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by inclemnet 12y ago
There's a big, very important difference - the quantum state can display non-classical correlations beyond what the classical coin model can describe. We can see this by considering two electrons in an entangled spin state - say, one i
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> E.g. \caption{$a+b$} Nope. Can't do it. I don't disagree in general about some of the flaws of LaTeX, but am I missing something about this one? Using maths in a caption works fine.
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by inclemnet 12y ago
Did you actually try? Search engines are powerful, e.g. googling 'context tex' or 'context typesetting' returns pages of relevant results.
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by inclemnet 12y ago
Are you aware of evil-mode? One of the many things it implements is the :%s/stuff/otherstuff/g syntax.
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> you could see one woman engineer and two or three men engineers on duty in the control room, and they all interacted with each other as if they were peers. This is a remarkably short sighted attitude. I mean, maybe there is totally no
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> but how can you come to such a conclusion based on that? I don't think anyone can prove it right now, only find it plausible or probable. Of course that's a long way from proof, but the opposite is also true - can you demon
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by inclemnet 12y ago
I think the way people focus on 'self control' is interesting - it's always presented as a choice, or a flaw in a person if they don't have it. But is this really the case? I'm not convinced my conscious desires are
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by inclemnet 12y ago
I don't think it would have any implications, unless it predicted new behaviour above and beyond what the mathematics already described. This kind of debate is all about philosophical interpretation, the actual mathematics of QM are ex
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by inclemnet 12y ago
Quantum mechanics in this sense refers to the (very well researched and understood) mathematical theory. This theory permits multiple philosophical explanations of what is 'really happening' to give the mathematical results that w
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by inclemnet 12y ago
It's vastly more plausible that your brain is good at seeing patterns where none exist than that you have psychic powers.
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> couldn't be bothered about pursuing something that could lead to a more fundamental understanding of reality. This seems like a bit of an insult based on a misconception. There are many things that could lead to a more fundament
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by inclemnet 12y ago
Then those people probably don't want to pay for spotify. I didn't mean to imply that spotify is automatically a good deal for everyone, obviously it isn't, but I think it's plausibly a good deal for a lot of people. &gt
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> You've been paying for, let's say, 3 years - $360 - and what do you have to show for it? The answer is 3 years of music enjoyment. Honestly, this seems like a terrible example - I don't think anybody pays for spotify on
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> I am not sure why even in 2014 we have to pit Linux against Windows. We have surely grown out of that sort of debate. I think it's unfair to frame any linux/windows debate as fundamentally childish. There are big differences
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> Why doesn't dark mater clump together to form dark galaxies? Because of the weak nature of its interactions - it barely interacts with itself, never mind binding into local blobs. You can imagine starting with a big sphere of dark
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> If they exist, WIMPs would have a mass between one and 1000 times that of a proton. They would interact only through the feeble weak nuclear force And gravity . The article even mentions this earlier, but seems to have forgotten abou
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by inclemnet 12y ago
You don't need trauma to just forget things. You've experienced many hours of continuous stimulation every day for years, and most of that is naturally thrown away, including the mental impact of experiences that seem at the time
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by inclemnet 12y ago
This argument seems to rest on the assumption that women are fundamentally more susceptible to decisions based on stereotypes than men are. Do you have any evidence both that this is the case, and that any measurable difference (if there is
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> You mean to get something like Ubuntu that does the same thing? He obviously means something not like Ubuntu (or at least Unity in particular) that does not do the same thing. There are many many distros meeting this requirement, it&#x
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by inclemnet 12y ago
Well, this is interesting to hear, thanks for explaining. I also use colemak, but I've been leaning towards using a wide layout (swapping some punctuation from the normal position to the centre of the keyboard) - it's from this pe
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> Staggered keys make less sense because they were designed for the typewriter - not the human Even if this is true, it only demonstrates that the original reason for staggered keys is no longer a factor, not that staggered keys are actu
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by inclemnet 12y ago
This argument is insufficient - even taking it at face value, it's only an argument that an optimal layout will be symmetrical, not that a given symmetrical layout is necessarily superior to a given asymmetrical one. In the context of
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> and it feels more natural I've always wondered about this - I don't disbelieve that some people feel this way, but is it really a general consensus? And is there a reason we should expect it, I don't see why staggered ke
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> I've seen that people accustomed to one editor are usually averse to using the other. I think this is more a meme than necessarily a reality - you'll tend to see a lot more comments online from people who think the old joke i
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> Then he should have said 'The communities I'm involved in are awful Luckily he doesn't need to, because (as above) he's obviously talking about the open source community. > I could care less You couldn't c
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> But none of those ways have anything to do with open source More bad arguments! He didn't say that open source is unique. Perhaps he's simply talking about the communities he's actually involved in. > equating a conce
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> Open source is not awful. He specifically said 'in many ways', then elaborated on some of these ways. You're doing nothing more than fighting a strawman. > Open source is merely the idea that sharing code is good This
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by inclemnet 12y ago
> the problem in question had been solved a couple times over This seems a bit disingenous. Unless you think upstart is literally perfect, the problem is obviously not solved, only iterated on...and without further arguments there's
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by inclemnet 12y ago
You don't have to be a selfish prick, merely deluded if you thing much of your taxes would end up in parties for people doing art degrees.
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by inclemnet 12y ago
But this obviously fails in exactly the same way when there are no more tables. The strategy simply doesn't work.

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