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by logicrook 11y ago
You fail to recognize the political implications of individually opting for locked-down solutions. If many people opt-in for a locked solution, they essentially remove the possibility for others to adopt free solutions -university, business
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I always find fantastic how these kinds of arguments can be made blatantly ignoring that they basically are a plea for authoritarian governments. Do you realize how bad basic freedoms are? Most people are better off without them, because ma
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What do you do of researchers that pirate their own books, and tell you never ever to buy their books, but go to libgen? I have met at least 5 world-class scientists say that "because I don't do any money on it anyway", &quot
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by logicrook 11y ago
Even with that, every uni does not subscribe to everything. You can still find important papers behind paywalls. In my uni we had pages-long emails for the lab explaining the different procedures (at least 4, e.g. access with some other pro
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by logicrook 11y ago
Science is a hard work, and sometimes, you need to have some fun too.
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Why are you browsing hackernews and not browsing google?
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by logicrook 11y ago
Actually, if you run fast enough, you can get wetter because of water projections by you legs/feet. You can end up with a wet back, wet lower legs, and nearly dry front. As delazeur said lower, this calls for follow-up research!
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by logicrook 11y ago
Many top researchers have a grudge against the shortcomings of Nature, especially given its reputation. They published papers with fairly weak research for overhype many times already. One example is the infamous Barabasi-Albert paper on th
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by logicrook 11y ago
>A conspiracy theory is merely a theory without corroborating evidence. The reason conspiracy theorists tend to be disbelieved is that, more often than not, their assertions are a matter of faith, and when they're right, they'r
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It depends a lot on your definition of 'conspiracy theory'. If you only consider crazy babblings about martians, sure, but... Do you remember that before Snowden, the whole NSA thing was a tinfoil-hat worthy idea? And what the NSA
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by logicrook 11y ago
It's great that the author decided to do this work. TL;DR: The Dunbar numbers are significant for online social networks too. People working in TCS on "social networks" often work with TCS tools, which are inherently asympto
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by logicrook 11y ago
Here the TL;DR is the following: because the popularity of your blogposts will follow a power law distribution (in which you believe), if you want to be popular you just need to put out more content instead of trying to improve the quality.
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by logicrook 11y ago
> Not sure what "underfunded" means here. Thunderbird works. Email isn't evolving like the web is, so what point is there for Mozilla to throw resources at it? If you look at the arguments people can give against a switch
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Thunderbird has an estimated ~30 million users, and it's just about "me"? Also, you deliberately deflect the point. The problem was not so much that they killed these projects, but the way they did it. They kept Thunderbird u
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by logicrook 11y ago
Yes, thank you, Mozilla for the hypocritical statement. It changes so much about the result! I wouldn't say "we like to bitch about them", as Panorama, Thunderbird and FirefoxOS were an important part of my technological ecos
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by logicrook 11y ago
Why is this comment down-voted? This is mainly pointing that no state is innocent of political assassinations. There are the fairly known '1,000 secret CIA flights revealed' in Europe. And in a democracy, Bin Laden would have ha
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by logicrook 11y ago
To be fair, I afterwards thought that for some people, especially when taught with OOP, would see some functional abstractions as obfuscation. Each type of abstraction (objects, higher-order functions or continuations) work best with speci
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Interestingly, your comment can be read both as a naive "did I understand your code example", but also as "look how horrible this syntax is, and how much it obfuscates the underlying thought-process". It tells a lot abou