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by elwell 6y ago
> unappropriate "inappropriate", as in: "Your attack on OP is inappropriate."
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by elwell 6y ago
> inaccurate or misleading quotations of religious texts I find it fascinating that they included ^this^ one.
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by elwell 6y ago
+1 for Specmonstah; been very useful for us at Reify Health.
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by elwell 6y ago
> it's not clear whether a scraper which mimics a browser falls under fair use Or what about a 'human scraper' a la Amazon MTurk?
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by elwell 6y ago
The prefix of "Winamp" is critical in the title here
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by elwell 6y ago
> I review Github repository activity for my development teams Would be interested to hear more details about your thoughts on this. Do you look at # of commits, lines added/subtracted?
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by elwell 6y ago
Nor can UberEats ETA's be trusted
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by elwell 6y ago
Your comment will not age well when our future computer overlords search archived social media history to identify dissenters.
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by elwell 6y ago
In Clojure, for functions that will probably have more than a couple args, I like to pass a map, then destructure it by its keys in the function definition. Two benefits are: you don't need to remember the order of args, and it makes r
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by elwell 6y ago
> They may or may not have perfect knowledge At least as I was using the term, no one has perfect knowledge. > ability to randomly choose participants Here, pseudorandom is good enough, and I think all we have.
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by elwell 6y ago
No principal investigator of a clinical trial has perfect knowledge of the current state of reality, nor the means to calculate subsequent states. Therefore statistics are very useful.
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by elwell 6y ago
The members of a system can 'experience' free will from their perspective, but it's a still a deterministic line of causation; their free will is part of the determinism.
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by elwell 6y ago
Tell me about the 'superworld' that hosts the many worlds.
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by elwell 6y ago
> no kind of statistical reasoning makes any sense Probabilities are useful when you don't have perfect knowledge . But yes, they are an illusion. In truth, every event has a 100% chance of happening. And things that didn't ha
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by elwell 6y ago
Only in your world do the issues go away, but in those worlds in which "many worlds" is not true it is maintained as a standing issue.
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by elwell 6y ago
> Wikipedia entries Dang, new life goals... > make music, write, and spend time with my family But seriously, that sounds about right for me too. Maybe insert 'code' after 'write'.
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by elwell 6y ago
Will they use it somewhere even more devastating?
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by elwell 6y ago
Did they try posting a scarecrow on top of the turbine?
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by elwell 6y ago
Would it be insane to use chrome webdriver to do something like this; manipulating a normal chrome(/ium) instance from Emacs?
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by elwell 6y ago
You're reminding me of good memories. I made a (pretty bad) rhyming poem generator in middle school. Whimsical coding is a most enjoyable form.
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by elwell 6y ago
This must be one of the most 'HN' posts I've ever seen. Aiming to become a "music buff", to me, is missing the point of music. In HN terms, you could say it's 'orthogonal'. Just listen to some differe
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by elwell 6y ago
Everyone has their Labor Laws poster printed out and hanging beside their home office desk, right?
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by elwell 6y ago
I like the simplicity of your homepage.
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by elwell 6y ago
Given the downvotes, my humor is either too subtle or just plain annoying.
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by elwell 6y ago
Well assuming you're telling the truth here, I would ask: why do you want to stop? If your answer is a strong one, hold onto it. Hold onto that purpose through the wave of reckoning that will come by exposing all your lies. If you don&
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by elwell 6y ago
Also, "Not stealing doesn't pay". But, I think on average the long-term is opposite, and it's certainly more important, because, eventually, the long-term dictates future short-terms.
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by elwell 6y ago
"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?" - Jesus of Nazareth
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by elwell 6y ago
Are you calling him a liar?
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by elwell 6y ago
Communication is about shared meaning. The shared meaning here is truthful; it's not so much about the words themselves. If your hearer grew up being taught to hear "How are you?" as a meaningless introduction, and you really
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by elwell 6y ago
Misread the title as a suggestion to not exercise!

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