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by antidesitter 8y ago
> A black hole itself (the singularity) is 1 dimensional - a single infinitesimal point. A point is 0-dimensional. A line is 1-dimensional. The singularity is 1-dimensional (more precisely, a ring) if the black hole is rotating. [1] [1
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> It also has the side benefit of making the government pay more to collect your taxes. Why would that be a benefit? It means more taxpayer money is literally going to waste.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
It’s clear you have very little understanding of what is feasible with our current state of knowledge.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Yes, it is horrible and also ridiculous and unfeasible.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> One government is trying to keep their people from seeing violent and disturbing content. That should be up to the people, not the government.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
If you care about maximizing human welfare, helping the IRS take in more money is about one of the least useful things you can do. Whoever is angrily downvoting this is welcome to explain why they think allocating brainpower to the IRS is t
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Enlighten me as to which part of your comment I mischaracterized.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> this slope is so slippery only being offended by trifles can save us Nice strawman. Chinese government censorship is not a "trifle". > a relatively free society (which of course China isn’t) You said it yourself.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> parental control features This is control by an authoritarian state, not by parents. But you already knew that, didn't you?
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Out of curiosity, why is RandomBacon's sibling comment hidden and marked [dead]?
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> Check what US does in Venezuela right now. As a Venezuelan, I’m curious to know what you mean by this.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> I've described the content of and linked to the full text of C-16 elsewhere in this thread. Did you even read my question? Linking to C-16 is not explaining how “his arguments against C-16” are “transphobia”. > haven't eve
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Can you explain how “his arguments against C-16” are “transphobia”? > I've described the content of Peterson's work You’ve done no such thing. Not at any level above name-calling, anyway.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
According to [1] which references [2]: An element must meet four qualities to stand alone as a premium currency... First, it can't be a gas — gases simply are not practical for currency exchange... Second, it can't be corrosive or
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> getting rid of some term because we currently find it insufficient to convey what we mean by it will, in all likelyhood, open the race for far... more meaningless nomenclature You have given no reason to believe this.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Do you have an example?
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> I'm not going to go around spelunking on my old comments to prove to you that your attacks on me are unfounded. Do your own homework if you care about this for some reason but this is getting extremely aggressive for no reason. Yo
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> This is baseless and useless. I've discussed this online in several situations, including on hacker news. If you really want to check this feel free to see my comment history here and on reddit. Feel free to point out where you pr
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> I know these methods, but they were not used in OPs suggestion. You knew it but didn’t mention it as an obvious neutralizer of your objection, in the context of a discussion about possibility (“you could”)? I doubt that. > I'm
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> with online voting it becomes totally possible to track you did the vote Not necessarily. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19355603
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by antidesitter 8y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19355603 .
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> Now you can demonstrate to anyone what you voted. Not necessarily. It is possible to have verifiability and receipt freeness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy... > The demands of v
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Virtually everything you do impacts people around you. So can you be more specific?
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Every industry has externalities, both positive and negative. Your comment is basically vacuous.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
That’s up to neighborhood associations and their contractual arrangements.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Key paragraph in your link: However, the overwhelming consensus of the economics profession remains that while these arguments are theoretically valid under certain assumptions, these assumptions do not usually hold and should not be used t
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by antidesitter 8y ago
I wish science communicators would abandon the whole “virtual particle” terminology altogether. It creates a lot of confusion.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Agreed. It is beyond me why the admins refuse to change a couple of lines of CSS, when this is an issue that has been raised again and again by the community.
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by antidesitter 8y ago
> I assume you agree since you edited that part out I edited it out because I find it, for the most part, irrelevant. I'd rather live in a world where everyone is better off to different extents than one where everyone is equally po
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by antidesitter 8y ago
Two purely-functional versions (written in Haskell): balanced1 input = let partialsums = scanl (+) 0 $ map (\x -> if x == '(' then 1 else -1) input in all (>= 0) partialsums && last partialsums == 0 b

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