kawhah

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by kawhah 3y ago
The whole project is futile and serves only to placate anti-immigrant feeling. Tags do not prevent someone from absconding - they could simply remove the tag and disappear, into those parts of society where people are able to live without p
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by kawhah 3y ago
The museum lent the artist money as well as paying him to produce the works. Accepting the art submitted does not invalidate the artist's requirement to repay the loan.
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by kawhah 3y ago
I have never encountered such a system. Integers used for fixed-point representation do not suffer from "bit-level issues".
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by kawhah 3y ago
no, integers are generally used. BCD is fixed-point in any case so it's just an inefficient integer representation.
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by kawhah 3y ago
do you see all the tweets or just the top one?
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by kawhah 3y ago
The experience of Tesla clearly shows that this is a completely inaccurate picture of what motivates R&D. For decades big automakers took steady profits but declined to spend much on R&D, preferring to make incremental refinements t
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by kawhah 3y ago
Well what's the profit of the other two? Does it add up to $21 billion?
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by kawhah 3y ago
But Github has the closest thing to a solution - a public repository of all the previous questions which people can search to discover if someone has already had the same issue.
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by kawhah 3y ago
The link between the Poisson process and the distribution of bus arrival times, is firstly that it's a good idealized example for understanding and reasoning about Poisson and exponential distribution, and secondly that the Poisson pro
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by kawhah 3y ago
Unless you are specifically interested in the history of the response to the Satanic Verses and what it means about world society, I would recommend 'Midnight's Children' as a better book, and a better example of what is inte
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by kawhah 3y ago
The opposite of Chesterton's fence is "Chesterton's facehugger". Sometimes, when you discover something bad, the best strategy is to immediately try to remove it as quickly as possible, before spending any energy trying
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by kawhah 3y ago
Umm, no. There is a huge selection bias at work here. Most people, when they read the bible, read Genesis and Exodus, the Gospels, Psalms, Ecclesiastes and a couple of other books. It is true that lots of phrases, images, stories, quotation
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by kawhah 3y ago
The tweet says "arxiv is a cancer". It's obviously reasonable evidence that some people don't like arxiv. You are splitting hairs.
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by kawhah 3y ago
This sort of makes sense, almost everyone else in the world learnt of coffee directly or indirectly via Arab-speaking people and so use their name for it, but Ethopians had it first and so have their own word for it.
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by kawhah 3y ago
So AI can't do my work for me, but it can automate the activity which I do for enjoyment in my coffee break?