SiVal

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by SiVal 5y ago
The meaning was not simply open and freely given to all. It was that plus a payload of a specific type of condemnation of historical villains that is fundamental to the current campus dogma. The meaning of "made available to the publ
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by SiVal 5y ago
Yes, it's confusing, and a dictionary won't help, because it's religious jargon. Religious jargon, whether from a theistic or, currently, a non-theistic religion, is used to turn comments about nearly anything into declaratio
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by SiVal 5y ago
Whether you agree about the relative scale of cold and heat deaths doesn't matter. I say that all lives matter, so lives lost due to heat and lives saved due to heat should BOTH be included in the calculation. And, yes, I'm seriou
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by SiVal 5y ago
Sorry, but are you saying that, now that we have fire and clothing and "whole cities in permafrost", hardly anybody really dies of cold anymore? That it's mostly a myth? That the news and weather people on television who worr
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by SiVal 5y ago
I'm not describing any equilibrium. Heat deaths and cold deaths move in opposite directions, but that does not imply that they are equal or produce any restorative force on one another that would lead back to an equilibrium state. Sinc
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by SiVal 5y ago
Many people die of cold and many die of heat each year. If you raise the temperature, the extra heat both reduces cold deaths and increases heat deaths. Lowering temperature (or preventing its rise) would also both prevent and cause deaths.
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by SiVal 5y ago
Do yourself a big favor and read the book "Why Don't Students Like School?" by Prof. Daniel T. Willingham. He's a prof of psych at the University of Virginia specializing in the application of cog sci and neuro sci to K-
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by SiVal 5y ago
Given the excellent taste you demonstrate with your attitude toward Patrick O'Brian, I think you'll want to know this: It's "derring-do" .
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by SiVal 5y ago
It has hit 122 deg in the shade in California both of the past two summers (not yet this year). That's in the shade. Put equipment on a dark roof in full sunshine and your dish becomes a solar cooker. Maybe they could sell it that way,
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by SiVal 5y ago
How does society benefit? Society benefits if those who haven't yet scarred victims for life decide not to do so because they themselves might suffer like their intended victims.
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by SiVal 5y ago
It is funny--a bit. Decades ago, I often used Perl to take a data table in some messy form and convert it into C source code, which I would combine with other C source that I wrote and compile into an executable. I thought it was ironic tha
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by SiVal 5y ago
"Fact" in science needs to be based as much as possible on reproducibility by anyone and as little as possible on the support of those with institutional authority. Alternatives to peer review are seen everywhere these days: ope
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by SiVal 5y ago
This past weekend was to have been the annual vigil in the park in Hong Kong where thousands come out every year on June 4 in remembrance of what really happened in Tiananmen Square. This year, the park was empty. Not just a few, but empty.
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by SiVal 5y ago
This is an important point, but then "native" iOS has the same vulnerability. Apple arguably has more power to block iOS apps than China has to block the Web, so China just tells Apple to block what they want blocked, and Apple do
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by SiVal 5y ago
Yes, but what I'm not seeing in their analysis of variable-cost cloud vs cheaper fixed-cost colo is the huge fixed cost of the personnel to manage it. Yes, I agree that switching my food-delivery business from calling for an Uber whene
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by SiVal 5y ago
Scenario 1: You go to sleep, they copy the info, you wake up in a new, young body. "Wow! This is great. When this body gets ten years older, I want to do that again!" They turn off the old body as you do your happy dance. Scenario
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by SiVal 5y ago
Since the design philosophy behind USB-C is "it must always seem as though it should work", I think we'll need something like the old "tube testers" a few of us still remember. Decades ago, when your TV was beha
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by SiVal 5y ago
Yes, now when Google's social enforcement algorithms label you an impediment, they can not only delete your YouTube video business and cut you off from your email, calendar, and Google Docs, they'll be able to turn the heat off in
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by SiVal 5y ago
I completely agree with this. "Customers" want something, Elsevier says they'll make it for a price but if they make it and offer it for a price, people either have to accept, pay, and take it, or reject, not pay, and not tak
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by SiVal 5y ago
My daughter invented something similar. It turns out that a whiteboard marker will draw anywhere on a Linux desktop screen, and it's also completely cross platform.
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by SiVal 5y ago
I always found myself feeling like a fake... No, no! It was about how interested you were, not how skilled. These things are exciting to me And there you go: you're the real McCoy. When I say, "programmers knew how to use sold
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by SiVal 5y ago
I feel changes a lot between locations A lot changes between times, too. Decades ago, those of us who did computer "stuff" in places like the Bay Area were typically nerdy science/math lovers who were an unfashionable segme
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by SiVal 5y ago
When you can cause millions to slowly starve to death and still describe it as the quick rectification of unrealistic expectations, you see the power of "anti-misinformation" policies wielded by the politically powerful who domina
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by SiVal 5y ago
"Socially unacceptable" is the litmus test? So, regardless of what the majority of your coworkers think, if you express a contrary opinion that they don't agree is acceptable, you have created a hostile environment. "If
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by SiVal 5y ago
Outstanding. I have a question, and it's not a complaint or a request for anything except a bit of data: What kinds of text does it support, as in, would it work for handwritten English, or German rotated 45 degrees, or Japanese...?
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by SiVal 5y ago
I think families with kids being impacted there particularly. Yes, one example that is not widely known of what happens when the Lions of the Left have the power to do what they really want is public middle school algebra in SF. ("Th
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by SiVal 5y ago
Sure. Imagine a perfect mix of jet fuel and air in a weather balloon. Or metal shavings. Or a perfect mixture of wheat and air in a silo. BANG! Now imagine a metal aircraft full of fuel with a cargo of wheat--if you dare. Oh the humanity!
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by SiVal 5y ago
I agree. Hydrogen and jet fuel are not "explosive". True explosives contain all the components they need for the reaction. Hydrogen and jet/diesel/gasoline fuel require injected oxygen to burn, and you can create an expl
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by SiVal 5y ago
TotallyTubular™ Private Music Pipeline
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by SiVal 5y ago
I hardly ever need generics directly. If I have to write an algorithm for 2 types, I can copy and tweak as easily as I can deal with the added complexity of programming with abstract types. BUT, I need generics all the time indirectly. I&

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