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by kolpa 9y ago
What does "Philosophically and aesthetically brutalist and uncomfortable." mean?
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It's backwards, though, because Bootstrap and Squarespace are Brutalist (to whatever extent that word really applies to the web at all): cheap, egalitarian, and simple to use.
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"You can't con an honest person" (Not actually always true, but applies to many scenarios)
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Iterative Con Opportunity
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Well, 8 years of storing value and 1 year of collapsing value, eh?
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Ponzi not Pyramid. Pyramid means that each participant makes their money directly from their downline, in a self-similar way. And a Pyramid scheme can be totally honest, relying eyes-wide-open on the sigmoid curve for its initial success an
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by kolpa 9y ago
So you're saying that the key to success is to get in at the ground floor, and exit after a few years?
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>I don't know what is stopping them from simulating everything inside a computer. Obviously they've already tried that, and it doesn't work. The map is not the territory. In theory, there is no difference between theory an
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> The argument should NOT be about playing with people’s lives now so im the future some people can have a better system. Why not? That's how pioneers make progress, in new aircraft and spacecraft. If people want to be on the bleedi
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The car should play "I spy" with you to keep you attentive to the road. You win if you spy a concrete barrier that the car doesn't.
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That's how you instill memorization, not comprehension.
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I've heard many more debunkings of learning styles than I've heard advocacies of learning styles. It's just fun to be contrarian.
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Writing helps because writing is an effective learning style, even if you burn the notes as soon as you write them. (Reading might help even more, but reading without writing helps less than writing + reading)
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I can't point you at research, but I can point you at a child who has learned reading through whole language and who emotionally resists any attempt to "sound out" words. If you spend time with ~5 year olds, I expect you&#x27
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Certainly not a company that can't even afford to embrace a 1GB Google maps download over LTE. https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/tesla%E2%80%99s-crazy-...
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If autopilot crashes at a lower rate than the average driver, they are correct, but autopilot+attentive driver would still be better than either alone.
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You need a speed limiter, not necessarily cruise control.
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most of this article is covered in the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_operator#Confusion_... but Wikipedia says: "The reason for all this being unknown. [footnote] Although Dennis Ritchie
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by kolpa 9y ago
Equality doesn't exist in mathematics. http://www.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/preprints/when_is_one.pdf The punchline: > In appropriate deference to the manifold ways an object can be presented to us, objects
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by kolpa 9y ago
The paper should be accepted in rough form, but publication should be held up pending approval of the data and code. Or a paper should be published in a probationary form, and not certified (by the journal) until an independent lab replic
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by kolpa 9y ago
That's a valid opinon but surely the same applies to roads, covered with heaps of scrap cars and car parts?
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Those diphthongs have the same sound as combining the sounds of the two letters used to spell them, though.
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It helps with parsing and would disambiguate nouns from verbs (if German has words that are both noun and verb, as English does).
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Soviet Union -> Stalin -> Communist hegemony in Europe -> Space Race
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Capitol Steps still has something to contribute: http://www.capsteps.com/lirty/ http://www.capsteps.com/lirty/jaula.html
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by kolpa 9y ago
> Today everything is so locked down, paranoid and anxiety inducing because computing is now globally connected, not limited to small computer labs
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Not necessarily. Apple could offer the non-TB model for the same price and features as TB, and have more happy customers. Instead, they have people delaying purchases, desperately searching for alternatives to these infernal machines, and g
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I don't think minority populations are impressed by how wonderfully other populations are dying less?
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Would you deny "killer drones" to the armies and civilians fighting the Nazi Wermacht?
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When the mods/admins intervene, they usually "detach and mark off-topic " (move to bottom of page), not delete. Users flag posts to hide them.

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