LudwigNagasena

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1. 1951.▲
   by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

   Does India not have any anti-dumping / pro-competition laws?
2. 1952.▲
   by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

   I think even 95% would be good enough, 81% is commendable.
3. 1953.▲
   by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

   This quote struck me a strange since they aren’t losing anything. They just earn extra cash from a new use case.
4. 1954.▲
   by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

   >Contrary to predictions from evolutionary theory, the magnitude of gender differences varied across cultures. How is it contrary? I don’t know a single evolutionary theorist who denies impact of culture on behavior.
5. 1955.▲
   by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

   Sure, I have read the article.
6. 1956.▲
   by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

   And if all of that feels like too much hassle they can simply send what they think their fair share is to the United States Treasury.
7. 1957.▲
   by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

   How is it different from other ETL tools?
8. 1958.▲
   by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

   I think many people who can afford this sort of thing barely have any money to rent a closet in a city like Singapore.
9. 1959.▲
   by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

   Greco-Buddhism, as its name suggests, is Buddhism with Greek influence, not vice versa.
10. 1960.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

    Every patent and even every technology is basically an algorithm. And they are valuable because they are true (not sure how mathematical truth is different from any other type of truth).
11. 1961.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 7y ago

    The biggest imbalance in tech is caused by economic status. I wouldn't call a policy that prioritizes gender and sex over poverty as fair. Seems far from that.
12. 1962.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 8y ago

    Isn't it a beauty of capitalism that a product can be made by a white supremacist furry pedophile elf manchild and nobody has to care about it as long as they stay a productive member of society and don't threaten anyone?
13. 1963.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 8y ago

    >If you have been around functional programming for a bit, you might see the word “monoid” and “categories” and wonder “oh, is julia writing about monads, like in Haskell”? I am not!!
14. 1964.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 8y ago

    Short-term protectionism may be beneficial. And it is even more true in the world where you have to take into account geopolitics.
15. 1965.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 8y ago

    Ugly structures that don't map to clear concepts are worse than any special case. Padding array makes you go "wtf is that?" I would rather see something like this: (i > 0 ? input[i-1] : 0) + (i < input.size - 1 ? in
16. 1966.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 8y ago

    Amateur has obvious connotations of the lack of formal training. I agree that the title is not wrong, but it is misleading.
17. 1967.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 8y ago

    >He received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Glasgow. The title looks a bit misleading.
18. 1968.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 8y ago

    This is a really good article. Framing discussion of IQ differences as "the reasons why black people are just so damn stupid" is disingenuous and hostile. If you think few IQ points difference (whether it is or it is not so) is en
19. 1969.▲
    by LudwigNagasena 8y ago

    Can you provide an example? I can’t think of a single Quillete article that could be characterized as pseudoscience that was "lifted, almost verbatim, from Victorian publications on eugenics."