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901.
by cygx 9y ago
How competitive are they with regard to latency, speed and pricing?
902.
by cygx 10y ago
What has it ever done to you? Expanding to "of order 10" in spoken language.
903.
by cygx 10y ago
Mathematical notation is a language, and its abuse can be justified if it facilitates communication. Even professional mathematicians do so when writing papers: The audience is not an automated theorem prover, but other humans, and we don&#
904.
by cygx 10y ago
Not always (cf Czechia and East Germany).
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by cygx 10y ago
I'll leave the sources up to other people, but the general idea is that the more dualistic parts of later Jewish theology might have originated with Zoroastrianism. Heaven, hell and the devil as God's antagonist supposedly weren&#
906.
by cygx 10y ago
Or just wholesale thrown out(or at least become obsolete), see Newtonian orbital mechanics vs relativistic orbital mechanics. Newtonian orbital mechanics is not obsolete: Within the limits of its applicability, it's a perfectly fine
907.
by cygx 10y ago
Note that Norway and Switzerland accept freedom of movement. Switzerland tried to introduce immigration quotas for EU workers, but that got scrapped a couple of months ago.
908.
by cygx 10y ago
children born to slaves were treated as the master's children That applies to Hebrew slaves. What happens to the children of foreign slaves is not clearly stated, but it's the logical consequence of the rules applicable to Hebre
909.
by cygx 10y ago
It is absolutely forbidden for any Christian to own slaves or excessive debts, or to help slavery practices in any way. That's not what the Catholic church taught as late as 1866: https://suchanek.name/texts/athe
910.
by cygx 10y ago
1. The Old Testament generally approved and regulated slavery, but it was different than the chattel slavery we tend to think of Which ignores the difference in rules applying to Hebrew slaves compared to foreign slaves. As far as foreign
911.
by cygx 10y ago
If you're a physicist, you've probably seen it used as the final term of Taylor expansions. That's the proper usage, whereas the usage above is an abuse of notation insofar as (nonzero) constant arguments are equivalent.
912.
by cygx 10y ago
It's math notation invented for analytic number theory that got popularized in CS by Donald Knuth. By definition, constant (nonzero) arguments denote the same class, so using constants different from 1 isn't really useful. However
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by cygx 10y ago
Cf https://philosophynow.org/issues/46/Newtons_Flaming_Laser_Sw...
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by cygx 10y ago
The point is that according to ordinary QM, any of the states you can construct via superposition are physical. Eg for the qubit, the state space is the Bloch sphere, which is continuous.
915.
by cygx 10y ago
Continuous abstractions are merely for our convenience, and not fundamental as far as we've seen I do not see how that's true for quantum mechanics (take linear superposition as just one example). People may speculate about disc
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by cygx 10y ago
> I think it's established fact that energy and matter are, and that time is finite in the past, so the visible universe is finite. None of that is established, actually: Metric expansion of space comes with a cosmic event horizon w
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by cygx 10y ago
we only need to show that time is finite in extent, and it follows that space is also finite [...] That does not follow: As our universe is spatially flat (or close to it), it is consistent with the infinite-space Friedmann model. The cos
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by cygx 10y ago
And it's possible to come up with a model where the universe is infinite but the visible universe is finite. In fact, I believe FLRW is one such a model Just to clarify, FLRW is a class of models, which includes ones with finite as w
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by cygx 10y ago
No incompleteness proves that there will be statements that are true or false that cannot be proven to be true or false. Careful there: Gödels first incompleteness theorem proves that in a consistent effectively axiomatized formal syste
920.
by cygx 10y ago
Ok. Not sure I buy that (eg right now, we have no reason to believe that the lifetime of the universe is finite), but that's not what I was getting at: My point is that at worst, the incompleteness theorems only imply that we won'
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by cygx 10y ago
There is no objective mathematical reality, because it cannot include a statements about its own consistency I'm assuming we're talking about Gödel's incompleteness theorems? Don't they just say that if there's su
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by cygx 10y ago
While we're talking doomsday scenarios: The Limits to Growth 'standard run' model from the 70s comes with a global collapse mid-century. We're roughly on track...
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by cygx 10y ago
Only if you assume a linear response.
924.
by cygx 10y ago
Singular they goes back centuries[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage
925.
by cygx 10y ago
If only the Neanderthals had thought of building a wall (and made homo sapiens pay for it, of course).
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by cygx 10y ago
Coincidentally, a couple of weeks ago I visited a talk by Dr. Lochte from the Alfred-Wegener Institute that runs the station. Interesting tidbit: The ice shelf it stands on rest upon the open sea, so for legal purposes, it's a ship ;)
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by cygx 10y ago
Some ethnicities are more susceptible to certain diseases. Is that a social construct? Obviously not. But quoting Wikipedia[1], an average of 85% of genetic variation exists within local populations, ~7% is between local populations with
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by cygx 10y ago
They probably can get at the text, but I have doubts about any formulae...
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by cygx 10y ago
Mob is the main development branch, open to all. Master is the release branch, and as no release has been cut for a couple of years, it is indeed rather stale. edit: If you want to get an idea about what happens in TCC-land, you should ch
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by cygx 10y ago
The github repo is just a mirror, development happens on repo.or.cz [1] [1] http://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git

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