elmomle

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by elmomle 4y ago
Yes, and the CCP has banned Instagram and Facebook because they understand that those are ultimately tools for subtly shaping mass opinion, regardless of whether it's clear that they're used for that purpose. Why would the US not
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by elmomle 4y ago
To be clear, _saying_ that one takes full responsibility without further action means nothing. Responsibility for a bad thing means that you are ultimately to blame, so if you take responsibility, you should either step down or present a de
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by elmomle 4y ago
I don't think that top-tier academic talent thinks like that. Yes, there is usually a conscious element of "I am grateful to the people who have supported my work", but the obsequious mentality you're describing is one
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by elmomle 4y ago
This is great and important work. I think it would be substantially more approachable if it began with an "Abstract" or "Summary" section. Like it or not, most folks just want the headlines; the presentation of the det
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by elmomle 4y ago
It is--it's following the current trend, whereas NOAA's intermediate projection is around 3'4". ( https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_widt... )
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by elmomle 4y ago
I agree mostly but would amend one thing: I think there is a mix of well-meaning overreaction and often substantial hubris. Politicians tend to have big egos, and many, especially of the upstart class, seem to mistake popular appeal for ef
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by elmomle 4y ago
So you only get to sit with your loved ones if you have enough money? That's not a world I want to have any part in.
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by elmomle 4y ago
Agreed, their search (literal string matching only) was outdated long before they were ever a company, but they do this instead of sticking one mid to senior level DS on that? This is also almost certain to lead to more documents, not bette
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by elmomle 4y ago
I imagine it's the space itself resonating more than anything else, being excited by higher-frequency harmonics.
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by elmomle 4y ago
As just one example, not intended to be partisan: the elderly husband of the Speaker of the House was violently attacked and a sizable portion of the country either tacitly or openly endorses it. That is not a safe society. And it's
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by elmomle 4y ago
It would be good to have sane conversations in this country about what we can learn from the past few years (in which I think both this administration and the previous one could be accused of serious blunders and politicking) but pointing f
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by elmomle 4y ago
I would say he (and other billionaires like Thiel) is immature in a very classical sense: he goes through the world like a child without appreciation for how difficult it was to create a society in which everybody could (say) engage in disc
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by elmomle 4y ago
There are some interesting ideas here, but it leaves the actual problem unaddressed. Lots of people are instinctually drawn toward the "edgy" because of a very human instinct to seek secret knowledge. This completely overrides t
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by elmomle 4y ago
Isn't raising the rate on something one of the main tools a well-functioning government should use to constrain that thing's use? Here they got the order backwards, which is a political and planning fiasco.
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by elmomle 4y ago
Not the OP but typically bureaucrats will talk about fees and fines, which continue without documentation of their purpose (at which point they are explicitly bribes). Baksheesh, whereby people expect a tip ahead of time if you want decent
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by elmomle 4y ago
For whom is PG writing here? For sharp minds who can be encouraged and eventually trusted to use nuanced words correctly, or for mediocre minds that will never do so? And if the latter, why are we discussing this article?
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by elmomle 4y ago
It is more a bad large-scale societal outcome that many are worried about. It is a massive CCP-linked propaganda organ; even if content is generated by users, the way in which it is surfaced and promoted is entirely controlled by ByteDance
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by elmomle 4y ago
If this is the desired outcome, wouldn't it make more sense to make voting on issues a core part of a bug tracking system? "Number of attempted submissions" seems far too worthwhile a datum to only obtain a noisy version of
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by elmomle 4y ago
> I just wouldn't ever be in that situation That seems to me to be impossible to say with certainty.
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by elmomle 4y ago
Thank you--in spite of my stats background, I assumed the author was conveying their distaste for proof-of-work.
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by elmomle 4y ago
You raise some interesting points; I just want to point out that it's extremely difficult to maintain complete, continuous control over body language and facial expression--consider how significant the concept of a "tell" is
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by elmomle 4y ago
I believe the parent was trying to say that the information provided is anecdotal, and that they would prefer hard data. They were doing this in an exasperated tone--the full version of their expression would be some version of "If th
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by elmomle 4y ago
While I don't know the answer, I'd think maintainability is the big constraint there. In the extreme case, imagine the difficulty of pinpointing and fixing any problem when all your systems are nested shells with a massive surfac
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by elmomle 4y ago
"Free market" does not mean a market without any regulatory structure. A market in which monopolies have formed is not free, as monopolies can force conditions on transactions that would not exist if multiple independent and comp
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by elmomle 4y ago
But thousands of cars pass that way each day, and one breaks down. The (admittedly anecdotal) issue rate described for planes sounded much higher.
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by elmomle 4y ago
I can no longer edit my comment and feel the need to add to it: upon reading the FB post ( https://tinyurl.com/2h9rmkzu ) this points to the bigger issue that is worth at least mentioning. Often people who are not very eloqu
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by elmomle 4y ago
Sometimes the court can uphold the law and yet an undesirable state of affairs can persist. Those comments were racist, and furthermore it seems the family has not acknowledged that fact or apologized for it. This would definitely affect
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by elmomle 4y ago
I believe they were referring to this scene from Idiocracy: https://youtu.be/ZIFCWpn4qQ4
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by elmomle 4y ago
In the thioacetone TIWWW, Lowe says that "the workers in the laboratory did not find the odours intolerable". It sounds like in higher concentrations it just overwhelms and numbs a strong reaction people have at even extremely l
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by elmomle 4y ago
Individual molecules of air travel at speeds in the hundreds of meters per second ( https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/SpeedofSound.html ). So it seems quite possible that individual molecules may be found quite far away from

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