logicallee

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   by logicallee 11y ago

   it's obvious that computer scientists have COMPLETELY dropped the ball by not figuring out a way for anyone to write "it", "that", "which" and so on and have the IDE and language disambiguate it into what
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   by logicallee 11y ago

   Nobody makes a salary of 100k per month. That is $1.2 million per year. The CEO of IBM, a company that had revenues of $80 billion in 2015, made salary of $1.6 million in 2015.[1] If you want to include stock or options or a revenue shar
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   by logicallee 11y ago

   that's pretty crazy. There's hardly a post you couldn't write in a day of hard work (because then it's too long! spend one day writing it, so someone can spend 20 minutes reading it, don't make readers take hours
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   by logicallee 11y ago

   well the effect I heard is that even people who don't buy the chicken (ever, they just aren't chicken buyers) buy more of everything else due to the smell. So the store doesn't need to sell any at all, it just needs to be th
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   by logicallee 11y ago

   Possibly rotisserie chicken is a bad example, at least there is an urban legend that the smell of roasted chicken makes people buy more at grocery shops. That means it makes them money even if they sell it for $1 or any other price - if th
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   by logicallee 11y ago

   okay - but why not pivot to something that could work, as a backup project? why wouldnt the company diversify when they realized their tech probably doesn't work? they had tons of money . . .
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   by logicallee 11y ago

   Would anybody fault uBeam if they got to market using stuff Tesla showed in the 19th century? All this story shows is that after selling snake oil you should buckle up and ship aspirin. What, are investors going to sue them for not being ac
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   by logicallee 11y ago

   Thanks! interesting
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   by logicallee 11y ago

   >linguistic practice in which people deliberately speak in gerunds as a form of verbal indirection ? could you give an example? (I can only think of sentences like "stealing is wrong" - but it doesn't seem like this is wh
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    >I don't exactly think that would be met by "incorrect knowledge" or "false insight"? sure it would be met. your usage is obviously not what anybody means by profound. your usage suggests someone can say "
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    How strange, I changed it to http as asked. For me it then asked for my social security number to login and then I needed to confirm some of my banking information for the IRS. I'd expect that to be information you'd want to prot
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    I'm sorry, I must have let the fact that the document I chose as a basis for comparison (and which I don't believe) influences the lives of 2.2 billion people every day and has for hundreds of years cloud me into thinking that it
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    It's funny how you can say someone "quotes the bible as if it had any authority on profundity" after that person wrote "But what does the bit about valleys being raised up and mountains made low? It has to be some kind o
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    These are not all bullshit statements. My summary at bottom. Here are my ratings where 0 = nonsense, 10 = profound statement. 1. Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract beauty. I rate this an 8/10 and read it as an excerpt fro
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    As an outsider, I found the technical term the profession chose (according to the study, I don't know that branch of study myself), to be profoundly distracting. The profession made a really bad choice by choosing to go with it. It&#x
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    There is a nuanced economic issue related to this priced drop. Today, (and for some time in the past) solar panels can be an investment, that is paid off by the amount that is saved by not having to use the grid (for example.) So a homeowne
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    Bodybuilders rotate body parts so that those can recover for a day or two. If they could work them out faster by working them out every day, they would. So I wish some study did what you did, but had groups doing what you did (all-out for
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    I don't know, man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law#Moore.27s_second_l... This talks about an exponential increase in R&D costs which is expected by Moore. With stuff like cloud computing, I d
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    >Or make them taller, but then you can't cool them easily. Haven't you answered your own question? Your other points are about impossibility - the one I just quoted, about making chips taller, is about difficulty. If I were th
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    you mean for you :)
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    But being able to count on a six figure salary after a couple of years on the job (as long as you're from, or willing to relocate, to one of about a dozen cities) doesn't hurt either...
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    I don't get why you state your response is slightly sarcastic. You mean "probably C++, even though it's not a suitable language"? Why not?
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    not sure how someone can downvote me, if you google "define dice fair" you get "In mathematics we say 'fair dice' when we mean that there is an equally likely chance of landing on any face", i.e. random and equ
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    I enjoyed this perspective and it changed my thinking, you've convinced me. It's also unlikely that humans can keep track of the distribution of 120 numbers on a die (in any distribution) so even if the game the cheater is playin
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    I don't think I'm reading that post wrong! The original poster said " But I wonder if a die that large is even fair." Then the response said it's "fair enough" because even if it only spins part of the w
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    right, you're the only one who is correct in this thread, and the other responses are wrong - and yet my comment explaining this is downvoted. But look at all the noise that was generated in this thread! So, this is actually a fantas
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    fair means random. (for dice, coins, etc)
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    mathematically, if your "range" is one of the ten numbers 108, 43, 21, 18, 32, 40, 79, 50, 94, 59 then it is just as broken as if your "range" is 110-120. it's not considered fair. fair means random and evenly di
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    > it looks like it would still be fair enough [if it only reaches a portion of the neighboring values at each bounce] due to the fact that there is a large difference in the numbers available 'nearby' any one spot what is this,
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    by logicallee 11y ago

    I agree with you in some cases but not in others. I'll give you a recent example: there's nothing wrong with servers running ad-block detectors and not serving content to people running ad-blockers. It's within their rights.