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by qntty 10y ago
Yeah the title bothered me... >The proposal that one type of organism could descend from another type goes back to some of the first pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, such as Anaximander and Empedocles.[34] Such proposals survived into Ro
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by qntty 10y ago
Who cares about iPhones? They could afford education, healthcare and housing. These calculations are far from arbitrary. We have a reasonable idea of the sorts of things that people need to live a decent life, and these things have gotten m
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by qntty 10y ago
exp, ln and sin are elementary functions, so they can be given in terms of elementary functions.
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by qntty 10y ago
This is exactly how it seems to work to me but I've never seen it put so concisely.
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by qntty 10y ago
Yeah if this were true then most modern governments are doomed because they depend on intelligent political discussions happening.
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by qntty 10y ago
I recommend reading Amusing Ourselves to Death. The Lincoln-Douglas debates consisted of a series of hour+ long speeches by each candidate, all in a single sitting, and people went to them and listened.
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by qntty 10y ago
This issue is separate from whether bathrooms should be unisex
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by qntty 10y ago
How so?
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by qntty 10y ago
You need knowledge of calculus sooner in a typical undergrad curriculum for most majors. For example, freshman physics assumes you're taking Calc I/II concurrently. Most college kids can't handle two math classes at a time, s
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by qntty 10y ago
People go to VT for college but most don't stay.
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by qntty 10y ago
In my experience (of people from the east coast), a lot of people want to move to Boulder/Denver because they're "young" cities (and pot is legal).
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by qntty 10y ago
He'd have done a bit less if he was 255.
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by qntty 10y ago
Is it possible to order and pay for food as you're heading to a restaurant so it will be ready soon after you arrive (through seamless or something else)? I imagine this will be the norm someday soon.
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by qntty 10y ago
It depends a lot on what you want to specialize in. There are a few entry level classes that are good at preparing you for one of many paths you can take. For the very basics, I've heard good things about harvard's cs50. For an in
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by qntty 10y ago
The world moves faster today. It's easier to get distracted.
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by qntty 10y ago
>The interaction between Hellenistic Greece and Buddhism started when Alexander the Great conquered the Achaemenid Empire and further regions of Central Asia in 334 BC, crossing the Indus and then the Jhelum River after the Battle of the
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by qntty 10y ago
I'm currently working through CMU's 15-213. I highly recommend lectures 5-9 for anyone who never learned how processors handle functions calls on the lowest level. Part of the effectiveness of the class is CMU's interface for
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by qntty 10y ago
The fact that something is "all in your head" doesn't imply much about how much control you might have over it. Schizophrenia is "all in your head." Some people do have a reasonable amount of control over the situat
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by qntty 10y ago
So much for Apple being the security-conscious choice
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by qntty 10y ago
People who don't understand don't see nuance. People who are figuring it out want nuance articulated. People who already understand see the nuance as implied. It seems like the author is #2.
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by qntty 10y ago
>There is value in having a nuanced understanding No doubt. People should try to understand the nuance of things. But there's a difference between understanding nuance and actually trying to refute expert opinion using specious and
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by qntty 10y ago
What we need not better debate, but better dogma. It shouldn't be necessary to argue that climate change is real every time the topic comes up. Just like we dogmatically accept that cigarettes cause cancer, we should dogmatically accep
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Ask HN: What can I do to mitigate climate change?
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by qntty 10y ago
The fact that Sanders was predicted to do significantly better than Clinton against Trump means that there's plenty of votes to be won by listening to poor people without being racist.
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by qntty 10y ago
It's acceptable (if short-sighted) to exclude people for being racist. It's not acceptable to exclude people for being poor and uneducated. The Democrats messed up by ignoring the pain of poor people, not by being insufficiently t
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by qntty 10y ago
Diversity means including people in out-groups at the risk of alienating people in the in-group
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by qntty 10y ago
old thread is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201
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by qntty 10y ago
Is the slanted apostrophe symbol ( ‘ ) that he uses in #3 even treated the same as the normal single quote ( ' ) in C? Note that it's not even a backtick ( ` ), it's a third symbol that's not on a keyboard.
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by qntty 10y ago
Not entirely true, there are some overlaps. See: computational linguistics[1] for example [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics
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by qntty 10y ago
Do you have a link to C for Assembly Programmers? A google search doesn't turn up anything.

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