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by phaemon 6y ago
The latter of course. Everyone who has given more than 10 seconds of thought to the issue has considered the opposite relationship because it's so obvious.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Well today is your lucky day, because you can cease your wondering! The answer is "no". In fact, any question you have that relies on thousands of doctors and professors in the field missing something obvious is always "no&qu
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by phaemon 6y ago
^^ This is the original paper and the full pdf is available. I recommend a brief perusal before posting your "guesses". It's not very long and has pretty graphs.
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by phaemon 6y ago
That doesn't make any sense. There's no such thing as an adversarial collision for UUIDs. They're not hashes and don't have any security at all. If you want to use someone else's UUID, you just can! > If you star
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by phaemon 6y ago
You carry on the "draconian measures" until the virus is unable to spread and dies out. It's not magic. It spreads through human contact. Reduce contact you reduce transmission. You are in the same camp as Trump because you&#
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by phaemon 6y ago
> Masks became political the moment the CDC, WHO, and US Surgeon General Ah, I see you take the Trumpian line of "it's everybody else's fault except me!". It became political in your country because the dozy muppet yo
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by phaemon 6y ago
Well, what else is a failing software engineer to do?
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by phaemon 6y ago
In the fine HN tradition of picking fault with every article: "It took me a while to realize that money is not evil, money is oxygen." No, money is like food: you need it to survive, but when it becomes your reason for existing, t
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by phaemon 6y ago
And reality disagrees with you: https://www.sunwindenergy.com/news/35-mw-solar-farm-saudi-ar...
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by phaemon 6y ago
Just like software development then?
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by phaemon 6y ago
Well, they're going to become vast, mosquito-infested swamps. Whether you regard that as "prime real estate" probably depends if you're an estate agent or not.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Firstly, because,"office software" is useless crap. It fills the gap between the computer literate and illiterate in the same way that pointing and grunting fills the gap between the written equivalent. Secondly, where's my p
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by phaemon 6y ago
Very true. Reason #361 for a UBI.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Well, the head of the design team is Heiko Tietze. His PhD is in Psychology and he's worked at various companies as UX designer/lead. So, why you'd you contact him and tell him where he's going wrong? I'm sure he&#x
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by phaemon 6y ago
For covering their heads, presumably.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Oh right. I'd always thought that the idea of agriculture leading to civilisation, it referred exclusively to farms and fields of crops. If you include pastoralists, was there really any time when most humans were hunter-gatherer?
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by phaemon 6y ago
That didn't seem to stop Genghis Khan uniting the nomadic Mongol tribes?
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by phaemon 6y ago
Oh right. I read it as "how else could you explain it simply". I always thought the pigeon hole principal was a needless metaphor.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Why is that required?
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by phaemon 6y ago
A "file" on a computer is just a number. When you compress a file, you are representing a big number with a small number. There are more big numbers than there are small numbers.
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by phaemon 6y ago
(I'm using 2015 figures because they were the latest available the last time I challenged this bullshit) Nope, drugs sales in the EU alone are enough to cover pharmaceutical R&D costs worldwide. What they aren't enough to cove
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by phaemon 6y ago
I've seen those before. So a basically unknown neo-marxist group gloms onto a grassroots movement. So what? Are you daft enough to think they speak for them now? And, ffs, what does on earth does "trained marxist" even mean?
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by phaemon 6y ago
No, because I got it and pointed out why it was misleading. Try reading my comment again and understanding it.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Every single sentence of it is wrong or misleading. First sentence, "There are no laws, rules, or taxes which apply everywhere else in the UK which don't apply in the City." Yeah, there are laws which apply to the Corporati
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by phaemon 6y ago
You don't think I'm sincere, because I asked for a link to a blog, so you give me a link to Judith Curry's blog? I'm familiar with Curry's "work". I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, but then sh
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by phaemon 6y ago
I'm afraid most of them are. Would you care to give an example of one who is not? I'll happily look over a blog or video and give my opinion.
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by phaemon 6y ago
> The author (a tropical geologist) mixes up weather (temporary) with climate (long-term) Right, sure, the guy with a "PhD from Duke University where I studied the geology and climate of the Amazon", understands less about clim
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by phaemon 6y ago
Possibly not directly, but two of my best friends were roughnecks, and then Deck Foreman. Unfortunately, one of them died just a few months back (not covid). Going to miss him down the pub.
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by phaemon 6y ago
The option to install postgres on three instances, specify that they're in cluster "foo" and then it just works, including automatically fixing any issues when one of the instances drops out and rejoins. That's what othe
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by phaemon 6y ago
In Elizabethan times, plays required a license from the Master of the Revels, who would censor anything illegal (references to rebellion or religion for example). Google should supply plenty of details. Generally, though, the monarchy of th

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