lsd5you

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by lsd5you 9y ago
The basic problem with this then being that all conversions between the two concepts are implicit. Dates are points on calendars and there is complexity to deal with and assumptions to be made when converting to points in time.
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by lsd5you 9y ago
In which case it doesn't seem to allow for animals in the wild and seems to make phasing out of nature (rain forests and all that - well at least the fauna) a necessity.
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Not claiming to 'know' anything, but I do have a view. I think unfortunately the post-modernist view is ultimately correct. We can have ever more sophisticated debates but the same arguments made by 18 year old philosophy students
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by lsd5you 10y ago
10 machines with a 10% chance of failure roughly equal to 100 machines with a 1% of failure. I think confusingly worded, as n increases the reliability of each node has to increase correspondingly to get the convergence. I'm not sure w
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by lsd5you 10y ago
From what deeps analysis does this certainty come from? Seems like a propaganda point to me. Of course we cannot say what would have happened without the EU or how that would have come to pass, but I think the burden is on your side for sh
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by lsd5you 10y ago
Humanity does not like the lense of science to be turned upon itself and there will be people who are offended, dismissive or try to hold this academic work to an impossibly high standard - much higher standard than they would for a study t
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by lsd5you 10y ago
... and because men have more cells in their body and so more tickets for the cancer lottery.
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by lsd5you 10y ago
Couldn't agree more. It is more like we need to protect humanity from the internet.
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by lsd5you 10y ago
That is outrageous? In my view you are skirting the truth (consciously or not). We are so concerned with human morality that we can reach conclusions full of sophistry and half truth like this. Without making a value judgement, the uncomfor
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by lsd5you 10y ago
Sorry but this is arrogant (and condescending) hubris and is wilfully misintepreting the gp comment. Firstly there is no single bias free set of figures. Information has been thrown away and distorted to produce a single line, without error
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by lsd5you 10y ago
Yeah, that was my greatest take away from what I've read from him. Talk about the tail wagging the dog. The restrictions in this light almost do more harm than good since it exonerates the banks (or rather the system) and every time we
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by lsd5you 10y ago
It was used for creating the native builds of XWT [1] 15 years ago. At the time I found it amazing to see Java programs becoming native (a lot snappier and generally faster too). It seemed (naively) to be beyond what was possible. However,
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by lsd5you 10y ago
Without want to exonerate anyone, incidental loss of life is almost unavoidable for governments making big decisions with all their limitations, internal deficiencies and bad actors. I believe you are trying to hold their feet to fire and c
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by lsd5you 10y ago
For finance types, I would say it's largely about status - i.e. having something 'better' than other people. Even if they cannot fully appreciate these things.
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by lsd5you 10y ago
The apparent liberalness of Scotland is largely just rhetorical opposition to the rest of the UK's policies. On actual policy issues (e.g. appropriate level of welfare) Scotland polls much like the rest of the UK. Of course they to som
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by lsd5you 10y ago
I think if the socialists are vexed then it is because they are part of the liberal 'elite' who basically don't understand the type of person who - according to their income - they patronisingly expect to always vote for them
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by lsd5you 10y ago
Without passing judgement, is this not just measuring the desire not be lumbered with the negative connotations of their respective countries? And possibly also showing a desire and entitlement to be able to move to a better off country? We
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by lsd5you 11y ago
Besides, I would say (in my experience) having 'false' like this will tend to occur when debugging, to force a certain execution path. In this case it is undesirable for the compiler/model to change the static type since that
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by lsd5you 11y ago
A rather sweeping statement about the way other people think (apologies for being argumentative). In any case I'm sad because it is another frontier put beyond the reach of the human mind. Science fiction lied to us. It is science fant
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by lsd5you 11y ago
Substitute inflation for wage inflation. It's not that there are no returns, but that the rate of return is completely decoupled from reality. Productivity growth is what (1-2%)? Real terms wage inflation is what (~0% since the 70s).
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by lsd5you 11y ago
It should read monetary supply inflation, not basket of goods inflation. The greater point is how can ordinary expected returns exceed productivity growth, normal monetary supply inflation and indeed gdp growth.
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by lsd5you 11y ago
That's why it's called savings and not investment (I realise in some economic sense they are equivalent). We have been engaged in collective madness over investment/savings returns. I remember conversations (probably 2007ish)
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by lsd5you 11y ago
I don't think it's as simple as that. The complaint is about the vulgarity of executive jargon. The underlying problem with it all is the belief that they are at the top of a non-meritocratic hierarchy. Positions that have been at
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by lsd5you 11y ago
Typically for a business person, everything is a financial decision and calculation. They will out negotiate the typical engineer. Getting 'into business' might just mean properly valuing ones own contribution. That said I do see
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by lsd5you 11y ago
I don't really understand this point of view. Is C not (very) verbose? Even if it's just because of the manual memory management.
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by lsd5you 11y ago
What is more is it is a theory backed up by a taboo. (Which is pretty similar to how religous dogmatism sustains) There are strong social pressures to shut up people who disagree with the 100% social explanation (as if life would ever be as
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by lsd5you 11y ago
Here we go again. Once the obvious cause (religion) has been eliminated, whatever remains, however unlikely must be the truth. Except the obvious has only been eliminated in his analysis because of a dogmatic belief in human/religious&
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by lsd5you 11y ago
My take is this - to maintain height he would have to switch sides on the upswing. If he's attached to the side of a building he would hit that building first before achieving any upswing. (Unless of course the web is pulling him in. P
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by lsd5you 11y ago
I would say because ultimately it is just a shorthand/buzzword/brand. The theorom itself is kind of tautological, but it provides a simple starting point for talking about trade-offs. Unfortunately and inevitably things are a bit
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by lsd5you 11y ago
Good point! Do we need to qualify this with saying over 2^64 bytes? What is the mose memory you can get in a machine with current hardware and constant latency? Just goes to show how much more important the space effect is vs. the addressin

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