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by aaplok 3y ago
> we disagree Which is fine. I am not trying to convince you, I am responding to your (and GGP's) question on why he is promoted. > Must I fall prostate before their authority so as not to come across as "presumptuous"
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by aaplok 3y ago
Sade is transgressive, not against our society as much as against our inner souls. Reading him creates discomfort in a way that no other author attains. It's no wonder that Beckett likens him to Dante (as quoted in TFA), because ultima
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by aaplok 4y ago
> when it no longer is (as is the case in much of Europe) it becomes problematic. Not necessarily. What matters here is whether production matches demand. If the proportion of people in the workforce declines, but their productivity incr
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by aaplok 4y ago
This reminds me of the millenium drought in Autralia at the start of the century [0]. This is something that French (as other European) governments should have known was coming. Instead they just let it come and are now wholly unprepared [1
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by aaplok 4y ago
That's assuming they want to solve it. A lot of administrators live in lalaland because it suits them to. It is in the interest of society to fail cheaters and frauds before they graduate, but it costs the universities money to do it p
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by aaplok 4y ago
> 40 bits in superposition can represent 2^40 possibilities. In classical QC yes, is this the case any longer in the Rydberg blockade configuration? From what I understood from the article, it's what GP said: the atom configuration
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by aaplok 4y ago
What I ended up doing when I was in a similar situation is manually edit the XML(sh3d files are XML) with proper measurements and coordinates after first doing a rough sketch on the GUI. I haven't used that tool for a while, but I thin
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by aaplok 4y ago
> elevates a cis "ally" who feels trans people are icky Are you talking about the author, who says at the start of the article that she is married to a trans man and spent years of her life working with and helping trans people
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by aaplok 4y ago
What GP is saying is that he wrote the article without monetary retribution from Al Jazeera. He was paid by someone else (one of his employers) to write an opinion piece published by Al Jazeera. It's not uncommon in academia.
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by aaplok 4y ago
> NATO has expanded because all those countries wanted to join. Joining NATO is not like taking a membership card at one's local gym when one feels like it. If, say, Sierra Leone "wanted to join" it's unlikely it woul
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by aaplok 4y ago
> When some strangers expressed a wish to see Demosthenes, he stretched out his middle finger and said, "There goes the demagogue of Athens." Dies anybody know if that gesture had the same meaning as today back then?
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by aaplok 4y ago
As unpleasant as these women's experience is, none of them are in jail, and none of them were murdered by the state for holding these views. We're a far cry from the Lysenko era. Especially because none of the parties (on either s
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by aaplok 4y ago
We look back at Lysenkoism as a movement that promoted a wrong scientific theory using political means that led to censoring alternative theories and killing or imprisoning scientists. Not only have nobody been jailed or killed for promotin
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by aaplok 4y ago
> Authoritarian laws get passed because people want them. I don't think I agree. Almost by definition authorianism doesn't acknowledge what people want. A law passed because people want it would be either democratic or popul
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by aaplok 4y ago
Just as typical as it is for people who live in democratic countries to support democratic laws. I'm not quite sure what you expect us to conclude here.
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by aaplok 4y ago
The article being discussed here is about a Qatari official judging Western standards immoral, not the other way. This is particularly problematic because he is in charge of organising an event that is likely to attract primarily visitors f
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by aaplok 4y ago
You will make mistakes. Lots of them. You will hate some moments. Often. There is a lot of Instagram parenting where everyone is oh so happy and oh so perfect, but raising kids is difficult and if you really spend time with them you will no
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by aaplok 4y ago
Intuitively I'd say you're probably right. But computation theory is full of counter-intuitive results. Your statement might be provable by adapting the argument that Σ(n) is not always computable. Something like computing the sum
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by aaplok 4y ago
> since we don’t know Σ(n) we can’t know the exact value of Ω. Hmmm. Just because you don't know the individual terms of the sequence, it doesn't follow that you don't know their infinite sum. Here's a trivial example
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by aaplok 4y ago
That theory also guided the development of the EU, which has arguably been a significant source of peace and stability for the past 70 years, leading to great prosperity. This is only the second war we are seeing on the European continent i
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by aaplok 4y ago
The article mentions that "jihad rehab" is the name of the Saudi program the subjects of the documentary are enrolled in. She didn't chose "jihad", she chose "jihad rehab". "Terrorist rehab" woul
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by aaplok 4y ago
Interesting. The page mentions Michel Ugon (who died in December 2021) as the "true inventor of the smart card". Where Moreno patented the memory card, Ugon invented the microprocessor card and then the SPOM, Self-Programmable One
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by aaplok 4y ago
I didn't claim I agree or disagree with this. I answered GP's question on Haidt's argument, especially because I found the other reponses didn't do justice to Haidt by focusing on research that would contradict the domin
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by aaplok 4y ago
The key quote is this: "most academic work has nothing to do with diversity, so these mandatory statements force many academics to betray their quasi-fiduciary duty to the truth by spinning, twisting, or otherwise inventing some tenuou
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by aaplok 4y ago
Bloom's taxonomy is actually pretty useful for what it is meant to do, and it was rather radical at the time: their purpose is to reflect and identify how you are going to evaluate learning. The realisation is that for many topics ther
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by aaplok 4y ago
> What are we going to do, start getting rid of free markets? This is a standard response to markets societies wants to apply boundaries to, yes. Obviously for illegal ones (slaves, child porn, hard drugs) and also regulated ones (medica
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by aaplok 4y ago
Not quite. Simplex is an algorithm to solve linear programming problems. Linear programming is (weakly) polynomial. The simplex algorithm itself has exponential worst case [0]. Whether there exist a polynomial-time variant of the simplex al
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by aaplok 4y ago
Legalisation is a very broad notion. What to legalise? Usage/consumption? Small business re-selling? Large private industry? Arguments for it cover an equally large range. The argument about legalising consumption for public health r
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by aaplok 4y ago
This. And then applicants who tell the reviewers explicitly the information they need using phrases like "this application is innovative because..." tend to be more successful than those who let the reviewer guess. As is clear in
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by aaplok 4y ago
This is the extended Euclidean algorithm, to find Bézout's coefficients. Column `d` contains the iterates of the classical Euclidean algorithm. Every row is the remainder of the two preceding rows. Eventually you get to the gcd. Then,

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