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by philh 11y ago
For what purpose does it classify as cannibalism?
482.
by philh 11y ago
Have the med sangs run blinded tests? I can think of two that seem worth running. One with capsules containing either blood or not-blood, and one with blood that belongs to either themselves or someone else. If you have some kind of nutriti
483.
by philh 11y ago
If I'm thinking about the same event, I disagree. The CEO didn't come across as evil at all, in my eyes. And I'm not comfortable with a meme that if you're attacked, you shouldn't defend yourself, because defending
484.
by philh 11y ago
littletimmy said the 1%, and this article says they're paying 1/3.
485.
by philh 11y ago
Epistemic status: wildly overconfident. "If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" This is naive on two counts. You can't raise taxes without affecting people's behaviour. If someone's tax burd
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by philh 11y ago
Hollywood wants to make films that people want to watch. They might be able to trick people into going to the cinema before the reviews come out, if necessary. But that won't save it in home entertainment, which is where most of the mo
487.
by philh 11y ago
You're never going to shuffle a deck of cards 52!+1 times. It's unique within the extent of this physical universe. If that's not the universe of discourse, you're going to need to specify what is. Of course life is spec
488.
by philh 11y ago
Why would a shuffle of 3 billion distinct cards be less unique than a shuffle of 52 distinct cards? > If you randomly generated 3 billion alphabet characters, would it be instructions for building a Saturn V rocket? The blueprints for bu
489.
by philh 11y ago
That definition is meaningless without a distance metric (for "different") or a scoring function (for "better, greater"). And some reference point for "usual" - are we comparing this snowflake to all the other
490.
by philh 11y ago
If you shuffle a deck of 3 billion cards, the order is less compressible than the human genome. It's still not special. Is it complex, by your definition? How about my scribble, or a snowflake?
491.
by philh 11y ago
Of course not. Shuffle a deck of cards. If you did it properly, the new arrangement is unique. No deck of cards has ever been arranged like that before, and none will ever again, unless you deliberately preserve it. I just drew a scribble o
492.
by philh 11y ago
Talking about ethics: this is good and this is bad Talking about ethical positions: some people say this is good and this is bad; other people say... I still think that what you call a strawman is just something you actually believe, an
493.
by philh 11y ago
> pretending its all a XOR between (2) and (3) No one is pretending this. At least, I'm not, and the author of the article isn't. You're completely missing the fact that I'm not talking about ethics here . You'r
494.
by philh 11y ago
Sorry for adding a new set of things to enumerate over. I think there are a bunch of things that it's easy to conflate between, and I want to distinguish them explicitly. (a) The Copenhagen interpretation of ethics, the idea (roughly s
495.
by philh 11y ago
I haven't reread the article recently, but I don't think it's talking about the relative merits of (1) vs (2). There's also (3), "these people are starving and I'm not going to do anything about that." Cop
496.
by philh 11y ago
> the total balanace was positive on THEIR side, not hers It was positive on both of their sides. They made money from the fruits of her labor, and she made money from the money that they gave her in exchange. Employment is positive sum.
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Simultaneously print and pipe a command output(reasonableapproximation.net)
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by philh 11y ago
Perl6 doesn't do this. A function doesn't know if it's being called in scalar or list context. (I think there might be some movement towards letting a function detect sink (void) context. Then functions with both side effects
499.
by philh 11y ago
> WHAT idiot would program a command so that you have to say -print to print the output to the screen. What IDIOT would make a command like this and not have the output go to the screen by default. You don't need to say -print. It&
500.
by philh 11y ago
And if there are non-child elements positioned to overlap with this one, presumably they get captured too?
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by philh 11y ago
AFAIK, pieman's brother's seizure could have been related to some genetic trait or environmental exposure that could have been in pieman's kids too. Even if the population risk is 1/14000, I'd put the risk in his ow
502.
by philh 11y ago
The flag link is visible if you reply to a post or click on its timestamp.
503.
by philh 11y ago
None of these secret operators are actual operators. (Some of them aren't even collections of operators - }{ is a form of code injection, and the <<m=~m>> thing has only one operator, applied to a string and a regex.)
504.
by philh 11y ago
No, for the same reason that $x += = 3 is invalid.
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by philh 11y ago
The site gives the solution, on page 12; though I'm not sure how that picture is the key to the whole book.
506.
by philh 11y ago
There's no way to reply to hellbanned users. People have to reply to others, and hope the hellbanned user sees it. If you enable showdead in your profile, you'll see that tilbert replied to you.
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by philh 11y ago
Vs gur obneq vf hcfvqr-qbja, juvgr cebzbgrq gb n ovfubc naq gura oynpx zbirq bhg bs purpx. Bgurejvfr V pna'g guvax bs nalguvat. Vf gung jung lbh pnzr hc jvgu?
508.
by philh 11y ago
That's not mate, the black king can move diagonally to G1. Same thing black would do if white promoted to a white piece.
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by philh 11y ago
The coincidence isn't quite what you think it is. In the story world, the puzzle probably took its precise form from that game. If the game hadn't happened, maybe Anderssen's unpublished notes would have included a similar pu
510.
by philh 11y ago
The problem isn't showing up for me, but cached version: http://web.archive.org/web/20150918165831/http://3.bp.blogsp... White to play and mate in one.

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