mostly_a_lurker

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   by mostly_a_lurker 8mo ago

   It's hard to tell what specific ideas this article is suggesting. "We have to kick out patriarchy and welcome in matriarchy", OK, how? What does that concretely mean?
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   by mostly_a_lurker 1y ago

   Hmm, I think you might be a bit underestimating? My understanding of up-arrow notation is: 2 ^^^ 5 means 2 ^^ (2 ^^ (2 ^^ (2 ^^ 2))) (with five 2's) = 2 ^^ (2 ^^ (2 ^^ (2 ^ 2))) = 2 ^^ (2 ^^ (2 ^^ 4)) = 2 ^^ (2 ^^ 65536), since Wikiped
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   by mostly_a_lurker 2y ago

   > Seeing as the person you’re addressing was a mathematics graduate student, I’m sure they know this. The OP (u/boothby) was not the person I was addressing (u/bell-cot).
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   by mostly_a_lurker 2y ago

   > Also not a number theorist...but I'd bet those so-called experts had invested far, far too many of their man-years in that unproven conjecture. All of which effort and edifice would collapse into the dumpster if some snot-nosed li
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   by mostly_a_lurker 2y ago

   You might find this article interesting food for thought: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/business/gen-z-college-st... > Some students talk about turning to a different career later on, after they’
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   by mostly_a_lurker 2y ago

   > neither reading nor lurking are ever passive acts. In fact, readers of social media are making decisions and taking grassroots actions on multiple dimensions. Unpacking this understudied phenomenon, Just Here for the Comments: Lurking