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by ordu 6y ago
> What does it mean to have read a book? To read every single word and symbol? To understand the key ideas and points? To understand what the author thought at the time, what he was trying to say, what he had said really, how he came t
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by ordu 6y ago
Literally it means to lose something through a sexual act.
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by ordu 6y ago
I believe, that you both think the very same idea just using different words.
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by ordu 6y ago
> Even in this case with phone numbers and other data leaked, so what? What harm do data leaks cause? Lets imagine a situation. You've got an officially looking letter, from unknown to you organization, claiming that for example,
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by ordu 6y ago
> What distinguishes an intervention vs just normal observable randomness? The difference is your knowledge that value of some variable is controlled and independent from anything else in this situation. If causal model is some kind of
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by ordu 6y ago
> Basically, girls might be wired to prefer “socially interesting” toys whereas boys like “mechanically interesting” toys. If we try to generalize findings of primatologists onto humans, namely what Franz de Waal writes about chimpanze
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by ordu 6y ago
> Instead, this should be done department-by-department, app-by-app. Design the process from the bottom up. It is a technical way. "Do not mind people, just make tech to work". This way have its benefits, like it tends to mak
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by ordu 6y ago
> As an aside, the clang bug would also affect Rust if they used that type of optimization (assuming strict aliasing rules). No, this bug cannot affect rust, because rust wouldn't allow to pass into a function three mutable referenc
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by ordu 6y ago
> Anyone downvoting should be ashamed and sickened by their behavior, no matter what rationalization they are attempting to hide behind. Do you really believe this or it is some kind of a trolling?
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by ordu 6y ago
Doesn't Rust do the same, when I write `let a = match ... ;` and then rustc complains that return types of branches do not match?
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by ordu 6y ago
> This doesn't involve what we would typically regard as memory or learning But it is memory nevertheless, just a special kind of it. Maybe more ancient kind created for diffuse nervous system with abilities limited by abilities o
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by ordu 6y ago
You had chosen the really hard way to learn Rust. The most of problems for a beginner comes from lifetimes and borrowing. Async code by itself is harder topic when it comes to lifetimes and borrowing. When you use object in a concurrent man
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by ordu 6y ago
I would be just like Harry Potter, when it would be possible to print moving photos on a paper or a wall. With a sound preferably. I liked the idea of an moving image of Harry Potter repeatedly saying "Eat dung, Umbridge". Wouldn&
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by ordu 6y ago
> Here are the results of an idea acquired from discussions on the linux-kernel mailing list, and an initial suggestion by Alan Cox. What this idea is? Do these penguins somehow different?
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by ordu 6y ago
> ordu is allowed to innately know that they are not an alcohol addict, but the author of the article is not extended the same courtesy. Yeah, something like this. I'm not entirely sure that alcoholic addiction would be just like
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by ordu 6y ago
> Only responsible and healthy individuals should self-use drugs, generally speaking. The funny thing I've been reading the article and the tone of it reminded me of heroin addicts who was not hit by their addiction heavily yet. I
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by ordu 6y ago
Or maybe someone who've read Frans de Waal "Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes". Power and sex seem to be interlinked due to evolution: the more power one have, the more accessible sex and reproduction become. Peop
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by ordu 6y ago
Those images, as I understand, constructed by heavy calculations based on a theory of atoms. Isn't it? So it is arguable that images are not "real", they are visualizations of a data. At the same time not every real image is
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by ordu 6y ago
I've found better. =) https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=32.2993&dec=-43.5177&lay... Though seems like an artifact for me.
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by ordu 6y ago
> If you try to commercialize it, that takes a while to start a company, and it can take so long that by the time you go to the mechanics of that, the next thing has already emerged. Technological singularity is here! :) [1] https:&#x
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by ordu 6y ago
> Is this another way of saying "All models are wrong, but some are useful." All models are wrong by definition. The goal of the modelling is to simplify things, makes them less complex then they are in the reality. So model
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by ordu 6y ago
I personally came to a conclusion, that "true" is not a word to apply to a physics equation. Truth is a mathematical abstraction, which is useful often, but to speak about truth we need to assume as given some other truths and cal
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by ordu 6y ago
> I fail to see why I should be concerned with people who have evinced an utter lack of concern for me. Because you are on the same boat with them. If they overturn the boat, you'll fall into the water. I do not say that it is eas
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by ordu 6y ago
> Shouldnt the costs for sales and marketing, management layers, store janitors, etc. also be included in variable capitol... I do not know whether they should or not. I'm not an economist, I tried to read some textbooks at some p
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by ordu 6y ago
As I understand you mean a hidden kind of coordination, not the obvious one, like "look at the news, they banned Trump, good idea, don't you think? shouldn't we do the same?". Why the hypothesis of such a coordination se
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by ordu 6y ago
> We believe that the initial research and design labour costs can be ignored since these costs have been spread out over different models of the iPhone and the contribution of the research and development cost is increasingly negligibl
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by ordu 6y ago
I think you are too much concerned with "they brought it on themselves" and too little with "the substantial segment of the population is squeezed from a debate". The latter is a bad news even if you are 100% right with
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by ordu 6y ago
> If given the chance, I would go to great lengths to adjust my business, to right whatever wrong Facebook believes I have committed. I would change my business model, and shift the direction of my business to ensure I am fully complian
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> The popular myth holds that psychoanalysis is a non-science trying to mimic science, but in reality it is the other direction. It was originally closer to biology and moved away from that. At the time biology itself was not a very sc
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by ordu 6y ago
It is a very interesting topic. Psychiatry was tried to be a branch of medicine, but it didn't work that way. Freud came as a kind of a doctor for mind, calling his clients 'patients' and mimicking "real" doctors in

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