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>You need to know how they will react under pressure to an extent that I think is largely irrelevant for a lot of engineering roles. The problem is that not all pressure is considered acceptable. Others have mentioned examples of things
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>Prisoners should be denied as much freedom as is necessary to protect the rest of society and no more. I think many of those prisoners are already denied far more freedoms that necessary to keep them safe, so would that mean they are al
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Oxford dictionary's definition requires ownership, so if the prisons/corporations do not actually legally own the person, then technically it doesn't qualify as slavery regardless of what sort of forced labor is required. But
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The worse judges are at being perfectly removed arbiters of justice, the more room for lawyers to exploit things like emotions and humans connections with those judges, and thus the worse LLMs will be at doing that part of the job. A chari
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A slave that isn't given tasks to do is still a slave. We can discuss the negative incentives of having them do labor and how that might pervert our legal system (companies that benefit lobbying for harsher penalties on victimless crim
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Wouldn't in many of those cases those funds be more needed by their victims to help restore a little of what was lost. Direct things like paying medical bills or supporting someone who can no longer work or less direct things like pay
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>You think it's much different for quaternions It feels like it should be. Maybe the following is just the naivety of a novice looking at experts they don't understand. Learning numbers, integers, rationals, and real numbers,
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>when there is a perfectly fine game store built into Windows I am surprised to see this sentiment, given how much trouble I've had with the Windows store the few times I've been forced to use it. The way it puts files into lo
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The best metric would likely be one that reflects closely the actual power distribution at a company. That makes the answer difficult, but it also makes me more interested in the idea of what would be a best fit. As for my first attempt to
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Isn't this why many groups look at how much one uploaded and you can get lower priority or lose access if you don't seed enough?
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If there is a proof of no generalizable proof, that is interesting in and of itself. If there is not, then doesn't that mean we haven't found it yet (or proven it impossible, or proven it impossible to prove if impossible...). I
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At that age, I think it is less about the material used and more about how the parent, guardian, and similar figures approach the material. Are they telling the child, be it directly, indirectly, or just through body language, that math is
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While I do personally find tricks involving numbers only in a specific representation to be worth a bit less, often the underlying pattern of the trick generalizes into a more interesting problem. For example, per another's link in the
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That is if the AI fully replaces the need for a skill. What happens if it mostly replaces it, enough so the skill atrophies, but not enough that the user never needs the skill?
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This is why plea deals should be considered a violation of any notion of rights to a jury trial, fair trial, or similar. It is like the right to vote, where voting for the wrong party might end up with you going to prison.
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Then this seems to be the loophole that needs to be resolved. Before the estate pays out, the debts should be settled within the estate using the cost basis belong to the deceased. Assets paid out after loans are satisfied should then hav
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To further expand on the "a few simple formulae", many of those experienced in these fields will note that complexity can emerge from simplicity. Conway's Game of Life is my go to example. Following some of about the simple
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If you lost hours digging through the code and trying things to solve the problem, they aren't really lost. The knowledge you gain from this, the code you dug through, etc. all help builds up the experience that leads to one day no lo
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Are they allowed to take out loans without paying them back? If they have to pay them back, eventually they have to use that collateral which will be a taxable event. They might be able to delay, but they'll eventually have to pay.
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One group is claiming that X is occurring more and another group is saying that X is occurring just as often as in the past, but awareness of X means we identify more cases. The argument that X is increasing because of awareness of X has i
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>In short, if you think space travel is a barrier, you're plainly very wrong. Even with today's technology we could send machines throughout the galaxy in a pretty short period of time. In the near future, that time will drasti
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Before search engines existed, people curated lists of sites relevant to different topics. In that way, a search engine is an algorithm desired to simulate that part of human intelligence. >And then there's no severance clause/
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There are a number of possibilities, which depends upon what methods of interaction we are looking at. For example, with direct contact, we can estimate a probability of life along side how possible space travel is. Perhaps space travel is
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Given the lack of integers and my hesitancy to trust modulo for non-integer variables, I don't know if I would trust it. You would need to add some safety checks, but either you create an is_even/is_odd function that has safety c
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Well we know the official history books are lying to us. Manhattan project? No way that could have been kept secret for as long as it was. All those people "in the loop" and not a single one choosing to blow the whistle? Prepo
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>I just don't think I would then proceed to believe that what they described was a reality on the other side of that horizon. Does the physicist believe that? If we get past popular culture which mangles modern science, the physici
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Humans are imperfect, but this comes with some benefits to make up for it. First, we know they are imperfect. People seem to put more faith into machines, though I do sometimes see people being too trusting of other people. Second, we have
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I think the difference is in what a drop is in regards to. A drop of a well established price indicates something has fundamentally changed to make the price go down. A drop from the peak of a large increase that is still far above the pr
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Even then, cross platform generally meant the same game concept implemented differently. Sometimes the differences were minor enough that it could be hard to tell there were any if just viewing ads for the game. Other times the difference
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The claim (per title, likely not from the scientists themselves): No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development. The study: Self reported screen time does not correlate to functional brain organization profiles related
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