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by User23 3y ago
Have you read the Illuminatus! Trilogy?
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by User23 3y ago
We should just legalize OTC amphetamines again and be done with it.
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by User23 3y ago
I would like to see a switch to a 420 degree circle since it’s also divisible by seven, which is nice for calendar purposes, among other things.
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by User23 3y ago
The Apollo program mostly used US customary units.
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by User23 3y ago
> To German it translates as "PRIVATE MACHINE ÜBERSETZUNG, RUNNING LOCALLY AUF IHREM DEVICE" ATTENTION This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the c
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by User23 3y ago
You'd have to ban all private sector employment, book deals, and basically any other means of money transfer. It's impossible. The only way to stop corruption is to make the incentive structure altogether unattractive. Singapore,
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by User23 3y ago
There is plenty of affordable housing in the DC metro area. A quick search online finds numerous homes and condos available for under $200k, which is well within the budget of an FBI employee. This is the kind of diverse high density housin
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by User23 3y ago
It was depressing realizing that our medical system is ordered against the benefit of the two principals, the patient and the doctor.
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by User23 3y ago
Proper resistance exercise will fix your posture. As for the rest, did Mr. Bezos get a foot taller and a full head of hair when I wasn’t paying attention? He does look healthier and happier than he did in the past though, so good for him.
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by User23 3y ago
That’s just anabolic steroids (plus drugs to keep their testes), six hours a week at the gym, and about 1000 grams of dietary protein a week. None of that requires being a billionaire or even close.
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by User23 3y ago
They also tend to be smarter[1]. What we perceive as physical attractiveness is obviously some kind of mate selection adaptation. It’s no surprise that it would correspond with both intelligence and fertility. The halo effect exists because
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by User23 3y ago
The problem is the claim that the crack wars would have been even worse without aborting future crack warriors is impossible to size. It ruins any baseline.
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by User23 3y ago
Or the so-called crack wars[1], whose effect on criminal violence is so huge that whatever the effect size of lead or abortions was, it’s absolutely dwarfed to the point where it isn’t practically analyzable. Between 1984 and 1989, the
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by User23 3y ago
It probably would have been clearer if the article said 3.2 gigapixel. My first reaction was bewilderment at the excitement over a 3.200 megapixel camera (yes I misread the comma).
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by User23 3y ago
> Study after study shows that you can give people probabilities and ask them for decisions, and they will usually be wrong. This is somewhat true, but often the effect disappears when the scenario is described clearly. For example most
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by User23 3y ago
Does this generate executables like Dafny? Or is it more like TLA+ and focused on checking designs? What’s it using on the backend for checking predicates?
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by User23 3y ago
My greatest generation grandfather paid off his mortgage in about five years with a sixth grade education. I grant that was in part due to the postwar boom and his real wages skyrocketing after closing, but it’s worth remembering that the w
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by User23 3y ago
I’ve never noticed any perceptible latency using iedit[1] in Emacs, which does what it sounds to me like you are describing. It does suggest a possible multigap buffer structure though for efficiently doing simultaneous edits of distant loc
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by User23 3y ago
I find Jenny’s constant useful whenever a store wants a phone number for their loyalty program.
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by User23 3y ago
There was a time in living memory when a young adult could expect to buy a house straight out of high school and pay it off in 15 years. Edit: note that baby boomers are not the oldest living generation.
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by User23 3y ago
Ideally the bookie is acting as a broker and not directly making a market. Theoretically if they’re accepting bets for Leicester winning the Premiership at 5000-1, they’re also accepting bets that amount to that not happening at offsetting
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by User23 3y ago
There is one grocery store near me that always has at least two staff members ready to work the checkout and no self checkout at all. There are virtually never lines more than two persons deep. The only time I ever go anywhere else is when
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by User23 3y ago
Where did forces and fields or equivalent systems come from? If your answer is some variant on "just because" then you don't have a better theory than some kind of necessary causality or contingency, in fact you have a mere a
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by User23 3y ago
The anthropic principle has equal explanatory power to “because it did.” Making up a story about a cosmic crow shitting out the universe has equal explanatory power and it at least offers a reason. And obviously we know the crow shit it out
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by User23 3y ago
> Also, it's not racist or xenophobic to recognize that some countries exercise nearly complete control over their citizens (and sometimes indirectly over non-citizens), and that those people could be putting themselves at extreme p
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by User23 3y ago
Also, while I'm not a lawyer, and in general the bar is very high to criminally prosecute an employee for doing "a bad job," I wouldn't be surprised if there are major jurisdictions where intentionally backdooring your e
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by User23 3y ago
> self improvement of the industry Credit is mostly due to the government here. The NTSB[1] has been a shining success. And yes, hysteresis must be considered for transport safety. [1] https://www.ntsb.gov/
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> Does that mean the church-turing thesis is a barrier to progress? As a working programmer who isn’t afraid to read academic papers, I can say it absolutely isn’t. Neither the lambda calculus nor turing machines make more than a cameo a
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by User23 3y ago
Yes, the optic system, including the speed of the optic nerve and the eyes ability to saccade, among other things, has a functionally unlimited ability to keep the brain aware of activity in the visual field (modulo optical illusions). The
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by User23 3y ago
Well it certainly makes a market for the lucky duckies who are the counterparties for the buyback. They benefit.

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