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by mcbits 10y ago
I know for a fact that you can't spell spellcheck. You didn't even type that yourself, did you? Do you still love me? Tell me you still love me. (Looking forward to the day that that sort of reply can be generated. I'm sure
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by mcbits 10y ago
If someone can predict everything you will do, they can manipulate events so you will do their bidding according to their predictions. That doesn't leave any room for free will. Of course if they're part of the same fully determin
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by mcbits 10y ago
> there's a reason why I'm doing this The key difference is whether that reason is entirely internal to you or it's the result of external influence. If you always take a walk, an observer could infer that by some arcane
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by mcbits 10y ago
As external observers, I think we could equate free will with nondeterminism or randomness. If a system can choose arbitrarily between more than one state with absolutely no outside influence, then by all appearances it has free will regard
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by mcbits 10y ago
HR stands for Hazard Ratio. 0.5 would mean something is half as likely as for the control group, while 2 would mean twice as likely. 0.37-0.89 is the confidence interval at 95% confidence. So it's expected that if the study were repeat
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by mcbits 10y ago
I don't think I've ever had to search for anything in nano or vi to get a system into a state where I can use an editor with good ol' Ctrl-F. But then I'm not hot-patching a server over an acoustic coupler from a phone b
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by mcbits 10y ago
I find there's a pretty wide gulf between our day-to-day beliefs vs. what we claim to believe with all the pedantics and caveats added when our beliefs come under scrutiny (especially by a critic).
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by mcbits 10y ago
I've brushed my teeth every single day for almost a year now. Maybe it's time for a day off before I get burned out on toothbrushing? If someone sees coding a bit every day as a healthy habit, a great way to start the day, I'
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by mcbits 10y ago
Semicolon presence or absence is usually the least annoying factor to me in how other people write their JavaScript code.
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by mcbits 10y ago
It is one of the leading causes of death, but I guess compared to heart disease, you could say every other cause of death is relatively rare and can be dismissed.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Unfortunately, someone else can come along and patent a trivial, supposedly non-obvious "next step" invention, and the original inventor would have to pay to license the slightly improved version to remain competitive. With a pate
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by mcbits 10y ago
> we see relatively low levels of colon cancer. "Of cancers that affect both men and women, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the third most common cancer in men and in w
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by mcbits 10y ago
That's an ambiguous/misleading "and" in that sentence. Modern humans date back to around 200,000 years ago. And it's thought that there was a great migration from Africa roughly 50,000 years ago. Presumably the Sent
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Practopoiesis: How life fosters a mind (2015)(sciencedirect.com)
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by mcbits 10y ago
So, we have "impairs key driving skills" versus "no statistically significant change in the risk of a crash". It sounds a bit like in vitro vs. in vivo results. At the end of the day, I'm more concerned about ri
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by mcbits 10y ago
You don't want tax evaders out after 9pm, prowling around and evading taxes in the shadows, do you? Actually, I suspect the tax evasion and money laundering are mostly referring to drug-related crime without calling it out explicitly a
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by mcbits 10y ago
I don't see why that's unreasonable. Plenty of jobs in other industries (consulting, sales, construction, trucking...) have a large travel component to them. You don't have to accept work with 50% travel, but if that's
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by mcbits 10y ago
I will speculate: 1. JavaScript is widely known and used. Thus, anything JavaScript attracts more attention than similar projects in other languages, especially if it's outside the box of the usual webby stuff. 2. The API on this libra
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by mcbits 10y ago
I share the sentiment of the proposal, but what I really don't understand is why user moderation fails to suppress those sites despite their tactics angering so many people.
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by mcbits 10y ago
If I understand correctly, non-Server editions of Windows have an artificial limit of 20 simultaneous incoming network connections. But I'm not sure if it's just an EULA thing, or it's only enforced in specific services (e.g.
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by mcbits 10y ago
That's a tempting way to look at it. "Don't want to enable ads? I don't want you wasting my bandwidth!" However, outside of rich multimedia or unusually popular content, the marginal cost of serving a page view is p
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by mcbits 10y ago
The best way for this to play out is for drivers to buy their own automated rigs and work as contractors. Regulations would need to be updated to allow "drivers" to log the hours spent sleeping while the truck was moving.