pervycreeper

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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Presumably, the relative risk of infection from owls to people who don't seek them out is much lower than it is from cats. My point is only that the health risks could conceivably be used as a pretext to take action against the cat &q
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Google employees (and anyone else) who have to interact with GCat participants, or happen to touch the same surfaces that they do, are also put at risk.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
Cats, especially feral cats, commonly carriers of Toxoplasma gondii, are a public health hazard to humans. The city could potentially employ this fact as a consideration.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
>I just learnt about him and ordered my first book of his last night. Odd. No odder than any of the billions of cases of people who hadn't just learned about him and ordered their first book of his last night, though. Edit: this is
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
The old trackpads on Apple laptops (pre-force touch) suffered from the same vulnerability, but there didn't seem to be a whole lot of outcry over it.
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
>There's a book I recommend that is a compilation of most of Glenn Goulds letters, they are incredibly beautifully worded. Care to grace us with the title of this book?
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by pervycreeper 8y ago
>He who controls the past controls the future. Hard to see this as anything other than an attempt to minimize and erase Canadian culture, such as it is. Nice A / B with the french counterpart, where there is political will to bolste
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
Is there a way to combat this phenomenon (generally: bad faith posting) with technical means?
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
Not even. They create shadow profiles for non-users.
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
One can't ever expect the filtration to be perfect, not to mention any contact that happens "downstream".
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
So much for the Silvia I had been planning to get. Relatedly, I've been having trouble finding an under the counter water filtration system which does not involve putting the water into extensive contact with plastic. Maybe there just
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
Not to mention describing those traits as "bad". The second column casts the creators in a good light by suggesting that they value empiricism and science over snake-oil and magic.
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
The "highlights reel" consists of short video clips set to music (without any audible speech).
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
The worst potential harm in exposing a child to stimulating problems too early is that he could fail to become immediately interested in them; the potential harm in failing to do so is that he will never fulfill his maximum potential.
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
Of course. Would be interesting to know what the exact quid pro quo is for deals like this though (who pays whom, and how much, etc.).
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
No judgement from me on the ultimate truth or falsity of her claim. My only point is that the idea that a PR firm would engage in astroturfing has enough plausibility not to be dismissed as a conspiracy theory out of hand, since such things
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
>In response to my suit, Kleiner hired a powerful crisis-management PR firm, Brunswick. On their website, they bragged about having troll farms — “integrated networks of influence,” used in part for “reputation management” — and I belie
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
>the terrabytes of data generated by these computational proofs are created using an algorithm that has been proven correct by a human Was thinking much bigger than that. Probably won't be feasible in the near future, and would of c
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
> are now talking about philosophy, not math Call it what you will. > If you are saying all math is probabilistic even with conventional theorems, how can you predict a future of probabilistic math if it's already here? One cruci
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
>That wouldn't be a proof though. The article is about exhausting the problem space rather than a probabilistic approach. Not what I'm saying. I would suggest that absolute certainty is impossible wrt verifying conventionally p
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
Assuming progress continues long enough: as proofs (and theorems) become more complex, the computational difficulty of verification, combined with the inherent physical impossibility of obtaining absolute certainty in the correctness of a c
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
Those are often transported in thick reusable crates rather than cardboard boxes.
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
I'm not sure what ideology you have in mind? Legitimately baffled.
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
This was inevitable from the very beginning. Disagreement forms the kernel of worthwhile discussion. An argument can also be made that "echo-chamber bubbles" are affecting people personally, intellectually, and culturally in trem
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
It would be more accurate to say that you find it reminiscent of a fugual answer, or something along those lines. Which would be fair enough as an observation.
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
> In other words he takes all three entrances of the fugal subject together, treats them as if they were a single fugal subject, and builds an outer fugue out of that. This is not in any way an accurate description.
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
>it's usually uncompensated too In Western society, the act of marriage confers (often vastly) increased wealth and status to the lower status partner, and it is usually women who prefer to "marry up". Furthermore, it is a
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
> Then stood over her with a clenched fist and yelled at her in a language I didn't understand. Which language?
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
Related: I haven't heard whether popular free software such as Audacity, Linux distros, etc. will begin including LAME binaries by default as a result of the patent expiry. Anyone know if such plans exist?
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by pervycreeper 9y ago
IOW, the lifetime of the house. Not sure what they're getting at.

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