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by pfortuny 5y ago
Totally. Lack of sanitation, food, etc… do cause deaths. Lack of equality is a fact of life. It cannot kill. Thanks. I agree with you totally.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Well, yes, as long as you get him alive…
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by pfortuny 5y ago
It is so “philosophically” because the larger your set, the less inner structures it has (the larger your set the less you can say). Akin to “you cannot say much about a genus but you can say a huge lot about a species”. Of course this is a
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by pfortuny 5y ago
This is topical but your comment reminded me of Deming’s New Economics. Rewards in a system with intrinsic variance are harmful and unjust.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Indeed. "You must be good and I must compel you to" is the way to totalitarianism. As is "you must let me make you happy" (this is the communist ideal).
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by pfortuny 5y ago
I never said the answers should be instantaneous. Never thought so.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Just a piece of unsolicited advise: either morality should not be defined by feelings. These are not universal. There are lots of things which feel good but can be bad (like saying yea to a child’s desire) and vice-versa (like saying no to
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Well, sorry, my context is Uni by the way.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Oh, no: you take that into account obviously.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
I have also read Kaczynski. The two main problems are: his notion of freedom, which is too simplistic (almost akin to absence of conditioning) and his rose-colored view of an imaginary past which dis not exist ever (past without technology
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by pfortuny 5y ago
As a teacher, I would rather examine my students orally. Shorter and to the point. Much fairer. In that sense, what he says is normal.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Departmental policy? Man, what a lame excuse. As if there were not hundreds of books with solutions.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
It is not illegal, it comes with strings attached because in general, in the EU the employee is seen as being the weak side of a contract, and is protected (to a point) against arbitrariness from the strong side.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Modulo 97 (the arxiv paper). That is what they do. It is quite easy to grok operations modulo 97.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Modulo 97. This is what it is. Not "general arithmetic".
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by pfortuny 5y ago
It is for VERY HUGE n, as siblings explain.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
So this is exactly like in sects? You leave and automatically you just “were not that important”… Even if you were the CEO? What if Tim leaves? Or has he signed a permanent contract? Is he afraid to leave?
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by pfortuny 5y ago
There is the fact that in the EU you have the right to ask (and the business the obligation to comply) for your data to be deleted. This is incompatible with your data being kept by a US business in the US, which is not subject to that law.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Nope. Lots of people stay in business because they just like it AND it gives enough money for a reasonable life.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
This is not science. Sorry but could not help it.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Implications: statistics only say very little, data visualization may help understanding. Hidden correlations are a thing. Hidden variabilities too.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Lecture notes is what I would call these (as I do my materials).
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Discipline and respect to authority must be taught at home, not at school.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
However, what you say in the second paragraph is exactly what the reviewers should ask the authors and question.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Try also a fade-out-in of .25+.25 secs (or less) and I guess most of the annoyance will be gone (or make it customizable).
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Not trying to nitpick but knowing that SIM cards run a version of Java, you cannot make much less than that, as far as virtual machines go. Also forth and lisp have really tiny tiny version with large capabilities. So, if size matters, I gu
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Well to be honest, things on arxiv are not properly speaking “papers” in the academic sense. At least in Maths.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Noprob! just a clarification.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
As it is said here frequently, if your revenue depends essentially on a single actor (as is the case), your business is doomed by definition. Cf: all those people who depend on a google project to survive. This is the same, but at scale.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Sorry but tobacco gets to Europe just after Columbus reaches America, and gets consumed in Europe by then. And the indians of America consumed it much earlier. Just to clarify.

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