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by moomin 2y ago
I think people sometimes treat natural selection as making cold cost/benefit kin-selection decisions on a case by case basis and mind controlling the creatures to make those choices. I am straw manning, but my point is it doesn't
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by moomin 2y ago
I remember getting to the end, “Fear of a Blank Planet” starts to play and I was “Yes, that’s exactly this game’s aesthetic.”
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by moomin 2y ago
Access was powerful and dominated the market for a while but there were two problems: 1) it was kind of bad from a pure dev perspective compared to SQL Server b) non-pure devs made horrible broken apps and eventually ended up calling in the
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by moomin 2y ago
Davison had the benefit of some truly great writing. Colin Baker got very badly served indeed.
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by moomin 2y ago
It definitely wasn’t what I was expecting BUT it is what I should have expected. It has a lot more in common with other TV themes of the time. It’s also different enough to justify the legendary exchange where Grainger reportedly asked Derb
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by moomin 2y ago
For the problem to affect proofs, it would have to be in the type checker, and the type system isn’t really that complex. The good news is that every single user of Lean checks this works every day. Finding a flaw that literally everyone re
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by moomin 2y ago
Russell’s paradox did the same thing. They had to go back to the drawing board.
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by moomin 2y ago
Baker's little book of number theory made me work to get through every page...
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by moomin 2y ago
I remember when I was a student a friend of mine telling me this guy was giving a seminar and he'd just completed day one and everyone was really excited he was going to prove FLT. Of course, the guy in question was Andrew Wiles. He th
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by moomin 2y ago
I have so many questions about the methodology and how you can distinguish between one and two industrial robots.
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by moomin 2y ago
A billionaire who will remain nameless is reportedly very fond of saying “Sue them” when he’s not getting his way. It’s the lawyers job to figure out what to actually sue them _for_.
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by moomin 2y ago
Even if the GPU took literally no time at all to compute the results there would be workflows where doing it on the CPU was faster.
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by moomin 2y ago
I know this is a distinction relevant elsewhere in this thread, but I don’t think it affects the point I made.
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by moomin 2y ago
You cause a lot of damage, you get a lot of punishment.
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by moomin 2y ago
There’s a saying for this: if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
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by moomin 2y ago
I feel like if this is your position, you should make it clear you’re not talking about the first amendment here, which is subject to interpretation by US courts. I’m not sure how you would do this succinctly though. Maybe “Unamerican Free
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by moomin 2y ago
Indeed, I think you know exactly where I'm going with this question...
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by moomin 2y ago
So why is physical force so important here? If I poison someone, they’re just as dead as if I’d stuck a knife in them.
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by moomin 2y ago
Meh, markets are a useful tool for the allocation of resources, but like everything you need to keep an eye on what they're doing and who's benefiting. And like everything you need to keep an eye on the people entrusted with keepi
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by moomin 2y ago
What we’re seeing here is a huge disconnect between regular human morality and our legal system. Most people regarded him as a mass murderer, but the cops would not act, so a vigilante stepped in.
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by moomin 2y ago
You appreciate that accessing healthcare isn’t really and economic concern?
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by moomin 2y ago
Thank you for the correction! Managed to get it under the edit window as well so I can acknowledge it.
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by moomin 2y ago
Brian Eno, of course, insisted that the problem with the DX7 was entirely the fault of the UI. He had a custom controller made, although I can’t find a photo of it. These days, the DT-7 attempts to emulate it. Edit: It wasn't a custom
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by moomin 2y ago
I’m thinking it must be mentioned more than you think, since I’m a proper lefty and even I think there’s a problem there.
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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly that’s the book I recommend to anyone who thinks Heinlein, Asimov and Niven are all there is to good sci-fi.
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by moomin 2y ago
I think you’re right. What LISP really brought to the party was a very simple token structure. This made it pretty easy to express manipulations of that structure and hence create whatever macros you like. This is instantly useful to the c
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by moomin 2y ago
My next door neighbour was a ginger crossed with a persian. Let's just say there was a LOT of orange. The cat was very friendly to humans, and an absolute terror to foxes and any cat they didn't consider a neighbour.
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by moomin 2y ago
If you don’t think eugenics involves misunderstanding inheritability I don’t know what to tell you.
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by moomin 2y ago
Don’t forget the eugenics. Dude did an awfully thorough job of trashing his own reputation.
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by moomin 2y ago
I feel like this is the right comparison, except that the gap between ambition and reality is even larger but it hasn't made anything like the cultural impact.

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