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by aaplok 2y ago
This works until someone asks you to produce identity documents matching the computer records. I've seen people put a single period (".") instead of a last name.
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by aaplok 2y ago
People will, as always, interpret this Danish study in whichever way suits their ideological beliefs. However, let me point out that, ideology aside, it is possible for a population to both be a net fiscal negative and yet have a positive
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by aaplok 2y ago
There are many things that are illegal to minors around the world, and that teenagers do anyway. That's what (healthy) teenagers do: disobey. The purpose of these laws is to make it illegal for adults to encourage those behaviours.
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by aaplok 2y ago
The thing is, someone has to. If you walk in very drunk asking to be euthanised, one would hope that they would have to wait until you are no longer drunk to confirm you really want to be euthanised. Then, who decides on the waiting period?
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by aaplok 2y ago
> I think often AI sceptics go too far in assuming users blindly use the AI to do everything Users are not a monolithic group. Some users/students absolutely use AI blindly. There are also many, many ways to use AI counterproductive
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Forget the wording 'centrist', parent is trying to describe the need for a party that seeks allies from all angles rather than trying to produce outrage towards specific groups of people in a lazy effort to foment in-party su
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by aaplok 2y ago
Well there is this though: > Women in trades have reported encounters with customers who doubted their competence and who refused to deal with them, seeking a man instead. There is plenty of low key sexism (and racism) like that among wh
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by aaplok 2y ago
I am probably not part of the "we" you are talking about, but I had no idea "normie" means that, and I couldn't infer it from the comment. In fact I inferred a completely wrong meaning from that comment (something l
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by aaplok 2y ago
> I’ve done this but then you end up with students who are not used to “thinking”. Then we need to teach them. You are doing the right thing for being a "hard" teacher, and it doesn't prevent you from also being known as a
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by aaplok 2y ago
It could also be hybrid, with an out-of-class and an in-class components. There could even be multiple steps, with in-class components aimed at both verifying authorship and providing feedback in an iterative process. AI makes it impossible
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by aaplok 2y ago
> just results in you adopting a different narrative, the “I reject narratives” one. This is like saying that atheism is just another religion because it's the belief in nothing. In a a hairsplitting way it may arguably be true but
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by aaplok 2y ago
Maybe a clumsy attempt at referring to DNA fingerprinting [0]? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Imagine if we recruited professors not just for their academic credentials but for their real-world achievements. The mistake is to think that someone's world is more "real" than their neighbor's. That may be arguab
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by aaplok 2y ago
It can be both. The Bolshevik revolution scared the rulers of many European countries, and its capitalist class. People were very impressed that a regime as stable as that of the tsar could fall like that. This is a regime people invested i
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by aaplok 2y ago
AIUI LineageOs is an alternative Android OS. That would be particularly useful to replace GPL-violating software. Why wouldn't that be possible?
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by aaplok 2y ago
80k Euros is not even a rounding error in the budget of the Czech government. The last thing you want is them micromanaging that kind of decision because it would end up costing a lot more and make everyone's life terrible.
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by aaplok 2y ago
> This is one often repeated reason why some users reach for wget instead of curl on the command line. Is there a reason not to do that? I've always used wget and curl interchangeably, because both meet my moderate needs. Is there
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Maybe because these users just can't code? It would be still interesting that the intersection between the set of users who claim on this forum it's possible and the set of users who can code is empty.
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by aaplok 2y ago
He mentions in the thread that he had to delete posts offensive to the developers. Maybe that's why? In fairness to him, he offers the posters an opportunity to propose a technical solution and responds to all the posts that do it. It
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Keep in mind that the letter was not written for a mathematician, even though Simone could not understand most of it. I'd love to see a citation here. Simone Weil referenced mathematics a lot in her philosophical writing, and, gro
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by aaplok 2y ago
> why is this interesting? Physicists need some precise definitions of units, and this is hard . Harder than most people expect. You can't do physics properly using your current king's foot size. This, more than the actual com
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by aaplok 2y ago
This is addressed in the article, including the fact that you can change the unit system to change the value of g. The article explains that the coincidence comes from the fact that the meter, as a unit, was defined (by Huygens) based on g
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by aaplok 2y ago
Your point was valid though. You can't let someone rock up to the stage uninvited. This would open the door to all kinds of issues. And the original question of how the situation could have been handled better is the most interesting o
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by aaplok 2y ago
OP asked for a better option. He was offered one, which he disagreed with. Because he doesn't like it precisely means that (in his view at least) it is not what he asked for.
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Kinda funny to read scientists say testorone doesn't help in sports like these. Which scientists say that??? The article features a scientist talking about a genetic mutation on the Y chromosome which affects the production of tes
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by aaplok 2y ago
Now imagine that the newspaper not only has a page on community events but starts selling tickets for those events. Some well-meaning politician comes in and says that the newspaper should pay a portion of the ticket sale to the organisers.
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by aaplok 2y ago
In light of recent analyses of suspicious elections (Iran, Russia, Venezuela), it seems harder than it sounds to avoid discernible patterns. On the other hand, the goal is to get away with fraud, not to convince an international community w
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by aaplok 2y ago
> In France for example a huge part of the resistance was way too sympathetic with Stalin's ideas (and btw didn't join the resistance up until 1941 and Hitler's operation Barbarossa, when Hitler betrayed Stalin) It's
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> I think its perfectly reasonable to say that if you don't accept a countries values, you should not be allowed to move there. If we are still talking about France, then this is a country that 10 years ago saw big groups loudly opp
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The downside of teaching using worked examples is that it teaches only one problem solving skill to students: mimicking. Many students will look only at examples in the textbook and happily ignore definitions, theorems, and proofs. They d

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