Viliam1234

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by Viliam1234 9y ago
> human brains are limited to their senses Which is why we'll never learn about atoms or X-rays.
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
"Our thoughts have no real impact on the underlying operation of brain" cannot be literally true, if you are able to talk about your thoughts. Because talking about your thoughts means that somehow your thoughts influenced at leas
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
I am just a random Facebook user, and I already noticed the same effect on my wall: stupid things get liked and shared, anything of value is mostly ignored. It happened a few months ago when as a result of reading some online stories, I dec
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
This seems like the "Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics". If there is a problem unrelated to you, under this concept you are free to ignore it, and no one will blame you, because it is someone else's problem. But when you do
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
I could forgive the political bias, if the news would try to describe reality and only... you know, focus on certain aspects of reality more, and certain other aspects less. That is, if they would let politics influence their priorities, bu
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
> Anyway, it is possible to do this again and with two small kids I'm very interested to know how. For math, I recommend Hejny method; I have great experience with it (as a student) https://www.h-mat.cz/en/hejny
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
Similarly in Slovakia (and Czechoslovakia historically). The highest quality education on the elementary- and high-school level happened outside the school system. So if anyone wants to reproduce this strategy, they should give up on school
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
> Most of these points smack of rosy retrospective bias. Well, accusations of bias can go both ways. Maybe it feels bad to admit that there is a serious problem with no obvious solution in sight; and pretending that we don't see any
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
And dishonesty or bad character don't mean that you can't win a debate.
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
There are many other "basic things", for example maps and sets, regular expressions, XML... I am sure others could add more examples... trying to support everything by special syntax would indeed be feature creep.
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
> it's not that difficult to live cheaply for awhile to pursue a business if you are motivated. The immigrants from poor countries may have the relative advantage that living cheaply feels more acceptable to them, and is more social
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
I am afraid that the idea of hiring an expert for a specialized task goes against the trend of "full-stack developers". Imagine explaining why it is not necessary for the project to have a database expert, a back-end expert, or a
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
So sad to see yet another article linking the version of memo edited by Gizmodo, instead of the original one. Just imagine: You write "X". A malicious website writes "he wrote Y". Somehow it becomes an important topic fo
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
I believe that potential infinity (i.e. the idea of intervals becoming ever smaller and smaller) will be sufficient to deal with the "real world". But the infinities described in the article are of a different kind. I don't t
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by Viliam1234 9y ago
I agree in general that generations should be more supportive of each other, because most of us will go through all stages anyway. But, as usual, the problem with redistribution of money is how to set it up to prevent perverse incentives. (