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by gizmo686 5y ago
I say this as a software engineer, does anyone honestly believe that software engineers are engineers?
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Its not clear that those a different sets of people. Just because they screen their clients now , doesn't mean that they always have. Unfortunately, getting personally assaulted might be the reason they now screen their clients so wel
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The halting problem is solvable for turing machines with a finite tape. A simple encoding of a finite turing machine into SAT is as follows: 1) Let n be the size of the tape. 2) Consider all binary strings of length n 3) For each string {A_
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The top-line claim in the linked fact-check is "Pfizer’s new pill to treat COVID-19 is just ivermectin repackaged". The claim is explicitly countered by claims in the fact check: "They are dramatically different molecules. Th
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by gizmo686 5y ago
As is XLear https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/warning-letters/warning-lett...
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by gizmo686 5y ago
A limiting factor for the effectiveness of anti-virals for Covid is time. Maximum viral load happens often happens before any symptoms are present, and the most severe diseases occurs weeks after infection as a result of the bodies inflamma
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by gizmo686 5y ago
But would you listen to 1000 different tracks per month if they cost $2.50 per track?
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by gizmo686 5y ago
But you never would have spent $100,000,000 on music. According to this [0] random blog, a cassete album cost about $8 in 1980, which translates to about $25 in today's dollars. You would need to buy a new album every 2 or 3 months to
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The bitcoin wiki explicitly says that secp256k1 is not characteristic 2: > secp256k1 has characteristic p, it is defined over the prime field ℤp. Some other curves in common use have characteristic 2, and are defined over a binary Galois
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by gizmo686 5y ago
We are not past the crisis. Unlike most financial crises, the underlying crisis is still ongoing 18+ months pasts the start
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The error was made Wendsday and corrected Thursday. The wrong number is suspiciously close to total hospitalizations.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The linked instructions involve loading the unpacked extension in developer mode. There isn't really a way of preventing that without crippling the ability of extension developers to develop their own extensions.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The value of a stock is based on the overall markets prediction of how that company will perform. If you can predict how the value of a stock will change, you are not predicting how the company will perform, but are predicting how the compa
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by gizmo686 5y ago
No. You will never be able to get this to enough of the people who need it when they need it. By the time most people seek treatment it is too late for antivirals to be effective. Even if that wasn't the case, there us too much politic
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by gizmo686 5y ago
If I am reading you correctly, all you need to get what you describe is the a -> m a function. Once you have that, it is trivial to go from (a -> b) to (a -> m b) as below: f :: a -> b return :: a -> m a g :: a ->
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The point is that burritos are not monads. Metaphors are things you see in literature. A key feature that makes them attractive in literature is that they are subjective and can be read in multiple ways. That is the very thing that makes t
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by gizmo686 5y ago
> I remember as a quant trader we could buy any book we wanted. Programming, Linear Algebra, finance, whatever. "If you find just one good idea, that will pay for all the books." Hard to argue with considering the sums involved
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by gizmo686 5y ago
It isn't. They measure the decay products and infer what happened.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
That would make homes cheaper, but not more affordable. Since the money to buy homes becomes more expensive you end up with about the same monthly cost.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
"Better" is a multi-dimensional measure and people have very different preferences for what constitutes "better". The source of the winner take all dynamic is network effects. Because of those, everyone agrees that the &
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by gizmo686 5y ago
According to the Supreme Court's summary [0], the CDC was arguing it derived its authority primarily from US Code 42 section 264(a) [1] > The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce suc
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by gizmo686 5y ago
In the US's system, the Supreme Court is the final authority on what is and isn't constitutional. Currently, denying access to abortions is unconstitutional because the current Supreme Court precedent says it is. Until the Supreme
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by gizmo686 5y ago
You need "side effects" to include memory allocation, seg faults, and "significant" amount of computation time (including never terminating). Worse, you need these properties when the program is known to be in an error s
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Tax credits are not the only mechanism for government funding. We already have a very successful model of government provided childcare: the public school system.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
That is still provided by error values or error types. The defining feature of exceptions is that they provide a secondary control flow path, and that control flow path automatically flows up the stack until it reaches an explicit catch. Wi
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by gizmo686 5y ago
There's some health and safety risks associated with sex work, but we have a good understanding of how to mitigate them. Shutting down the safer oprions does not do that. Sex work also come with the risk of arrest and a criminal record
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by gizmo686 5y ago
I took classes in CompSci, Math, and Linguistics; the first two being major, and the latter being a minor. Most of the CompSci classes I took were completly useless. The only exceptions being Operating Systems and Compilers. Most of the CS
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by gizmo686 5y ago
> Is travelling at the speed of light, actually travelling a a fraction of the speed of time? This is probably one of the more counter-intuitive simple calculations you can do in physics. In special relativity, distance is given by:
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The courts really do not want to get into the bussiness of dictating people's religion. They explicitly do not require that a religious belief be well supported by the text, orthodoxy, or any denomination of the religion. Nor do they r
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The idea is that the volume we are talking about is a 4 dimensional volume of space-time and is bounded; not a three dimensional volume of space that extends to infinity along time. Conservation of energy says that it is impossible for ener

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