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by pfortuny 4y ago
Right. But there are witnesses at each of the different steps, so it is really complicated to hack.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
It is a standard way to measure it. So, you might just say that it measures "blood pressure on the upper arm" and that it is taken as a measure. Like temperature with a thermometer. Like, is the air pressure/temperature/
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Careful with those analogies. The distance you can throw something away wit your hands increases with size… up to a point. You can throw a grain of sand only so fra, a pebnle somewhat more, a baseball probably very far… And you stop there,
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I always share the exams I set (and the solutions) with my students. Inhace necer understood the idea that keeping them “secret” is somehow useful. Yes, writing a new exam each time is a bore but I prefer my students learning my style rathe
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by pfortuny 4y ago
All except for (precisely) the heat equation, which is not time-reversible (there is a “loss of information” as time passes, very badly and roughly speaking). See https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/628720/why
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You have probably been tagged quite a few times in other people’s photos. Totally creepy, yes, but unavoidable.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
They sold us "liberty, fraternity, equality" and "peace on earth", and "development for all" and "freedom from totalitarism". That is how we got there. Countries have resigned their power to mint coin
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by pfortuny 4y ago
No, that is not the definition of control, sorry. I am not trying to downplay their responsibility, honestly, I am just trying to speak properly. And that is just a biological fact.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
No no no no no no no...!!!! That is the trick of the name. The European Commission "sounds" as the "Commission for highways" in the, say Ministry for the Interior. But it has nothing to do with that AT ALL. It is the mai
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by pfortuny 4y ago
No, it is not the same at all because nobody has any idea what party/what person/what ideology the next EC leader will have. There is no citizen vote to form a parliament which then will vote for the EC leader. At all. Not even
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by pfortuny 4y ago
From a historical point of view, and because males have less control over their sexual behaviour. I was distinguishing between father and mother, should have said so. I was not referring to relatives living out of home, as they would need s
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, my bad. It always seemed so long to me that I took it to be 6 years. Thanks for the pointer.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, exactly. Even worse, don't you think?
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, the position she holds is not democratically elected , she is a representative of representatives, so we (the EU citizens) have to bear with her (and any other EC leader) for [*5*] (edit) years just because our "governments&quot
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Exactly. This is something Americans need to understand. The European Commission is managed by the governments, citizens do not vote for their members.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I just want to point out that lots of the sexual abuse of children are by the child's parent(s) (mostly the father, obviously). This is something that is not taken into account and for which any "communication surveillance" p
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Which are gotten in proportion to the other metric…
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Thanks.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Honest question: don’t animals do it? Or do you mean “microorganisms”?
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The strange thing is that he is a really reputed mathematician…
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by pfortuny 4y ago
That is a wrong view of Christianity (one of the most important things a Christian needs to do is self-examination). Or do you mean pride? One cannot be charitable if one does not know his or her own defects and virtues. And this is a lifel
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by pfortuny 4y ago
When you fight something it means you try to eliminate it. Coping means accepting its existence and being peaceful about it. However, you CAN fight and cope, and you can fight and not cope. The aim should not be the elimination, the aim sho
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Same here in Spain “the best medical service in the world” (as all piliticians boast, from left to right and back again).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
That is why population “medicine” is anything but “medicine”. The State is not a physician. But turns out that it IS.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Thanks for saying this. There was an article the other day here on HN about someone totally obsessed with “fulfilling“ his iphone app’s health “objectives”. Anxiety is one of the worst outcomes of over-diagnostics.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
But do you stop running just because an F1 car is much much faster? The fun is not in losing but in exercising.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, Gödel set out to prove incompleteness. The first statement that comes to mind is “there is an unprovable sentence” but that is too general. What Gödel did was find out that “this statement is unprovable” is “definable” in Peano’s syst
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by pfortuny 4y ago
> It's all a thinly veiled scheme to hijack human minds for the clergy's own power and agendas. You have clearly an axe to grind here, or you do not know organized religion very well (things are not like in the US elsewhere).
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by pfortuny 4y ago
AFAIK (and I am not an expert) when they use C/C++ in automotive systems (in the automotive part, not elsewhere) they might tend to use deterministic programming (f.e. fixed-length arrays, no allocations, etc.) which eliminate most of
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The same as elsewhere. The fact that he is an eBay employee is irrelevant.

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