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by mmooss 9mo ago
That conflates two very different things: * A conventional military war, on a battlefield: Neither Saddam Hussein's military nor the cartels nor the Taliban would last long against the US. * An unconventional insurgency: The Iraqis qui
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> money to help the poorest people comes from the rich ones It comes largely from the middle and working classes, who pay a higher tax rate than wealthy people. > many poor people can make a country hard to live for the richest (crime
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> CoL is very low in the US and QoL is very good. Compared to where? What is that based on? The strong public sentiment, determining elections, is that the US is unaffordable. People work multiple jobs and can't afford health care,
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by mmooss 9mo ago
The biggest problem with newsreaders, IME, has been managing large numbers of feeds. Most user time is spent handling redundant stories - e.g., if you have feeds from many major news sources, for each major event you get one or more stories
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Why is a full game engine needed to display a GUI for unlocking a door? There are endless simpler solutions. The apps I use every day don't use game engines (except games).
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by mmooss 9mo ago
I think Consumer Reports does large quality surveys of customers and includes that in their reviews.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> a pan-European interoperable payment network covering 130 million users across 13 countries Why a subset of the EU and of Europe?
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by mmooss 9mo ago
It's both: The user handed them to Google, Google handed them to the government.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Connection failed Maybe we should give the kind person who hosts it a break. Try it out tomorrow. (Yes, I should have thought of that before I tried.)
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by mmooss 9mo ago
What has changed in 60 years, I wonder? If you are teaching this material, what do you have to update and/or contextualize?
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> backdoor Do you mean that it's intentional? Why do you think so?
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> It's just hard now. I completely sympathize with the challenges, though I don't understand (and might completely misunderstand) the word "now". Do you meant 'in the current world'? What is different that m
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Names, language, and concepts are essential to and have powerful effects on our understanding of anything, and knowledge of mathematics is much more than the results. Arguably, the results are only tests of what's really important, our
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Knowledge is the output of a person and their expertise and perspective, irreducibly. In this case, they seem to know something of what they're talking about: > Starting 2022, I am now the John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Logic at
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Very good point, I did forget the context. I still think you can have empathy on support calls; I'd even say it's important for the customer to be satisfied. They may be panicked, frustrated, exhausted, etc. Ignoring people's
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by mmooss 9mo ago
The soldier recognition events are actually paid advertisements by the US military. I think flyovers are too?
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by mmooss 9mo ago
That is a paranoid-survival oriented perspective. > someone is taking your safety buffer as their opportunity to travel faster Nobody is 'taking' something; we're all just sharing the road, and at little cost. People chang
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> the basic idea that all else equal dragging other people into your problems is a negative. If it helps them solve it, or helps lead to the problem being avoided in the future, that's great. If they're joining you in feeling b
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by mmooss 9mo ago
In handwritten notes I've done it many times. Mathematicians seem to create them. On computers I haven't had the opportunity. When adopting new technology people commonly don't imagine the applications - even expert technolog
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Thank you. > There is "Background for Unicode consideration of Cistercian numerals" ( https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20290-cistercian-digits.pdf ) That's the most complete summary I've seen
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> thorn, eth, æ, &c. Those are in Unicode, fwiw.
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I've thought, in other contexts too, how much easier innovation in script (in writing, glyphs, etc.) is when handwriting instead of printing text. Anyone could create their own Cistercian shorthand - and Medieval writers did use all so
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by mmooss 9mo ago
The glyphs are really facinating; thank you. Has anyone proposed Unicode code points for them? Are there more efficient representations of numbers - or anything else - in terms of bits per glyph? The Cistercian numarals encode a bit over 13
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by mmooss 9mo ago
People authentically, genuinely, naturally care about other people; empathy - founded at least partly in mirror neurons - is the most fundamental human nature. It's part of being social animals that live, survive, and thrive only in gr
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> I could just ask ChatGPT for any of these things myself. You wouldn't know what to ask, unless you have expertise. The question isn't whether an LLM was used, but the trustworthiness of the human(s) behind it. Why would you t
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by mmooss 9mo ago
I know that part - I mean, why Cornell?
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Denounce also creates liability: you are slandering someone, explicitly harming their reputation and possibly their career. I'd hesitate to create the denounce function without speaking to an attorney; when someone's reputation an
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> forge-based ?
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What makes you say that? I think Cornell is fantastic - such intensity, amazing range, so many effects and such great control, inhabits different voices - but I have no idea what I'm talking about. :)
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Maybe it's not dishonesty; maybe people can disagree genuinely; maybe others add their own points, and communication is difficult; maybe you even miscommunicated - such certainty and judgement is always a signal of not seeing other peo

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