alisonkisk

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by alisonkisk 4y ago
one project, RedHat/Fedora or something, was a pattern like "word A", "word B related to word A", "word C related to an alternate meaning of word B", etc.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
You are over indexing on "brain". The brain and eye are built from two sets of stem cells that connect, akin to normal mammalian development. > . “In the mammalian brain, nerve fibers of retinal ganglion cells reach out to conn
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
How so? The "process" of getting PhD is writing up his proof and getting it reviewed by the university, and verifying via oral defense that he knows the proof and didn't just plagiarize it.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
Goldbach's Conjecture is not the Prime Number Conjecture , because there is no such thing. There are several prime number conjectures.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
Why does it have to be zero sum? Why can't society educate everyone who has potential to learn, and grow the pie? It's an investment in our future.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
They are not political up until the moment an important enough issue comes up to make them political.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
> He was a scammer, in particular he posed as a human-rights lawyer targeting victims of torture to get their secrets and extort them. Tried to do it to me, but you can't con an honest John. You are calling victims of tortures liar
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
How can you lend your miner to a neighbor for heat? You all need heat at exactly the same time. Are you going to move the rig to a different home every hour?
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
> A major use case lauded by supporters is the amount of money that would stay in the hands of El Salvadorans rather than money gram companies. Remittances account for 20% of El Salvador’s GDP. What exactly is a remittance ? Does it mea
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
is it ADD or is it just a common pattern of human nature? Is eating sugar when it is offered a disease, or an environment that is toxic to instincts that usee to suit us well?
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
Saving a click: Generala is an ancestor of Yahtzee.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
Yes, same as paper.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
This is way beyond what a high schooler needs for getting started in life. This is personal finance, for all, not professional accounting for optimizing cash flows. it's far moren important to learn the basics of not getting robbed by
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
the fundamental problem with cryptocurrency is that it requires being your bank and all that entails for IT security, or else you need to rely on a thrid party and there defeats the purpose and meaning of it being cryptocurrency. It's
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Not changed: Rent-seeking is good for people who collect, and bad for people who pay. What's changed: automation creating value automatically, different from rent-seeking.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Starting a long game from scratch on every mistake is from an era was when content was incredibly expensive. Forced repetition, especially of the early part of the game, is a cheap gimmick.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
> Why such people should be tipped is beyond me. Because that person is paid $2.50/hr for their work. If you don't want to tip, you should boycott the restaurant until they implement a fair wage policy.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Not really. Babies show sex differences in spatial skills. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081209100948.h...
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
See tom7's portmontout http://tom7.org/portmantout/ an extension of portmanteau: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau De Bruijn sequence is more restricted: a cyclic portmontout over a
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
They aren't "just" pair reprogramming -- they are practically married. They pair only with each other, forever, and they are best friends. It's not an arbitrary or rotating matchup.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Eh, Retention and Deletion are both pain for devs. Not having to care is the happy state.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
What does finality mean? When I get paid by credit credit card it's "final", because that transaction can't be cancelled, only a new transaction can be created to undo it without my consent. Patrick loves to write coyly,
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
It doesn't have to be in the book, it can still influence the book to make it internally consistent and well motivated.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
> Her description of her process was that she made it up as she went along but because of her characters or locations That is a very "local" view of causality and story logic, which could lead to an inconsistent world (like a l
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Workspace already solved that by embedding every app in the sidebar of every other app.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Currents (G+) is over 10 years old. TV shows stopped doing season cliffhangers, which is good.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Food production is extremely subsidized and that is why it is cheap.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
PANGOLIN, because biologists are funny
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Binodality appears in feedback loops: bad sleep makes good sleep harder to get.
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by alisonkisk 5y ago
Not true. There is no onus on the site owner or anyone else to prove they own the material before filing a counterclaim. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/responding-dmca-take...

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