marcelluspye

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by marcelluspye 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand your question? The point is to stop changing times twice a year. If you do that, you have to pick one of two GMT offsets: the one you were using in the summer or winter. Picking either one solves the problem.
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
They showed the current methods couldn't bring it to 2. There could be another approach which gets it lower.
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
I don't think the poster was claiming Trump invented this phenomenon, but it is undeniably more visible because of recent political events. Being pro-environment has been a political stance for decades, so there's no longer away o
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
Those are also the types of people who don't need this article to prod them into applying for grad school.
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
It's nice that the green name is there for easy screening, but eventually, that goes away. HN is still small enough that this kind of spam is easy to detect, but it may not always be that way. Botting/this type of spam on reddit h
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
>It seems a bit like becoming president I think this is why it is hard. Look at the people who ran for president in 2016. A lot of people want to be president, but most voters see, among a large pool, at most one person they think would
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
I took a philosophy class with a professor who had taught it about that many times. Talked to a guy who had taken it before me, he said that the prof has literally word-for-word memorized certain parts of the lectures because he's figu
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
Then they've just given some new upstart room to enter the market by hosting the denied person. It's funny to call an industry that didn't even exist 20 years ago an oligopoly. The industry leader of 20 years from now may not
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
>“He had formulas that enabled him to pull off his magic,” Pitt said. “And I didn’t have the formulas.” The more I do pure mathematics, the more I realize just how important these kinds of insights are. Very often, solving a theoretical
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
It would paint a more complete picture of who they are. Better yet, a personal diary or collection of letters (an autobiography gives too much room for the author to lie).
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
>couldn’t physically count to a million. This is only because they/you haven't tried. Source: counted to a million once.
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
I don't know if you've read the news, but a lot of those migrants being made into ``propaganda" are families with kids.
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
It's not though; it's Reddit's community. They give moderators the ability to do whatever they want with subreddits, but can (and not often enough do) get involved when particular subreddits bring them bad publicity. So many
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
>Agents and editors do not hold onto manuscripts to pillage for ideas (and if they did they would do so with a proven commodity like James Patterson and not an untested debut author.) I would guess that big name authors would have the re
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
I'm willing to accept that there's some complexity in the regulation of substances people use for medicinal purposes, whether they come out of the ground or a lab. The DEA is an abhorrent institution, though. And while it's c
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
Andy is the principal author of the posts on https://www.folklore.org/ , which is all about the development of the mac. Definitely worth going through in an afternoon, if you're interested in that era.
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
Hi Scott, Do you think some understanding of the implications of quantum computers is important for laypeople, and what do you think is the best way to communicate this kind of information? You can see the eyes of `regular people' glaz
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
Didn't razer do this some time ago? I think this kind of thing is pretty cool, but ultimately, a touchpad below my keyboard is akin to the ones on the dashboard of many modern cars (though a lot less dangerous) in that I don't wan
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
FWIW, ebay says it forbids the sale of human remains. If you do find real skulls on there, you should probably report them. https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...
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by marcelluspye 8y ago
Old people vote, old people don't care about these issues. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
This website is so ugly and hard-to-use I honestly thought it was a parody (I still kind of do). Font looks okay, though.
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
Source?
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
Earlier this week there was a post on this site about the definition of death vs brain death. That article pointed out that many doctors oppose any questioning of the idea of brain death = death for at least partly economic reasons: taking
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
I have a similar position on child creation, but I've decided that if I do want kids (don't at the moment, but seems likely) and can afford to, that I'll look strongly into adoption. Seems like a pretty good solution all-arou
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
>pass it down to their heirs. AFAIK, (and I'm a pretty ignorant fellow) debt in America isn't passed down, the creditors just take what they're owed out of a dead person's estate before its divied up by a will. So the
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
I believe what they were implying was that such a bubble can only "pop" if a bunch of the debt is discharged at once, which in this case means a bunch of people who still owe student loans on their deathbed die with more debt than
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
I think you misread what I wrote. I meant that society has not been made worse by "death to the jews" being considered hate speech, i.e. we're (weakly) better off having 'banned' such phrases.
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
"This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics." He literally did say that. Maybe that's not what he m
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
And society is not worse off for the lack of that discourse.
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by marcelluspye 9y ago
>call someone computer scientist because they write code You're the only one doing this. The article omits any justification for the terms, sure. And it could be a baseless claim. But I don't really see any reason to assume tha

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