danharaj

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by danharaj 8y ago
In which year did social forces that marginalized women in STEM fields become negligible? They were obviously substantial in, say, 1963. And I think it's mostly accepted that such forces have become weaker over time. Now, how does one
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by danharaj 8y ago
Not literally, but there is a 1-1 correspondence between terms of the former and terms of the latter. Modulo technicalities in the presence of non-termination.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Cluster headaches are sporadic and their cause is unknown. A person can have one once and never again. Best not to read into anecdotes.
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by danharaj 8y ago
I'm sure for someone who has devoted his career to understanding spacetime, Rovelli's enthusiasm for the subject at least borders mysticism. The science of quantum gravity is wide open.
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by danharaj 8y ago
That's how I feel as a consultant here in NYC. I get whiplash when I go to SF on business.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Granted I think mindful pain management is a thing, especially chronic pain which I've had forever. But I've certainly felt acute pain far beyond the ability of my higher faculties to contend with...
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by danharaj 8y ago
Hah. There's definitely pain out there that can't be studied to oblivion. Anyone so pompous hasn't experienced, for example, a cluster headache.
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by danharaj 8y ago
The average developer can do much more today than they could 10, 20, 30 years ago. That's because crucial pieces of infrastructure and functionality are no longer subject to the vicissitudes of new code but also because people are bet
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by danharaj 8y ago
Good luck observing anything without naming it and your observations. And once you have names, logic and mathematics are sure to follow.
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by danharaj 8y ago
So, when it is said that it is ethical, does that extend to labor conditions in Purism's upstream supply chain? I would buy such a phone for its more robust privacy, but I wouldn't call it ethical if it was produced with conflict
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by danharaj 8y ago
The subject matter is about a woman managing a high intensity career and taking care of a large family, so perhaps not. It's worth thinking about though.
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by danharaj 8y ago
I don't know much about Go. Does it have subtyping? Mixing polymorphism and subtyping isn't obvious. Stephen Dolan's thesis on algebraic subtyping [0] is the first really satisfactory answer, all previous ones having signific
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by danharaj 8y ago
Autocorrect?
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by danharaj 8y ago
The second law of thermodynamics is about entropy, which is an observer dependent quantity. It is the discrepancy between what one knows about a system (e.g. its temperature) and its state (e.g. the position and momentum of every particle i
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by danharaj 8y ago
It only looks like the wave function collapses if you fail to take into account that the ones doing the experiment are quantum mechanical as well. If you could run an experiment where you account for the interaction between the apparatus an
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by danharaj 8y ago
The United States has supported dictatorships let alone allowed them to exist. Like Batista. In... Cuba.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Considering your comments on this point, you seem really annoyed that the bananas formed a union.
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by danharaj 8y ago
I have no idea how you did the gymnastics necessary to say that capitalist power structures that existed for decades before the USSR came into existence are modeled after it instead of the other way around.
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by danharaj 8y ago
The propaganda is so loud that the reality of being a worker under capitalism is criticized as being socialist.
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by danharaj 8y ago
:ok_hand: been there
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by danharaj 8y ago
Because I weigh my need to have a home higher than someone else's desire to be a tourist. I don't want my entire life subjugated to international market forces . Shocking doctrine, I'm sure.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Friend, why are you being so combative?
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by danharaj 8y ago
Distribution only exists because geography is a thing.
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by danharaj 8y ago
To put it bluntly, I don't like competing with the entire rest of the world for housing in my city, and I'm pretty sure most other people don't either.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Do you know how diverse India actually is? I don't think you do.
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by danharaj 8y ago
> One under-explored area I think we're going to see a lot more of is backfill of older processes. Gimme a coprocessor that's just 1000 Pentium I's on the same die.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Freedom of association is the dual of freedom of speech.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Brushing your teeth in the morning is a ritual. Shaking hands with everyone before starting a meeting is a ritual. Tucking your kid into bed is a ritual.
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by danharaj 8y ago
> By that logic performing surgery is illegal, should Apple remove an app that helps operate surgical equipment? Yes? That would probably make it a medical device which is also regulated.
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by danharaj 8y ago
I'll have you know that I earned my degree at the finest toad university.

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