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by lake99 10y ago
Nah, not even then. However, until last year, before Modi's crackdown on black money began, it would have sold easier, not because of its branding, but because it's there . Don't take all their comments about political corre
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by lake99 10y ago
No, I don't think this is what eximius was talking about. I think the kind you're talking about does not use any symbolic notation.
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by lake99 10y ago
> Compare any math notation to the logic notation used in philosophy. Aren't they the same? I assume that by "logic notation used in philosophy" you mean the kind that's used by Carnap, Kripke, etc.
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by lake99 10y ago
> So if you don't go into off topic material, it is a hit piece? That question can't be answered. What do you think the topic of this piece was? The title was "President-Elect Trump". The piece was not about "let
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by lake99 10y ago
> had they not been complete dullards Even if they were dullards, I'd prefer them to people who have shown tendencies to destroy countries. I think I saw this joke on 4chan: if Gary Johnson does not know where Aleppo is, that's
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by lake99 10y ago
These are pretty much the defining characteristics of a hit piece. I do not enjoy such things, and I do not recommend such things, for reasons I have already given. Many people think that they are being educated (while being entertained) by
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by lake99 10y ago
Yes, I have written about this in my later comments.
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by lake99 10y ago
> But partisanship is only relevant if it affects reporting, It does, here. > which by your statement would seem like we are of opposite convictions. I have no idea what you mean. > without leaving anything out, and I have yet to s
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by lake99 10y ago
That was not my point. Where exactly did I say he does that? He commits glaring omissions in favour of the people on his side.
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by lake99 10y ago
This extreme partisanship is one of the reasons I'm wary of John Oliver. For example, Politifact, despite its biases or subjectivity, has documented examples of practically every major politian making untrue statements. Including the c
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by lake99 10y ago
Rather than fraud or lying, I think Dharam Pal Singh may be simply mistaken. My grandmother, who would have been in her 90s now, never knew her correct birthday. She knew her Hindu-calendar birthday, but you can't translate that to a G
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by lake99 10y ago
Ravi Varma is a peculiar example of Indian art. Basically, he employed European styles to Indian themes. Now, of course, his style has become a part of the cultural norm, with many homes worshipping his depictions of gods, without having a
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by lake99 10y ago
> building a wall Just like Hillary, then [1][2]. She changed her tune this campaign season. Why exactly? I don't know. But the only explanation I can come up with is "my opponent's policies are bad"[3]. Most politic
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by lake99 10y ago
> It's true that Donald Trump is lying, feckless fool. Lying? Sure. Feckless fool? Not a fact. > But that doesn't really change the facts. You mean, facts like Hillary arming radicals and destroying governments? Or facts lik
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by lake99 10y ago
> Hollywood doesn't really like asians to be their main characters Rather than racism, I chalk it up to Hollywood's tendency to spend millions of dollars on people who they consider marketable. For example, I read reviews of &q
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by lake99 10y ago
I am not a mathematician, therefore, thoroughly underqualified to judge mathematicians. However, I recommend George Andrews' lecture[1] on Ramanujan's relevance to current mathematics. I wish they'd make more movies about (ot
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by lake99 10y ago
About churn, promotions are one of the issues, and the other is a good salary. Many companies are quite exploitative (that's one way of looking at it). If you can't play hardball with your HR, your freshly hired subordinate's
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by lake99 10y ago
> The meltdown of the "media" and shock is just pure funny. Oh good. It's not just me, there are others who want Trump to win just for the lulz. I don't care for his presidency, but Clinton belongs behind bars right n
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by lake99 10y ago
> If it can't find the start of the next block, the same thing will happen. This has been addressed in the article. "Bzip2 is affected by this defect to a lesser extent; it contains two unprotected length fields in each block h
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by lake99 10y ago
I haven't read the whole article yet, but gzip and bzip2 recover fairly well from errors. As they are divided into blocks, flipping a bit will make you lose, at most, one block. This is not related to error correction though, but a way
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by lake99 10y ago
> There is literally only one good thing I can say about Windows: the background and lock screen images are really, really nice You can have that in Linux too[1]. You can configure it to pull fresh images from your favourite sources, inc
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by lake99 10y ago
I agree with you in principle, but not with some of the specifics. Of course Brendan Eich has the right to donate to whichever poitical party he wants. But I found his actions distasteful because, in effect, Eich played a role in trying to
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by lake99 10y ago
I don't know what to say to that. By its nature, 4chan deters nearly everyone! Indians included [1]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/55pizd/4chan_users_o...
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by lake99 10y ago
I'm in India at the moment, but I have lived in other timezones too. I must add that I'm not a regular there. I only go there when some promiment thread makes the nwes... like Tay, or Operation Google, or this. Other than that, my
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by lake99 10y ago
Figure 15 with heat map of hate speech per post puts India, Pakistan, Thailand, Belarus, Zimbabwe, and South Korea as the leaders of the pack. In my limited experience on /pol, this paints a very misleading picture. I hardly ever see p
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by lake99 10y ago
No, "grammar nazi" is considered inoffensive. Many people pernickety about grammar use that term to refer to themselves.
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by lake99 10y ago
It's been a while since I studied or worked with these things, but I think your explanation is wrong. A transistor (BJT or FET, doesn't matter) dissipates very little in either cut-off region or saturation region (Rdson -- in FETs
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by lake99 10y ago
But why is that relevant? Malala worked on education in war-torn areas. Plenty of laureates worked on alleviating poverty, Red Cross (and associated people) got the prize for health, as did Albert Schweitzer. Snowden blew the lid off US gov
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by lake99 10y ago
It's the same on Archlinux, systemd-231. Nothing happened. I was able to start and stop a couple of services as quickly as before.
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by lake99 10y ago
I really want the Tizen project to succeed. It's tragic that this doesn't even run on mainstream Samsung devices. Talk about faith in their own work!

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