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901.
by mcphage 1y ago
It’s a good thing that water isn’t a chemical.
902.
by mcphage 2y ago
The last Earthsea book change its world in a way which is unique (or at least rare), even in fantasy series. I won’t say it here for spoiler reasons, but it’s really quite wonderful. The whole series is absolutely worth reading.
903.
by mcphage 2y ago
> Next you'll start a sports gambling recovery group and let us know there's nothing good about sports. I am open to arguments that there’s nothing good about sports gambling, however.
904.
by mcphage 2y ago
Yeah, I think it would be more like “Well, we didn’t plan on being a jerk, but we like it!”
905.
by mcphage 2y ago
You wish XKCD didn't point out where things are getting back, because in the future things will get worse?
906.
by mcphage 2y ago
> It would give the president less power to decide exactly how schools and universities should be run He doesn’t have that power. But he’s taking it, and the parties who are supposed to be stopping him are uninterested in doing their job
907.
by mcphage 2y ago
> The word missing from the abstract is 'PornHub', of course. They're not just studying “a dominant online platform”. The fact that it is PornHub seems relevant enough not to hide it in the abstract to me. The fact that it
908.
by mcphage 2y ago
> If this can gather relevant/related facts about key events, it could still be helpful in understanding what's going on in the world? I'm not sure that's the case. If you pulled from Ukraine's military reports,
909.
by mcphage 2y ago
> She lied her way in in the first place. “Illusion, Michael. A trick is something that a whore does for money.”
910.
by mcphage 2y ago
> Sophie Lloyd says she disguised herself as a man to fool examiners into letting her join the elite society in 1991, at a time female magicians were not allowed to be members. > When the Circle announced it was permitting women to jo
911.
by mcphage 2y ago
> original, fact-based reporting > The goal was neutral, factual reporting, grounded in real-world sources: government releases, legal rulings, financial reports, etc. No persuasion, just clean summaries of what actually happened. Why
912.
by mcphage 2y ago
Ah, sorry—I saw your "You did not understand the paradox", and thought you were replying to me, instead of replying to a reply. In my defense, the way HN uses indentations to indicate depth is hard to follow on a phone screen whe
913.
by mcphage 2y ago
There's also another numeral system called "Bijective Numeration" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration ) which does is a bijection between numeral sequences and numbers (hence the name). I
914.
by mcphage 2y ago
I think that gets you back to impossible instructions—if the teacher had written "Friday", then on Friday the students wouldn't be surprised by the test on Friday. I guess, unless the students think it's possible the te
915.
by mcphage 2y ago
If you ever get the chance, visit the Aga Khan museum in Toronto. It has a number of illuminated Qurans, and they're absolutely gorgeous.
916.
by mcphage 2y ago
They also sell a 7 volume version of the St. John's Bible—even at 2/3 scale, the books are around 15"x10". It's beautiful, and I'm glad to own the entire set. (I'm not a Christian, I just love illuminate
917.
by mcphage 2y ago
I did understand the paradox. Those are the instructions he was given: he won’t know the date of his execution until he is told. He performs some reasoning, and concludes that he can’t get executed any day that week: therefore he will go fr
918.
by mcphage 2y ago
Not if they consider “we won’t have the test at all” as a possibility.
919.
by mcphage 2y ago
That’s not a paradox, though, that’s just impossible instructions. There’s nothing paradoxical about impossible instructions. The teacher should have stipulated “You’ll have a test within the next X days but won’t know which day it’ll be o
920.
by mcphage 2y ago
The prisoner concludes that the judge’s instructions were impossible, which is true. Their conclusion was that there’s an additional possibility: that they don’t get hung at all. Which is also true. Their mistake is believing that this ne
921.
by mcphage 2y ago
It could be on any day—even the last—and would be a surprise.
922.
by mcphage 2y ago
I'm not sure the "..." is sloppy notation—it can be made rigid pretty easily. The surprise is that students' expectations that if two decimal expressions are distinct, that the real number they correspond to must be d
923.
by mcphage 2y ago
That sounds interesting—thanks for sharing, I'll check it out.
924.
by mcphage 2y ago
I don't think you need anything fancy to tackle the "surprise examination" or "unexpected hanging" paradox. This is my take on it, at least: > The teacher says one day he'll give a quiz and it will be a sur
925.
by mcphage 2y ago
I think it’s more, he’s speaking to those who order and execute such strikes.
926.
by mcphage 2y ago
> Y’all are simply parroting what the lamestream media wants to impose, a political veneer on non-politicians who are shepherds, pastors, teachers. Bishops and Cardinals are very much political animals.
927.
by mcphage 2y ago
He’s not really trying not to leak secrets, though.
928.
by mcphage 2y ago
My god, what a loser you are.
929.
by mcphage 2y ago
Yes, I think the hiring process has been excluding the other groups for decades.
930.
by mcphage 2y ago
That’s fair—I’m closer to the east coast, so around me it is mostly white dudes, but that might not be true elsewhere. But it is mostly men, at any rate.

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