Retra

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by Retra 8y ago
>where all the risk is taken out of face to face interactions with other people All of the risk is not in taxi fare negotiation, nor is that the source of all face-to-face interactions with other people. Seems like you're trying to
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by Retra 8y ago
>why annoy people who've already paid you with the crapware? Why make money once when you can make it twice? Where's the incentive for businesses to give you what you want, when you can instead just take what they offer?
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by Retra 8y ago
You can certainly use real numbers. You just have to pick the finite subset of them that you need for a given problem and an appropriate encoding for them.
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by Retra 8y ago
Meeting people is useful for education & learning.
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by Retra 8y ago
100%? That sounds like a real statistic and not totally something you've made up. In any case, how you feel on your deathbed is about the least relevant feeling you will ever have in your life.
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by Retra 8y ago
Obviously not. And it's not a fair criticism either way, but that is the criticism. Nobody is accusing the author of drawing like an infant.
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by Retra 8y ago
The criticism is not because it is "by" an infant, but "for" an infant.
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by Retra 8y ago
Just because something causes pain does not mean it is violent. Violence requires significantly elevated risk of injury or damage.
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by Retra 8y ago
The pre-industrial era didn't have modern diagnostics & healthcare, so why would you expect to see the same ailments or the same desire to have them treated professionally?
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by Retra 8y ago
>If you take the idea of undefined behavior seriously, then it is valid to blow up the world in response to an error and the compiler cannot protect you That's not its job. The compiler cannot protect you from everything. (You shoul
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by Retra 8y ago
You need a fixed data size for good performance. If you use fixed precision, you get absolute nonsense when doing very common calculations like `tan(x)`. IEEE 754 was masterfully engineered to produce the fastest, most correct results for t
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by Retra 8y ago
"Most" use cases? You mean the use cases that don't involve heavy math, like graphics, physics, and statistics?
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by Retra 8y ago
Text is graphical. And block-based in a monospaced font. As a (former) child who learned to program, what you're saying is true but irrelevant, because text is fun to work with.
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by Retra 8y ago
I literally do not understand what you are responding to right now.
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by Retra 8y ago
I don't have any serious qualms with psychedelics. I have a problem with someone arguing that they should be legal solely on the basis that risk is acceptable. By that argument, I should like to wave a loaded gun in your face. But that
706.
by Retra 8y ago
It's unnecessarily more risky when you do stupid things. You can't use a little risk to justify arbitrarily more risk, you have to make an argument based on the value produced.
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by Retra 8y ago
The proof relies on the fact that the rationals are lesser in cardinality than the reals, but for each "rational point" from your field of view, there are infinite trees in that line. So anything anything which doesn't force
708.
by Retra 8y ago
That describes the mechanism, not the rational.
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by Retra 8y ago
Stars are also not confined to an integral grid. Surely if the trees in the orchard were not so confined, they would cover the entire field of view.
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by Retra 8y ago
>On the other hand I don't know any honestly middle class people who shop at Williams Sonoma with the possible exclusion of special gifts maybe for a wedding or anniversary or some other rare special occasion. Shopping occasionally
711.
by Retra 8y ago
The downvote is feedback. It's feedback that other people don't find your post relevant. You can constructively review how you expect other people to find it relevant and imagine the reasons why they wouldn't.
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by Retra 8y ago
I'm doing well enough with that same laptop and my budget, so save the spending advice for someone who needs it. This is a pointless diversion with so little context.
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by Retra 8y ago
When I was making ~60K/yr, I had no trouble spending $2K on a laptop. So what is your frame of reference here? Apple might be a "luxury brand", but it isn't yacht shopping.
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by Retra 8y ago
In what sense are you being honest with yourself if you can't put yourself in an objective enough frame of mind to see where the down-votes come from?
715.
by Retra 8y ago
Do you know why NASA doesn't partner up with China? Because it sounds like you think those political differences are insignificant.
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by Retra 8y ago
Don't substitute a meme for thinking. The real story is as follows: Two economists are sitting at home. One says "Lets go out and look for $100 bills in the street." The other says "There are better ways to make money.&q
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by Retra 8y ago
Because he was writing for a specific class of predetermined parsers, rather than an arbitrary one which was optimized for his proof.
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by Retra 8y ago
Sure, that's a problem, but a very different problem. I don't think I've ever seen a profit-focused company seriously give any weight to encouraging its customers to make good, informed decisions.
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by Retra 8y ago
It works like most humor works: it sets up an expectation and then defies it. The expectation is that they see him charging combatively from a mile away. They should be readied for an attack or at least an urgent situation. This is defied b
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by Retra 8y ago
Your society taught them to how to make choices. Most people work at a job which ultimately derives income from sales and marketing folks who go out of their way to encourage people to make poor decisions. The vast majority of advertising

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