carlob

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by carlob 2y ago
Quantum mechanics is Markov chains in imaginary time.
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by carlob 2y ago
I think you are focusing too much on the fact that a being needs to be an individual organism, which is kind of an implementation detail. What I wonder instead is whether reasoning is a property that is either there or not there, with a sha
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by carlob 2y ago
> Some of us see a major difference between selling heroin to someone, and building the marketplace from which these victim's freely bought drugs. I kinda do see your point, but I think I reach the opposite conclusion. If you are on
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by carlob 2y ago
According to wikipedia: > Analysis of mineral salts in the wine revealed a high concentration of potassium salts, indicative of the cremains in the wine I kinda wanted to try it too before I read this.
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by carlob 2y ago
Second hand? What a waste! The neighborhood co-working space has a free pile of kids stuff divided by age range. It works pretty much like a library: people take some and leave some. Every once in a while some stuff gets thrown out because
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by carlob 2y ago
reality tends to have a left-leaning bias
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by carlob 2y ago
I'm sure Morocco was fun and there are loads of really beautiful spots to visit, but I don't think it's a place that rates very high in democracy or in personal freedoms. Furthermore it's extremely sexist and somewhat ra
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by carlob 2y ago
> For LGBTQ+, asylum is the likely option Do you have any data points on this, I remember reading that some Americans have tried applying for asylum in Canada, but no one has ever been accepted.
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by carlob 2y ago
There was a submission here a few months ago about the various incarnations of goth starting from the late Roman empire. https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-goths
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by carlob 2y ago
There is a mulberry tree right next to a bus station where I live. Between the people waiting for the bus and birds I almost never manage to eat the fruit and there is none on the ground.
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by carlob 2y ago
Ten years earlier and she didn't publish it right away. That really goes to show how much more difficult it was for a woman to become a scientist back then.
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by carlob 2y ago
Yeah but that utility function will not be a linear function of money so you can't say EV(u($$)) == u(EV($$)). This is the mathematical formulation that tells you that it is irrational to risk all your money to make an extra dollar eve
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by carlob 2y ago
I know more than one person who ended in the ER with a perforated eardrum because of qtips. I honestly don't understand why we haven't outlawed them yet (in countries with universal healthcare, in the US you could just have a more
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by carlob 2y ago
Democracy export? That has worked so well in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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by carlob 2y ago
Not quite RGB or CYM(K) depends on whether you are adding or subtracting colors i.e. if the light is transmitted or reflected.
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by carlob 2y ago
There are still quite a few of those in circulation in Italy.
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by carlob 2y ago
I want wealth taxes for redistribution mostly. So yeah.
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by carlob 2y ago
I don't think you even need the ultra rich high in politics, there is a more mundane explanation: countries are competing against one another to attract the HQs. It's a race to the bottom and it's called fiscal dumping.
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by carlob 2y ago
This is patently false for the only case I have data on. The wealth tax in France had quadrupled its collections in a time where the French GDP had doubled, and all this was without an exit tax. Unfortunately Macron got rid of it a few year
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by carlob 2y ago
>(Lack of an obvious pronunciation is a good objection, tho.) ally?
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by carlob 2y ago
I don't think it's about not knowing the abs function, more about the fact that the first derivative would be discontinuous and the second doesn't exist in 0. Variance had much nicer properties mathematically than absolute de
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by carlob 2y ago
Honestly Twitter has become a downright hostile browsing experience on any browser and any hardware. It's probably on purpose to make you use the app.
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by carlob 2y ago
It doesn't matter as long you don't (or are allowed not to) participate in church.
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by carlob 2y ago
or 22
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by carlob 2y ago
Did anyone turn this into a duckduckgo bang?
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by carlob 2y ago
I would say it has a way to stop and slow down, but a fixie does not have brakes by any definition of the word brake.
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by carlob 3y ago
Pretty much all Motorola phones still have a headphone jack
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by carlob 3y ago
Or maybe candidates should submit their answer as a PR to memcached. The interviewer is deriving some value from an open source project, they should contribute to it.
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by carlob 3y ago
Didn't Breaking Bad also have a drug-cooking Winnebago?
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by carlob 3y ago
When I clicked I thought it was all an elaborate Breaking Bad reference, but that's Varga with a G.

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