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by lopmotr 6y ago
No. I get spam for predatory academic journals every day.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's too simple to be interesting. You could obviously divide up the world into some other halves where the half with less land ended up with the sundials and say "even though it predicts the wrong outcome, this explanation is obv
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by lopmotr 6y ago
How does it show that race differences weren't a factor? Not how does it show that other factors existed, but how does it exclude race?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Just because you can guess at a simple reason doesn't make it true. Nobody in most of that land ever invented a sundial. Something special happened around the middle east/Europe that spawned all this civilization stuff. How do you
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I thought asparagus was its joke way of saying penis. It seems to always classify mine as asparagus and make some witty comment like "we are certain about your good intentions".
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I think it just limits the amount of lines so the first ones get erased if you draw too many.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Since it seems to be about morals and free speech, I wrote some hate speech next to my penis. I wonder if they'll need to censor anyway just like Google does.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The kids movie Shrek was hate speech for making fun of the king being short? People were actually offended by that but you want the movie outlawed which is extreme.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
You don't need to miss it. I still use Visual Basic .Net for a successful commercial Windows application. It's still that simple. I think C# is just the same, isn't it? Windows is also the most popular desktop OS by a large m
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by lopmotr 6y ago
This whole idea of empty space within atoms is just nonsense using English grammar as a substitute for physics. It's a meaningless statement either way until you define the terms specifically enough. And by doing that, you can choose w
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If the answer is poverty and desire for the lifestyle, then what? They can't cure poverty in India or dull people's fantasies. I'd say the situation is OK and doesn't need fixing.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Whatever you call it, people are choosing their roles. Should they work against that, such as by denying employment to darker skinned people and denying membership to lighter skinned people? Or not.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If you have a principle of nondiscrimination and people self-select into different roles, what can you do? Discriminate or accept their differences?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
They're clearly OK with exposing themselves to strangers because that's the reason they're doing it. How does the number of strangers matter? If they were shy, they could have put their shirt on before going out in public.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Isn't that a good thing? If cost of living can be reduced by having more jobs available in low cost of living places, then everyone wins (except landlords). That's also one of the arguments for working from home or "revitaliz
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by lopmotr 7y ago
People have no business complaining about misinformation while accepting religion. Religions are of course far more dangerous than "5G causes coronavirus". But somehow it's now taboo to criticize religions and feels like we&#
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I think it will eventually settle down once people have tried all the ideas and the needs of programmers have stabilized. Kind of like how bolt threads were eventually standardized after decades of everyone doing their own thing. First come
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Why is it so acceptable these days to judge people by their associations, even with so many degrees of separation between them? He worked with a company which worked with people who used to be antisemitic. Who hasn't done that? A simil
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Is there any evidence of this common claim that obscure languages "may contain some of the most critical solutions to the problems we face as humans"? What kind of problems is he talking about there? Has it ever happened before? S
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Why is this research? Everyone knows that software can control fan speed either directly with commands or indirectly with load. Everyone also knows you can hear the sounds fans make and microphones can pick up sounds or vibrations. It seems
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by lopmotr 7y ago
How do "surveillance" drives fit into that? They're supposed to be special for being reliable with a lot of writing, several orders or magnitude more the drive's capacity. Apparently normal hard drives aren't reliab
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The dataset is a controlled variable in an experiment so it has to be held constant. If you update your model and the dataset for every trial (eg new hyperparameters or new architecture), and find it performs better, you won't know if
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The Pirate Queen example doesn't really seem like something to be proud of - choosing the gender of a character and making it powerful aren't challenges are they? Couldn't you do that by flipping a coin? Surely the thing to b
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Some people seem to see history through a lens of white-man-bad and noble savages. As you showed, it's not nearly that simple.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Not sure if you understood me. Mongolia is the former colonial empire. This script glorifies its heyday of oppressing people all over Asia and the middle east. But yes, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa obviously benefited hu
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by lopmotr 7y ago
In a fit of nationalism, a former colonial power takes a step to sever ties with its continental neighbor. Does it still sound good when you look at it that way?
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There's a balance between everything being JIT to everyone living in a self-sufficient bunker their whole life. More agility is better for developing the economy and technology and efficiency and all sorts of good things while more pre
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It doesn't even change the intercept because bigger countries reach their threshold number of cases sooner so that shifts them back again. Hence most of the lines are all roughly on top of each other regardless of country size.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There's another surprising reason why per capita numbers aren't useful - for exponential growth on the typical type of graph starting at some "initial" number of cases, it makes no difference! For example, if one country
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> We also start seeing changes in weather patterns that are hard to ignore even for laymen. Hard to ignore by motivated reasoners! Changes in weather patterns observed by individuals using their own experience are not evidence of global

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