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by gmoot 3y ago
I don't think this is correct. In order to generate a random number at all you first have to assume a distribution. If they generate a series of random ids, and those random ids are uniformly distributed across the space of all possibl
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by gmoot 3y ago
It really depends on the plan and on your other options. At Google the HSA is cheapest for almost everyone, whether you are a single person with almost no health expenses or a family with high expenses.
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by gmoot 3y ago
If you look at the graph in the article, attrition is just returning to historical levels after a spike in 2021. Nothing to see here.
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by gmoot 3y ago
This is not true, it can spread. It's called neutral evolution.
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by gmoot 3y ago
Years ago we were re-skinning a product to use Material UI. The launch coincided with a big public announcement. We joked that our VP was going to announce that he was giving everyone in attendance a 32-inch monitor to accommodate all the n
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by gmoot 3y ago
YUI 2 was very bad and java-like. But YUI 3 was ahead of its time. The dependency management and lazy loading in YUI 3 would not make it to the mainstream for another 10 years.
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by gmoot 3y ago
A college philosophy professor of mine memorably critiqued this idea of Hume's by asking "Who is doing the observing? It's like a man who wants to know if anyone is home, so he goes outside and looks in the window."
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by gmoot 4y ago
There was a big change in 2015 when Ruth replaced Patrick as CEO. Most of the cost cutting dates to then. She has been undeniably good for the share price, but it's a two-edged sword. There is a lot you can't do when you're f
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by gmoot 4y ago
Then it's checkmate, not stalemate. For a stalemate you need a situation where the king is not in check, but there are no legal moves. It seems impossible in practice, if not in theory.
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by gmoot 5y ago
I reject this blanket characterization of religious organizations, but anyway the Eastern / Greek Orthodox Church is interesting here because it descends directly from the original Greek speaking Christians in the Eastern Roman empire
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by gmoot 5y ago
Yeah, no punctuation at all and not even lower case letters! Modern texts have all these things inserted by editors, it does indeed sound much harder to have to learn without these extra aids.
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by gmoot 5y ago
The common language was Greek, even though the Romans were in charge. Greek spread through the conquests of Alexander the Great, and Latin never supplanted it.
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by gmoot 6y ago
I use voice dictation on my phone to transcribe notes into a Google doc, along with the page number or timestamp (for audiobooks) My note taking process used to be either whatever I could fit in the margin (not much) or require a separate n
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by gmoot 6y ago
It's always puzzled me that it's legal to emulate video game hardware (NES, SNES, etc.) but not to copy the games. I guess this is why.
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by gmoot 7y ago
Catholicism has never been that, and it's declining too.
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by gmoot 7y ago
This is from Cambridge Press, copyright 2002. If it is in the public domain I don't understand why. But if it is, I want to know what other Cambridge Press titles are!
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by gmoot 7y ago
Hong Kong is not behind the GCF.
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by gmoot 7y ago
Ah. I still remember my computational geometry professor telling us about an algorithm to do triangulation (composing a polygon into triangles) in linear time: "It's very complex. I don't think anyone has actually implemented
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by gmoot 7y ago
This is interesting. If we can put an upper bound on the rate (what is it?) we could rule out abiogenesis if we could lower that upper bound sufficiently. Most here seem to reason the other way around - it must have happened, so we'll
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by gmoot 7y ago
Miller-Urey found amino acids (not nucleotides as in the current experiment), the building blocks of proteins. It's at the other end of the chicken/egg "which came first" between proteins (which catalyze cellular reactio
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by gmoot 7y ago
Sure, we could orbit Jupiter and get back out. But if we ever descended to the "surface" we couldn't climb back out. Voyager 1/2 and New Horizons are at escape velocity and leaving the solar system.
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by gmoot 7y ago
"cannot" is such a high bar. This must be incorrect. But religion is indeed in decline in the West. Whether or not this is an argument against God's existence is more questionable.
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by gmoot 7y ago
The explicit type is optional. It's not that it's required to copy out whatever the compiler inferred, it's just that lots of people do it to be explicit.
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by gmoot 7y ago
My impression of the different quantum mechanics interpretations (copenhagen, many worlds...) is that they are observationally equivalent. Is this not true?
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by gmoot 7y ago
Yes. You don't need to abolish the whole college, just do this. And states can do it on their own and immediately, no need to sign a pledge only takes effect at some possible future time. The problem with this, and with the pledge, is
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by gmoot 7y ago
It was indeed intended to prevent populism; the idea is that instead of voting for the president you vote for a group of people who you trust to then choose a president. But it has never in practice worked that way.
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by gmoot 8y ago
somehow the pilots were able to bring the nose back up... it was only (apparently) after multiple nose downs that they eventually failed to recover the plane. What was going on there? The MCAS activated several times, each time ratcheting
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by gmoot 8y ago
Sure? But at minimum they were no dumber then the extant works show. There are plenty of dumb people today too.
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by gmoot 8y ago
It's not just Herodotus; many ancient works create this impression. We have this implicit chronological snobbery because of our technology achievements, but when you read ancient works you realize that they were just as smart as we are
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by gmoot 13y ago
Here is a related question that has bothered me for some time: in Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865), he writes the travelers as only achieving weightlessness for a small moment, at just the point where the moo

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