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by kosievdmerwe 5y ago
This is a meaningless statement. It pretty much makes the idea of "coercion" impossible. "The mugger didn't force you give him your money. You could have chosen to say no. You being killed is just you not being free of t
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by kosievdmerwe 5y ago
Yeah, electronic voting is essentially like having a person in the voting booth that you have to tell your vote and trust that they will tally it correctly. [1] It doesn't matter whether voting machines are actually secure, they probab
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
One of the things I like about Old English is kennings. For instance, "battle-sweat" to mean blood.
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Sure, but if the contradiction bore out, then what's false (at least in some edge cases) is established physics not the experiment result. The strength of the established physics just means that there is an extremely high chance that t
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
If we weaken the condition, to allow you to choose the replacement digit there are definitely semi-sturdy primes. For instance, 23 is semi-sturdy as you can replace 2 by 1 or 3 by 9 and both 13 and 29 are prime. The interesting question the
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Scientists aren't deified because people assume they're all knowing? As for scientism, there's a lot of people in this thread who essentially said "We could have known it wouldn't work by basic application of conser
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Scientism. The deification of scientists and our current models. Which is ironic as we know our models are wrong somehow as we can't mesh Quantum mechanics and general relativity. There is clearly some undiscovered idea or principal. S
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Same true for any language too. Depending on the size of a language's vocabulary learning 10,000 or 20,000 words is a matter of years of effort.
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Some sources: https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/museum/ddwfttw.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_%28land_yacht%29 The search term to use is "DDWFTTW" It's a bit con
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Yup, I feel no field of scientific research should be off-limits (except for some immoral research like certain experiments on humans). The only career ender should be scientific dishonesty. An experiment that is rigorous and scientifically
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Given that we only discovered and built dead downwind faster than the wind vehicles in the 2000s I wouldn't be so sure. And for being relatively simple classical physics it was very controversial, with even some physics professors deny
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
It's called "stopping" and not "parking" when you stop (and potentially even turn off your engine and leave the vehicle unattended) to make a delivery or load/unload.
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
The big benefit of AI would be that it wouldn't get tired, impatient or distracted, which would potentially be a big safety boon even if it were slightly less capable than a normal driver at their best. That said, FSD is driving so bad
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Well, as a consumer, if I could install Kindle through a third party app store, I'd be able to buy books directly in the app rather than having to go through a dance to get to a browser to buy a book. This is because Apple would charge
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Gold also doesn't require constant electricity expenditure to keep it's value and "utility"z A kilo of gold once mined is perpetual. A bitcoin needs the whole network to keep running (and be large enough so that miners c
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
> If you've never heard of dynamic programming there's absolutely no way you're going to come up with that in an hour. Dynamic programming problems are really terrible for interview signal though. Firstly, it's mostly
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Yeah, so the big problem is every software project has some initial parts you only have to do once and then 99% of the project is just extending and improving the project using the same flow over and over. I don't see the value of memo
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
There's also "Put your hands where I can see them, you are under arrest for committing illegal financial acts". At the end of the day, the government has sovereignty over your physical body. In addition, at some point your vi
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Yeah the problem with me for prop 65 things: "Is the level detected actually harmful?" and "Is where it's detected actually likely to lead to me being exposed?" I suspect for most things the answer is no.
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Exactly. "But I had more pieces left! Just because I was checkmated doesn't mean I should have lost." Strategy is informed by the victory conditions.
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Divide a month's rent into 12 and you see it's a 100-200 dollars, which highlights how much you'd have to raise rent for a month's vacancy.
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Interesting, my first inclination is to be skeptical that the property would still hold, since we're "potentially" slicing up a necessary sequence and adding 2s in the middle. However infinities are weird* and I think you cou
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
We know all these numbers are irrational. That's been known for a long while. Normal numbers are something different, however. You can look at the wikipedia definition[1], but that involves a few levels of definitions that I don't
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Indeed not every irrational number has this property, for instance you could create an irrational number using only the digits 1 and 2, but some irrational numbers do have this property. Until I did some research a few minutes ago, I though
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Yeah hooks are much easier if you just accept them as a new "language feature" that magically works. Still have no real idea how it's implemented, but it's pretty simple once you stop trying to overanalyze it.
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Yeah, trying to fix this would be a clear example of "premature optimization". Youtube isn't some low data use application, where undisplayed HTML is a significant source of wasted capacity. Even if it were, the right answer
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
There are 2 kinds of options: calls and puts. Calls allow you the option to buy 100 of stock at a certain price any time before the option expires. Puts are the opposite, they allow you the option to sell 100 stocks for a certain price any
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Yeah, an alternate phrasing could be "For all integers n >= 3, show that there exists a set of n points in the plane such that the distance between any two points is irrational and each set of three points determines a non-degenerat
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
Rather the closed system includes both the craft and the ejected mass.
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by kosievdmerwe 6y ago
My "favorite" set of bullshit videos is "How to pronounce" videos. They're really long and typically use text to speech instead of a human.

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