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by cykotic 3y ago
Zuckerberg is too long to type on an iPad. Between Elon and Musk it seems natural to me to write Musk. I perceive Elon Musk is more recognizable being called Musk over Elon. Don’t want to write the full name.
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by cykotic 3y ago
There is zero chance Musk will ever fight Mark in anything other than a staged event. He can’t possibly win against Mark and he knows it. His stated desire to fight is nothing more than a narcissistic desire to stay in the news.
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by cykotic 3y ago
Musk is smart and a narcissist. He’s done more than a few things I disagree with and he’s done things that I think qualify for him to be called an asshole. Musk is and will forever be woefully underprepared to fight against someone with Ma
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by cykotic 3y ago
Except it isn’t working as it is supposed to since infrastructure investment hasn’t occurred the way it should.
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by cykotic 3y ago
…secure basic human rights for themselves. This isn’t a claim that everyone agrees this is literally a basic human right. It’s a colloquialism to emphasize the author’s view that this is something that should have been granted to the wor
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by cykotic 3y ago
What we have in the U.S. is highly inefficient, unhealthy, and environmentally destructive. Virtually every store must have a dedicated parking space that is unused most of the time. This causes a huge waste of land resources. What resul
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by cykotic 3y ago
People don’t trust Facebook but still use Facebook. I believe given two equally good implementations of a product the one made by Facebook will be less popular. As it stands now Oculus is the only standalone VR device and people will use
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by cykotic 3y ago
Seven years ago I got a taxi in Las Vegas to go from the airport to my hotel. The whole ride had ads blaring from the radio and the backseat area was filled with display ads. I’ve never taken a taxi since then. What you describe will be
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by cykotic 3y ago
What you wrote is well written and thought out. I do agree with the sentiment that it’s worthwhile to try to make such products. I wonder though if a large part of the backlash has more to do with the who is behind the product than from a
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by cykotic 3y ago
One bomb may not have been enough evidenced by the fact that even junior level officers attempted to thwart the surrender. One bomb might have been enough. The decision to drop the second one was not entirely unjustified since the Japanes
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by cykotic 3y ago
From the wikipedia article on the surrender broadcast: As many as 1,000 officers and army soldiers raided the Imperial Palace on the evening of 14 August 1945 to destroy the recording. The rebels were confused by the layout of the palace a
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by cykotic 3y ago
It seems like you may not understand how budgets at the federal level work in the U.S. Congress passes spending bills and the President signs (or vetos) them. This has nothing to do with the debt limit as such. Eliminating the need to vo
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by cykotic 3y ago
The logic employed was: Every Uber driver I’ve had in US and Canada are happy with driving for Uber. One guy I had the other day drives under as his second job and He says it pays his rent, his car payment and gas and his primary job goes
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by cykotic 3y ago
Perhaps some day we will live in a society that does not allow exploitation because we can’t think of what those who are exploited would do if not for the exploitation.
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by cykotic 3y ago
If set up that way then yes it meets the definition of a function. I’m not a complex analyst but I imagine they think of a function from C to C on a given branch rather than multi-function being a function from C to the countable product o
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by cykotic 3y ago
There is no high principle other than the agreed upon definition of what a function is. Of course the function that gives you inverse images is nothing more than an inverse function that is allowed to give multiple values. You can’t use t
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by cykotic 3y ago
A multivalued function is not a function. Hence the need to call it something else. In complex analysis you have branch cuts and things like that. We don’t call something a function that doesn’t have a unique output for a given input. ED
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by cykotic 3y ago
We don’t allow multiple values for a given input of a function. Ever. This is never done. f(x) = x^2 is not invertible as a real valued function of a real variable. On the restricted domain of [0, infinity) it is invertible and that inv
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by cykotic 3y ago
Functions can’t be used to handle undefined values either. A function is a mapping, f, from one set to another such that each element of the originating set gets mapped to one and only one element of the target set. This, by definition, r
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by cykotic 3y ago
And from a typically American perspective one doesn’t have to walk. They’ll even provide motorized carts to use when you are buying gallons of cola.
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by cykotic 3y ago
That is one of the problems with Walmart. It facilitates overconsumption. The world can’t sustain such a lifestyle for everyone. We end up paying for the negative externalities partially by living in a world we have poisoned. Whilst we