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by lawpoop 10y ago
A nitpick: archaeology is the digging up of human remains and artifacts. Paleontology is probably what you mean.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
This is like saying "I'm paid for code that works, not proper syntax." But proper syntax is what gets you code that works. You aren't paid directly for it, though. Tests are not a direct path to code that works, but they
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by lawpoop 10y ago
When I took math in high school, our textbook had little blurbs that pointed out historical curiosities in regards to math. (The only one I remember clearly is an ancient Greek Queen? maybe Middle Ages, who did a lot of work on conic sectio
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by lawpoop 10y ago
You make it sound as if before Social Security, people saved for retirement because they recognized they had to. But of course they didn't-- because they didn't earn enough to save-- just like people nowadays. Social Security is i
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Consciousness is a different question/problem -- we don't have any good definition for it, and certainly no way to measure it. Rather than saying some things are life and others non-life, I would instead say that some are living a
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by lawpoop 10y ago
We don't have one single definition of life, but we do have _definitions_. There are typically a few properties we think living things share, to rule out things that are not living from those that are living. For instance, crystals rep
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I would say no, because they are not self-replicating things. A part of the definition of living things is that they reproduce. That reproduction (with variation) is a necessary precursor to evolution. Stars and planets do not reproduce the
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Evolution probably goes back before cells. The first living thing would have to be a self-replicating molecule that uses energy. Different forms of this self-replicating molecule would have different reproductive success. There is a not-unp
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by lawpoop 10y ago
This call seems problematic. Doctors suffer from a kind of bias-- not sure the name of it-- but they only see people when they have problems. The only time doctors encounter the human experience of LSD, magic mushrooms, etc. is when somethi
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Ironically this underscores why Trump won.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Because of the time zones in the United States and the electoral college system, if certain states on the east coast are called for Candidate B and it is then concluded that Candidate A has no path to victory, that might depress turnout in
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by lawpoop 10y ago
That's true, but people have been swimming, boating, and sailing for thousands of years before those equations were invented. We can develop an intuitive sense for that, because we have direct and visible interaction with those fluids.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I think the main reason is that we can't physically interact with it with our hands. We don't play with it as children, the same way we do running water, throwing rocks, etc. Anything that you can't manipulate or play around
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Wow, this seems extremely naive. (Honestly I'm feeling like I got trolled.) You don't know of anybody who has never been imprisoned who is managing to live their life without interacting with any of the things you've mentione
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by lawpoop 10y ago
If that is really true, why do inmates try to get out, instead of killing themselves? Why not just kill themselves after release, since having lived through that is so much worse than death?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
When someone is wrongly jailed, they often have a lawyer working on their case to exonerate them. After someone has been executed, nobody pursues the case anymore.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> Sure, as a customer I could insist on my manufacturer having taken security seriously and having their products thoroughly tested and reviewed and hardened and patchable and all that good stuff How exactly would you insist on that? Ask
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Sounds like a solution would be to rule out the luck factor and institute dedicated hackers, who aren't ultimately getting paid by the manufacturers. The first thing that comes to mind is a governmental agency, but then that opens the
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by lawpoop 10y ago
What is HFT?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I appreciate it, but without captions or legends, I don't know which is which.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I would have liked to see a link to Italic handwriting : /
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by lawpoop 10y ago
shell command aliases for now :P
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I don't always delete my branches But when I do, I make a branch called 'rm' first
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Hap-hazardly.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
So what is the benefit of this sort of autopilot? It sounds like it's driving except without going through the motions.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> attention to detail was the single most predictive trait for good performance. I think you just naively reprised the premise: how exactly are you measuring "good performance"? The easily observable details they were good at a
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by lawpoop 10y ago
FWIW this old school games programmer (think Atari IIRC) talks a lot about Forth: http://prog21.dadgum.com/33.html (a lot being relative, here meaning "some")
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> What? How could they possibly be able to consistently find these problems without customers coming forward? Quality control? Testing/inspecting their products for mold during and after production?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Well of course I had heard of liquid assets, liquidity, etc. But I'd never heard of money described as liquid capital. It seems like the most apt definition of money.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Well, that's what I was of course familiar with.

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