Sniffnoy

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901.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Zvi Mowshowitz is in the business of selling prediction markets? Are you sure you're not confusing him with Robin Hanson?
902.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
So, first off, this is something you can easily look up. No, it's not banned. Second off, I think banning a card for non-gameplay reasons sets a pretty bad precedent. Third off -- banning it wouldn't accomplish anything except
903.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
What, exactly, would any of this accomplish? Again: Removing the card from the DB wouldn't be changing anything, it'd just be lying about how things are. The card does, in fact, exist. Collectors trying to get a complete set of
904.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
What exactly do you expect them to do? The card was, in fact, printed; do you expect them to just remove an existing card from their database or something? They can't, like, recall it or something. What, are they going to ban it f
905.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
906.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
So how does this compare to carpalx[0]? [0] http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/
907.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The comment seems to imply that the person posting it is vegetarian; I'm pretty sure it's meant to be read in the context of that implication.
908.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Some of these are neat, but it seems to me the problem with making your building look abandoned is that passers-by might just conclude it is abandoned and not come closer to take a look.
909.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
No other sources I can find on this mention the rhesus factor; I suspect that's a mistake in the article.
910.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://twitter.com/pulplibrarian/status/1030830856720527360
911.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I'm confused, they say the planet doesn't emit light of its own, but if it's that hot -- hotter than most stars, they say -- shouldn't it be giving off blackbody radiation in the visible spectrum?
912.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Not necessarily. It could also be done by allowing people to sue makers of insecure software or hardware.
913.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
So just how effective is this? What's the resulting yield compared to without it?
914.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
> And no, that's not a slippery slope. I can't say I have any problem with this particular move, but man, you can't just assert that as if that's an obvious fact.
915.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Anybody know if the line-wrapping has been fixed? In either this version or anything since <checks what I have> 52.9.1? The messed-up line-wrapping and quoting is easily my biggest problem with Thunderbird.
916.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
> Sure, oridnals are interesting, but in the context of explaining infinity to kids transfinite induction is probably not the easiest thing to throw into the fun basket. Even first-year undergrads often have to learn regular induction! S
917.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
> The other kinds of infinity - cardinals, for example - are encountered early on, and there are things you can do with them. There's plenty you can do with ordinals too! Being able to interate a function transfinitely many times c
918.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Nitpicking: This article writes 2⋅ω where what's meant is ω⋅2.
919.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The point of copyright is to incentivize the creation of new works, at the expense of making those works less available. Adding additional copyright restrictions to existing work from decades ago does nothing to incentivize the creation of
920.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The fact that people want bullshit or that bullshit sells does not change the fact that it is bullshit.
921.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The question I always have about this is, why has nobody tried to make the case that this is illegal? ESR has suggested that the selling of routers with closed-source firmware ought to be regarded as the tort of conversion; this is a simil
922.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
As best I can tell, it's about 10 times closer than Mercury.
923.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The thing is I guess that I would normally think of "culture" to mean differences in how people think about things. And you can fall into different equlibria without people having to think of things differently.
924.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Because you get to the solution and you say, "But that's just the same thing..."
925.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
This is an old draft. A more recent draft is here: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsCo...
926.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The histogram for Charlotte is asymmetrical... what's up with that? One-way streets? (The same is true for some other cities in the follow-up also.) The article doesn't say.
927.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
The formula ((p V q) -> (p V r)) -> (p V (q -> r)) isn't valid intuitionistically, though (you can get excluded middle from it by taking q=p and r=⊥), so there's no reason to want an intuitionstic proof.
928.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Non-mobile link: https://twitter.com/frivoal/status/1015441793901477888
929.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
Yes, but the use of "which in turn" suggests that was not meant; it suggests that what follows is a real deduction and not a mere rephrasing.
930.
by Sniffnoy 8y ago
I'm going to repost the same comment I've made on this several times already: This is quite interesting. It certainly sounds like this does dissolve the Fermi paradox, as they say. However, I think the key idea in this paper is ac

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