SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Somehow something I typed changed the background color. But I don't know how.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Yeah, but would Verizon (let's say) let TikTok on its servers given that they'll be fined for it retroactively (in 4 years) regardless of Trump's order now? And it's a big fine.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
No, this is something different. The law allows a 90-day reprieve only if significant effort has been expended towards selling TikTok. But ByteDance hasn't made any effort at all. Trump is instead trying to prevent the Justice Depar
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
So I presume your complaint is that by synthesis you mean taking two things, smashing them together, and producing a new thing. In which case, sure, subtractive synthesis isn't synthesis unless: - Two oscillators undergoing detune, sy
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> MacWrite was released 5 years after WordPerfect, which itself is predated by WordStar. I don't get why Apple fans have this obsession with pretending Apple invents these things. Um, hello, Wang OIS? WordStar and WordPerfect didn&
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Per bbum and others, NS long predated Sun getting involved.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Nope. NeXT switching from NX to NS predates Sun's involvement.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
For discussion here, the number of labels is irrelevant: only their market share. UMG alone has 38% of the entire record label market share. Its annual revenue is more than the entire revenue of all independent record labels combined. AF
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> I looked up how he's actually associated with the Iron Guard, and it looks like he literally said that they 'also did “good deeds”' [1]. This is literally on the level of "fine people" hoax that the mainstream
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Clive James is wrong. The Italian is very straightforward, and the traditional translation is right.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Guaifenesin, like Phenylephrine, is now widely viewed as having no efficacy.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
It's been definitiely shown since at least 2010 that phenylephrine is useless for this purpose. How in the world did the FDA let the decongestant industry push this drug for 15 years before coming down on it?
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evie_Magazine
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
The top response is wrong. So of course it was locked and made impossible to downgrade or correct. If this isn't a canonical Stack Overflow example I don't know what is.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
IIRC D&D was so directly based on Tolkien that they used the terms "halfling", "goblin", and "magic user" to avoid a fight with the Tolkien Estate over the terms "hobbit", "orc", and &qu
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
It seems that they could just set up a zipline.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Do you have support for this claim? It is pretty extraordinary, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. AFAIK, "Him" has been the accusative (subject) form since at least Old English. https://www.et
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> This is known as the curse of dimensionality (the more things you have to vary, the exponentially more combinations you have to test) Is this really a valid usage of this term? The only definition I am personally familiar with is from
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Sure. What I said, or had meant to say, was in reply to people complaining that there was some kind of cartel against negative results. Rather, what we're seeing is just the natural, if unfortunate, response to the basic problem with
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
> The idea is that some null hypotheses being true is actually interesting because it challenges an assumed belief. ??? As I had said originally, that's one of the primary situations where a negative result should be published. But
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Sure they are. So let's say I claim that the sun goes in a circle in the sky in the morning. The null hypothesis is that it doesn't do that. Perform experiment. Null hypothesis wins. Write up paper! This is a negative result.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
I think the fundamental problem is that for every claim yielding a positive result there are many more, perhaps infinitely more, related claims yielding negative results. Positive result claim: the sun comes up in the morning. Negative resu
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Fracking is believed to be a major source of (minor) earthquakes. This article didn't even mention it.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
In fact there is. https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-li...
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Okay, so you click on the zoom box to go to the "editor". But: if the hypercard player was emulated, why wasn't the editor emulated? Or even an attempt made to be reasonably similar to it? Instead it's replaced with s
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Point taken, but you can put together 2 ae vcas, a vco, power supply and headphone amp plus this module for less than 2/3 the cost of this thing. And they're optional. It's still much too expensive imho.
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
I'm pretty unimpressed: this is stupid expensive for rather little. Tangible Waves's AE Modular format is particularly easy for hobbyists to develop on: it's strictly 0-5V, with simple power requirements, etc., and it's
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
They compete with other insurance companies for customers. And the way to do that is to minimize the cost of insurance for a given payout. Which can push the expected value to go positive. If a bank can pay you positive value (in the form
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Actually, insurance is very often positive expected value for the individual. He's paying the insurance company $n, which the company reinvests for even higher expected value, which is how the company makes a profit even when it&#
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by SeanLuke 2y ago
Insurance is just a form of investment. It seems to me that the primary difference between gambling and investment is that the utility of gambling (the expected return over time) is negative, and the utility of investment is positive. And

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