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by caconym_ 6y ago
Can you do the same with a circle? (In case you didn't read the article carefully—no, you can't, and that's why this is interesting.)
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by caconym_ 6y ago
The point is that it's a solution to a difficult mathematical problem, and a particularly interesting one since it has a different result with one less dimension and naively there's no reason to expect any different in 3D. A lot o
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> why isn't the same allowed in 2d for the circle at the beginning? It is. The picture illustrating the impending cusps is after the two sides of the circle have passed through each other.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Yeah, they seem decent. My partner is always losing cables and ordering the cheapest ones on Amazon, and the thing I hate most about them is that they always make the whole room smell like I dunked my head in a bucket of kerosene. She order
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by caconym_ 6y ago
So I guess the fact that he went to live in the jungle as a kid is supposed to prove he isn't a crank now, 20+ years later? That's really, really not how it works. I definitely think a lot of the climate alarm is hyperbolic and mi
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I mostly don't disagree with you, but I think it's precisely the "illiberal mob[s]" you describe that are most threatening to open discourse. You may not be able to destroy ideas, but you can sure make it difficult for t
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Not that I think it matters at this point in the discussion, but I did not intend for the scope of my language to be restricted to physical violence.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I definitely agree that it's tricky, and I don't think "Nazis" are the only threat we face today. Anybody whose approach to discourse is to shout down ideas rather than engage with them in good faith or just ignore them
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by caconym_ 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance > Less well known [than other paradoxes Popper discusses] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I feel like my comment is fairly explicit about it being fair to question how Reddit's banhammer has or has not come down against other communities, so I fail to see the relevance of this whataboutism. The point is that T_D has loudly
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by caconym_ 6y ago
T_D was chock full of calls for violence since its early days. In particular, I remember looking one day and seeing its whole front page covered in posts glorifying Pinochet for the way he treated his domestic enemies. The mods quite clearl
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Pro-Trump voices seem to have taken over the discussion in most "conservative" spaces on the internet that I've found, so I don't think the implied equivalence here is a bad generalization to make in the context. Since t
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Yeah. I'd compare this to the fifth amendment issues around providing a password to a computer, safe, etc., where (IIRC) compelling a defendant to provide the password is contingent on having strong arguments to the effect that they ow
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I love my Fuji gear and I think I get great results with it, but I'm an amateur and while some of it is fantastic by any measure (e.g. the 50-140mm f2.8), I think the performance of the bodies falls short of the higher-end Nikon/C
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Sounds like we largely agree, then. :) I'm not ready to say I think this should or shouldn't be allowed and under what circumstances, because I'm not a lawyer or legal scholar. It just bugs me when people post these reductive
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Yes, I read the document. I'm not a lawyer, but the reasoning is problematic to me because it draws equivalence between discovery via the attorney after receipt of the documents and interception of the documents before they reach the a
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> the civil right you claim you wish to discuss. Since you've accused me of bad faith, I'll invite you now to go fuck yourself. You're a fool if you think context doesn't matter. I asked the questions I did to invite
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by caconym_ 6y ago
People are not good at understanding uncertainty and its implications, even if you put it front and center. I used to work in renewable energy consulting and I was shocked by how aggressively uncertainty estimates are ignored by those whose
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> Who said that? The person I replied to said it. > The police must be able to investigate and creating a complete blind-spot to their investigation would make their work impossible. While true to a point, this sort of argument is dep
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by caconym_ 6y ago
So the police decide what is and isn't legitimate communication wrt. qualifying as attorney-client privileged, and that's ok because "there are lots of other forms of communication"? I don't think this is a cut and
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Well, a point I've made elsewhere in this thread (possibly not here) is that I don't think they did claim it's an objectively truthful conclusion. I can reason about moving a heavy object from my car to my house using the gen
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I don't really think this letter is trying to be anything other than an articulation of a value judgment made by people with a certain perspective that gives visibility not just into the effects of COVID-19, but other public health iss
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19. Black people are twice as likely to be killed by police compared to white people, but the effects of racism are far more pervasive. Black people
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by caconym_ 6y ago
We've heard a lot from black people over the past week or two (and much longer, if you cared to listen) about what typical American policing is like for them. It's not good. It's perfectly valid to see those issues as importa
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by caconym_ 6y ago
It's certainly not how I'd word it, but if you read the whole letter they clearly and unambiguously acknowledge and restate the risk. That's the beginning and end of it for me.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Where'd they "tell us there is no risk from these protests"? The letter you linked explicitly advises us to "prepare for an increased number of infections in the days following a protest [and] provide increased access to
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Not really, but the "county medical examiner" didn't come to the same conclusion. IIRC they essentially blamed pre-existing conditions for causing his expiration right at the exact moment a cop was crushing his neck between a
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by caconym_ 6y ago
If that's an issue you care about, why don't you put in the effort to surface those numbers yourself? Having a dangerous job doesn't justify murder, so I'm not sure why you think it's relevant here.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> Most Americans don't understand how it works either. When I dislocated my jaw and went to an in-network ER for treatment (it popped back in as I was sitting on the bed), I wasn't surprised to get a call from a collections a
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Didn't Samsung literally get caught uploading screenshots of content played on their TVs to some server? Maybe it was some other company? These days, unless you take drastic measures to defend yourself from spyware embedded in consumer

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