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901.
by philipov 5y ago
All models are wrong, but that doesn't stop them from being informative. Looking at things like the Revolutions of 1848, it's easy to see how the idea applies, as so many of them were driven by University students who had no money
902.
by philipov 5y ago
My favorite oddly confusing idiom is POC. I say that sometimes and people go "Wait, what?" "Proof of Concept." "Ohhhh..."
903.
by philipov 5y ago
> non-Mandarin Chinese languages are ... full-fledged languages But do they have a flag ?
904.
by philipov 5y ago
It's a typical "We're sorry you got mad" non-apology that deftly avoids admitting fault for the thing people are actually mad about.
905.
by philipov 5y ago
Japanese is a better example than Korean. Hanzi/Kanji are Chinese ideographic characters adopted by Japan and still used today. But Chinese is an 'analytic' language that uses grammatical words instead of conjugation (much li
906.
by philipov 5y ago
If you are using your roads to do gps pathfinding, then you are indeed doing it wrong. Do not do in infrastructure what can be done in code. You can't version control your infrastructure, but you can version control your code. And wit
907.
by philipov 5y ago
Infrastructure is global state, and global state is the enemy
908.
by philipov 5y ago
https://flinhong.github.io/images/201607/tabs-spaces.jpg
909.
by philipov 5y ago
Like people who get sad occasionally comparing themselves to people with major depression?
910.
by philipov 5y ago
Not just internet communities. This applies to cities, or even countries, as well.
911.
by philipov 5y ago
There are some interesting ideas in Sapiens (which I've already been exposed to elsewhere) but I couldn't tolerate the breathless tone of the book. It was written in the same rhetorical style as one of those History Channel docume
912.
by philipov 5y ago
> Because the crime is so onerous common people want to ignore it or justify it. To be precise, the wedge is that if you oppose it, it's easy to make it look like you're doing it because you're secretly a child abuser. It
913.
by philipov 5y ago
Okay, so how many years would it take to halve the world population through natural death rate, and how do you stop all people on earth from having children without a world war?
914.
by philipov 5y ago
That's not actionable advice on a timescale that will affect co2 emissions any time soon. Are you suggesting we kill people to reduce the population?
915.
by philipov 5y ago
The * refers to the fact that cats are the owners, and dwarves are their pets. A truly accurate understanding of how cats work.
916.
by philipov 5y ago
yes, they are rolling alright; a flaming dumpster rolling downhill
917.
by philipov 5y ago
We might be able to find solutions, but there's no guarantee that we will find them, or that we'll find them in time to avert a systems collapse. It's not like it hasn't happened before. People did find solutions when ci
918.
by philipov 5y ago
If their use of GPL'd code is fair use, then they are probably not required to respect any restrictions the licenses places on the use of that code.
919.
by philipov 5y ago
Does the internet count?
920.
by philipov 5y ago
This seems like a really difficult issue to solve in the general case, but I found that solving it for the specific case I had was a tractable problem. I have a need to diff the output of a query and compare it to the last time it ran, to d
921.
by philipov 5y ago
When Pandora's Box was opened, all the evils of the world were released and burst out into the world, leaving only hope. Hope is the evil that stayed behind, close to people's hearts.
922.
by philipov 5y ago
AT&T is a common carrier. You'd have to, I don't know, get Youtube categorized as a common carrier. It's not like that's controversial a fight that Google has won every time it's come up. It's not like ther
923.
by philipov 5y ago
ninety-nine little bugs in the code. ninety-nine little bugs in the code. take one down, patch it around. one-hundred twenty-seven little bugs in the code...
924.
by philipov 5y ago
Not likely. Forced updates are an "engagement mechanic."
925.
by philipov 5y ago
It's fine, just have the legislature pass a Bill of Attainder that declares the thing you know is a proven fact, and you're peachy. It worked great in the Trial of Thomas Wentworth.
926.
by philipov 5y ago
It's not just a rhetorical efficiency though. Phrasing it that way makes it feel like it's a lot easier to change, cause we can imagine personally overcoming a single person. That broader human "we" is the deterministic
927.
by philipov 5y ago
Shouldn't you be able to rotate the Feynmann diagram in all directions and get a valid interaction, though?
928.
by philipov 5y ago
Could you please explain why it is wrong to think of the appearance caused by those symmetries as real?
929.
by philipov 5y ago
My baseless speculation of choice is that if antimatter is basically regular matter moving backwards in time, all the antimatter we expect to see from the big bang went flying out into negative time, into an anti-universe temporally disjoin
930.
by philipov 5y ago
What API does Paradox offer for getting information out of their historical games?

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