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by hgsgm 3y ago
> then another newer and better system can take its place. That is a strong assumption not borne out by history. Destroying a system leaves chaos, and violent people thrive in chaos. Better systems come about by incremental reforms and f
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Disaster for the victims, but taking down the unelected undemocratic Church is a silver lining.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
The paradox being resolved that religious people aren't highly charitable in general, but people in a social club are pressured into paying dues, and mentally ill people are easily duped into giving up their money.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
> So folks on the front line take notions spoken decades and centuries ago and try to fit it to a modern framework, even when things are obviously wrong. Only "centuries" ago? Judaism has entered the chat .
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by hgsgm 3y ago
> If a person picks three beads based on preference, another person can say that there's a 75% chance that those three beads will contain a white bead, iterated over enough picks. That's not true, which is the critical point,
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by hgsgm 3y ago
ShELL.OIL is how it looks (modulo the HN font). Capitalization is meaningful here.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Donations don't pay the authors and editors.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
So like, if I believe that it's immoral to touch a gay person, and I am an EMT who encounters a bleeding gay person?
759.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Why at all? If you want to record the lecture, use photo, video, audio recording.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Smart kids are ready to pass those standardized tests (which aren't new) before the first day of class.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
That's for syntax, not scope. Scratch doesn't have lexical scope.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Why are all these scratch forks that enable extensions (like GP and Snap), all stuck on an ancient ugly version of Scratch core?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
As soon as elected officials agree, it will happen. 99% of aaod officiala are in one of the 2 major parties. Unless non elected-officials win a revolution.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
It's not polite to accuse people of not reading the article, but > This completely digital version typeset in using TEX with EB Garamond font by DAMITR MAZANAV damitr@proton.me > Released on the web by http://mirtitles
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by hgsgm 3y ago
You have moved deeply out of the realm of the scientific, into pure imagination. What if squiglal butterplotz mishric?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Of course. [0,1] has measure 1. Rationals have measure 0. Irrationals have measure 1-0=1 This question is why measure theory exists.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
There is no contradiction. In Many Worlds Interprepation, Each World (and mostly importantly, with relative weight = 1, the World I am in right now) is built on probabilities.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
You seem to have misunderstood the essence of calculus. Calculus provides efficient, high quality estimates for messy real world phenomena. Calculus put a man on the moon and a camera next to Pluto.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
The coup was probably fake, and was followed by a political purge across government. Erdogan's staff violently attacked people in the US during his visit. Erdogan is supporting a radical religious takeover a secular state. He has a his
770.
by hgsgm 3y ago
"Ha ha, only serious" The world has no obligation to work the way you think it should. Self aware scams can be quite profitable.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Twitter should pretend to comply while rerouting information.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Sir Humprey's 4-Stage strategy to respond to a crisis. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak Stage 1: We say nothing is going to happen. Stage 2: We say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing ab
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by hgsgm 3y ago
At the end of the day, dang decides what goes on HN, and all the voting and gaming is just advice how him and his software to consider. It's not a constitutional democracy.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
If an AI can understand how you think, but you can't understand how the AI thinks... that's not an argument that the AI is the unintelligent one.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
That's open source in general yeah.
776.
by hgsgm 3y ago
AI GF feels a lot better than a patronizing counselor
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Mine, obviously. Like the classic: "In this company we make decisions based on data, so let's use my data."
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by hgsgm 3y ago
It is far, far more likely that a human would commit a typo to the code base, than an LLM would misspell a common word.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
That's not what Godel was proving.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Undo Copy is a fine feature; there was a recent post here about clipboards and managing the cost of large copied objects. The problem here is that "undo copy" acted as "undo paste", a ridiculous bug.

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