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by User23 2y ago
Better than the 3n+1 game[1]. That one can really get you. [1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-mathematicians-still-cant...
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by User23 2y ago
There's also sneaky shenanigans like sitting in the right-most chair and eyeing the bottom of the shoe on shuffle.
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by User23 2y ago
> Yes. It is. And if the casino realizes that you're doing it, you'll be banned from the casino. This is true on Fremont Street, where the pit bosses are fossils and you can probably still get a one way free ride to the desert
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by User23 2y ago
It's quite easy. And strip casino pit bosses don't even care. I once personally witnessed one mocking a poor counter by calling out the count for him. And they're right not to. The average person will be ruined with a 10% edg
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by User23 2y ago
The funny thing is that telco customer service is in fact orders of magnitude better than it was in the monopoly days. Ma Bell was ruthless.
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by User23 2y ago
Because the alternative hypothesis to racist teachers is literally unspeakable.
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by User23 2y ago
We spend far far more on healthcare than space or sea exploration already.
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by User23 2y ago
> And almost all startup boards will have investors who definitely will not rubber stamp the sort of thing going on at Tesla. Uh why would the Tesla board object to management creating more shareholder value than any other car company ev
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by User23 2y ago
There was a great deal of interest in gossip protocols, eventual consistency, and such at Amazon in the mid oughts. So much so that they hired a certain Cornell professor along with the better part of his grad students to build out those te
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by User23 2y ago
> The board at Tesla is basically Elon’s buddies. There is no oversight or independence there, they do what he wants. This is true at most companies with a competent CEO. My uncle had an inimical board that tried to remove him, but he so
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by User23 2y ago
My 5g doesn't work inside of many buildings.
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by User23 2y ago
Displaying this would be a fun use of the Las Vegas Sphere.
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by User23 2y ago
> Originally, NT kernel was designed for SMP from the ground up, supports asynchronous operations on handles like files and sockets, and since NT 3.5 the kernel includes support for thread pool to dispatch IO completions: https:/&#
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by User23 2y ago
I grow increasingly convinced that the difference in “verbal” and “mathematical” intelligence is in many ways a matter of presentation. While it’s indisputable that terse symbolic formalisms have great utility, one can capture all the same
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by User23 2y ago
One more reason to select deferred comp!
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by User23 2y ago
It's a shame io_uring is proving to be such a disappointment. It's been over two decades now that Linux has been trying to catch up with the NT Kernel's IO Completion Ports and we're still not there. On the plus side, th
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by User23 2y ago
Well because it's obvious and I figured that you're smart enough to see that. To spell it out for you: the set of evidence that is admissible in court is a tiny fraction of the set of all evidence that exists. Furthermore, the set
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by User23 2y ago
Back in the day I used to jokingly describe Perl5 as a "lisp-5ish." Lisp-1s like Scheme have a single namespace for all functions and values. Lisp-2s like Common Lisp allow a symbol to have separate bindings for functions and valu
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by User23 2y ago
I think SICP is wonderful. As I've learned more and studied more math though, I've come to the conclusion that the relation really is the more fundamental primitive. Every function can be represented as a kind of restricted relati
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by User23 2y ago
I’m particularly amused by the hypothesis that spacetime can be bent without the presence of matter. We can’t detect dark matter because there’s no such thing, it’s just a brute topological fact.
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by User23 2y ago
What I'm suggesting is that courtroom activity doesn't correlate strongly enough reality to infer reality from it.
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by User23 2y ago
> But the issue isn't that the evidence didn't meet high standards -- it was that there wasn't any evidence at all. In many cases, the plaintiffs who filed these lawsuits dismissed them voluntarily, not even trying to put
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by User23 2y ago
Well at this point there are two plausible possibilities. 1) The circumstances around covid and last minute election rules changes made it possible to cheat in ways that slide beneath the high evidentiary standards of the courts. Or 2) Joe
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by User23 2y ago
The correct phrasing would be is it a Markov process?
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by User23 2y ago
Also the 3x repetition rule.
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by User23 2y ago
If you were a lawyer then you'd be bound by bar standards and such. But you're not, so why the disclaimer? Is there some legal jeopardy a non-lawyer places themselves in by talking about the law? If so that sounds positively dysto
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by User23 2y ago
> Vaccines are one of the most amazing inventions Sure, and so are NSAIDs, but I'm still not taking Rofecoxib (Vioxx).
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by User23 2y ago
> getting bit by a rabid animal is typically just an inconvenience Actually, in the USA it's a financial catastrophe if you're uninsured and of average means. You're looking at a $7,000 expense. Or you could spend like $1,
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by User23 2y ago
HPV vaccine is also a big win for oral cancer, which pap smears and treatment didn't help with at all.
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by User23 2y ago
Calling cervical cancer a death sentence is a bit extreme. Regular pap smears and early treatment made it eminently survivable.

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