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by btilly 2y ago
Just be glad that you didn't go for the 2 envelopes problem which was her next. Vos Savant was wrong about that one, and few people like the real answer. The problem is that you're presented with two envelopes with 2 real numbers
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by btilly 2y ago
There is one notable example that I'm aware of, but it really is a cognitive deficiency. The contrapositive is a rule that says that "A => B" is the same as "not B => not A". This is very confusing to people,
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by btilly 2y ago
The problem here is that the usual explanation sneaks in multiple rarely stated assumptions. If Monty knows the door with the prize and is aiming for the game to continue, then you should switch. (This is the usual argument.) If Monty doesn
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by btilly 2y ago
What you're saying can only be true to the extent that natural language doesn't look like formal logic. Unfortunately, there are some obvious discrepancies. My favorite is that "can't" really means something closer
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by btilly 2y ago
Making it work in finite but short time should fix that. A large object generally can deform a larger distance. This makes all collisions inelastic, with large ones being different than small ones. If you can get realistic billiards breaks,
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by btilly 2y ago
A planet formed out of an accretion disk is generally a planet under continued bombardment from further accretion. The only exception that we know of is our own Solar System. Where Jupiter acts like a vacuum cleaner to reduce material that
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by btilly 2y ago
The second system effect is the same fundamental mistake repeated at every level. From code to business. The fact that the business mistakes are easiest to spot from outside doesn't mean that the coding mistakes aren't there. Even
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by btilly 2y ago
Also good points. The layoff was straight out of Machiavelli. If you must do bad things, then do them all at once. If you can do good things, then do them bit by bit. People will then forget the bad and remember the good.
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by btilly 2y ago
Rule of thumb. Don't try to generalize until you have at least 3 distinct examples. This does a lot to find pragmatic tradeoffs between performance and abstraction. It also pushes you away from the over-abstraction that leads to the Se
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Waste a GUID(wasteaguid.info)
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by btilly 2y ago
The note of several of them as being defaults for a web app kind of sets expectations for me. These are defaults for maybe you're writing a web app and want it to be a bit more like MySQL or Postgres. They aren't defaults for usin
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by btilly 2y ago
Thank you for the update to my understanding. It does make sense that this figure would evolve over time.
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by btilly 2y ago
I learned a lot from that post. It is where I got a lot of ideas that I still use to understand the world today.
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by btilly 2y ago
No, suicide success is around 1%. That success rate varies widely with method. But if, for example, you just down a bunch of pills and then tell someone, you're extremely likely to live.
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by btilly 2y ago
For a frozen open air cemetery, I direct your attention to Mount Everest. Your odds of dying while climbing it are better than while attempting suicide. And most of the bodies just...stay.
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by btilly 2y ago
IBM had three problems at that point. The first was a culture of speaking to the expectations of senior executives, and following strategies that made no sense. The second was that they were on all sides of all technology disputes - and so
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by btilly 2y ago
If you use a VPN, wouldn't it suffice to just make your VPN connection use BBR? Ditto if you use an https proxy of some kind.
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by btilly 2y ago
But they did not simply "repair" it. They added something that leaves the device more vulnerable. Not just to the government, but to anyone with access to the toolkit that the police are trying to use. Which includes foreign actor
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by btilly 2y ago
It's not relevant for the same reason that it isn't relevant in the driver's license example. If you don't have a license, then get a friend to drive you. Or get an Uber. But you can't drive yourself. If you do, no
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by btilly 2y ago
You and I disagree on reasonableness. The government is here deliberately planning to take advantage of a seizure to damage someone's personal possessions. The right of that person to be secure in their possessions therefore should req
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by btilly 2y ago
What happens if we take this as precedent? Dismantling a safe to facilitate a search, isn't a search. So it's allowed, even if the safe is left damaged. Tearing a house apart to facilitate a search, isn't a search. So it&#x27
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Exercise and the heart: A review of the early studies (2007)(bcmj.org)
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by btilly 2y ago
What makes you think that conductor paid more? Certainly nothing that I said! Likewise what makes you think that the epidemiology was hard? The statistics were absolutely brutally obvious. The main problem was getting people to look at the
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by btilly 2y ago
The classic from which all this comes is the UK bus system. You had the driver and the conductor. Equivalent jobs, from an equivalent background, with equivalent lifestyles away from work. But drivers sat and the conductors stood. Very, ver
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by btilly 2y ago
Very specifically, cold enough for salt water to freeze. Useless trivia. If you dump salt into ice water, it reliably goes from 32 F to 0 F. Which makes it cold enough to make ice cream with.
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by btilly 2y ago
Yes, this was Paris. It was a 15% tip. That happened a bit over 20 years ago.
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by btilly 2y ago
You are adding information that I did not previously possess. And neither the article nor the previous poster offered. As I said, the truth will out. I was just unhappy with the case previously being offered.
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by btilly 2y ago
The worst service that I ever received was in France, where tips were mandatory and could not be varied. I've never been so offended at being asked to tip as when it was done by the smug jerk who had just arranged to make sure that I d
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by btilly 2y ago
That makes sense. I ran across the idea, informally, back in the 1990s in grad school. And what I heard then was concerning. I heard physicists saying that it was fine. But I also saw that their notion of fine and mine did not agree... I ha
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by btilly 2y ago
For a more current example of a mathematical technique that preceded formalization by a considerable amount, consider renormalization. Particularly renormalization over a calculation that takes place over Feynman diagrams. For decades physi

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