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by nmrm 12y ago
AFAIK the way it typically works is that subscribers to the ISP's service get access for free, but others have to pay. So if you're an xfinity customer, you can use their public wifi hotspots. But if you're not an xfinity cus
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Gerald Jay Sussman, of SICP fame.
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3 doesn't require that the thing replaced be good. So both 3 and 9 allow you to replace something bad with something good. I only claimed that there are examples where you can satisfy 3 and 9, not that you can always satisfy 3 and 9. B
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by nmrm 12y ago
3 and 9 do not contradict, they just aren't universally consistent. Something that achieves 3 without sacrificing 9 is probably better (or at least more likely to be adopted) than something that achieves 3 but sacrifices 9.
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The University of Chicago Undergraduate Mathematics Bibliography is useful: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm The "Intermediate" section contains the canonical texts for undergraduate first
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We absolutely do /not/ need to answer all those questions before we can conclude that countries out-performing the United States have significant public school systems. The other correlation I pointed out does deserve scrutiny, bu
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> there should be ample room to innovate in low-cost high-quality instruction. Lots of other countries and US states seem to be doing very well without MOOCs, which indicates there are probably more fundamental changes the US can make. T
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> Just abolish public schools This suggestion is highly inconsistent with the data from the article. Every nation out-performing the United States has a strong and well-funded public school system. Although some have a hybrid model, the
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> That's the inherent difficulty in discussing category theory solely in terms of programming Worse, I don't see any point in categorical models if you want to think solely in terms of programming. > one would typically star
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> More specifically, the common explanatory route to approach categories is usually: “here is a formal specification of what a category is; then look at these known things from maths and theoretical computer science, and admire how they
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> "Slightly more than the going rate" is pretty grant-breaking. That's probably correct. But it's somewhat disingenuous to sample from the lower end of the distribution and then make sweeping statements about the prof
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Another problem in many research settings is compensation. Labs/centers often cannot compete with industry on pay. They then assume that experienced professionals are willing to take a substantial pay cut to "do science". In
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by nmrm 12y ago
It's easier for Comcast to offer products to compete with Netflix than it is for Netflix to offer products that compete with Comcast.
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I'm also pretty convinced you either don't know or don't care what game theory is. You seem to be claiming convenient assumptions about human behavior and then claiming that game theory somehow validates your opinions beyond
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by nmrm 12y ago
> but neglects to consider the scenario with all game theoretic incentives fully. See prior post re: the insufficiency of axiomatic systems. This is also unresponsive to the empirical observation in the parent's post. Theories are b
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> Nobody forces anybody to abide by the anarchocapitalist system Okay, I tried to avoid this because it's so juvenile. I'll give the pedantic, stupid example. Guy wants to kill people for fun. Everyone tells the guy it's n
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by nmrm 12y ago
My claim in this thread, the thing we're ostensibly debating, is this: any reasonable political system will, at some point, have to force someone to do something. Look, this is just true. We can trot out stupid (but valid) pedantic exa
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by nmrm 12y ago
My original point in this thread is that it is impossible to have a political system where someone doesn't force someone else to do something. None of these historical examples of polycentric law disprove that claim, and in none of the
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>There is historical precedent. Of what? The Wikipedia article only indicates that there's a historical precedent of people talking about the idea, not its actual implementation at scale. There is a one sentence mention of ethnic
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by nmrm 12y ago
Let me remind us of the original claim I was refuting: "If someone doesn't like the political system, then you're acting immorally and violently by forcing them to abide by it." This is the claim we're discussing (t
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by nmrm 12y ago
Right, and I think the parent is being unrealisitic in their assertion that an effective political system of any ideology or size has a steady state of "simple". You can't realistically govern on the basis of "property r
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I actually much prefer bitbucket's issue tracker to github's.
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It's more likely this is simply diversification away from huge holdings of a stock that can change (up or down) by 25% in such a short period of time. All the eggs in one basket and all that.
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> Anarchocapitalism... in practice opting out of all the existing laws except the obvious ones most people won't have a problem with. This sounds, if anything, less realistic than the OP's proposal. It's also completely va
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by nmrm 12y ago
You have it exactly backwards. McCarthy is not ancient history, and Marxism is still viewed mostly met suspiciousness and ridicule in the us. No one in the US and in their right mind would claim to be Marxist in order to fit in our due to s
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> If someone doesn't like the political system, then you're acting immorally and violently by forcing them to abide by it. Do you really mean this? It seems completely unrealistic, and is just the flip side of the parent's
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Alright. This also seems more in-line with the type of work the people involved in the study were doing (episodic). Thanks for the perspective.
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> the few days’ wages they sometimes earned from episodic work with logging or oil companies. $100 is way less than "a few days' wages" for most people in the US/EU, right?
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> Pure functional code just might outsource shared mutable state to an external database. There's an important distinction between essential side-effects and inessential side-effects. Some data you have to store in a database is an
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This is essentially describing a "process". Except instead of emphasizing team-level details, it calls for an emphasis on code-level details. I really like this idea.

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