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by c3534l 7y ago
Pascal's Wager is considered a joke for good reason. It's not any less a terrible argument here than in philosophy.
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by c3534l 7y ago
> This is silly. We know. No one is proposing this be used to actually sort. It's funny because it is a linear time algorithm, but incredibly inefficient and impractical in real life.
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by c3534l 7y ago
It is an ideal hand on an ideal table.
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by c3534l 7y ago
What do you consider a medium-sized company? Or a department even? I'm having trouble imagining a department being in an entirely different building. The companies I've worked for who I considered medium-sized had hundreds of empl
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by c3534l 7y ago
It's a hell of a lot better than JSON and I like that everything uses it.
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by c3534l 7y ago
I would agree that using list comprehensions over iterating is idiomatic Python, but I would not say that the task of applying a function to a list is an idiom like how the website seems to indicate. There may or may not be an idiomatic way
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by c3534l 7y ago
I'm definitely going to steal that.
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by c3534l 7y ago
These really aren't idioms. An idiom in natural language is a phrase or saying whose meaning cannot be understood without someone telling you what it's supposed to mean (that is, you can't figure it out just by reading the wo
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by c3534l 7y ago
Not really. A black hole isn't any more dangerous than any other object with the same mass. A black hole with the mass of Earth, for instance, would behave exactly as Earth does, except when an object collides with it, it continues on
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by c3534l 7y ago
The problem is that both views are essentially correct. The business is located in one country, but the customers can be in any country, and customers are not really entering another country and the businesses are kind of, but not really do
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by c3534l 7y ago
It reminds me of the famous photo that Stalin had altered to remove a person from, so as to erase them from history entirely. I don't think the practice magically becomes acceptable just because you promise to keep the original copy lo
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by c3534l 7y ago
It's cool.
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by c3534l 7y ago
So like, some sort of introduction that summarizes the rest of that paper? Next you'll be telling me they recommend organizing paragraphs according to argument or point and to end it with some sort of conclusion!
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by c3534l 7y ago
What hope do we have for self governance when the poster child of bad economic regulations, universally derided for having the opposite effect for which it intends, can still be implemented? Are governments incapable of learning? Are we doo
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by c3534l 7y ago
Economists have correctly predicted 5 out of the last 3 recessions.
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by c3534l 7y ago
The best way to stay attentive behind the wheel is to actually be the one driving. There's virtually no way of being both attentive and passive for long periods of time. If a driver can't check their email or whatever on their pho
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by c3534l 7y ago
To be clear, Google isn't accused of intentionally tracking children in defiance of privacy laws, they're accused of not erring hard enough on the side of "this is a child" when guessing the age of a user they don't
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by c3534l 7y ago
Writers have relied on their words only to convey emotions for a very long time. It's only recently that we've been drawing faces next to our words instead picking good ones.
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by c3534l 7y ago
I wasted the first 8 years of my life after college not knowing what to do professionally and being too depressed to actually get anything done in the meantime. I also used to wasted time being addicted to the 24/7 news, which not only
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by c3534l 7y ago
Video games are just work fine tuned to produce a level of reward and learning that is psychologically satisfying. Jumping and murdering turtles isn't fun, but it's a fun video game because it's designed to be fun.
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by c3534l 7y ago
It's be easier and equally fair to just grade student's essays by rolling a pair of dice.
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by c3534l 7y ago
Because handwriting analysts tell people they are an accepted branch of psychology and there is not enough time in the day to question everything. At some point, I heard handwriting analysis was pseudoscience, so I looked into it and they w
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by c3534l 7y ago
Not if the government is giving out money. Besides, the second the bank can't actually provide the money is the second they increase rates.
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by c3534l 7y ago
I'm trying to write a polite response to this, but this just comes off as so cynical to me it's hard not to be outraged that this is the top post in this thread right now. What's to stop you from apply the same argument to me
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by c3534l 7y ago
How to write good OO code: write it like it's supposed to be Haskell. Avoid state, favor composiblity, prefer static functions, treat classes like types, throw errors to enforce type safety. All the fancy OOP design patterns and SOLID
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by c3534l 7y ago
I see this as an example where the system works. Valve has an incentive to pay for bugs. The researcher than has an incentive to disclose them privately. If Valve doesn't pay fairly, the bug is disclosed, Valve pays the price and is fo
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by c3534l 7y ago
Wharton is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania. He went to business school and got and completed all the same business requirements everyone else has to take. I studied accounting at university along side finance, business
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by c3534l 7y ago
Different people have different expectations for that sort of thing. Sometimes a request isn't and the requester is expecting a certain bend-over-backwards mentality to make the lightest of requests. Other people are blunt and direct t
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by c3534l 7y ago
It's really to maintain JSON without being allowed comments. JSON is fine for transmitting data across the web, but if you need complex configuration data in version control that many people work on, you need comments so new teammates
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by c3534l 7y ago
The person they hired (in all likelihood many people) represents Virgin Mobile in an official capacity. The people in that thread are primarily talking to their followers (because it's Twitter and not a BBS) and are secondarily address

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