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by noqc 1y ago
Are we really sure that that's what's been happening? The democrats have fundamentally abandoned the working class in favor of stupid wedge issues. It was the "progressives" who chose to shift their campaign focus onto g
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by noqc 1y ago
An fun, immediate, horrifying, consequence. If I remove n elements from R, the remainder has n+1 connected components. The complement of Z in R has |Z| connected components. The complement of Q in R has |R| connected components.
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by noqc 1y ago
in between any two real numbers, there is a rational number, and vice versa.
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by noqc 1y ago
>China knows all the economic levers to cause lots of pain to the US (eg selling t-bills) China has been divesting itself of treasuries for a long time: a) because they create coupling between the two economies, and b) they know that the
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by noqc 1y ago
Yes but what do you say? Don't dodge the question.
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by noqc 1y ago
As long as they can prove that they are not risking hurting other people. Suppose that I fire a gun in a randomly chosen direction and don't hurt anyone, should I be allowed to repeat the process?
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by noqc 1y ago
>The average pixel was not what I expected. The average pixel doesn't look correct because human vision does not interepret shadowed colors as different colors. We first guess at the shadows, and then do some kind of inverse mapping
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by noqc 1y ago
I haven't seen a single good review from anyone I trust, most people are saying it's not good.
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by noqc 2y ago
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1-3-4-3/A... The current state of jurisprudence on this is nearer than you think to the side of Youtube must not violate your first amendment rights. I think
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by noqc 2y ago
It's actually really easy, you're not allowed to be compensated for your speech. It's free.
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by noqc 2y ago
I say this shit all the time.
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by noqc 2y ago
Goodhart's law is not a joke. There is no standin for value.
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by noqc 2y ago
leds are pretty small right? Typically encased glass? I don't think you've got much to worry about.
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by noqc 2y ago
what on earth is wrong with watts as a unit of power?
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by noqc 2y ago
When I use it, I mean it the way stackexchange says it is meant
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by noqc 2y ago
It's not that hard to maintain a random piece of paper, you do it with your ID, which presumably you do not keep on your phone. It is much harder to ensure an iPhone won't randomly be miscalibrated and shut off at 30%.
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by noqc 2y ago
what if your phone runs out of battery?
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by noqc 2y ago
This isn't about free speech. Tiktok's statement actually provides all of the necessary context. China pays influencers. The tiktok ban is not about what you are allowed to say, but who is allowed to pay you to say it. This is a v
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by noqc 2y ago
a greenhouse can heat a space by enough to be comfortable for free, but not cool it. Windows and sunlight matter.
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by noqc 2y ago
Neat, but you don't need to drink water if you aren't thirsty.
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by noqc 2y ago
What are you talking about? Error is a metric.
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by noqc 2y ago
This is basically exactly a dedekind cut.
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by noqc 2y ago
>the use of the of Least Upper Bound is much simpler and clearer Uh, least upper bound of what? most subsets of Q have no extrema in Q.
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by noqc 2y ago
What?
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by noqc 2y ago
you actually said "I don't think I could have tied the esoteric word of topology to a practical problem".
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by noqc 2y ago
The original understanding of a manifold was simply a "configuration space", which is very concrete, so I'm not sure what you mean that you are surprised that the world of topology could be practical.
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by noqc 2y ago
the unverifiable regime is a great way to extract funding.
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by noqc 2y ago
I have a silly question, and I'm going to shamelessly use HN to ask it. In Kitaev's construction of the high purity approximation to a magic state, he starts with the assumption that we start with a state which can be represented
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by noqc 2y ago
everything is onto its image.
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by noqc 2y ago
The only way a percentage match means anything here, is that the facial recognition software returns a probability distribution of representing the likelihood that the person identified is each member of the set. I'm sure that 97.3% is

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