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by ahelwer 5y ago
Oh sure I'll do that.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
A qbit is a mathematical model of some quantum phenomena that exhibits superposition & entanglement, like particle spin. The model seems to match the behavior rules of spin (and other quantum phenomena) as far as measurement and manipul
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Unfortunately you are indeed wrong. Bell's theorem works no matter the outcome of the measurement. We just see that some outcomes are more likely to occur than others. People in other universes would see different outcomes, but the ove
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by ahelwer 5y ago
This is something you can experimentally test. First you should know that "red ball or blue ball" is a simplification. Staying with the metaphor, if you open one envelope differently you might get a purple ball and so know the oth
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by ahelwer 5y ago
It's very unlikely that route C will salvage your opinion of the game. This is why I'm bitter about noisily-held opinions of this game: others say they aren't enjoying the game and it really isn't that good? You just hav
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by ahelwer 5y ago
How is (spoilers follow) the choice of deleting your save file to help another player through the credits bullet hell the same choice that the main characters go through? Also much of the second playthrough is completely unnecessary for wha
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Looking at my steam profile, I spent 38 hours playing this game. I did many sidequests. There's this weird compulsion among fans to say "you didn't give it a chance", which pushes people to do the other playthroughs, but
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I guess I'll offer a counterpoint here because I was suckered into buying & pushing through this game after reading a hundred comments like this online. Nier Automata is a game with boring combat that makes you play through largely
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Seattle also rises very quickly from the ocean. Take a look: https://en-us.topographic-map.com/maps/na3/Seattle/ With the exception of the international district, all the low-lying areas are industrial in nat
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I used Z3 at work to check equivalence of two sets of firewall rules https://ahelwer.ca/post/2018-02-13-z3-firewall/
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by ahelwer 5y ago
"Not advocate" is different from "stand against"
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Ah yes, the mark of any "pretty progressive" person: whinging about things that help people different from themselves feel included, because they don't explicitly pander to you. You sure about that label?
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Wouldn't going from B to A count as a wash sale?
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by ahelwer 5y ago
What programming language is this? Is it available as some kind of framework for spinning up your own REPL website for your own language?
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Traders who engage in such behavior are also humorously said to "eat like chickens, shit like elephants"
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Certainly not in the sense of the gambler's fallacy, but you can be sure that someone's fortunes from playing casino games will exhibit mean reversion in the sense that the next game is always more likely to bring their cumulative
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Future-discounted series of dividends is one theory of stock market valuation. It isn't the only one. Keynesian beauty contest is another.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
You are making the classic mistake of confusing domains exhibiting a normal distribution of outcomes (casino games) with domains exhibiting an exponential distribution of outcomes (the market). This is the sort of thinking that traps people
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by ahelwer 5y ago
The ultimate point of these discussions is coming to a conclusion about "what should we do?". I can give you quite a few reasons why dumping all your money in market index funds could end in disaster. I'm not under the illusi
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Think of a slowly advancing steamroller, with pennies scattered before it. You can run around picking up these pennies, for small but consistent gain over a long period of time. Just don't take your eye off the steamroller! The canonic
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I mean yes, past performance doesn't guarantee future results. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively at it, when you have a phenomenon that's gone unchallenged for probably a hundred years now. It isn't guaranteed. But
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There are all sorts of interesting facts you can pull out of this, like how if you missed the top 10 best days in the market from 1999-2019, your return was cut in half. If you missed the top 20 best days, you actually lost money: https:&#
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Find an open source project you care about that uses it then try to fix some simple issues. That's how I learned!
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Real-world violence is so far removed from its video game counterpart that there is no real comparison, as anyone who has been in any sort of fight understands. In contrast, pornography (visual or textual) is quite similar to its real-world
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by ahelwer 5y ago
It has nothing to do with differentiating reality from fantasy. It has to do with whether a given pleasure association is strengthened or weakened. Pedophiles seek out these stimuli because of a pre-existing attraction toward children in th
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The linked article is not about the content moderation changes. Anyway, Paraphilias are strengthened through repeated exposure and association with pleasure. So if you're in the camp of not wanting to strengthen a pedophile's desi
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Oh yes, this is a rich area for writers. There's also the famous quote from Gravity's Rainbow : "A million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it." (please don't try to read that wr
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I think the author addressed this? > The other ambiguity is what we mean by UML. First of all, UML consists of over a dozen different diagram types. I still see people regularly use sequence diagrams. Second, there’s many different ways
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Hmmm, running some rough calculations the passenger load probably wouldn't exceed about 50 tons for 500 people. Which is very doable to do with a tether. So maybe you're right! Solar-powered passenger airships could be the future.
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Pumping helium in & out of a zeppelin would be even more complicated than pumping water.

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