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by Maxatar 2y ago
When I say democratic, I don't mean the Democratic party's primary process, I mean a process by which people vote to select a leader. Yes I agree that Joe Biden had the legal authority to step down and appoint Kamala Harris as his
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by Maxatar 2y ago
He is allowed, it's just doesn't follow a democratic process.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Exactly, over the past 15 years of doing this I can basically recall every single day that my firm had a net loss, with Brexit was the biggest one. Most of the losses were due to technical failures/bugs/networking issues, very few
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by Maxatar 2y ago
As a quant myself, we don't try to predict the market, at least not the way that people normally talk about predicting, and we certainly don't move the market in our favor. At least what my firm does, is we look at the current sta
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Either I'm very stupid or that video is some kind of epic trolling.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
I don't think the term word has any consistent meaning. Certainly x86 doesn't use the term word to mean smallest addressable unit of memory. The x86 documentation defines a word as 16 bits, but x86 is byte addressable. ARM is simi
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The definition given by the C standard allows for safe undefined behavior.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The C standard says, and I quote: >Possible undefined behavior ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results ... or program execution in a documented manner characteristic of the environment (with or without th
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by Maxatar 2y ago
If you are aware that "Maxatar's conjecture is that 1 + 1 = 5", then it's correct to say that you have knowledge about "Maxatar's conjecture", regardless of whether the conjecture is actually true or false
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Sure we'd say physicists have knowledge of quantum mechanics and general relativity. And we can also say physicists have knowledge of how to make predictions using quantum mechanics and general relativity. In this sense, general relati
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Seems contradictory but you can clarify. If a proposition can be falsified then that is knowledge that said proposition is false, and the negation is true. If nothing can be proven or known then it must follow that nothing can be falsified.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
That's what a gettier is, it's when you have a justified true belief about a proposition but the justification is merely coincidental. You were still justified to believe the proposition, the proposition is still true, and so unde
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by Maxatar 2y ago
I think the point is that most people know that Google can terminate your subscription to GMail, whereas most people would be surprised to know that Valve can also terminate your subscription to Steam and lock you out of your game library.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The very subscription that the article posted is about. I suppose no one bothers reading submissions before commenting on them, but anyways here you go, the Steam Subscriber Agreement. https://store.steampowered.com/subscrib
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The subscription is mandatory to play your games.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
What is inherently wrong with taking a pill for weight loss? I can understand being cautious about side-effects or efficacy, but if a pill existed that resulted in weight loss and was side-effect free, I can't imagine what would be inh
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The change would have applied the new fee structure even to games that were released before the change, which was absolutely scummy behaviour.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
>Integer arithmetic will never return NaN or infinity. I use C++ and what integer arithmetic will do in situations where floating point returns NaN is undefined behavior. I prefer the NaN over undefined behavior. >Integer (a b) c will
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by Maxatar 2y ago
As I indicate in another post, I work in finance and I use binary floats. So do a lot of others who work in the industry. I sympathize with people who think that IEEE floating points are some weird or error prone representation and that fix
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Nothing to do with perf is a strong claim. If you genuinely don't care about performance you can use an arbitrary-precision rational number representation. But performance often matters, so you trade off precision for performance. I th
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The downvotes are very unusual to say the least. All the historical material on the subject unambiguously points to neural networks emerging from work done to formalize actual brain neurons. That formalism turns out not to be a great way to
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Einstein received the Nobel prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/summary/
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Yes that is correct for decision problems.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
An optimization problem can always be reduced to a decision problem of the form "Is X one of the optimal solutions to problem Y for input I?"
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by Maxatar 2y ago
No, NP-Complete is only defined for decision problems. As OP specifically and correctly points out, NP hard applies to decision problems as well as search and optimization problems (and others as well). You may review the following to clari
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by Maxatar 2y ago
While I was downvoted my answer is correct. The UK parliament can and has ceded territory and all that is required is an act of parliament. It seems like people forget that the UK ceded everything from Ireland which was a UK constituent as
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by Maxatar 2y ago
The United Kingdom has parliamentary supremacy with little to no checks or balances, so if the parliament wants to give away something, there is nothing that can really stop them.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Yes, of course Parliament will need to vote on this, but the Prime Minister of the UK has approved it and unlike in the US., in the UK votes are predominantly along party lines so it will pass.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
Maybe to you, but not to the UK government.
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by Maxatar 2y ago
>Aside from performance, another very common reason is to not lock the UI from the user. This is not a good fit for parallelism, this is pretty much always accomplished using concurrency ie. async/await.

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