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by ebg13 6y ago
That's well and good, but "prediction" is an attribute of a representative model, not of reality. Reality doesn't represent or predict itself; it just occurs. The problem of comparing against "hidden variable theori
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> The idea being that if any part of nature is unpredictable, then that could be a mechanism for where free-will might come from. Trying to use QM to introduce free will is just another manifestation of the same "mistaking the mod
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by ebg13 6y ago
> 0patch became aware of the flaw thanks to a “private researcher” who wants to remain anonymous—that person said no disclosure was made to Zoom No disclosure was made to Zoom. Why? What's the point of doing that?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> JAY-peg I think they mean JAY-pheg.
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"German proposal would"
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> As part of recent design changes, GitHub has introduced READMEs for profiles This is a weird new myth that might just highlight the difficulty of discoverability. GitHub has had user profile READMEs for years. The difference is just
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by ebg13 6y ago
Write an app for your home automation system that reports whether you're around, and serve a "defended"/"safe to rob my house" badge on your profile page.
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> Mirror sells you the equivalent of a beautiful, giant iPad that hangs on your wall for $1,495. Then, if you pay a $39 monthly subscription, you can use a mobile app to turn the Mirror into a fitness class. Ok, so...what if you _don&#
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by ebg13 6y ago
> If anyone is missing a rib What do you mean by that?
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> As several others have mentioned, there is absolutely no problem with keeping a server running on the sabbath This is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that Borer (separating/filtering) is one of the forbidden cate
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> I don't know what year that tweet is from Oct 27, 2019. So not long ago.
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The year on SpaceJam should say 1996-2020
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> beans and rice are already super cheap. Much healthier and cheaper option than mcdonalds. Why are you slyly shifting from "sugar" to "mcdonalds"? Minus drinks and desserts, McDonalds' offerings are not high i
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by ebg13 6y ago
All rechargeable batteries wear out over time as they are used and recharged. And when batteries wear out, they can't provide the same voltage as before. And when they can't provide the same voltage, the electronics must either sl
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by ebg13 6y ago
When was the last time you replaced the battery?
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> It was tried and rolled back in chicago because it was deemed as unfairly targeting the poor. There's no reason why you couldn't pair taxing sugar with price-subsidies on non-sugary foods. The US already knows how to subsid
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by ebg13 6y ago
> One reason is that people might feel closer to something that they think superficially resembles themselves. I agree! And then they proceeded to spread that image throughout the world (commonly via imperial colonialism) as "god
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> How does this work for clicking on a UI element to paste? The same way as designating keybindings. Registration with the OS. I don't care if you have to do it by defining hotspot outlines for bespoke-from-raw-pixels interface el
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by ebg13 6y ago
> what, exactly, constitutes "direct user request" that both... > 1) does not break common programming techniques (e.g. an application rolling its own GUI, or implementing its own modes/keybindings) A callback metho
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Nothing that you just said requires sniffing the clipboard contents without you initiating the transfer.
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Sure, but the reasons are always so...contrived and frivolous...and none of them require accessing the clipboard automatically without the user invoking a system command. And the consequence of these poorly considered objections is what we
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> Still don't understand why clipboard-sniffing isn't behind a permissions flag. Screw permissions flags. Clipboard-sniffing is never justified. Moving data out of the clipboard should only ever happen by direct user request
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Slavery was not the primary factor of conflict in the Civil War. The historical record written in the confederacy's own words disagrees with you. The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States shows slavery up front and center. Th
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Isn't there a famous racing car It wasn't a racing car, and it was in a television show, and so what if there was? If there were a famous car from 1940s Germany with a nazi flag on it, does that make symbolically broadcasti
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by ebg13 6y ago
> figures saying the western portrayal of Christ is systemic racism You mean the ones where he's shown as west-european white? I suppose we could bother thinking about why he looks like that in those portrayals when he definitely
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Orange?
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> is the approach to detecting something as "regular" as a particular flag any different than any other image recognition task It can be. It doesn't have to be. Image recognition research existed long before the current
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by ebg13 6y ago
I'm sure that it predates Fox News Channel by a lot, after all, news business are business first and news second, but it would be misguided to ignore the fact that FNC has completely dominated viewership numbers in the US almost since
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> manually Do you really think so?
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> You are not given any of the context of what happened in these situations...You can read "Police showed up and fired tear gas and agitated the crowd and caused violence", but you're not told WHY they fired tear gas. You

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