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by cvoss 1y ago
If I can actually pay someone for content, then, if I don't pay, I should expect not to be granted access to content. But that's not how YT works. YT doesn't charge you for good stuff. It charges you for not delivering crap.
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by cvoss 1y ago
Bad behavior risks being punished for bad behavior. Nothing to see here. My news app is my browser. It gives me unified access to all (free) news outlets, of which there is an abundance. It also has a killer feature where it doesn't ev
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by cvoss 1y ago
Consider telling your friend you would prefer different behavior from him, instead of passive aggression that, at this point, you have proven is ineffective and only leaves you more frustrated because you feel like he's ignoring your &
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by cvoss 1y ago
But a farmer is a professional scientist and a professional gardener. Living 1k years ago did not make them uninformed or unskilled at their profession. It's quite a modern bias to suggest this is amateur.
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by cvoss 1y ago
> there is a single countable list that includes all things that might possibly have any mathematical existence at all. Help me understand that. Isn't the Cantor diagonialization argument a proof that such a list cannot exist becaus
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by cvoss 1y ago
This blog post just rehashes someone else's work. Source article is here: https://www.veracode.com/blog/down-the-rabbit-hole-of-unicod...
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by cvoss 1y ago
You shouldn't use a word that can carry a precise mathematical meaning in a sentence that literally uses mathematical notation in order to speak precisely and then expect readers not to interpret the word in the precise mathematical wa
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SCOTUSbot, our AI tool to predict Supreme Court rulings(economist.com)
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by cvoss 1y ago
> Dr. Fukuyama, when you plant the word "against" adjacent to the phrase "life extension," you've earned an "F" in Longevity Strawman Arguments, Volume 1. > ... > Fukuyama's syllogism boils d
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by cvoss 1y ago
Ooh, very much disagree with a lot of these assertions. The problem I always encounter when trying to teach programming is that students completely lack an understanding of how to imagine and model the state of the computational system in t
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by cvoss 1y ago
If you'll permit me to tweak the example, I'll now instead choose (\ a . a a) (\ x . \y . y x) => \ y . y (\ x . \ y' . y' x) which still exhibits the variable shadowing problem. In a good language (where "good&q
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by cvoss 1y ago
What happens in the evaluator when you have (\ a . a a) (\ x . \ y . x y) Variables are uniquely named at parse time, but after one beta step, you have two distinct instances each of x and y, albeit in different scopes, and after a second b
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by cvoss 1y ago
Right? If you believe the odds of something are 51/49, you can say both 1) I believe the event is more likely than not, and 2) I absolutely will not bet the farm on the event.
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by cvoss 1y ago
Not sure if you are making a nuanced claim about the proportions of self-identified adherents who actually subscribe to orthodoxies, but the population statistics generally cut against your claim. https://www.statista.com/st
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by cvoss 1y ago
Having a decision algorithm does not make a computation free. It may take exponential time in the input size, doubly exponential time, some time involving Graham's number, ... etc. It may also take up an unreasonable amount of space. I
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by cvoss 1y ago
Yes, my intention was to point to the host of comments taking the most extreme postures. If they are weak strawman arguments, that's their own doing, not mine. GP said they had never seen any of these, so a cherry pick is exactly what
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by cvoss 1y ago
Really? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569009 > Blockchain is a perfect, transparent trustless global ledger that can't be hacked, so it's a misnomer to characterise these transactions as "cheating
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by cvoss 1y ago
This tragic, horrifying, and truly disgusting story is now going to be my go-to whenever I have to rebut all those people on HN who insist that if the perpetrator successfully acquired the bitcoin, 1) he in no way "stole" it, 2) h
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by cvoss 1y ago
> most christian denominations believe you go to heaven or hell ... immediately > some churches ... believe ... the soul sleeps until the second coming of Christ, then you are sent to either heaven or hell. It's nuanced and a lot
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by cvoss 1y ago
The phrase "applied X" invokes the technical, scientific, or academic meaning of X. So for example, "applied chemistry" does not refer to one's experience on a dating app.
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by cvoss 1y ago
> It would also mean that quantum field theory in curved spacetime can only be consistent if baryon number fails to be conserved! This would be utterly shocking. Is it really shocking (today)? I mean, isn't this a logical consequen
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by cvoss 1y ago
I also turn to a fountain pen for the hardest problems. It puts me in a completely different head space. Something about the limited editing ability forces more coherent, linear thought, but also the freedom to seamlessly switch between Eng
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by cvoss 1y ago
The whole point of Hawking radiation is that a thing which famously shouldn't have a decay process (a black hole) in fact does have a decay process due to the interaction of gravity and quantum mechanics.
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by cvoss 1y ago
The deliberations of the conclave are secret in perpetuity. It is not possible for your news agency to report on why this candidate was selected. Whatever they said is an outsider's guess.
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by cvoss 1y ago
The system is certainly broken and inefficient in many ways. But the system exists to promote and foster invention. Consider: I will not sink a large amount of resources into R&D if, as soon as I figure out something worthwhile, my comp
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by cvoss 1y ago
Your critique of quantum computing news generally is accurate (and GP's critique of the misleading headline is accurate). However, this article is actually not about quantum computing at all, nor does it claim to be, nor is it explicit
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by cvoss 1y ago
Especially because, I suspect, in a lot of people's minds, the concept of Atlantis much more closely resembles what the author enumerates as the possible (non-fictitious) sources of inspiration for Plato. That is, I certainly don'
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by cvoss 1y ago
This is a tiresome argument. Stealing is a moral concept first, and a legal concept second. You can steal without breaking any laws, the same way you can be a bad person without breaking any laws.
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by cvoss 2y ago
Moral laws and natural law, and moral people in a candid world. It's the same principle by which one people accuses another, over which they have no jurisdiction, of crimes against humanity or war crimes or of violating Nature's L
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by cvoss 2y ago
What is your theory for why you own any physical possessions? Do you only own things at the pleasure of your government which bestows you that privilege? I would think that if a coup replaced your government by force with one that did not r

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