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by gaur 10y ago
> Not allowing the prosecution to go ahead would have sent the message that autocratic decisions by the executive in judicial matters is the correct way to proceed As many others have pointed out, the relevant law [0] explicitly requires
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by gaur 10y ago
> "Fng goats" Let's not mince words here: it's fucking goats (or Ziegen ficken originally).
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by gaur 10y ago
Fortunately, Western countries don't regulate speech based on what the majority of people at a given time find valuable. If they did, probably every civil rights movement in the West could have been made illegal simply by the governmen
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by gaur 10y ago
> but that doesn't mean that there is no moral obligation for the government to not stand in the way of law. My eyes keep glazing over... can you reword without the triple negative?
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by gaur 10y ago
It's a far bigger pity that anyone is trying to conduct an investigation at all.
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by gaur 10y ago
> I really wish that calculus (and the rest of mathematics) would be taught in a much more abstract way in school That's valid, but you're probably in a very small minority. I took calculus in high school and then real analysis
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by gaur 10y ago
> the Book of Mormon, which originates ~600 BC in Jerusalem. That's delusional bullshit.
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by gaur 10y ago
I still remember that one CNBC reporter who said that the housing crisis was the fault of "loser homeowners", rather than banks issuing loans en masse to people they knew had no means to pay the money back.
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by gaur 11y ago
And when doing function optimization / maximum likelihood estimation / Bayesian analysis, the quantity of interest often is neither the mean nor the median, but rather the mode [0]. One point the author hints at is that the median
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by gaur 11y ago
> My point was "this piece of software surely has more bugs than Mathematica". It sounded like your point was "I trust Mathematica, but not this open-source CAS". Otherwise you would have just said "I don't
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by gaur 11y ago
You shouldn't trust Mathematica either. It has had bugs in the past [0]. Also it didn't have a proper "undo" feature until a year or so ago, which is pretty embarrassing. [0] http://www.ams.org/notices&#x
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by gaur 11y ago
> symPy ? Uhm... it says right at the top of the linked website that sympy is used as the backend.
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by gaur 11y ago
Is sympy ever going to be able to do symbolic Padé approximation? That's the only thing keeping me from dumping Mathematica.
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by gaur 11y ago
> There isn't anything adversarial going on here On the contrary, this passage sounds quite hostile: > If I run across such a message that was misaddressed --- I mean, if the message asks a question instead of reporting an error
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by gaur 11y ago
Yeah, it would be super weird if a professor had a paragraph on their website about how crack and meth should be spelled.
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by gaur 11y ago
What country was your computer built in?
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by gaur 11y ago
Charge people by the order in which they exit the plane. First person pays $100, second person pays $95, etc. So the first 20 people have an early exiting surcharge, and then everyone else is free to take their sweet time putting on their j
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by gaur 11y ago
> Apparently not good enough money, first class customers get that privilege. Airlines like Southwest have no first class. And Southwest lets you pay for priority boarding, so it stands to reason they could cook up a scheme for letting p
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by gaur 11y ago
> you can board early I'd pay good money for the ability to exit the plane early after the flight is over. I really don't care about boarding early, especially if I'm not looking for bin space.
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by gaur 11y ago
I still can't believe someone named a company Palantir. In Lord of the Rings, the palantíri fell into the wrong hands and were used to do literal, honest-to-god evil. It's like naming a company Death Star.
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by gaur 11y ago
What I'm about to say is more general than regex, but can online services please stop trying to validate my email address? If I gave you an email address that you think is invalid, rest assured I did it for a reason. I'm not an
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by gaur 11y ago
> which internet should be capitalized None of them, according to the AP.
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by gaur 11y ago
Seems like identical reasoning can be applied to many other nouns which are definitely not capitalized: > Atmosphere should be capitalized when referring to the single, proper Atmosphere that most of us breathe. > However, there are o
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by gaur 11y ago
When in doubt, I usually check Wikipedia's style guide [0] rather than anything else. Some of it is Wikipedia-specific (e.g., markup syntax), but there is also good general-purpose advice. It also has the major advantage of being free.
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by gaur 11y ago
> IE, a dumpster fire. Indeed it is.
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by gaur 11y ago
Where did you get the idea that I didn't give myself a chance? I ran 5 km three times a week for four months, and it was always fucking awful.
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by gaur 11y ago
Where did I say I expected it to come right away? I ran 5 km three times a week for about four months. It was fucking awful every time, so I stopped.
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by gaur 11y ago
The longest I've ever run in one go is 6 km. There was never any runner's high, just excruciating pain. For a good fraction of the population, running is fucking awful.
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by gaur 11y ago
Wow, there was essentially no information in that blogpost. Here are the relevant sentences: > My understanding is that after the Macintosh-crazed 80s, he ran into some issues. Suffice it to say that I see him on the street at least a co
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by gaur 11y ago
This is another example of "long-form journalism". Some people apparently consider the buried information and irrelevant fluff to be a feature, not a bug.

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