chrchang523

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   by chrchang523 9y ago

   On the subject of persuading racists/sexists, I found a recent comment on Scott Aaronson's blog to be especially insightful ( https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3389#comment-1742322 ). Excerpt follows: ---
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   by chrchang523 9y ago

   If you don't need to worry about exponential notation or negative numbers, having a "natural sort" comparator is another way to deal with this.
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   by chrchang523 9y ago

   The Amish have peacefully opted out of this sort of arms race for hundreds of years, and are in no danger.
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   by chrchang523 9y ago

   US state voting literacy tests were problematic because (i) the criteria for being able to skip the test tended to be racially discriminatory and (ii) it wasn't practical for most of the affected citizens to move to a state which tre
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   by chrchang523 9y ago

   I find it interesting how later iterations of the game fixed the Mass Slow problem, but (perhaps with the exception of the King's Bounty reboot) generally weren't considered as fun to play.
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   by chrchang523 9y ago

   In fairness, Animate Dead is fine without the Earth Magic skill.
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   by chrchang523 10y ago

   An algorithm that generates (an average of) O(n) random variates has time complexity at least O(n), not O(1).