octonion

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by octonion 3y ago
The only things I saw were occasional perfectly reasonable requests, not demands, in areas such as disinformation and invasions of privacy. Furthermore, the internal files were never released as far as I know, but were only given to certa
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by octonion 4y ago
Not if you include literacy in any language e.g. Spanish or English.
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by octonion 4y ago
See the Japanese cherry blossom data mentioned by someone else. It has blooming data since 600 AD.
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by octonion 4y ago
We do - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/29/japan-kyot... Same result.
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by octonion 4y ago
This is a consequence of the immune response. It's common to every vaccine (or viral infection).
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by octonion 4y ago
And you're downvoting me right now for telling you the actual truth.
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by octonion 4y ago
It exists in their fevered imagination.
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by octonion 4y ago
No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, ther
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by octonion 4y ago
Contrarianism should never be confused with intelligence. When someone says "most of them don’t like me", you can hear the underlying hisses of "because I am right and they are wrong" and "because I am smart and the
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by octonion 4y ago
Hacker News bans the same types of hate speech that Twitter prohibits. Is that "censorship", or only when Twitter does it?
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by octonion 5y ago
There aren't two sides to genocide.
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by octonion 5y ago
You might want to consider switching to decaffeinated coffee.
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by octonion 5y ago
It's a load of clickbait nonsense by someone with one foot in the crackpot bin.
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by octonion 5y ago
Excellent point!
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by octonion 5y ago
This is a very tricky problem. We want dice that generate outcomes of two fair dice but no 7s, and every other outcome having the same relative probabilities. Note the generating function (x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + x^5 + x^6)^2 - 6x^7 has no no
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by octonion 5y ago
Under American society it had been deemed adequate to feign contrition to maintain the entrenched power structure, while continuing to engage in the same terrible behavior as before. That's no longer being tolerated.
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by octonion 5y ago
Why would you ask someone who doesn't understand a concept to explain it?
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by octonion 5y ago
Where's the mercy and grace in allowing people to engage in terrible behavior without consequences? The ruthlessness was in tolerating serial predatory behavior, and people are finally tired of it.
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by octonion 5y ago
You have access to the internet, yet claim you can't find good information about Covid ? Please don't troll about a virus that's already killed millions of people, including my own mother.
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by octonion 5y ago
Americans have seemingly no interest in taking Delta seriously. Worse, many state governments are actively trying to make it as bad as possibly.
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by octonion 5y ago
Solution in SageMath: from sage.numerical.knapsack import knapsack knapsack([122, 275, 185, 597, 647, 216, 713, 457, 146, 518, 316, 489, 711, 645, 477, 804, 671, 231, 621, 98, 87], max=4394) Note that this only finds a solution, not all sol
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by octonion 5y ago
Of course he doesn't, as it's complete nonsense.
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by octonion 5y ago
"we"? No "we" don't. If it bothers you so much, why don't you do it? No one is stopping you.
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by octonion 5y ago
It's neither cruel nor unscientific if vaccination status can't be verified or is easily faked. Furthermore, those vaccinated can still get infected, so if there's concern about variants being introduced to a new region, that
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by octonion 6y ago
"virtue points" is a meaningless propaganda term.
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by octonion 6y ago
My Model M was built in 1992, but still looks and feels brand-new.
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by octonion 6y ago
As a subscriber to the New York Times, that's exactly the opposite of what I've observed. A frequent criticism, in fact, has been interviewees not being identified as GOP political agents.
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by octonion 6y ago
Is this a serious, peer-reviewed journal? I'm not familiar with it.
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by octonion 6y ago
So, you're saying your "community" is everything within a 30 mile radius? That's 30^2*pi = 2800 square miles of "community". He grabbed an AR-15, drove across state lines and murdered two people. Well, three pe
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by octonion 6y ago
Rittenhouse is from Illinois. How was he "defending his community" in Wisconsin?

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