md224

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by md224 6y ago
No, "piggybacking" refers to the posting of related material on HN after the original material becomes popular. The posting on HN is the piggybacking, not the writing of the material itself.
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by md224 6y ago
> A pattern that has come up a few times in my code is the following: an object has a property which defaults to an expression based on its other properties unless it’s explicitly set, in which case it functions like a normal property. E
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by md224 6y ago
The belief that zero is neither even nor odd makes sense once you consider a statement like “An even number of Unicorns exist” or “I possess an even number of magic lamps.” It’s technically correct, but it also sounds kind of strange, simpl
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by md224 6y ago
The thing you're missing is that each of the tweets in a thread has its own set of replies & quote tweets, some of which may themselves be threads. [1] This is why I like to think of Twitter as a fractal annotation platform: it all
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by md224 6y ago
To be fair, a lot of reasonable people would say "no witness could change my mind" if I asked them "what witness testimony would convince you that politicians are secretly Lizard People from the planet Venus?" So I don&#
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by md224 6y ago
Yeah, this is pretty close to how I see it. The key is making it clear that switching doors will always switch you from Lose to Win and vice versa. Switching doors is equivalent to switching outcomes. That's the critical fact, IMHO.
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Turmite Explorer(observablehq.com)
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by md224 6y ago
> Aaronson came up with a rewriting system with seven symbols and 11 rules that was analogous to the Collatz procedure. Has Aaronson written about this anywhere? I'm curious what system he came up with & how it maps onto Collatz
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by md224 6y ago
> Thats what I thought made this a mind bender. I don't know if I'd call it a mind bender, but it does demonstrate that if one holds that all groupings of two individuals must be uniform with regard to an attribute A, then it f
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by md224 6y ago
I have a pet theory that Twitter is the ultimate annotation platform that’s been right in front of us the whole time. The reason it doesn’t seem like one is because it blurs the line between “annotation” and “conversation”. I think the dyna
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by md224 6y ago
He doesn’t even mention protests or protestors in those quotes, so why do you believe he’s equating rioters and protestors? It seems like you’re reading the words “riots” and “rioters” and assuming that they must be Cotton’s terms for “prot
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by md224 6y ago
I’m a bit confused, since the section you emphasized appears to prove Taibbi’s point: Cotton called for force against “lawbreakers”, not “protestors”. You can argue that the troops would in practice end up attacking both groups, but that’s
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by md224 6y ago
It seems to me like the main purpose of moderation is to make sure posts conform to the theme of the subreddit... to keep things on topic. Almost everything else can be taken care of by the downvotes of the community members. A subreddit is
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by md224 6y ago
Did you have nasal congestion? If so, that could explain the loss of taste. The olfactory system plays a significant role in taste perception.
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by md224 6y ago
I don't think CD4 cells are the same as antibodies, right? I assume that when we test for antibodies, we're not testing for CD4 reactivity...
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by md224 7y ago
Oh okay... I thought you were denying the reality of first-person subjective experience as commonly understood, not a narrowly-defined technical term. That seems more reasonable then (though also less interesting).
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by md224 7y ago
> we erroneously conclude that the facts we perceive are first-person this doesn't make sense... the perceiving itself is what makes something first-person, not the object of perception
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by md224 7y ago
> I suspect the true numbers are about 10x-50x the reported confirmed cases. This is good in that it means the death rate is also off by that factor, but bad in that there will not be enough fear/incentive for the primary carriers (
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On the universal structure of human lexical semantics (2016)(pnas.org)
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Riemann zeta function partial sums explorer(matt-diamond.com)
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An interesting trigonometric iterated map(observablehq.com)
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by md224 7y ago
Yep. The important thing to keep in mind when you read these toxicology reports is that it tells you what drugs the person took, but it doesn't tell you what they intended to take. I hope people don't think that the epidemic of
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by md224 7y ago
> It seems so counterintuitive to choose to inflict this kind of damage to oneself, in the hopes that it will prevent an even worse outcome. Especially since the "worse outcome" -- your own non-existence -- is the one thing in
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by md224 7y ago
Duh, I knew I should've googled first. That definitely clears it up, thanks!
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by md224 7y ago
I'm not well-versed in C++, so I'm a bit confused about the difference between the C++ Standard Library and the Standard Template Library (STL). Wikipedia tells me that they're related but technically separate things, yet thi
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by md224 7y ago
That's an interesting reaction... imho, the idea that change can't come out of nowhere is the most intuitive part. "How can something arise from nothing?" is a puzzling philosophical question precisely because our intu
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by md224 7y ago
> Intuitively, this should be completely unexpected. It actually makes intuitive sense to me. I like to think of it this way: 1) If we have the value of a function at a given point and we want to extrapolate the function's values be
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by md224 7y ago
Seattle should consider instituting Outpatient Commitment [1] if they haven't already... it could be a good middle ground between throwing addicts in jail and letting them walk free with no obligations. Drug addiction is a health probl
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by md224 7y ago
Does that mean a negative yield indicates a loss of trust in banks? That institutional investors are so desperate to avoid relying on banks that they're willing to take a loss on gov't bonds?
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by md224 7y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I've also lost the ability to enjoy cannabis. I can trace it back to a nervous breakdown and major depressive episode I had in 2014. Since then, smoking weed has almost always had a dysphoric

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