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by mantap 6y ago
Considering that Reddit's own popularity was boosted by Digg's collapse due to unpopular changes and dysfunction, you'd think that Reddit would be more aware of the risks of pursuing an antagonistic relationship with their us
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by mantap 6y ago
If you could really positively charge your whole body to +X volts wouldn't that interfere with your nervous system?
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by mantap 6y ago
Is it? Indian and Chinese culture is very different. Apple benefits greatly from China's unquenchable thirst for luxury goods in general, not just phones but clothing, cars, etc. Signalling wealth through conspicuous consumption is imp
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by mantap 6y ago
As I understand it (not a physicist), according to GR the Einstein field equations equate the curvature of spacetime to the stress-energy tensor, of which mass is just one component. Photons, having energy, should produce a gravitational fi
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by mantap 6y ago
Can some knowledgable person articulate why physicists are so sure that QM and GR are incompatible?
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by mantap 6y ago
Considering I have written import numpy as np probably thousands of times I would be quite okay with import np.
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by mantap 6y ago
Why not both? Ensure people have enough money to get by and don't levy sales tax on staple foods. People value cheaper food over conceptual simplicity of the tax system.
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by mantap 6y ago
The point of the classification is to not unduly burden the poor by taxing staple foods, such as bread. It's not about being snobby, everybody can agree that on the outside of a subway sandwich there is bread. But subway is fast food.
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by mantap 6y ago
In fact, the fact it's ubiquitous is no coincidence and can be explained by the anthropic principle. The human body is a chemical machine too.
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by mantap 6y ago
Cryptocurrency represents a kind of financial libertarianism, that people should be able to own their money and be their own bank. It doesn't have much to say about aspects of life outside of that. It is political because of vested int
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by mantap 6y ago
Duolingo works very well as an introduction so you can get a taste of a language. There's no point doing higher levels on duolingo - if you actually want to learn a language to conversational level and beyond then proceed directly to m
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by mantap 6y ago
IANAN but I think "waking up neural pathways" can be understood to mean making new synaptic connections, a process that is not instant and could potentially take a day if the existing connections were intact.
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by mantap 6y ago
The epic store is not a walled garden. If you use Windows you have many choices of App Store, including just downloading from your web browser, and hell if you don't like what's on Windows you can install Linux. If you buy an iPho
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by mantap 6y ago
The situations are not equivalent at all. China blocks outside social networks so that it can control its citizens' access to information either internal or external.
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by mantap 6y ago
I don't think deaf users would agree with you. Because they are going to be trying to understand if they actually said lucky rather than fuck. Better to choose the best match, and fuck the prudes.
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by mantap 6y ago
Plenty of western companies have been forced to apologize for listing Taiwan as a country. China recently passed a law in Hong Kong that makes criticism of the regime a crime world wide . There's also the whole overwatch debacle. Chin
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by mantap 6y ago
Radioactive material is treated differently because it is dangerous at a distance . You don't need to eat it or even touch it. Simply standing close enough to it is enough to be harmful. It's just not comparable to anything in a
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by mantap 6y ago
I don't think a social network is like a book. It's more like the postal system. TikTok is not saying anything themselves. They are transmitting communications that other people are saying to each other (in the form of short vide
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by mantap 6y ago
It's only bizarre if you consider ByteDance as some plucky startup that is being repressed by USA. If you consider it to be under the thumb of the Chinese state then blocking it seems to be the best action to preserve free speech. Wi
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by mantap 6y ago
It's actually textualism not originalism. Originalism considers the original lawmakers' intent whereas textualism only considers the current meaning of the words of the statute and ignores intent. In other words, originalism consi
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by mantap 6y ago
Not quite. Good > none > bad. This relation is not universal, it does not apply to pizza :)
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by mantap 6y ago
A good static type system is better than dynamic typing. But, dynamic typing is better than a bad static type system. A bad static type system will slow you down, forcing you to appease its irrelevant complaints, and pervert your code into
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by mantap 6y ago
Imagine a physical button on a car stereo. It activates when you press it, not when you press and release it.
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by mantap 6y ago
They had good reasons, it means there's only two substrings that need escaping: the backslash and end string sequence. In hindsight, it's ugly and hard to read. A case of optimising for the wrong thing.
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by mantap 6y ago
It depends a lot on what the program is doing. Writing 2000 lines of C++ that interface with other C++ libraries and having it work first time is something I can understand. But if you have to consume untyped input (such as parsing text), o
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by mantap 6y ago
Python has a lot of REPLs, which one in particular do you mean?
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by mantap 6y ago
People on this forum are usually interested in programming and skew to the hyper-logical end of the spectrum, myself included. For us, facts are paramount, as you cannot think logically without a solid factual basis. Not every person puts l
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by mantap 6y ago
Bellingcat sure does seem like a front for the UK intelligence services. A way for intelligence to release information to the media without having to be named as a source. UK/US are known to have fabricated pretexts for war in Iraq. If
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by mantap 6y ago
The only people who have only a PlayStation or Xbox as their single computer - no phone, no laptop, just a games console - are kids.
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by mantap 6y ago
I don't share your pessimism. This is clearly a political extradition and it will be seen as such by the UK Supreme Court.

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