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by User23 3y ago
Because it takes energy? This is pretty well observed in high level chess[1]. [1] https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmaste...
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by User23 3y ago
> Seriously, it's got functions and everything is represented in base twelve. How is that weird? 12 semitones is pretty traditional and base 12 is generally convenient thanks to 12’s factors. If you want to be really self indulgent
723.
by User23 3y ago
Well with psychology it’s more fair. Thanks to the replication crisis we can say with a straight face that psychologists aren’t even experts on psychology. As usual the demonstrable expertise in the field lies with the pragmatic types. For
724.
by User23 3y ago
This is really neat. I wonder why she doesn’t irrigate with drip tape though.
725.
by User23 3y ago
Having taken some community college courses and also having audited at an Ivy, the latter really do have superior professors. Whether that improvement is worth it is another question. Oh, and the community college professors were entirely c
726.
by User23 3y ago
Back in the day a former NSA employee told me that they almost never crack the encryption algorithm. Rather, they crack errors in the implementation.
727.
by User23 3y ago
They are observations plus modelled corrections. Here's a simple thought experiment. How would you accurately measure the average temperature in a kitchen? Residential? How about commercial? How many sensors would you need? Where would
728.
by User23 3y ago
Data[1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/extreme-temper...
729.
by User23 3y ago
Jewelry isn’t an investment, it’s conspicuous consumption. That said there’s really no reason to buy new unless it’s a custom made piece.
730.
by User23 3y ago
He was an awfully pragmatic madman. He also discovered the universal and existential quantifiers independently of Frege, albeit a few years later. No offense intended, but to the extent his work feels mad to you, it might be a “you problem.
731.
by User23 3y ago
Consider for a moment that Aristotle, and thus most likely all the ancients, made a distinction between nothing and void.
732.
by User23 3y ago
It might clarify things if you think about how it's operationally a form of severe protectionism.
733.
by User23 3y ago
> I firmly believe this will come back one day, but it will be called something else and look new. It's called SQL, and it's pretty big and you can get paid a lot for being good at it.
734.
by User23 3y ago
Obviously true for coal. Far less obviously true for simple hydrocarbons, which appear prevalent everywhere in the solar system.
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by User23 3y ago
Ah, Ricardo. Did you know he was a stockbroker who made his fortune scamming clients and bought himself a peerage with the loot? Not relevant but a fun biographical detail. Anyhow his theory rests on assumptions that are nonsensical in toda
736.
by User23 3y ago
Contrariwise in English/German you have names like Michael which are the same name but pronounced quite differently.
737.
by User23 3y ago
The most interesting part to me is that Germany is attempting to tax worldwide income. The USA does this of course, although there are tax treaties that can reduce US taxes on some foreign earnings. The USA can get away with this because mo
738.
by User23 3y ago
Before better analgesics were available it was used for pain management. Of course getting your gangrenous leg with a musket ball in it sawed off while blind drunk wasn’t a huge improvement, but evidently it was better than doing it sober.
739.
by User23 3y ago
Alcohol is incredibly useful. A 70% solution is a sterilizer, a solvent, a fuel, and in a serious pinch a better anesthetic than absolutely nothing. I’m sure there are plenty of other good uses for it too.
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by User23 3y ago
Yes, and some people come back from trips permanently wrong . It’s rare but it happens.
741.
by User23 3y ago
This entire premise is silly. What’s next, how to parent without being parenty? How to direct without being directory? How to conduct without being conducty? If you’re in authority over people pretending that you’re not is just insulting. J
742.
by User23 3y ago
“No.”
743.
by User23 3y ago
> But the notion that I was taking the job of a native-born American was ridiculous because I had been doing the job in London before. This isn’t even wrong. Obviously you displaced a US citizen unless you’re trying to advance the risibl
744.
by User23 3y ago
I don’t think that word means what you think it means in the context it’s being used. In this case a moral judgment simply means with respect to ethics. One could morally judge something to be good, bad, or neutral.
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by User23 3y ago
I did. Is there something you wish to add?
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by User23 3y ago
> the point of the article was to show how much more lethal the average human has become over the years. The initial question, was clickbait That’s unfortunate then, since that point is verifiably false. Historically speaking people do c
747.
by User23 3y ago
Fun fact: One of the most closely guarded pieces of paper in those offices are the tax receipt forms. Because if you can produce a tax receipt it's good as cash for meeting your tax obligations.
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by User23 3y ago
Nevada is a sovereign state and can charter banks and regulate banks operating in its jurisdiction. Mindgeek C suite has connections in the banking industry.
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by User23 3y ago
You don’t have to be a puritan to find pimps distasteful, even if they are cyber. Edit: Child evidently has a reading comprehension problem and didn't understand "don't have to be a puritan." The emphasis is on cyberpimp
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by User23 3y ago
California has some of the best funded public schools in the country. California has some of the smartest technologists and inventors in the world. California has mostly crappy public schools. Clearly adding money has very low marginal util

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