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by ouid 3y ago
the article says london, and they parent comment says "the centre".
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by ouid 3y ago
I can't speak to the general phenomenon, but I will say that students do not come to college with any mathematical preparation. The ones who learn mathematics learn it here. It's actually worse than this, students have a much easi
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by ouid 3y ago
If I were Mark Zuckerberg's coach, I too would say anything to retain him as a student.
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by ouid 3y ago
The example root cause is not even close to the "root cause", this is just the root cause that auto-dealerships would like to sell you. An additional why yieles something like: 6) Regular maintenance is often more expensive than r
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by ouid 3y ago
A shill is anyone who lends credibility to a con (or more modernly, PR) by claiming to believe it themselves. This can be witting or unwitting, but if what you're doing is repeating PR, even if its because you believe it, you're a
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by ouid 3y ago
they say that celebrities stop maturing at the age they become famous. Having too large a group of people know you is terrible for your ability to reinvent yourself as needed. You can't change who you are or even change your mind if yo
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by ouid 3y ago
the rule against calling other people shills is the worst part of hackernews. Skepticism is important, and important to share. I have never been anything but grateful to read a comment pointing out that another comment was obviously a shill
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by ouid 3y ago
Responsibility is not conserved in a robust system. This is true and it is also the journal's responsibility to not mislead.
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by ouid 3y ago
Is this a mistake in a proof or a mistake in a calculation? Let's say that the distinction here is how we establish that an answer is correct. A proof is correct if it typechecks (no really). A computation is correct if it faithfully e
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by ouid 3y ago
The FDIC is the insurer of last resort. They don't get to go bankrupt. They also wield the authority of the federal government, which is the authority of the people, represented more or less collectively, and which is operating under t
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by ouid 3y ago
What? Companies set prices to maximize profit. If charging more in fees was going to make them more money they would aready have done it. This argument that you are using maybe didn't come directly from a corporate PR firm, but it soun
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by ouid 3y ago
the answer to radio-ocean is obviously wave. But wave was only 14% related to radio, which is wrong enough for me to call it a bug
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by ouid 3y ago
You dont have to replace yourself perfectly in order for the proposal to make sense. All that matters is that you agree the two versions are connected by conscious experience. If you take steroids that massively change your personality and
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by ouid 3y ago
My mistake. I, and I suspect the original commenter, was thinking about the strengthened finite Ramsey theorem. From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%80%93Harrington_theor... For any positive integer
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by ouid 3y ago
Wait, that doesn't make sense, does it? The Ramsey function grows so fast that Peano arithmetic cannot prove that it is total.
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by ouid 3y ago
From the article you linked: >Ultimately, the term fractal dimension became the phrase with which Mandelbrot himself became most comfortable with respect to encapsulating the meaning of the word fractal, a term he created. After several
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by ouid 3y ago
As far as i can tell, fractal doesn't have a definition. The closest it ever came was the one you roughly gave.
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by ouid 3y ago
the problem with below minimum wage labor has never been that there's no demand for it...
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by ouid 3y ago
Teachers are paid, in large part, by the federal government. What's your complaint?
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by ouid 3y ago
In the desert there is only a single place to drill for water, but there is enough water if you drill there to serve everyone. The king, in an attempt to find this well, issues a proclamation, that whoever finds this place to drill will own
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by ouid 3y ago
It's basically the very definition of bad faith to respond to a comment asking for reasons to believe a thing like this. Valve charges 30%. I personally believe that this is an evil amount. The fact that the market bears it is, by my e
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by ouid 3y ago
IANAL, but one sensible reason could be that the CIA investigates in a manner which is not always consistent with the FBI's rules for gathering evidence. Sharing the wrong information could poison prosecution.
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by ouid 3y ago
because its dumb to put a computer whose behavior you cannot check and which regularly receives "updates" in charge of something that couldn't even be called an inconvenience before, like walking to the thermostat or flipping
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by ouid 3y ago
The internet is not a thing you connect to, what you must actually do is register your intent to disable the bootloader with an adversarially controlled server, and that server must respond with a yes.
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by ouid 3y ago
load balancing doesnt work like that. the draw on a high throughput gas station is hundreds of megawatts for hours. Are you proposing 100MWh batteries installed at charging stations? Sure people can top up their cars overnight, but what abo
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by ouid 3y ago
A gas pump fills a car at 20 MW, many gas stations operate at capacity for many hours a day with a dozen pumps active. EVs are ~4 times as efficient, but even being very generous, you've still got gas stations with the sustained power
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by ouid 3y ago
the justifications in the essay might be poor, but it is sensible to restrict the language of wikipedia to be as unambiguous as possible, given its status as "authoritative on most topics". For an example in the other direction, w
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by ouid 3y ago
Well, exploiting brand loyalty is also a dark pattern. The better your brand, the more you can sell it for.
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by ouid 3y ago
The current state of the metatheory of Banach tarski is that it follows from the ZF + Ultrafilter, but not ZF + dependent choice, and has very little to do with the excluded middle.
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by ouid 3y ago
it doesn't have to be "displayed" at all. It doesnt even have to be searchable. Once they start selecting things to show you, they stop being a host and start being a publisher.

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