pie_hacker

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by pie_hacker 7y ago
I don't find any reason to believe this is inherently problematic. The federal funds rate is ~2.5%, and inflation is ~2.0%, so the real interest rate is approximately 0.5%. America's current debt-to-GDP ratio is not unprecedentedl
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by pie_hacker 7y ago
>> Prolong your life by increasing your muscle power. This seems like a hasty conclusion to me. The researchers found a correlation between muscle power and low mortality rates, not a causation. It could be, for example, that people
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by pie_hacker 7y ago
You're correct, but it's not immediately clear to me what it means to be part of such a conspiracy. Would simply receiving classified information from Chelsea Manning count? (Probably not, I would guess.) What about receiving cla
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by pie_hacker 7y ago
I have frequently seen the argument that Assange should be incarcerated because he is dis-likeable. Thankfully, that is not a crime in the U.S. It seems that the federal government is trying to prosecute Assange for obtaining classified inf
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by pie_hacker 7y ago
Dictatorships have always ruled through fear and surveillance, and today's China is no exception.
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by pie_hacker 7y ago
John Adams (2nd president of the US) famously represented the British soldiers who were tried for the Boston Massacre. He argued that everyone deserved a legal defense, regardless of how heinous their alleged crimes may be. A good test for
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
I find it frightening that local governments in the U.S. are installing microphones to spy on their citizens in public.
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
>> It's not a secret that women's employment is largely counterproductive by itself This kind of sexism can be quite harmful. You might want to rethink this one. >> They could do all the things described in the articl
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
I do not understand why you hate this. Making a false statement is lying, at least in my playbook. That the argument is semantic is irrelevant. It may be the case that Google is only wrong because of a technicality, but they are wrong never
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
I believe the title is slightly misleading; most college students are above 18 and are thus widely considered to be adults. This guide seems to be written for adults who are 25 and older, which is a subset of all adults.
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
Not in my experience... I have noticed that people who exclusively use "his" rather than "her" or "their" tend to be men though.
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
The match between Stockfish and AlphaZero was played with certain unjustified parameters (time control, ponder off, different hardware, no opening book or endgame tablebase for Stockfish etc.). By "unjustified," I mean that the au
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
I think it should be noted that Stockfish and AlphaZero were running on vastly different hardware during this match. I wonder which engine would win in a more typical fair match (in my opinion, the match they ran was unfair). It's a sh
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
I think that one of the key insights of Emacs is that moving the mouse is a very slow process relative to using the keyboard.
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
I use Firefox - Chrome is too slow/buggy. Also, who knows what code Chrome is executing when you start it up on your computer?
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by pie_hacker 8y ago
I agree. Although perhaps more infamous than famous.