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by gjm11 6y ago
It delights me that right now this article about butter is immediately above "Total Cookie Protection" on the HN front page.
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by gjm11 6y ago
It is actually from the article.
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by gjm11 6y ago
Hmm, yes. I didn't actually check exactly what OP had said. I find that OP now doesn't use the word "neither" at all, but I guess the sentence that now says "none of the presented options are without problems&quot
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by gjm11 6y ago
I thought I'd look up a few more. Once again, every single person I tried yielded positive examples; no cherry-picking here at all. (The ones that took most tries were Macaulay and Chesterton.) One caveat: I only bothered with people f
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by gjm11 6y ago
William Shakespeare: "the scrimers of their nation, / He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye, / If you opposed them." King James Bible: "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor pr
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by gjm11 6y ago
How can they be held accountable if people can't record what they do? For mostly-good reasons, in any court case judges and juries will tend to believe what a police officer tells them happened. So in any situation where a police off
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by gjm11 6y ago
It's actually quite unusual to be making 3-5 payments over £25k in a typical week. Not saying it isn't a real problem for you, but I suspect only a very small fraction of potential users will be bothered by that particular point o
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by gjm11 6y ago
Nope. It's usually ascribed to J M Keynes, buy apparently it was actually one A. Gary Shilling: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
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by gjm11 6y ago
Intuition depends on what you're used to. The ancient Greeks didn't think 1 was a number; as late as ~1500CE Isidore of Seville was saying "one is the seed of number but not number". After all, if there's only one t
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by gjm11 6y ago
I think you're conflating "natural" with "familiar". Here are two processes Timmy could use to count the pens on his desk. (I have numbered them starting with 1, because I considerately adapt to the needs of my audi
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by gjm11 6y ago
Back in the mid-to-late 20th century, there was a movement to teach mathematics rather that way, though I don't think it ever got as far as teaching small children the Peano axioms. The "New Mathematics", they called it. I re
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by gjm11 6y ago
Someone I knew at university, who prefers starting at 0 (for mathematical, rather than computational, reasons) made the following argument/proposal. "First" is an abbreviated form of "foremost". So if you start coun
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by gjm11 6y ago
The applications mentioned in the book are to chemistry and to molecular biology. (As well as another, mentioned only fairly briefly, elsewhere in pure mathematics, to what's called the classification of 3-manifolds.)
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by gjm11 6y ago
It's measuring the value of their life relative to the value of money, for them. In many situations that isn't the statistic you actually care about. (For the avoidance of doubt: my previous comment wasn't trying to claim tha
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by gjm11 6y ago
I agree that "what is the monetary value of your life?" is not the same question as "how happy are you?", and so far as I can tell no one was saying otherwise. Presumably the two are related; if you are miserable and exp
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by gjm11 6y ago
That isn't how the various things called "value of a life" are calculated. The Wikipedia article linked above describes some ways to do it, and if you look at them you will see that with one exception they are not estimatin
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by gjm11 6y ago
That isn't a situation where 1+1 isn't 2. It's a situation where 1+1=2 but also 2=0.
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by gjm11 6y ago
Isolated datapoint: I'm in the UK, the Fred & Rosemary West thing happened while I was growing up, and to me "Mae West" very definitely means the actress and not the serial killers' daughter.
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by gjm11 6y ago
I assume they meant not "playing my games against other humans with the help of an analysis engine like Stockfish" but "playing games against an analysis engine like Stockfish". Which is not in any sense cheating.
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by gjm11 6y ago
I think Group Policy "Allow Telemetry = Disabled" doesn't do what you think it does. Here's the description given in the group policy editor: "By configuring this setting in Windows 10, end users will not be able to
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by gjm11 6y ago
Of course he considered it a theory.[1] It was a new idea. He had a pile of evidence for it (yes, empirical evidence) but it still needed to be looked at by other scientists and the evidence assessed. I don't know what you mean by &quo
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by gjm11 6y ago
It seems outrageously wrong to me to summarize that Lancet article by saying "We have lots of RCTs on mask wearing (mostly in healthcare professionals) and they struggle to find a benefit." or "I've read the actual s
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by gjm11 6y ago
I'm not sure it's true that > states that normally vote Democrat are more likely to lose votes than states that normally vote Republican because it could be true (1) that individuals who vote Democrat are more likely to go un
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by gjm11 6y ago
I think this is a question that doesn't have a well defined answer. Most likely raw hardware cost is smaller than consumer price, which is smaller than what the consumer price would have been if the manufacturer weren't able to ge
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by gjm11 6y ago
Meta-conspiracy-theory: the 5G conspiracy theories were spread deliberately with the precise intention of making the truth look like just another crazy conspiracy theory. (I don't think that's very likely in this case, but I bet t
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by gjm11 6y ago
There's something odd about the logic here. "Once upon a time, the government tried to impose a tax you had to pay if you had a TV or a computer, which was bad because even people who never watched TV would have had to pay it. But
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by gjm11 6y ago
Pendantic lamp. Pedantic note. :-)
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by gjm11 6y ago
Pedantic note: footnote 1 (supporting the statement that there's nontrivial mathematics behind circle packings) links to two Wikipedia pages, for "Circle packing" and "Circle packing theorem"; the first of those is
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by gjm11 6y ago
> disappointed that they didn't get Purcell [...] a vague memory Right idea, some details wrong. It was Telemann they wanted, and it wasn't his first job but his last, at Leipzig. Bach was actually their third choice, after
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by gjm11 6y ago
That's true for some reasonable definitions of "privilege" but not others. Originally-originally, "privilege" meant being subject to some special dispensation that e.g. exempted you from laws that applied to everyon

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