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by pfortuny 4y ago
The problem with Wittgenstein is that his terms are very specific and their meaning is very precise. When one reads “nonsensical” in that sentence one tends to think “ah, so they are stupid” whereas he likely means “they do not represent th
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You know everything needs maintenance right? That is something everyone seems to forget.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Thinking of actions leads you astray. Maps look like actions but they are not.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Also (this is a very very minor detail) it is best to inly consider numbers without the digit eight. Otherwise you might end up with 0.99999999 which is one. This is the tiniest of details but important for precision.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
From Dell: A display with 1 to 5 fixed subpixel is considered normal and within industry standards https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/es-es/000126004/dell-disp...
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by pfortuny 4y ago
If the engine in your car stutters once in a while… is it defective? If your LCD monitor has a dead pixel, is it defective? That is a question of quality. Rowhammer showed that what previously was acceptable quality is no longer so.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
That is not right at all. Parental rights are above other people’s but not the children’s. In fact, they are subordinate to the children’s right to education. This is nuanced but for instance, a parent not educating his child is not above a
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Whatever the size of a pattern you find, you cannot tile the plane with translations (just translations) using that pattern: you need to rotate it. The definition is just that. So, there are "patterns" (as a matter of fact, the
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by pfortuny 4y ago
-Asking for forgiveness/apologizing. Even if you are right, a heated argument is always wrong. -Learn to be quiet even if what is said hurts. Most of the time what hurts is actually not meant literally. -Never generalize unless you are
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by pfortuny 4y ago
1.5 million liters contaminated by how much? The former number is meaningless without the latter.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Ouch, money existed long before the concepf of government did, really.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I do not agree on the personification of evil (especially among Christians, who are whom I know). They believe there are persons who chose evil (the devil and his demons) but they are not the personification of evil. As persons, their exist
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I am just clarifying that the government does not own money. It just manages it. There was a famous intervention by the previous speaker of the house (Pelosi) saying “we are giving them our money”… That is why I started by saying “nitpickin
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by pfortuny 4y ago
This is nitpicking but it is not the government who pays, it is the taxpayers and in the end, every citizen. I think the distinction matters in this case.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Look, you only have to ask chatgpt something totally nonsensical like “Show me how a martingale converges to the zariski measure on a topos” To see that it has no clue what it is “talking” about AND does not know that does not know. Of cour
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by pfortuny 4y ago
For your fun: Tell me something about zorn schemes. (NB: that is a nonsensical term). > Zorn schemes are a type of set theory first introduced by German mathematician Richard Zorn. They are a generalization of finite sets, allowing for i
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, looking at extremes is not the best way to analyze general data.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
No, I only wanted you to look at the mediterranean nations BUT on the table, not the map. Clearly much lower than UK, US, Finland. That is enough for me.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I really do not know. See https://www.healthline.com/health/dementia/can-you-die-from-... but I do not have a truly reliable source.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Simply take a look at this table (the map is silly) and take your conclusion. https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/alzheimer...
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yes but as with roads and other infrastructure, building is easy and shiny, but what makes them useful in the long term is maintenance. A very boring and seemingly unprofitable task. But the essence of being.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Bottom right corner (took me a while to notice it so near the text).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
It is very easy if you read the gospels: its name is hypocrisy, nothing more. Hard words but true. No mental gymnastics needed, just a bad conscience. Now mind you: there are priests who have homosexual desires but try to live their celibac
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by pfortuny 4y ago
That is not at all the way Newton thought, though.
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Well, but they did use telescopes. One jesuit even discovered a comet, and it did not show parallax… The jesuits did wrong but were not silly.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Really, the jesuits did use telescopes. One wonders at the ignorance that paragraph shows. Come on: Galileo was punished for purely political reasons, with the religious argument as a simple excuse. This is not something obscure.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Spain here. As far as I know, Bankinter can be used without a smartphone and you only need an SMS-capable phone for some specific operations but not a browser in your phone. I know because I am a customer but not affiliated in any other way
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Notice that martingales do not converge AND the zariski measure is not a thing at all. Sorry saw your reply too late.
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Did not say so. Only that if one does do it, one is being understanding. Did not say it has to be done.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Being forgiving towards the user is one of the important principles of programming. Because the user may not be able to “upgrade” his system. Windows 95 is still very much alive. Embedded-like systems are a thing.

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