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by injb 4y ago
Could you elaborate on how American "freedom" has led to a housing crisis there? Is this situation correlated with an increase in whatever you are calling "freedom"?
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by injb 4y ago
Suppose for the sake of argument that Americans were no better or worse at negotiating that anyone else. What do you expect would happen to the prices then, with the current influx of Americans?
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by injb 4y ago
I like the Einstein approach to explaining this: imagine you have a cat, and the cat has a monoid in the category of endofunctors. Now a monad is exactly the same thing except there's no cat.
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by injb 4y ago
It's a good question. Its worth noting that minimalism is generally considered a good style for writing or speaking natural languages. Think of writers or speakers known for great style: Hemmingway, Churchhill, Shakespeare[1]. They all
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by injb 4y ago
This is a very badly written hit piece. The book isn't presented as science. It's a perspective on the development of human thought. The author of this article claims to have "fact-checked" statements in Sapiens that wer
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by injb 4y ago
Right, I'm just saying I think it's reasonable to expect + to be kind of isomorphic with different representations of the same thing. Let's say f(x) gives some alternate representation of x. Then f(3) + f(1) should be equal
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by injb 4y ago
I agree about clearing up ambiguity. But I'm not convinced that there's a best way to answer it without context. For instance, enter "1%" into Wolfram and it'll tell you it's 1/100. Do the same for 3% and
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by injb 4y ago
I've always suspected it's a way to shut people up. If you give up on something, and still don't get it, and complain, well then we can just point out that you didn't get it because you didn't really give up on it
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by injb 4y ago
What software do you mean? A lot of fairly advanced stuff is probably necessary for efficient battery management (which they all need), regen braking, electronic differentials etc (which replaces expensive hardware compared to IC cars). Not
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by injb 4y ago
Yeah I just meant you won't have a CCW permit by default. You'll have to apply/pay/wait for one. I'm assuming that's how it'll be handled anyway. If the cops catch you carrying without the permit, they&#x2
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by injb 4y ago
There are multiple threads on it from yesterday if you want to see what the HN community thinks. But you might as well know, most of them are just people complaining about things unrelated to this ruling, which is what usually happens when
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by injb 4y ago
This decision has no bearing on what kinds of weapons are available to the public.
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by injb 4y ago
>> As an analogy, felons have free-speech and every other constitutional right That's not completely true - felons lose the right to vote. Historically being convicted of a felony meant that you had forfeit your life. According t
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by injb 4y ago
Where did they get the database that tells them if "the applicant poses a risk of harm to anyone"? And why don't they use that for everything? Also, if you do pose a risk of harm to someone, does that person get a gun?
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by injb 4y ago
I admit I've only read a bit at the start. But I already see an argument that I hear a lot that really bugs me, about aliens being the "simplest explanation". Thus drives me nuts.Aliens have NO explanatory power! All the weir
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by injb 4y ago
That^ might be the conventional definition of wealth, but if it is, it's not a very useful one. PG's definition is much better[1]: >> Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting place
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by injb 4y ago
Car prices are stickier than fuel prices. A lot of dealer inventory was purchased before gas prices went through the roof, when the pandemic was still in full force and every manufacturer was cutting production and talking about chip shorta
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by injb 4y ago
>> Clarification of definition of federally licensed firearms dealer I didn't realize that this was an issue. Congrats on closing some sort of loophole, but there are plenty of ways to get a gun. They're probably aiming a
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by injb 4y ago
The problem I always had with this (and still have) is that you're not asked about the probability (i.e. what trend you expect to see in a string of repeated experiments), but rather you're asked: "Is it to your advantage to
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by injb 4y ago
Then the question of "switching" wouldn't make sense. Which of the remaining 98 would you be asked to switch to? The whole point is that you end up with a choice of sticking with the door you picked, or switching to the one r
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by injb 4y ago
If you want to watch them on TV, watch the Hollow Crown series. They're the best adaptations I've seen, but more importantly they're among the best plays too. I see a lot of recommendations for Kenneth Branaghs Henry V. The t
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by injb 4y ago
Thanks for the response. I'm from a European country that is even more restrictive than Poland and I used to shoot there before I moved to the US, so I have some idea of what it's probably like. I might be conflating a broad range
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by injb 4y ago
I'm not sure why you think I'm "poo-pooing" on anyone etc, or what that comment is supposed to add to the discussion, but in any case you haven't written anything that contradicts anything that I said.
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by injb 4y ago
>>I know as I live in Indiana which changed to a no gun registration state When was there ever gun registration in Indiana?
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by injb 4y ago
It's actually being convicted of a felony, not being incarcerated, that prohibits you from voting (and from owing a gun).
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by injb 4y ago
That's an interesting point though. In Poland, you can own certain guns, right? A Polish friend of mine told me he owned various guns, including semi auto pistols.I know you can own these in other central European countries too, like t
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by injb 4y ago
The first of that kind of shooting that I know of was in the 60s in the University of Texas. Before that there was a school massacre in the 20s but they used a bomb.
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by injb 4y ago
I post this a lot when people ask similar questions: get the Open University books (such as MST124, MST125, M208). They're not cheap but they are designed to teach undergraduate level mathematics without a teacher and they work!
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by injb 5y ago
From the way the question was asked, I don't think it's limited to just questions though. You might be asked for something. In that case, your instinctive answer might not be the one you end up being happiest with.
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by injb 5y ago
They didn't even mention Al Gore, inventor of the algorithm

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