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by anikan_vader 5y ago
I understand the gist of your comment, but perhaps you could explain more regarding the relationship between analysis and algebra? Cauchy's work certainly fundamentally changed our understanding of calculus (in that Newton and Liebnitz
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Nothing quite as fun as slowly de-anonymizing one's HN account over time :) I've considered using a public HN account as so many do, but looking over my comment history, I write too many dumb comments. This is despite not even int
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
>> Hundreds of UK citizens have been found guilty under Section 127, often for insulting, abusing, and harassing public figures like athletes, journalists, and MPs. A good opportunity for the Americans among us to feel gratitude at ou
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
I'm curious as to where you gather the insight that Paul Bloom is pushing us politically towards psychopathy. Personally, I've gather the opposite from my interactions with him; he seems to be rather sociable and empathetic. Here
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Another consistent take is simply that international borders should mostly stay as they currently are, particularly in cases where the de jure status matches the de facto. This stance has the benefit that it condemns almost all wars of terr
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Guess I definitely should have limited the scope of my claim to America, thanks for the correction!
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Not really a fair comparison, given that the Netherlands's latitude would put it in the Hudson Bay were it to be in North America. There are no major North American cities as far north as Amsterdam besides Anchorage.
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
When did virtue signaling become a bad thing? If the goal of the act is to protect people's access to sunshine, why not say as much -- at least the act has a human readable name.
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
I wonder if it's in the interests of the United States to have these international students studying here. If they are unable to contribute to the academic debate in any way besides maintaining the CCP line of genocide denial, should t
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
>> Because Finland is a member of the European Union, it must adhere to a particular directive that requires speed limiting devices to be installed if the N2 vehicle is used on the road. Does this mean that no vehicle in this weight c
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Blockading a port is only achievable by destroying vessels and people attempting to access that port. Similar to establishing a no-fly zone, it is an action that almost always involves shooting at people. I simply don't understand the
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Surely this will be an interesting event, but the title alone seems to compare economic sanctions with war, unfairly in my opinion. From a schoolyard perspective, economic sanctions are like giving a peer the silent treatment. It hurts you
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
The Stinger anti-air missiles that the West has been sending to Ukraine have an operational ceiling of around 12,000 feet. This means they can't strike military jets (or commercial aircraft) flying at medium or high altitude. Flying be
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
It was clear by then that the Russian military was building up on the Ukrainian border. Additionally the ground in Ukraine is usually thawed by April, making an armored invasion much trickier. Assuming it would take the Russians one more mo
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Not easy to do an airlift when your opponent has air superiority. The United States had guaranteed air corridors to Berlin.
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
> The difference is when the US’ “brexit” moment happened the northern states decided the southern states didn’t have the right to leave and enforced their opinion at the cost of 1 million lives (out of a population of about 32M at the t
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
> American public schools are quite adept at teaching distrust in authority, particularly in bureaucrats. It's an important lesson to teach kids while they're young! Strange, though, how you never see it on the formal curriculu
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
It’s very hard to sit through Star Trek: The Slow Motion Picture, though. Like 20 minutes of footage of the Enterprise docking. I don’t think much of the Star Wars prequels, but they’re leagues ahead of Star Trek 1 and 5. Star Trek 2 and 4
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
To be fair those posts are only mostly a few years old, so they’re being upvoted by the same HN crowd that generally decides what makes it to the front page.
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Nit: The resources of a state are limited. My first take is that this is an intentional and humorous play on words.
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Here is the full list of winners: https://www.iihs.org/ratings/top-safety-picks/2021?tspPlusOn... Worth noting that many of Tesla’s serious competitors are winning this award on most of their models, e.g. Mercedes
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
If you can get your work done in 10% of the time, great for you! Unless this lack of productivity is due to a lack of motivation that translates across disciplines in your life. Or if it's because you're running away from your w
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Good point. While I never use chess.com, I did find their commentary on the recent championship with Fabi to be pretty amazing. On the other hand, all of the money they spend on content like that is super effective marketing. It's a lo
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
It's worth noting many of these points are subjective, and I disagree with all of the bullets in favor of chess.com. I'm 2100 Elo on Lichess for what it's worth. 1. I prefer the way Lichess handles right clicks, knight moveme
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
I refer you to Bogosort. [1] One of the simplest interesting randomized algorithms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
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In related news, society blames Facebook for COVID misinformation.
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But the reason these coaches are able to get these salaries is because of policy decisions made by state governments. To some extent, voters have a civil duty to decide whether they agree with this policy, and vote accordingly. It's tr
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I understand that exercises has long been known to improve cognition [1]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/15/exercise-benefits-cognitive-...
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
I see. That makes sense.
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by anikan_vader 5y ago
Hmm. The guidelines say to avoid unrelated controversy, but possible military conflict in Eastern Europe does seem to be of some relevance to the topic at hand. After all, the name of the article is "War Starts," and it begins by

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