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by jetrink 8y ago
Sandwiches are like fascism. In Ur-Fascism , Umberto Eco talks about the difficulty of defining the "know it when you see it" category of fascism. We start with a set of concrete examples and we seek to define the category based
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It is shocking to me how few old movies are available on Netflix. Here is a complete list of English language movies from the 1960s on Netflix right now: * Color Me Barbara * My Name is Barbara * Barbara Streisand: A Happening in Central Pa
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I realized when I reached the bottom of the post. It is odd to me to see her saying that the new theory is disqualified for not being as simple as alternatives after reading her book.
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As I read that paragraph, I thought to myself that the author should read Sabine Hossenfelder's recent book Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray . In that book, Sabine argues quite convincingly that our aesthetic judgements
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I still like to constrain line length, because having two source files (or a source file and a REPL) side-by-side on the same monitor is so useful. The trade-off of avoiding long lines is a small price to pay. I recognize that most people l
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Another way to look at it is that these games have less obvious causal relationships. If the game is Pac-Man, it is immediately obvious that eating a dot makes the score go up, because the effect always and immediately follows the cause. Th
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That's an interesting statistic. According to Wikipedia, the Tesla's battery is around 500kg, so the aircraft is carrying around 4500kg in batteries. For comparison, the 10-seat Cessna 404 Titan weighs just 2200kg when empty and h
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The word 'dark' is used in titles because the articles are about the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which are widely accepted terms. You would have to go out of your way not to use the word dark when talking about these su
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It's as if these companies were an extraterrestrial intelligence and mathematics our only common language. What does a 4 express? The other absurdity is that the only context for these rating is the value that appears under a driver&#x
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This was described in 1956 by Horton and Whol in the paper Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction. > One of the striking characteristics of the new mass media - radio, television, and the movies - is that they give the illusion o
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I no longer enjoy first person shooters, but I was a teenager during that era and loved the game. The lack of variety that you found boring was what made the game fascinating to me at the time. Its simplicity and repetitive nature allowed o
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The full color palette is embedded in every code, so the reader need only compare a cell's color to the colors in the palette region.
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I think it would be interesting to try surge pricing with a twist: Keep menu prices the same, but when a line forms, require people eating at the restaurant to donate to a worthy charity. The price mechanism continues to function, but peopl
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I'd agree that once presented with as stark an example as yours, it is common sense, but it takes some insight to create such a thought experiment in the first place.
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For an interview last year, I interacted with Google recruiting almost entirely using smart replies. One of the suggestions to the initial email was fit to send without modification and the idea was so amusing to me that I stuck with it as
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I used a cheap* Chinese service recently and the quality was excellent. They're a great option if the dimensions of your design make OSH Park's by-the-square-inch pricing uneconomical. In addition, the boards were delivered in und
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by jetrink 8y ago
A series of headlines: 2009 - NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution [1] 2011 - Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion. Why, exactly? [2] 2012 - Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft [3] 2
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> Semantically `flatMap` is equivalent to `(comp flatten map)` With the caveat that `flatten` is recursive and can handle a mix of collections and non-collections, while `mapcat` is non-recursive and every value returned by the mapcatted
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by jetrink 8y ago
I'm just thinking through the implications of this... General relativity says that mass and energy are equivalent; an electron produces as much gravitational attraction in another particle as an equivalent amount of energy does. If mat
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George Orwell mentioned the practice in a letter in 1936. > The trouble is that the socialist bourgeoisie, most of whom give me the creeps, will not be realistic and admit that there are a lot of working-class habits which they don'
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by jetrink 8y ago
Thank you for the clarification. > requirement that they create 2 acres of additional wetlands elsewhere for every acre they fill in I did this type of work during high school. The new wetlands are inspected regularly and must meet quali
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I did this too! My exploitation of the loophole was aided by the fact that we were also allowed to use (an unspecified number of) paperclips to "balance" our designs. The result was a very dense square with the aerodynamics of a s
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When I was a child, I had a book with many of these designs. I tested them all from the top of a nearby building's fire escape. My goal was always a long, slow, stable flight and I got the best results with the Square Plane and the Bir
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It's useful for working with permutations. E.g, [f(a, b) for a in some_list for b in some_list] or even [f(a, b) for a in some_list for b in some_list if a is not b]
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The engineer that conducted the test concluded that the plane would have been able to survive the impact. However, he said that if the test were conducted on a faster aircraft like a business jet, the results could be worse.
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The abstract of the paper says that the two fastest stars are traveling at 700 km/s. For scale, at that speed, a star would take 20 million years to travel from the outer edges of the galaxy to the center. (That ignores any acceleratio
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If we allow that humans and other extant creatures are not prehistoric, then it is possible (though not at all likely) that the first animal is one that is still with us and therefore not prehistoric.
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The subhead is a much better title: "A new scientific study suggests strong similarities between near death experiences and [DMT]"
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There might be an octopus on Proxima Centauri b that is incredibly good at being an octopus, but if it can't build a radio, we can't talk to it. In this context, intelligence is defined in practical terms and we're interested
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> Does that not feel arbitrary, to drop the repetitions? If the conjecture turns out to be true, then that apparently arbitrary step turns out to be meaningful, because it uncovers a hidden relationship between the numbers A, B and C and

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