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by pfortuny 4y ago
I do send postcards and people like it so much they ask me not to stop.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Ordinary people put up with a lot of inconvenience just to stay connected (in some way). This is why fb has not collapsed yet. I left it years ago when I realized it was just annoying me.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I guess he forgot “secure”, which neither TCP/IP DNS… are.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The thing is not doing it in secret. The thing is doing it without accountability. They are not accountable because the law does not apply to them. Something similar happens with unelected commissions and bureaus.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
People conflate democracy with the rule of law. That is strange, but it is so. In all these examples, what is lacking is the rule of law, as in the FISA courts: they can do something secretly and without accountability. There have been mona
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by pfortuny 4y ago
As another commenter said, the moving average has already been arbitraged out. You can now study the moving variance, but it will have also been… Then you can look at the kurtosis of covariances… At some point something will be new. That
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by pfortuny 4y ago
In this case it looks a bit obvious: Stirling is to degree 1 in the square root, “Ramanujan”’s to degree 4. Nothing to see here.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Just in case, you should be careful with the use adjectives: they tend to deform your point of view. Saying that this is a serious situation for the Human Rights in Spain is a bit, just a tiny bit, of an hyperbole.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I am dumbfounded: did they really not write the rocket equation? It is good to be accessible to everybody but, honestly, this seems like a silly omission.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
With 17 q-bits. Not something I’d call breathtaking.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You don’t. Just accept it. A very few selected group of people do. Most don’t.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Total, total. Well, it is a permanent 120Eu per month (usually inflation adjusted, more or less), which considering that the tenured professor salary starts at like 1800Eu per month, is not so bad (at least it is some incentive). You can
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by pfortuny 4y ago
In England you discover that English has actually two different existences… The ordinary one and then the “dirty” one. Almost any word has or can be made to have a “harmful” meaning… Useless effort.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
This is for example an incentive for tenured professors in Spain to do research: if you get (Maths here) 5 JCR papers in 6 years of which (this is one of the criteria, there are more) three are in the top tercile, then you get a bonus of 12
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, it is enumerative geometry: counting things. One would expect (a priori, not necessarily) that any method to give an answer to the problem can be used to count. That is, it is programmable. Not trying to argue, just to specify the typ
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Are you sure about the lack of due process? If there was something important in Rome it was its citizens (in the legal sense).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Emacs with auctex, cdlatex, pdf-view and always two frames. C-c C-a is super useful. Also pdf-view-auto-crop-mode.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Not if two of the children are under 5? (need a safety seat). And that is one of the horrid consequences of hyper-risk-averse government.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
This is germany still, not the whole of the EU. But it does show how an all-reaching law like gdpr can have stramge consequences…
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Given GPT-3, should people spend less time learning to write?
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by pfortuny 4y ago
See below.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
"Their generation's name has become..." is (and pardon my insistence) what racist people have said about blacks forever. "Black people's name is synonymous with theft", for instance. That is why those kind of e
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Please: do not assign the cause of something toa group of anonymous and unverifiable people. This always end badly. Always. And there are more non-graduate boomers than graduate ones.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Totally right but the real question is “do I really know that my branding is important or will provide noticeably more income”? That does not seem to be your initial question… Sorry, the “Cafe.” in my post should read “cf “ but it got autoc
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by pfortuny 4y ago
If it sells, why do you need to stylize it when the style fad will change in two years? Cafe. Sriracha HOT chilly sauce.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Exactly. Another case of risk fear which causes something worse (anxiety now) than what it purports to solve (future mental illness, or whatever). Yes, you need to be careful with your sleep patterns. Yes, you absolutely do not need to be a
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Your last point on EU industry is something I do not see taken seriously by any government, and it looks like it os going to be a real crash. I am amazed at the lack of strong actions from the governments, other than mere politics.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Reasoning cannot depend on “a search”. It is based on memory, on knowledge (not on its accessibility).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Sounds like (not equal) the Sacklers and Purdue Farma: we are just the owners, we "know nothing" about what is being done there...
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by pfortuny 4y ago
They are children. By definition, they lack self-awareness, self-control and the ability to perceive risk and danger. Talking is good but not enough at all.

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