kolpa

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by kolpa 8y ago
Wow. "core hours" is full time, but there's also mandatory overtime. Anyone not in the boss's timezone has to to work weird hours to satisfy the micromanager's desire for fiefdom face-time. Work starts before 9am
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by kolpa 8y ago
The could price the data at $1M, a price no one would pay.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Sacrificing a horse at least served the purpose of feeding the priests. > serious about whatever you're doing, or so rich that you can do it casually or, the common case: bluffing and setting up for a financial and relationship disa
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by kolpa 8y ago
Sure. But I'd prefer a $10K donation to the charity of my choice, or to my student loans, or a vacation, or a car.
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by kolpa 8y ago
If the fake LV is the same quality as the original, that is the point. (Most fakes are lower quality.)
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by kolpa 8y ago
It means that you can't tell whether it's a "higher grade of Type A" or a "lower grade of type B", because both shine the same, and you can't tell the underlying purity of either nor the type of the stone
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by kolpa 8y ago
It is falling. The old theory was that these were 3 fundamental facts in the universe. The modern theory is that there is 1 fundamental "triangular" fact, not derivable from simpler facts. That makes the Universe more fundamentall
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by kolpa 8y ago
That lovely site needs an endorsement from the author's wife, to sell the deal to anyone who matters.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Scientific maps are wrong when they are shown to be inconsistent or incomplete . Of course people can make mistakes.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Sorry, I should have said we don't understand dark energy yet. In what sense does "fundamental reality" exist?
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by kolpa 8y ago
Can I make Newtonian mechanics into a dyanically 0-free-parameter theory by stating that F == gMm/r^2 , where g is a solution parameter ("the gravity of the universal landscape" ?
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by kolpa 8y ago
When does any company get consent for changing its product or advertising and measuring the response? I never gave my consent to McDonald's for putting up a billboard or changing their menu or their recipe.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Who is liable to whom when user A use a free service B based on an ambiguous agreement, and that service makes an ambiguous agreement with another service C, and C does something that is arguable a violation of one of those agreements? How
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by kolpa 8y ago
What does "baked into reality" mean? We can never know more about reality than what we observe, and furthermore conservation laws are axiomatic -- conservation simply means that we are able to account for (almost) everything we o
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by kolpa 8y ago
> PS: I’ll be doing an AMA on Reddit in the next few days, I hope to see you there! It's a bit of shame that that's the location of choice for hosting an AMA. The AMA subreddit is good, but it's trapped in the toxic cesspo
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by kolpa 8y ago
"increasingly" ? Was there a time when unintelligent people were more protected, and less exploited by private interests ("caveat emptor" and con artists and snake-oil sellers) and government (institutionalization, eugen
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by kolpa 8y ago
> So you have a person walking toward the street > and your dumb smart car is constantly hitting the brakes. Doesn't sound dumb to me. The car should be going slow enough to emergency stop if the pedestrian enters the road.
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by kolpa 8y ago
It's not a theory so much as a metaphysical interpretation -- it's scientifically equivalent to the many-electron Universe.
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by kolpa 8y ago
We went to the moon because we were afraid of Russian hegemony on Earth. Not sure that's "gee-whiz".
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by kolpa 8y ago
Cutting through the rhetoric, that means simply that CCP does bog-standard PR rhetoric. No professional in PR would deign to acknowledge the existence of critics, unless those critics are too loud to ignore.
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by kolpa 8y ago
I still don't get it. To me, they are saying that the general online public thinks "pro-CCP" and "50c" are the same thing, just as everyone says pro-HillaryClinton people are "Correct the Record" troops, a
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by kolpa 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/world/asia/china-lands-pr...
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by kolpa 8y ago
Which Social Network was this observed on? Wasn't that landing 5 years ago? Any more recent examples? I get nothing when I search HN for the NYT article https://hn.algolia.com/?query=As%20Rover%20Lands,%20China%20...
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by kolpa 8y ago
Playing Beethoven's 5th on a recorder might not have been any better.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Why do you need to progress in the game? Most people play games they enjoy and don't feel a need to progress to elite levels. It's fine if you want to become elite, but not at all necessary.
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by kolpa 8y ago
That's what happens when you "recurse".
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by kolpa 8y ago
If you systematically analyze it, you don't need to be clever on a per-problem basis. Every recursive solution can me methodically converted to DP.
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by kolpa 8y ago
In an iterative solution, you have to get your loop conditions correct, and you have to create a bunch of inputs before you know how you are going to use them, sort of a "solution in search of the problem". Recursion takes a pro
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by kolpa 8y ago
Even given that open-plan offices are disproportionately harmful to women, it's part of an absurd whack-a-mole to enumerate and eradicate the myriad specific cases of "women are harmed by being in contact with men" instead of
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by kolpa 8y ago
> You would think that the conjurer of the paradox would have shifted to empiricism or idealism—maybe my faith in people betrays me. What does this mean? > Karl Popper argued that a way to avoid the trilemma was to use an intermediate

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