know how pickles work. The module `pickletools` can be used to disassemble pickles to bytecode, just like `dis` for normal Python objects
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Thanks. There's a recent video [0] out by Sean Carroll that delves more into the difference between SR and GR. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353lEB63iyg
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As somebody who's studied some advanced maths, I think that their point is that abstract algebra is effectively a sort of secret maths techniques, sitting in plain sight but somehow sprayed with repellent or maybe equipped with a Som
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A Million Dollars vs. a Billion Dollars, Visualized(youtube.com)
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As she says, that's specifically "grand" unified theories (GUTs). A theory of everything might be imagined as similar to a GUT, in that they should both have all of the same stuff on the blackboard and arranged into roughly t
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Yes, we do need a "theory of everything," or at a minimum we need a model of quantum gravity. Consider the color of gold, as a famous example; gold has its unique and curious color because of a combination of relativistic and quan
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Oh, shit_hn_says [0] is a Twitter account which mocks the serious-yet-rude attitude of folks on this site. Their posts are curated selections from normal HN discourse; the entirety of the criticism is that some person genuinely believed wha
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Still not Oregon, although I'm absolutely tickled that you're so angry about this that you're still posting on the thread.

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