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by philh 10y ago
> Of course declaring code is code. The clue is in the name, "declaring CODE". This doesn't follow, sometimes language does unexpected things. E.g. a dwarf planet isn't a planet.
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by philh 10y ago
This does mean that copying the whole URL is a pain - click to highlight the whole thing, then click a bunch more times until the whole thing is highlighted again. (Unless I'm mistaken, the right-click copy uses a different clipboard,
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by philh 10y ago
The prospective buyer wasn't a police officer.
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by philh 10y ago
I'm willing to slow down science, in exchange for the lives of everyone on earth.
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by philh 10y ago
The government is already sort-of in that business, according to the BBC: > As the law stands, employers can dismiss staff who fail to live up to "reasonable" dress code demands, as long as they've been given enough time t
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by philh 10y ago
Time continues to tick, and space continues to not collapse in on me. I'm not sure in what sense you claim time is a constant and space is not.
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by philh 10y ago
Wikipedia gives some idea of what Griffin does with his money. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_C._Griffin#Philanthrop...
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by philh 10y ago
> Time is the only true constant in the universe I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, but relativity would seem to contradict you.
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by philh 10y ago
Broadly, your argument sounds like "people shouldn't become voluntarily disabled because society isn't very good at accommodating disabled people". I feel like we'd become better at accommodating disabled people if
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by philh 10y ago
More cynically, the FDA has to be risk-averse because people get much more upset over "this person died because the FDA approved a bad drug" than over "this person died because the FDA didn't approve the drug that would
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by philh 10y ago
This seems pretty mealy-mouthed. They don't want to give up "stealing is always wrong", and they don't want to give up "stealing to survive is okay", so they redefine the word "stealing". They're
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by philh 10y ago
I don't have any particular preconceptions about how dangerous it is to be a cop. But I do know that car accidents are one of the most common ways to die. So when you tell me that cops are more likely to get shot than to die in a car
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by philh 10y ago
> Cops are nearly as likely to die of a car accident as they are of getting shot. Unless cops die of car accidents significantly less than the base rate, that is not reassuring.
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by philh 10y ago
You can't downvote replies to your own comments.
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by philh 11y ago
The bookies' entire business model is to have a better clue than anyone else about what the accurate pricing would be. If they fail at that, they don't stay in business for very long.
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by philh 11y ago
I'm more inclined to trust bookmakers than polls. http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/eu-refe... Currently, the best odds you can get for 'stay' are 4:9, and the best odds for &#x27
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by philh 11y ago
I think that's a problem with the font, actually - it's supposed to be monospace, but the diagonal arrows (e.g. ↗) are about 1.5 times the width. I have the same problem. (Or maybe not "the" font, but fonts in general -
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by philh 11y ago
The specific phrase that I was questioning was every UK citizen who has read Flemming/Greene/etc . Parent makes it sound like people knew about it from reading spy stories, which seems unlikely.
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by philh 11y ago
> MI6 was known to exist even it not confirmed by the govt. Ever heard of James Bond? Myth rooted in fact, every UK citizen who has read Flemming/Greene/etc knew there was an MI6. Unless there's more to this than it sounds
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The Sally-Anne fallacy(reasonableapproximation.net)
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by philh 11y ago
evil-mode lets you do things like "insert this text into the same position in a block of consecutive lines" using rectangular selections. I find it occasionally very helpful. It's a little clunky though: you make the selectio
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by philh 11y ago
That's great, but someone else thinks PHP is worse than javascript. (All those copy-pasted security holes.) Another person thinks iOS is the real problem. (If we don't own our devices, we're not free.) For me it's malari
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by philh 11y ago
"Serious problems in versions 1 and 2" suggests that it might be a good idea not to write your own version 1. But to be explicit about the history: version one[0] had dependencies. Version two[1] had no dependencies, and a comment
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by philh 11y ago
I'm quite sure there will be serious side effects in other countries. I'm also confident that they won't be "risk 7 billions lives and the lives of their children for centuries" serious.
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by philh 11y ago
This is one battle in that war. It's not the whole war. How will this affect the average citizen of China? Indonesia? Namibia? If Apple loses, will they be immediately forbidden from creating devices such that they'd be unable to
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by philh 11y ago
Indeed: the first paragraph of the linked paper says "Current good taggers have sentence accuracies around 55–57%". (This surprises me. I would expect accuracy for different words in a sentence to be correlated, you either make no
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by philh 11y ago
> put things in perspective ... risk 7 billions lives and the lives of their children for centuries? You and I have very different ideas of perspective. I don't want the FBI to win here, but it wouldn't be that bad.
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by philh 11y ago
> AlphaGo was well below Sedol's level when it played the European champion in October. How clear is this? If this just comes from professional humans saying "I would have played differently, and I could have beaten Fan Hui by
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by philh 11y ago
I agree with what you say, but disagree with what I think you mean. Weaker players are more inconsistent. Someone else says Lee-plus-two stones beats Ke. I don't think me-plus-two-stones dominates someone who beats me 8:2. So with weak
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by philh 11y ago
In this case, we have A > C and it's looking like B > C. For these three players, transitivity holds whether A > B or B > A. But yes, I spoke about playstyles. Do you think Ke can discover exploitable weaknesses in AG, give

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