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gowld
2y ago
That's when the suspect's identity is known, and the suspect would rather face a bail hearing then try to keep hiding.
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gowld
2y ago
I don't think that's a fair characterization. > When asked by a reporter if police had the suspect’s name, Adams said, “We don’t want to release that now. If you do, you’re basically giving a tip to the person we are fine with
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gowld
2y ago
That law of nature is quantum mechanics. Quantum state can be teleported, but cannot be duplicated.
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gowld
2y ago
You remember going to sleep last night. So even if you died and a copy of you was made, intuitively, subjectively, you feel that tomorrow is still you, same as yesterday was same you, even if there is some technical disconnect.
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gowld
2y ago
If it calms your dread, know that most people who died expectedly (long illness) want to die. So you have no need to fear the inevitability of death, only fear the inevitability of the desire for death. Finally, to cure the fear the ine
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gowld
2y ago
See The Real Transported Man
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gowld
2y ago
You'll need to be more clear in your last sentence. If you are cloned while you are sleeping, and both the original and the copy are moved into different rooms before you wake up, both of you think themself is you, and both of you thin
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gowld
2y ago
I think a better word is "motivation" -- why we chose this option at this juncture instead of many other options. Yes, it's a "reason", but "reason" already means something else. The "Reason" as
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gowld
2y ago
More generally and symmetrically: When you are studying science and technology, and the math theorem doesn't match experiment, the theory is probably wrong (or incomplete, missing factors), so you can discard it or try to improve it. W
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gowld
2y ago
This post is quite rude and dismissive to people who enjoy math but struggle with it.
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gowld
2y ago
The process is only long because it babbled several useless ideas (direct factoring, direct exponentiating, Sophie Germain) before (and in the middle of) the short correct process.
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gowld
2y ago
Why do you want people to be homeless and overpaying for housing just to depress the price of food?
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gowld
2y ago
This codepen's presentation strongly presents the "phantom squares crossroads" optical illusion.
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gowld
2y ago
s/women/people/g No need to promote sex-based divisiveness. From your own link: "So the French mathematician Alexis-Claude Clairaut decided to break the work up—by dividing the calculations among several people. In 1757,
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gowld
2y ago
The (non-generalized) Pythagorean theorem is part of Euclidean geometry, so non-Euclidean geometry is irrelevant to this discusion. > Euclid's third postulate - "a circle can be drawn with any center and radius - doesn't d
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gowld
2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedding#General_topology "In general topology, an embedding is a homeomorphism onto its image."
827.
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gowld
2y ago
Why is LinkedIn trying to drive their userbase away from engaging on the site?
828.
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gowld
2y ago
...according to this company's AI detector, so not validated or validatable by anyone else.
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gowld
2y ago
As soon as we undo 3 centuries of systemic oppression and get the races roughly on par with each other, we'll have an easier time managing G&T programs.
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gowld
2y ago
Even base kids aren't all stupid. No matter what you call the program, the kids will know that's where the smart kids went.
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gowld
2y ago
You might be surprised to learn that this is how education funding already works. Government isn't completely idiotic. What you are ignoring is that educational spending imbalance comes from private voluntary educational spending (en
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gowld
2y ago
The OP strongly tries to claim (before contradicting herself in the concluding pargraph) that gifted is a major psychological difference, not merely being smart and a fast learner.
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gowld
2y ago
You can't imagine interpreting the parent comment for its clear face value -- that supporting outlier high achievers helps everyone in society? The inventor of a vaccine or a microchip or a sculpture doesn't hoard the invention f
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gowld
2y ago
and "Roll Credits" in CinemaSins One thing they deem to be a movie “sin” is the fact that movies will often have a line of dialogue in which they'll say the title of the movie. Whenever a movie does this, the CinemaSins Narra
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gowld
2y ago
In this case it's Fracking
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gowld
2y ago
The only informational dividable from the statement is "we used a computer to analyze data".
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gowld
2y ago
What part flexes and rubs?
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gowld
2y ago
> CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI CEO promoting himself on the Internet... > No password was needed due to the use of SSH keys; > the user buck was also a [passwordless] sudoer, granting t
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gowld
2y ago
I don't understand the rules for when a piece is allowed to capture another piece. EDIT: Oh, a piece can merge with any piece that has the same numerical value. This makes the game far more playable.
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gowld
2y ago
Have they? Has MrBeast had 2000 people at one event before?
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