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by etatoby 8y ago
Exactly my point. Collapse theories, in addition to the shady concept of "measurement", have a problem scaling to large systems. Many Worlds, or Decoherence, makes perfectly sense with any sized system.
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by etatoby 8y ago
It looked like a medley between Futura / Century Gothic and Helvetica to me.
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by etatoby 8y ago
If you think any of that can be carried out, you should try it yourself. 50 people instead of 1000s sounds like huge savings to tout to investors.
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by etatoby 8y ago
> Kids prefer those to beer. Inexact. A lot of young women prefer those to beer and are getting hooked on alcohol through them. Much to their detriment. (Alcohol consumption causes cancer, especially breast cancer in women.)
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by etatoby 8y ago
I'm looking forward to the first quantum computer with hundreds or thousands of qubits, to see how the Many Worlds deniers explain its existence.
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by etatoby 8y ago
The "order of magnitude" statement is completely false. If we're talking about algorithmic complexity: for some algorithms quantum computers won't be any better than classical ones; for others, the improvement will be ex
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by etatoby 8y ago
It's not curious. To me it's quite obvious. The intentions are not much different either: protect the interests of a few against those of the many. Sometimes they may use words that signal a different intent, to assuage the popu
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by etatoby 8y ago
"Accept our terms or do your business elsewhere" is how markets have always operated. It's not "blackmailing" and it's not "forcing your consent." The EU looks like it's turning more and more int
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by etatoby 8y ago
This is a very interesting point of view. They could be two products of the same lobbying interests, and they just manged to pass the most user-palatable one first.
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by etatoby 8y ago
The EU in its current shape seems almost purpose-built to detach the decision making process from public scrutiny, influence, and accountability. At the same time, it facilitates lobbying by private interests to a dangerous degree. I don&#x
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by etatoby 8y ago
The ones who own stuff.
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by etatoby 8y ago
You don't. Because that's what it is.
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by etatoby 8y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." —Goodhart's law
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by etatoby 8y ago
Bingo. Why are so many people willing to throw away the baby (capitalism) with the dirty bathwater (monopolies and others crony deviations.)
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by etatoby 8y ago
I suppose GP used some Walmart e-commerce site, otherwise they would be comparing apples to oranges.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Wait, I don't think my line has the one with the buttons below. I have a P40. Could you tell me which Yoga model you had and which trackpad did you buy?
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by etatoby 8y ago
I have a flagship phone and a 4G network. Still, I have to use Brave browser (bless them!) with its builtin ad blocking, and sometimes turn off all JavaScript altogether, just to be able to read the damn article. If this is the "dive
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by etatoby 8y ago
Not forgotten, but not well known either, Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction series, the Vorkosigan Saga is one of the best reads I ever found. The first couple of books, Shards of Honor and Barrayar, are a superb mixture of futuri
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by etatoby 8y ago
WHAT!!! Is that even possible!?!? If this works I owe your a beer! Yes, I'm referring to the whole trackpad that moves up and down. I have separate buttons for the trackpoint above the trackpad, but I cannot use them with my thumb. The
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by etatoby 8y ago
You're comparing unordered lists of unlimited length with subsets. To define a subset of x, you simply choose whether any element is present or not: type Set x = x → Bool Cardinality: 2^x Defining an unordered list (of unlimited length
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by etatoby 8y ago
Yes. I've been using Brave exclusively for more than a year and I'm not going back. I'm still undecided on which search engine to use though.
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by etatoby 8y ago
I'd love to! Can you contact me at username at gmail? This also goes for anybody else who would like to meet for a drink, or for whatever question about studying / moving to Japan.
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by etatoby 8y ago
No, in general. If anything, here I'm an "exotic" person who has done a "brave" thing (moving to another continent) and therefore I seem to be more "interesting" than I was back home. Time will tell.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Sledgehammer? https://open.spotify.com/track/2aDbkEEcAwh1upaMngsvnF
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by etatoby 8y ago
I have a Yoga P40. It's a great machine. The CPU, RAM, and SSD are very fast: I can compile heavy stuff in a blink. The HDPI display is gorgeous: I can open it 180° or 360° and sketch or paint on it with an active pen. The keyboard is
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by etatoby 8y ago
Yes, Intercultural Institute of Japan. Awesome school, from all points of view. You need someone to work out the papers and details for you. That can be your local language school, if you have one, or an international service such as Go Go
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by etatoby 8y ago
I'm 38, almost 39 next month ;-) I'm having a blast. Best move of my life! The only thing I slightly regret is not doing it 10 years ago. But it's still ok. I'm loving the place (Tokyo), the culture, the opportunities, t
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by etatoby 8y ago
I'm currently learning a foreign language in school. Apart from the occasional use of a TV screen to show pictures, everything is taught by voice, whiteboard, and paper handouts. I personally use spiral-bound notebooks and erasable pen
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by etatoby 8y ago
Long-term: dating/relationships. I'm very outgoing, but I have love shyness or something like that. I basically don't date. I find the entire thing extremely stressful and unbearable. I've always been alone. Short-term:
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by etatoby 8y ago
If you read the article and look at the pictures, you will notice the resin does not touch the paper stack to be conserved. So when you are ready to recover it, you can just break the resin shell to get at the paper stack inside.

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