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by kirkules 8y ago
Why did you quote that line, of all the lines in the article? What does "swipe" mean to you? Who is subsumed by this weird monolith of "successful people", and how is it that academics avoided being included? Why is &quo
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by kirkules 8y ago
Honestly seems more like a user-end personalization than something a developer would use. In a game settings menu, you choose an image that maybe you uploaded to use as the game style? Definitely something people would use. Especially if th
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by kirkules 8y ago
I don't mean it has to be the way of capitalism, but I've become pretty cynical about how long the kind of capitalism we'd prefer can last, precisely because capitalism (which is actually superbly poorly defined wherever it&#
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by kirkules 8y ago
Plastic is just an example. Greenhouse gases are another. The system in which it's a systemic problem already has and will continue to introduce other such problems. And it's more than just that "under capitalism there is no
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by kirkules 8y ago
I think the claim is rather that China got paid for taking recycling waste and then did that.
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by kirkules 8y ago
Those two possibilities are not mutually exclusive, nor is either exclusive with other notions like reader expectations and capabilities being guided to some extent by the most popular and/or readily available material.
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by kirkules 8y ago
Is an answer of "yes" inconceivable?
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by kirkules 8y ago
Saying knowledge is particularly human is very weird, even when you distinguish it from information.
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by kirkules 8y ago
You should keep in mind that being unable to show or find an example doesn't disprove the category. You'll never show me a fork yesterday, but that doesn't mean there were no forks yesterday.
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by kirkules 8y ago
Make sure you say "show me ball" instead of "a ball"...
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by kirkules 8y ago
Maybe the reference to rule 34 was more appealing?
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by kirkules 8y ago
Interpreting your query in a particular way and delivering the results you personally would expect based in that query are not the same thing
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by kirkules 8y ago
I suppose the claim of the existence of this one liner might be the same as the claim that one of the players can always force a win, in which the line is something like "return 'white'" or "return 'draw'&
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by kirkules 8y ago
I'll just mention that having a moral philosophy that implies that the ideal society doesn't have something analogous to our country borders does not necessarily require open borders in a society that is not otherwise ideal.
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by kirkules 8y ago
Do you have any quick references for someone not privy to this state of the art but who has experience reading academic papers and reading code and documentation?
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by kirkules 8y ago
With the information available in this article, it sounds like Google's claim is that they were not notified of the granted name suppression. It also sounds like name suppression isn't a matter of course in every criminal case, wh
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by kirkules 8y ago
Hooray, more "equations" using arithmetic to compare things that not only aren't using the same units, but don't have clear units or aren't clearly quantifiable in the first place.
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by kirkules 8y ago
I agree. Sometimes saying people should avoid working for a company, which does some things they don't like and some things they do like, sounds like telling people to leave the US if they don't like the current state of affairs.
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by kirkules 8y ago
This is sort of true... but when people don't understand the results promised, the name of the method to delivering the results becomes a proxy; this is one of the functions of buzzwords in marketing.
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by kirkules 8y ago
Yes, banning trolls is morally fine. If you want to design a system to automatically detect them, that's where things get hard
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by kirkules 8y ago
In English as well you can build sentences like "It's you I would love to love to love ... to love!", with arbitrarily many terminal infinitives.
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by kirkules 8y ago
If something like that is an option, just don't ever send any.
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by kirkules 8y ago
That's not a completely fair example, though, for a number of reasons. If you think there's an honest chance that a $1500 independent review could turn up something that would make you turn down the deal and try to find another, d
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by kirkules 8y ago
Are you saying TELNET is necessary because it is a protocol?
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by kirkules 8y ago
Here's some scattershot hopefully-positivity. Keep in mind that a lot of these companies are good at hiring for potential, not for an immediate burst of productivity. You are supposed to have time to figure out how to fit in and how
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by kirkules 8y ago
I don't have enough experience to agree or disagree with the quote you're responding to, but I think the intent was in part to claim that OOP gets misapplied enough that if you're working with a large enough group or company,
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by kirkules 8y ago
In the context of a decision not made by an algorithm, would you find acceptable an explanation like "many repeated studies from well-known and reputed institutions and universities have concluded that X leads to Y, and therefore as a
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by kirkules 8y ago
Thank you for being very constructive.
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by kirkules 8y ago
"So when you see statements being attacked as x-ist or y-ic (substitute your current values of x and y), whether in 1630 or 2030, that's a sure sign that something is wrong." -- is a litmus test that fails. It's okay for
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by kirkules 8y ago
Calling calling a Python standard library function "not pythonic" is a great example of when the term "pythonic" is beyond usefulness.

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