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by beojan 9y ago
There's a difference between random and uniformly distributed.
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by beojan 9y ago
Most styling markup formats (except markdown, irritatingly) have added those features to the "text" layer.
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by beojan 9y ago
That's what makes natural units natural. Certain quantities (like mass and energy, or distance and time) are physically related such that the distinction is, in a sense, artificial. The conversion factors between the units used for the
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by beojan 9y ago
It looks like Kabbee is a front-end for minicab firms , not drivers.
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by beojan 9y ago
If we're talking about actual C++ code, auto is a reserved keyword (so it wouldn't be used as an identifier) but it was useless, so it wouldn't be used as a keyword in any real (C++) code.
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by beojan 9y ago
> I thought it would be easier to implement self driving trains than to implement self driving cars. Who is working on that? We already have self-driving light rail systems (London's DLR for instance).
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by beojan 9y ago
> People bought each server box for $5000 and server capacity used is only at 15% So why do they need 2 servers? Also, I'm pretty sure VPSes and shared hosting were available in 2000.
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by beojan 9y ago
Amazon is particularly irritating for this. If you use, for instance, amazon.fr, the UI is only available in French, even though it's mostly a translation of the English UI on amazon.com.
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by beojan 9y ago
It would be much higher given it's their own country.
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by beojan 9y ago
What if commuting expenses were paid for, but the time spent commuting wasn't?
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by beojan 9y ago
A Platonic view of mathematics, not a Platonic view of the physical universe. That is, when we say '1', we mean the abstract concept of unity, not one of any particular physical thing.
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by beojan 9y ago
> The notion is that, for example, the concept of prime numbers would be discovered everywhere in the universe just as an intelligence would discover that hydrogen is the simplest atom. The concept of prime numbers is a lot more fundamen
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by beojan 9y ago
Apple's business requires physical presence. Google's largely doesn't.
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by beojan 9y ago
So we've gone from filling out a form to either switching to a new tab and logging in to online banking to make the transfer, or even worse, leaving the building to go to an ATM?
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by beojan 9y ago
No, the primary purpose of range-v3 is to work with ranges (a container, a pair of iterators, or a view) instead of iterators. Lazy and pipeable (i.e. chainable) views are built on top of this. Check the first link rather than the cpprefere
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by beojan 9y ago
Range-v3 ( https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3 ) exists solving the same problem, and there's a standardization proposal ( http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/ranges ).
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by beojan 9y ago
The rule of law would have been letting people put pieces of paper in boxes, then laughing when they vote no anyway. From what I've seen, they would probably have voted against independence if Spain hadn't tried to stop the refere
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by beojan 9y ago
Can't use that excuse when it's the side supporting "no" perpetrating the violence.
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by beojan 9y ago
If you check the Parser.hs file there, Pandoc uses Parsec.
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by beojan 9y ago
Triple-quotes are string literals , not comments. It's just that a string literal at the start of a function, file, or class is a docstring.
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by beojan 9y ago
Chrome `--app` mode does the same thing.
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by beojan 9y ago
> Fundamentally correct? Evolution is neither demonstrable nor falsifiable, so it's not scientific. Being 'scientific' is not required for an idea to be correct (nor does it imply the idea is correct). Though frankly, when
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by beojan 9y ago
Glasgow - Liverpool is just wrong, and Edinburgh - London is the distance by car. I'm guessing the other distances aren't accurate either.
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by beojan 9y ago
> These are neither true nor false in a factual sense. They are untestable. Being untestable puts a statement outside the scope of science. It does not, however, mean the statement is neither true nor false (only that we cannot, through
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by beojan 9y ago
Or philosophy. Ultimately you get to choose your religion.
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by beojan 9y ago
> In first year you'll have a math lecturer who knows a lot, but you're just starting out. They'll at times ask you to take their word on it, Math is perhaps not the best subject to illustrate this. Math lecturers tend to
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by beojan 9y ago
Just because you're praising Bill Gates for things that aren't true doesn't mean you're not praising the same Bill Gates.
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by beojan 9y ago
So you don't even disagree with me. I didn't mean science is contradictory to believing the bible at all, that's why I singled out biblical literalism (i.e. believing the bible to be literally word for word true) as being a s
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by beojan 9y ago
My point was that they are different religions, absolutely, but they believe in the same God. They believe different things about what God did, and how He asks us to behave. They differ to their core, but still, they believe in the same God
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by beojan 9y ago
> One way is to say no religion is any more or less convincing than any other Of course some religions are more convincing than others. The Graeco-Roman pantheon for instance, is trivially disprovable. The Abrahamic religions as a whole

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