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by nessus42 7y ago
> I was pointing to a time when both institutions were producing valuable tools from their research and development that significantly bettered the world around them. And how does this claim translate into "education and research
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by nessus42 7y ago
Whoever downvoted my above response should look up "reductio ad absurdum". See, my MIT education was useful for something . I knows fancy logic things. To elaborate a bit more on why I think that equating income with educational
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by nessus42 7y ago
> I'm utterly bewildered that there's no official documentation of this stuff though. I don't know if there is or isn't official documentation everything you might typically want to know for Apple products. Clearl
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by nessus42 7y ago
> What has MIT or Harvard launched recently that has come into as widespread use as the GNU Coreutils? Even if the answer to that question is nothing, that does not justify the conclusion that "education and research are only pres
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by nessus42 7y ago
I can see all 23 trends in the sand chart at least. 23 lines on a line chart would be nothing but visual noise to me. I can barely parse the line charts on TIOBE which have only 10 lines.
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by nessus42 7y ago
Your argument was based on research claiming that I would have made just as much money in my career if I hadn't gone to MIT. So what was the point of my MIT education? According to your argument, apparently nothing! The conclusion that
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Non-cumulative line charts. I suppose. But a chart with 23 different lines is quite difficult to read in my experience. I.e., visually distinguishing that many lines from each other is not easy.
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by nessus42 7y ago
I'm still unclear about your point. MIT has claimed for as long as I can remember that they don't accept legacy admissions. Assuming that MIT is telling the truth on this matter, your reasoning seems to imply then that MIT has no
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Merit students clearly get no benefit You're basing this conclusion based on an earnings study? That's pretty questionable reasoning! I received an incredible education from MIT (and I was admitted based on merit), but I to
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by nessus42 7y ago
> education and research are only present at these institutions as window dressing. Oh, puh-lease ! This is just utter nonsense. Not that MIT and Ivy League schools don't deserve serious criticism (like just about everything else
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Don't use sand charts kids. And what would you use as an alternative? It would take a LOT of bars to display this information during the 90s as a grouped bar chart.
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by nessus42 7y ago
> I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists??? Apple products have been like this for ages. I.e., they present a "simple" interface for the "typical" user, and then they provide "
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by nessus42 7y ago
There have been "GNU" distributions that used non-Linux kernels. There was one that used the Solaris kernel, which at the time was even copylefted. Though with a license that was incompatible with GPL. (I think that Sun didn'
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by nessus42 7y ago
> If anything, it shows you're not really a genius after all. Plenty of geniuses have not treated people well. Newton was a complete asshole. Even Einstein, who was a staunch defender of civil liberties at a time when most of his pe
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by nessus42 7y ago
> No, it's not. If anything there is a belief that DE blades actually stay sharp and last longer than cartridge blades. I find this hard to believe. I can use a single Gillette Fusion 5 cartridge for a month or more.
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by nessus42 7y ago
> This is really the problem with the entire early genre of adventure games. One person's "problem" is another person's joie de vivre. I loved the original Zork and all the Infocom games back in the day. I admit, thou
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by nessus42 8y ago
You don't need to meditate to achieve this. You just need nitrous oxide. This is great for going to the dentist, but I suppose it's not so great for managing chronic pain, however.
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by nessus42 8y ago
Yes, you are right: the Hive architecture is also rather Alien -ish!
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by nessus42 8y ago
I'm just like you in the morning, but I was asked to keep a dream journal for a creative writing class. I was sure it wouldn't work, but it did. Put the journal (opened to the right page) and pen right beside your bed where you ca
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by nessus42 8y ago
It's much more apparent in Destiny 1, with the Hive architecture, which is like something out of Mordor. And in the Forsaken expansion to Destiny 2, where The Dreaming City seems like a high-fantasy kingdom, but under attack by evil fo
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by nessus42 8y ago
> This is a pervasive logical fallacy, we call the "expressiveness fallacy" I don't particularly like to argue over semantics, but this is not a "logical fallacy". It may be some sort of fallacy, but it'
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by nessus42 8y ago
Well, I really should read the article you cite because it looks interesting, but take this example: There are three candidates: Republican, Democrat, and Green. 60% of the population wants the Green candidate to win, but will settle for th
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by nessus42 8y ago
I'm going to have to spend some time reading over your reference when I have the free time, since it looks quite interesting. But I can already tell you by the complexity of what that article is trying to show that most people won&#x27
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by nessus42 8y ago
I don't understand your comment. In the Everett Interpretation, the wave function never collapses. Everything is always entangled. "Decoherence", however, causes the perception that the wave function collapses, and consequent
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by nessus42 8y ago
I guess I am unclear on one of your points: Let's say we toss a fair quantum coin many, many times. In the Everett Interpretation, yes, there is a "world" in which that coin has always come up heads. But our chance of findi
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by nessus42 8y ago
100% yes. You cannot give a scientific accounting of "measurement" since the term isn't even defined in the Copenhagen Interpretation. There are various interpretations that attempt to define "measurement" in variou
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by nessus42 8y ago
Well, maybe it does. Only there really aren't separate worlds in the Everett Interpretation. It only seems that way to our superpositioned brains. At some point this debate becomes a bit too confusing for me. All I can report is that
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by nessus42 8y ago
The prediction of the Everett Interpretation is that our brains end up in a superposition of states in which one of those states perceives an up particle and one of those states percieves a down particle, but that the original particle is s
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by nessus42 8y ago
> If "measurement" is an undefined and unscientific term, what is the scientific definition of "branching" in the multiple-words interpretation? The "Many Worlds Interpretation" is actually something of a
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by nessus42 8y ago
> It should be noted, however, that the Everett interpretation does have one issue: it's not clear why probabilities should work the way they do. Yes, back when I studied this topic seriously, this was an issue. E.g., if you toss a

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