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by csense 6y ago
I guess you can have left-wing anti-science too.
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by csense 6y ago
Any fan of '90s JRPG's will tell you this product shares its name with an engineer who finished his masterpiece in the year 2300. The irony is strong.
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by csense 6y ago
I've always been confused how sex abuse happens in church. If you're a priest or a nun or whatever, don't you have an exam at some point with questions like this: (1) True or false: God is real. (2) True or false: Hell is r
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by csense 6y ago
I'm curious about the practical mechanics of this kind of thing. Are there armed squads with AK-47's breaking in datacenter doors and forcing network engineers to update firewalls at gunpoint? Or do they have a bunch of the local
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Problems with Paywalls(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by csense 6y ago|0 comments
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by csense 6y ago
Something tells me Gates, Bezos and other named billionaires won't be Washington residents for very long.
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by csense 6y ago
We're in the midst of inflation right now. The inflation's just concentrated in financial markets: Stocks, bonds, and (some) real estate markets.
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by csense 6y ago
If you want to try role-playing a Soviet chip designer, check out "Kohctpyktop: Engineer of the People," an old Zachtronics game (requires Flash): http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...
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by csense 6y ago
One of the problems with this is opening up to criticism, liability, and further argumentation. If you say "We removed them because of their political views," then you get criticized for being openly partisan. If you say "We
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by csense 6y ago
Someone should host the whitepaper on IPFS.
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DC Residents Get Visits from FBI as Agents Track Cell Phones at Capitol(youtube.com)
3 points by csense 6y ago|0 comments
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by csense 6y ago
The Internet was great when it was mostly nerds. Then the plebs got in, and everything's gone to shiyte. Sigh...
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by csense 6y ago
In general, pretty cool stuff. There's no need to use Sympy, it's kind of overkill. If f(x) = 1/x^2 - a, then f'(x) = -2x^-3. You can find x_new easily: x_new = x - f(x) / f'(x) = x - (1/x^2 - a)
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by csense 6y ago
A lot of you guys are hating on the author for not being able to figure out how to install Nodejs. Yet if you're old enough to have gotten started in the time of JavaScript in the late '90s, or QBasic in the early '90s, or sy
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by csense 6y ago
So how exactly does the whale profit in the attack described in the article? If you're a whale, sure you can make brokers squirm by throwing your money around to buy a ton of options, forcing said brokers to bid up the underlying price
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by csense 6y ago
> The challenge isn't technical This problem might have a technical solution though. First, each voter generates a private key and publishes the corresponding public key. Then implement a homomorphic vector addition, everybody sub
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by csense 6y ago
This doesn't explain or excuse anything. Brussels: "Every time a 50-euro shelf goes from the EU to England, customers will need to pay 30 euros above the purchase price to the EU, or we have No Deal." London: "We can&#
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by csense 6y ago
> they believed the tariff-free trade deal negotiated between the UK and EU meant there would be no extra charges A tariff is a governmentally mandated payment required for goods to move across a border. These people are being told by a
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by csense 6y ago
I predict within 5-10 years, any tech company with an activist union will have moved most of their operations to countries where workers don't have rights. They managed to do this in the manufacturing sector. And a car factory or a st
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by csense 6y ago
If this is how Uncle Sam reacts to one of his laptops being "borrowed" at foreign customs, why does he expect civilians to simply accept the situation when their laptops are "borrowed" at US customs?
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by csense 6y ago
How did they decide on this years-apart schedule though? Presumably they had some data to say "we tried giving group A a booster after 90 days, group B after 365 days, group C after 2 years, group D after 3 years, group E after 7 year
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by csense 6y ago
How did they originally decide to do 2 doses, instead of 1 or 3? How did they originally decide to do 21 days, instead of 42 or 3? Presumably these choices weren't picked out of thin air, or made up by some businessperson based on bus
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by csense 6y ago
So does this apply to a decentralized Ethereum stablecoin (DAI)? A centralized Ethereum stablecoin (USDC)? Or do they rule out Ethereum entirely and insist the blockchain itself must be centralized?
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by csense 6y ago
Back in March or so, I wrote a comment about this [1], citing some even earlier (January 2020-ish) HN commentary. My conclusion: Lab leak's not inconsistent with the evidence, but there's no smoking gun. China's behavior is
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05AB1E Is a Golfing Language(github.com)
1 points by csense 6y ago|0 comments
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by csense 6y ago
Decentralization / smaller government. Left often has an inexplicable urge to assume that Government Knows Best. Imagine the Fed government gets somebody like Trump at the top again, but smarter, with more effective political tactics
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by csense 6y ago
I'm a little surprised there's not a complete toolchain for DNA by now, including assemblers, compilers and linkers, given that the human genome project was completed decades ago. You still need living things for the runtime, but
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by csense 6y ago
I have the exact opposite experience. For me, part of the problem is that in math, you have options. If you forget the quadratic formula, you can: - Re-derive it by completing the square on the general quadratic - Solve a specific quadrat
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by csense 6y ago
I tried the shareware version of Solar Winds back in the '90s. I guess I should be glad I didn't buy the full version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Winds
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by csense 6y ago
When we have new communication technology, it can rapidly change societies and cause conflicts. Think Nazi radio propaganda, or the role of the printing press c. 1500-1700, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wa

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