pfortuny

53 ms·

871.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Where do you get that intent as “clear”? I did not get it. He is complaining that the absence of the application of the rule of law leads very easily to the elimination of society, because lots of people do not wish to just be suckers. It i
872.
by pfortuny 5y ago
As a matter of fact, the real question here is… “What IS a fact?” Nobody is asking this. And that is the first problem here.
873.
by pfortuny 5y ago
I am talking of the real one (which as you say is much milder than the popular one): they did burn books and prosecute people for their ideas, which is what I was thinking of.
874.
by pfortuny 5y ago
It is the thought behind it: there is a single true opiniom. Mind you: it may even be worse. Not in terms of physical harm.
875.
by pfortuny 5y ago
They seem to have forgotten the Inquisition. Really, in their view they were just trying to help people not be infected by false claims.
876.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Thanks for this comment. Have the same experience at a Maths Department. Each run of some specific code is “ouch, we must try and see when we have the time to understand how it works and how each error is handled.” Just because it is soooo
877.
by pfortuny 5y ago
It is not just a matter of reaction times. It is mostly of stopping without harming you , which at 70mph is rather difficult if the vehicle in front brakes too hard.
878.
by pfortuny 5y ago
And there came a maple and produced seeds which, for whatever reason rotate. OK not “propeller” but near enough.
879.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Their moves are known ex post facto.
880.
by pfortuny 5y ago
So long as you live in a city you are probably forgetting most of the ways to survive. I could not even try to discover which berries are edible without killing myself. However, I can teach advanced maths to a largish group of students with
881.
by pfortuny 5y ago
No, really: you do not know how depression changes your brain. Churchill was lucky, and I do not think he was clinically depressed. It is absolutely different from “feeling down”. It is a way of perceiving your reality and the world which n
882.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Depression changes substantially the way you think, apart from leaving you with no energy. You do not realize how much or in what ways unless you have passed through it, really. “Doing” things is literally impossible (well, torture is possi
883.
by pfortuny 5y ago
It is as much capitalism as usury is interest: a false version.
884.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Exponential behaviour is hard to understand. Also, experiments at this size and speed have never been carried out before. And statistical behaviours are very difficult to understand. First thing: 99.9999% uptime for ALL users is HUGELY di
885.
by pfortuny 5y ago
The key word here being “will”. Which is not where the data IS now.
886.
by pfortuny 5y ago
They can by their own shares, for example.
887.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Great link, thanks. Surprised at the US ratio!
888.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Take into account that: a) They will appeal in Italy. b) Then they will appeal in Europe. So I guess it will take quite a while for this to really impact Amazon's wallet. Meanwhile they can invest in order to have this money ready when
889.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Well, yes. But the author is assuming it and his equations are C-infinity as a matter of fact.
890.
by pfortuny 5y ago
That does not matter: either the solutions are unique or not, and ODEs (out of singular points) have a unique aolution for any set of initial conditions. The sensitivity to initial conditions has nothing to do with regular ODEs and uniquene
891.
by pfortuny 5y ago
> there is no equation (that we know of) that would allow us to write down where the pendulum would be at some point in the future, given its current position. This is a misunderstanding. The author uses the sine and cosine functions as
892.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Yes, but “Jason has plans moving forward after his transition elsewhere” is different from “We really do not know what Jason will do after being sacked.”
893.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Aaaahhhhh!!!! Thank you for this comment, truly enlightening (I am a mathematician and know 0 physics). Shall have to think about it.
894.
by pfortuny 5y ago
If you consider the compactification of R^3 by a single point “at infinity”, an electric charge inside the surface is the same as the opposite charge at infinity (this is just Gauss’ result). In that sense, “infinity” acts as the opposite c
895.
by pfortuny 5y ago
It is not elitist. Really: it is just a guy trying to find an explanation to something that gets his attention. There is no adjective in it.
896.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Oh, really? This is certainly terrible. Man, what a mess. Thanks.
897.
by pfortuny 5y ago
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! This begins to make much more sense.
898.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Honest question (am from Europe). Why are not unions (labor) part of the right to free association in the US? Or is it that they must comprise the whole labor force? EDIT: Wow: thanks a lot. Unbelievably complicated to me…
899.
by pfortuny 5y ago
memory is something shared by… one might even say plants. But let us keep to animals: almost anyone, including worms.
900.
by pfortuny 5y ago
The traffic lights (the vertical ones, obviously). The important sign (red) is at the top. So simple and so important.

More ›