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by pygy_ 4y ago
Well well well... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888459 (quoted here for convenience) ————— Formally, ordinals start at zero too :-) [0]. We owe their latest definition to Von Neumann, but AFAIK, the former definitio
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Anecdotally, I taught my children numbers starting from zero with a similar routine, based on cardinality. They immediately got it. My kids' school also uses zero-based tables. "Natural" is a very loaded and ambiguous term, b
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by pygy_ 4y ago
What about mamils? Middle-aged men in lycra
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by pygy_ 4y ago
I didn't know FB had been actively involved in the process, I thought they had just been criminally negligent regarding the amount of data third parties were allowed to gather. > the average person doesn't seem to care about a
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by pygy_ 4y ago
It may have influenced the result of the 2016 US presidential election. IIRC, the Trump used that data set to send targeted ads to ~90M independent and republican voters. Independents got ads attacking Clinton and emphasizing prominent Tru
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by pygy_ 4y ago
There’s the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is very concrete, but that would automatically alienate quite a few people...
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by pygy_ 4y ago
I suppose you're getting downvotes because of the snark, but you're right. Young kids will put anything in their mouths. Eating dirt is not an uncommon behavior.
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by pygy_ 4y ago
:-) From my understanding of the scriptures, they're supposed to be ultimately punished...
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by pygy_ 4y ago
FWIW I don't have any systematized metaphysical beliefs. This is how I perceive the psyche of people who believe in fate.
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by pygy_ 4y ago
> I'm doing well because I deserve it ... and therefore I behave in unethical ways. It's not my fault, it's destiny.
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Well, it's probably both, feeding one another.
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In other words, "might makes right".
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Your last and penultimate paragraphs are almost identical, likely an editing error
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by pygy_ 4y ago
This has nothing to do with utopia. It is about believing that people deserve their fate, however hard life has been to them.
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Destiny is the metaphysical expression of narcissism, the cosmic projection of the navel.
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by pygy_ 4y ago
I may be late to the party, but I just discovered this... It is basically HTML’s WASM moment. WebKit is the last browser not to have it, but it is about to land too... https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/269
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by pygy_ 4y ago
My point is that this feature is unrelated to vDOM, it happens to be implemented by a major vDOM lib. But... I actually read your comment too quickly, you were not making that point :-)
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Slicing big updates and prioritizing some of them could also be achieved by tweaking the reactive core of Solid or Svelte.
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Zulip is pretty good for this. By default, you have a linear, IM-like UX, but it is trivial to fork conversations on specific topics.
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Plucking from Google scholar you can check this https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.222658699 and this https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/eat.22531 among
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by pygy_ 4y ago
I have a song about this (in French) sung from the vantage point of near future robots. https://soundcloud.com/user-876103472/lennui-cest-loxyge-ne Long story short: screw the meatbags, let's get rid of atmospheri
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by pygy_ 4y ago
In the first table the "eating disorders" entry makes references to "Kleinman et al. 2015" and to "Morita et al. 2015". Neither can be found in the bibiography. I couldn't find a paper by some Kleinman on
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by pygy_ 4y ago
> Vaccines don't work stop the spread of the virus They did stop the spread of the historic and alpha variant in Israel, with a 55-60% rate of vaccination (I mistakenly thought it was 70%, it was even lower). Before the onset of the
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Compare the evolution of the alpha wave in Israel, France and Lebanon. Israel, had also drastically cut down on community measures like lockdowns, curfews and closure of non-necessary businesses.
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by pygy_ 4y ago
> You keep thinking that the loss of immunity is due to new variants. This is our first interaction, not sure why you think I keep thinking something I never thought. There might have been a need for boosters, it would have been possible
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Talking in absolutes like this ( "the vaccine failed, it doesn't prevent infection, it doesn't prevent transmission" ) is very counterproductive. No vaccine is 100% effective. The vaccines were sufficiently effective to
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by pygy_ 4y ago
> up to the octave ... well, up to the thirteenth, at least... I suppose one could continue to name diatonic intervals above that for really convoluted chords. Without the off-by one error, one could do interval arithmetics in a way that
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by pygy_ 4y ago
Adding to the other replies, there's an off by one error in the interval names. The unison is an interval of zero notes, the second an interval of one note, etc...
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by pygy_ 4y ago
"Ti"? Nonsense. Everyone knows it’s "si"! Edit, also B is also sometimes notated as H. In that case B means what is usually Bb. Edit 2: also, I just discovered that Eb was sometimes called S. What a mess :-)

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