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by olavk 9y ago
If the question is "marked as duplicate" then there is always a link to the duplicate, where the question is hopefully answered. I think it is a good thing that the same question has answers in a single place. But of course there
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> Your neighbours has two children, one of which is a girl. What is the probability of the other child to be a girl? The way you have phrased the question, the probability is 1/2.
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You can use this line of comment to disparage any discussion about any problem lesser than the holocaust.
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As far as I know, WHATWG have deprecated some elements not widely used (like "isindex", "font"), but the documents using these elements will still be readable even if not exactly as the author intended. Moving to XHTML,
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The HTML5 crawler would be able to crawl the web, the XHTML crawler would be able to crawl 0.0001% of the web. XHTML would only improve the web if all existing HTML went away or was changed to XHTML. Since this is never going to happen, XHT
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by olavk 9y ago
But the web already contains billions of pages which do not conform to XHTML. Any browser or scraper would still have to able to parse those to be of any use. Adding XHTML would just be an additional parser frontend, it would not simplify a
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by olavk 9y ago
I suspect you have heard some arguments by young-earth creationists who wanted to cast doubt on dating methods in general. The links you provide certainly does not support any of the vague claims you make.
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Hand-written SQL is not intrinsically faster than ORM generated SQL. The instances where ORM's have worse performance is typically due to application errors like n+1 queries or forgetting to batch updates. If you actually know what you
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Who are "they" in this story? You are making some vague references here.
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I think you are mixing up some things. Tree-ring dating (dendrochronology) is certainly not depending on other methods of dating. It is based on the patterns of tree rings which is known for more than 10000 years back. For dating a find mor
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That is kind of tautological.
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To be fair this clip is produced by the Disney studios, master storytellers at the height of their craft. The Mickey Mouse animation seems to have been produced specifically for this clip, and hand-drawn cell animation is very labor intensi
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Walt Disney did not invent the multiplane camera personally. He is just the narrator here, probably working from a script. He was a visionary though and understood how technology like this could aid storytelling.
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Note that the context is a society where it is NOT considered desirable to lose weight!
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The US also provided support (lend-lease) to the USSR.
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Germany declared war on the US, not the other way around.
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If women had to be paid more for the same job, it would be irrational for any business to hire women.
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That doesn't mean you have Aspergers.
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> Is there any proof for this? It is not a question of proof, it is a question of language. The input to our senses is real by definition if this input allows us to navigate and survive in the world. Any metaphysical hypothesis which pos
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> Why posit noumena at all if all that is knowable are phenomena? You don't need it for typical interactions with the world, but when you start examining how the sensory apparatus and the mind experience the world, you need the dist
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It is more complicated. For example, the color magenta does not correspond to a single segment of the EM spectrum. Due to how the eyes work, magenta is caused by light of two different wavelength. This is the reason magenta is not in the ra
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by olavk 9y ago
The simulation hypothesis is fun, but not what this article is about at all. The input to our senses is real - they originate from outside the mind. Even if we are just brains in vat or whatever, the sensory input still originate from outsi
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by olavk 9y ago
Being interested in science does not mean you have Aspergers. Neither does not having certain interests like sports or clubbing. Only a minority go to clubs anyway, so I don't even see why they are the "normal"? (I'm n
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by olavk 9y ago
While an interesting argument, the article is very muddled due to a confused philosophical foundation. Kant already made it clear that our experience of the world by definition is something different from the world in itself. For example, E
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Why do you need to believe in Thor (or whatever) in order to relax, talk to new people etc.?
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The examples are only similar to the extent that they do the same. If you look at what intent they communicate - which is an important part of readability - the second example indicates that x>y is a "special case", which just
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In C style languages you have the ?: operator though, which is basically if as an expression.
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I am arguing this is worse, since it expresses the logic in a more convoluted way.
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It depends! But it depends on the actual meaning of the code, so examples which use meaningless identifiers like `doStuff()` miss the distinction. If the conditions are semantically symmetrical, if/else is the right approach: fu
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The discovery of America by Europeans is not the same as the colonization and settlement, although the discovery led to colonization. They are not synonyms.

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