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by cjslep 7y ago
I vastly prefer social deduction games that don't have a way for any player to obtain a 100% certain solution (ex: Avalon w/ Mordred). Watching your assumptions unfold over a game and having to rethink them gives a lot of room to
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by cjslep 7y ago
Go watch Kurzgesagt's video on measles [0] You are confusing severity vs virulence (contagiousness). Measles is an immuno-compromising disease (like HIV, unlike the flu) and very very virulent. [0] https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by cjslep 7y ago
Getting too invested? In what, the society that surrounds each individual? I don't think that is possible. There is a difference between empowerment ("Joe Public can't do much to change society") versus investing (litera
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Your guess is only half right (if not using the Cold War term for first world and instead using it purely in terms of economic development). I am very happy with my life. I'm not sure what the line about "helpfulness" is talk
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by cjslep 7y ago
> the jury doesn’t pick and decide what laws apply Effectively, you are right. But technically, they can. Via jury nullification. But if you know about this, then you typically get immediately weeded out during the selection process.
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by cjslep 7y ago
> A democracy isn't guaranteed to succeed, like any form of governance. Autocratic regimes however are destined to fail at some point. This is a powerful manifestation of implied bias. This and the whole preceding sentence make it a
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> I think Canada has had a professional, and pretty serious, association of engineers (in the traditional sense) Looks at ring on the pinky of his working hand Yep.
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by cjslep 7y ago
One way to make it harder for those who "own" the voting system to rig it would be to reform the voting system itself so that it isn't the first-past-the-post winner-take-all system we have today.
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by cjslep 8y ago
That's exactly what OP is saying: since they're not going to prison because the law lets them continue, it won't stop.
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Don't confuse legality with morality.
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by cjslep 8y ago
I lasted one semester in Russian class thanks in part to the cursive writing full of what looks like to English speakers as cursive u and w mixed with half-height dotless cursive i's. It was really hard to read and write Cyrillic like
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by cjslep 8y ago
Hate to break it to you, but Freenet has been doing that since the year 2000. It's amazing how many things that are popular now are simply re-discovery of Freenet features.
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by cjslep 8y ago
I believe this is meant to show that it is a targeted attack on the project lead: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Arathorn Unfortunately I don't have any background context for possible reasons why "actual tr
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by cjslep 8y ago
LAMMPS[0]. Also, I made my own basic one for a GPU in the 2010/2011 timeframe but that code is lost to time. [0] https://lammps.sandia.gov/
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by cjslep 8y ago
For example, you can use Molecular Dynamics simulations of atoms and their interactions over time in order to compute properties of the material through the statistical mechanics magic that is the Boltzmann constant, which bridges the micro
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by cjslep 8y ago
I was in Zermatt 2 weekends ago walking around the town when I suddenly heard behind me "Hello and welcome to my channel". Turn around, see a posse of people around a guy pointing a serious camera at his face. I immediately felt b
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by cjslep 8y ago
Before GitHub and other UIs exposing the "Git*" experience of merge/pull requests, etc there was only git and email. I think the author of this is the same one who has pushed back against ForgeFed and is now tackling some of
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by cjslep 8y ago
This was my first year doing my own Swiss taxes (US citizen in CH). Even though I only know German to an A2 level, the free software provided by the Canton and the instructions on how to fill out the return completely guided me with no prob
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by cjslep 8y ago
Good luck making plastic.
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> Ethereum has successfully navigated core upgrades and has a clear path to scalability. And for all this technical progress there's still the human problem that the core team/individuals decided exploiting vulnerable contracts
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by cjslep 8y ago
PayPal still cannot get its UX right for people resident abroad when adding cards. For example, their telephone number country picker determines the zip code validation, not the country of the billing address. It was quite frustrating and s
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by cjslep 8y ago
The benefit of the server browsers is that there were tons of positive gaming communities that competed around making the best and friendliest server possible in the early 2000's. I fondly remember playing Call of Duty as a tween with
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by cjslep 8y ago
I also wanted to dig into this. The null hypothesis and burden-of-proofs change between p tests and equivalence testing, right? P tests: null hypothesis is that there is nothing different, burden of proof to suggest there is a difference. E
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by cjslep 8y ago
I will never ever forget the Michael Giacchino scores in the original Call of Duty campaign.
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by cjslep 8y ago
Thanks for making me think more on the topic -- I especially loved the recursion which forced me to reflect on a whole new and weird level.
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Haha, you're the first to try to apply it recursively! That's kind of why I employed satire, to make people think. My move is simple. Do nothing. My satire fails its own test when applied to itself as I make clear what I am lookin
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by cjslep 8y ago
There's an even more insidious form of argument that's even present here on HN: 1: Take someone's position that one doesn't like 2: Extend it to a reasonable analogue (aka apply 1st formulation of Kant's Categorical
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by cjslep 8y ago
> The way to get the most value out of flawed people is to find the best version of their argument and then argue with that. The person isn't all that relevant. I disagree. Human beings want to have their views recognized. Dismissin
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by cjslep 8y ago
I disagree (or agree? I don't know which honestly). It very much depends on the degree. I don't see any Nuclear Engineering luminaries coming from Harvard, and no more coming from Stanford. - An NC State Nuclear Engineering alumn
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I'm currently reading Manufacturing Consent which to me shows how dangerous blindly following the mass media can be in a rigorous manner without requiring one to become a conspiracy theorist. There's certain ways to effectively

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