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by Retra 8y ago
Once could argue that this sort of thing happens because people are very quick to try and turn any value-making proposition into a money-making proposition, as though the relationship between the two were simple and obvious, or often, equiv
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by Retra 8y ago
Coffee contains water. If water is harmful, coffee will be just as harmful unless it has protective effects. In any case, you can't say they "established that drinking water damages DNA" and then go on to argue that they sh
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by Retra 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckle_pattern Laser speckle has nothing to do with your headlight plastic.
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by Retra 8y ago
Why would colonizing the moon in a self-sufficient way be faster than doing the same thing on Antarctica or the bottom of the ocean? The only thing I can think that would make it faster is that people will romanticize space colonization so
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by Retra 8y ago
My favorite example of this is when someone says "Nobody knows X." As though your own ignorance is as good as everyone's ignorance. Somebody might know X. And they might know X for all the right reasons. But they probably did
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by Retra 8y ago
Getting lucky is not the same as relying on luck.
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by Retra 8y ago
By "generics", I presume they mean template parameters which are checked at declaration, not at use.
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by Retra 8y ago
When you take something from "permitted" to "restricted", you turn actions from "normal" to "suspicious", and that definitely acts as a signal for observers and a deterrent. The FAA requires airline d
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by Retra 8y ago
Tigers don't eat humans because tigers roam free, they eat humans because humans roam free. Build a fence around your town and tigers won't eat you. Don't try to build such a general argument on such marginal premises. Humans
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by Retra 8y ago
You assert that there is no knowledge under the expectation that it is true, then you go on and justify it. So it seems you know that there is no knowledge, a contradiction. Why deny the word has meaning, just because you can't distill
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by Retra 8y ago
You could also argue that your expectations are defective. It is possible to accidentally solve a problem in a correct manner.
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by Retra 8y ago
That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. You can (and should) simply refuse to take any polygraphs. It will never work in your favor.
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by Retra 8y ago
So you're willing to argue that the output of a polygraph is evidence of something in absence of any responses you give during questioning?
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by Retra 8y ago
What does it mean for a polygraph to be "correct?" They're not lie detectors, they are stress detectors. You can't "fail" a polygraph in any reliable sense.
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by Retra 8y ago
My understanding is that the police use polygraphs simply as a 'primed' question-asking session for people who agree to take them. It is no different from sitting down and asking someone questions, except maybe they will believe y
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by Retra 8y ago
Your biases when making quick decisions might not have any relevance to your biases when making day-to-day decisions or when making long term policy-like decisions.
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by Retra 8y ago
Small pox came from nature too. But it's effectively gone. So is the Dodo bird, etc..
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by Retra 8y ago
This is great advice, I feel. I loaned my sister some money for school, and she made an honest effort to repay me, but started falling back on it after a while. So I just said "consider the rest of the loan a birthday present" and
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by Retra 8y ago
That is certainly not the definition of fake news. Fake news is news that is reporting on things which are not factual as though they are. What you are talking about is simply a dishonest speaker, which obviously has everything to do with t
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by Retra 8y ago
Only if you need an engine that powerful and flexible. A toned down and simplified engine is certainly not as hard to develop.
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by Retra 8y ago
If there wasn't a gain, why would they process or index them in the first place? If you don't want to be responsible for the data you process, don't process it.
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by Retra 8y ago
And usually, you don't want it to cost O(n) on top of whatever parser you ran to find those newlines.
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by Retra 8y ago
>If that's true, isn't it the job of a type system to help avoid such nonsensical operations? It's not strictly true, because there are situations where you want to slice UTF-8. For instance, if you already know where th
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by Retra 8y ago
Well I'd say neither of those things. The gulf between a child and an adult is really not that wide when it comes to matters such as taste and reasoning ability.
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by Retra 8y ago
Panics are not unsafe. Panic exists in Rust because they are safe. If you don't want a panic on index, just don't index. Indexing into a UTF-8 string doesn't serve any reasonable consistent purpose anyway, because it is an
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by Retra 8y ago
Perhaps some real-world data could support or refute that hypothesis. Though if Veganism is every going to be a proper religion, that sort of rationalism may undermine it.
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by Retra 8y ago
>Proverbially, no-one wishes they'd spent more time at the office. Plenty of people who lost their jobs and opportunities because they shirked on work wish that. I've personally wished I'd spent more time at the office, so
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by Retra 8y ago
That's all anybody has ever done. You may as well be claiming that the reals don't exist because no mathematician has conceptualized one non-symbolically and non-approximately. When you do calculus on the reals, you only ever appr
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by Retra 8y ago
That's true up to a point. But chances are, they will eventually have corporate leadership that is desperate to make a profit, and they'll seriously consider doing the same thing.
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by Retra 8y ago
Gas station ATMs, mostly. And anybody who uses them.

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