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by gowld 2y ago
Modern connotations of the word "miscegenation aside" aside (the word's denotation means "mixing of races", which is exactly the correct terminology for the issue), and laying aside modern understanding of "rac
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by gowld 2y ago
You are making an unscientific criticism. Wolfram's claim is that Cellukar Automata can provide as good or better mathematical model of the universe than current current theories, by commonly appreciated metrics such as "pasimony
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by gowld 2y ago
The US sometimes has something similar: visibile countdown timers for the pedestrian crossing turning form stop to go, which coincides with the car light turning from red/stop to green/go. This encourages people to run the light b
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by gowld 2y ago
A municipality could (and should) add speed bumps or other traffic-calming measures even at the approach the light-controlled crossing where pedestrians are often present.
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by gowld 2y ago
> I realised that when on a crosswalk drivers will come sailing at you and will cross behind you as you cross over. That is illegal here. It's illegal in most if not all of USA too, but no one cares in practice. Legally, even when
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by gowld 2y ago
This seems to not actually be the case in my experience, because right-turn drivers love to look to the left while turning right, because they are afraid of a fast-moving car appearing from the left, but they think they already verified tha
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by gowld 2y ago
Yes: https://ibb.co/86tqnBM Direct link: https://i.ibb.co/Hn36L27/Green-crossing.png solid green (right turn allowed) + pedestrian green (for crossing). car and ped both have access to ped crossing. (C
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by gowld 2y ago
polling bots were absolutely common by 2000
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by gowld 2y ago
It's CFAA (computer fraud and abuse, aka hacking/cracking) not DMCA/anti-DRM
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by gowld 2y ago
He wasn't disciplined for building an app or fetching data. He was disciplined for blatantly trying to "hack" (in the YC sense, in UW's view) the registration process: https://registrar.washington.edu/win
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by gowld 2y ago
I remember asking for permission to get some innocuous University data to build an app to help students. University said no. Then Mark Zuckerberg built the Facebook by ignoring the data usage policy and scraping University data.
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by gowld 2y ago
> we'll typically just call this f_2(x) = 3x^2, "we" who? You're projecting infinitesimals down onto reals, and then complaining that the infinitesimals are gone. That seems like a "you" problem. You can kee
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by gowld 2y ago
https://www.checkmateaviation.com/ seems to agree, but they pack a lot into a 3-column checklist, where most items are just a few keywords.
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by gowld 2y ago
The "American" grids aren't American. An American grid almost always has 2 answers (both directions) per square.
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by gowld 2y ago
That's why they choose this logo for it.
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by gowld 2y ago
Perl and cigarette are both unsafe for children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Camel
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by gowld 2y ago
> Since the license is CC-BY, I don't actually know how much ownership matters, but for the time being, I am the camel's steward. https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/#:~:t... . >
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by gowld 2y ago
Read the comment again, more slowly.
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by gowld 2y ago
Is there an information resource to find local telescope owners who give access to the public for viewing? (startup/app idea!)
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by gowld 2y ago
McDonald's stock is up 20% since Oct 7, 2023 Sales growth slowed a bit, but the boycott effort was a temporary scare to the business that didn't have significant impact on sales long term.
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by gowld 2y ago
The garbage-truck photo op was Trump's a followup to his campaign calling Puerto Rico "garbage", and in particular to Biden calling that behavior "garbage".
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by gowld 2y ago
In his defense, he is a Cold War relic.
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by gowld 2y ago
No one in Ukraine is in the habit of shooting down commercial airliners and helicopters, though.
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by gowld 2y ago
Ah. Knowing what AA tails look like makes it look likely that the blurry triangle has blue and red in the right places. Without context, it does appear to be a quadcopter-ish shape, but since the caption says the object was at high altitude
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by gowld 2y ago
What kind of equipment (available to civilians) can capture accurate and useful data about of UFO size, distance, and trajectory/heading?
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by gowld 2y ago
Which picture has the AA livery visible?
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by gowld 2y ago
A real job is usually not learning academics, so it won't make people better at the raw learning. It might help in other, social ways.
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by gowld 2y ago
The abstraction can clarify the boundaries and scope. For example: I'm thinking of a *number* between 1 and 10, for example, 3 or 7. Is 1 allowed? Is 10 allowed? non-integers? Irrationals? A definition and theorems can seem tri
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by gowld 2y ago
Neither of those forms is sufficient information to solve a problem, except for a "guess what I'm thinking" puzzle. You need: sum(i = 0 to n) *f*(i) and you'd like: Example: f(0) = *a_0*, f(1) = *a_1*, f(2)
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by gowld 2y ago
Does it matter whether the professor or the teaching assistant is the one giving the examples? The professor is in an awkward position, because the professor at the front of of the large-group lecture hall doesn't have anything to do t

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