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by radford-neal 4y ago
I think you're not grasping the point that the cost of using 'alias' or updating scripts, though not huge, is paid by every single user , and often over and over again, every time they switch to using a different system. Ag
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by radford-neal 4y ago
I use fgrep all the time. Why should I spend time converting scripts, and retraining my fingers, and forever after taking longer to type grep -F? This is a breaking change that has no upside, only downside. It is idiocy. Just to elaborat
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Eight percent of the earth's crust is aluminum. That's a lot. Of course, that doesn't mean that recycling aluminum is senseless - there's the energy cost of isolating the aluminum to consider. But literally running out
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by radford-neal 4y ago
No. One can just remember a good password for gmail, and either use other passwords elsewhere (maybe bad, re-used, ones, or maybe good ones, not relevant if we're talking about gmail), or just always authenticate elsewhere using your
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by radford-neal 4y ago
> ... the homeless will lose any physical thing after N weeks. So what kind of 2FA would be homeless-proof? I don't see a solution. How about the homeless person remembers a good password, and that's all that's needed for
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Seems similar to the CORDIC algorithm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC ).
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by radford-neal 4y ago
> ... the Euro would experience inflation even if the central bank turned to a policy "money destroying" because the USD is absolutely crushing every currency. If the European central bank started reducing the supply of Euros,
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by radford-neal 4y ago
This trips my implausibility detector. Aside from the results themselves, one red flag is that they describe the subjects only as "living in a metropolitan area located in the southeastern region of the United States". What poss
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by radford-neal 4y ago
I'm not familiar with all the technical details, which in any case differ from country to country. But if you're trying to claim that the central banks of countries with fiat currencies can't create money to finance governme
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by radford-neal 4y ago
You've got to look at the combination: (1) Cut taxes, (2) Cut spending too? Or not, (3) If not, is the increased deficit financed by selling bonds to the public, or to the central bank? An increase in the money supply comes about only
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by radford-neal 4y ago
If someone writes a post saying the sky is green, NASA says "that's wrong", and then goes on to say that if the social media platform doesn't remove the post saying the sky is green, NASA will forbid the platform from se
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by radford-neal 4y ago
I think your distinction is the conventional legal view. Though to actually be a criminal offense, the second statement may need to be made in a context where it encourages driving actual people into the sea (not just talking about how goo
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by radford-neal 4y ago
It's not a very good history. It says "In the late 1940s, Stanislaw Ulam invented the modern version of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method", but as far as I know, this is incorrect. He invented a Monte Carlo method, but not
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by radford-neal 4y ago
If someone put legible graffiti on your house, and you weren't allowed to remove it, and it thus appeared that you endorse whatever the graffiti is saying (not to mention having to encounter it yourself all day), then that would indeed
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by radford-neal 4y ago
I haven't read the details of the case, but surely that's not what's at issue. I assume that the government is arguing that they are allowed to prohibit private parties from restricting speech, not that the government is r
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by radford-neal 4y ago
If someone paints your house pink without your authorization, you do indeed have cause for legal complaint. But one would not usually say that your free speech rights have been violated (unless in painting it, they covered up some speech o
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by radford-neal 4y ago
But "acts" that aren't obviously speech acts are not generally regarded as speech. For example, you have the freedom to say, "nobody should be allowed to paint their house pink", but you don't have the freedom
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by radford-neal 4y ago
In theory, the only benefit of FF over APS-C is when using very wide apertures. For example, you might using a FF camera with a 52mm f/1.2 lens, in order to get the very shallow depth of field this gives and/or the very high light
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by radford-neal 4y ago
"The free market is ... terrible at being proactive, it only benefits a company for exploiting a resource until it's gone ..." To the extent that this happens, it's not unique to a free market economy. The Soviet Union
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by radford-neal 4y ago
"the compositions of today's atmosphere is much different from 8000 years ago. So very different feedback circle become relevant for the future dynamics of the weather/climate" The CO2 level is higher. But the usual &qu
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by radford-neal 4y ago
The late cretaceous was a lot longer than 8000 years ago. Lots of people did die 8000 years ago (of course!). It was also the time when important agricultural plants were being domesticated and civilization was beginning - probably becau
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Rivers courses change all the time regardless of climate change. But in any case, this has nothing to do with whether there are "tipping points".
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Before becoming too alarmed, one might want to read about the Holocene Climate Optimum ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum ). Temperatures 8000 years ago were significantly higher than 200 years ag
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by radford-neal 4y ago
The difference between a bad-actor Prime Minister and a bad-actor Monarch is precisely that the latter, in today's world, clearly has no legitimacy outside of enforcing well-established norms. So a Monarch appointing their unelected f
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by radford-neal 4y ago
The Governor General does, and must, have real power. The King-Bing affair was controversial, but the Governor General's action was arguably justified, and negative opinions of it do not set a precedent that the Governor General can n
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by radford-neal 4y ago
I vaguely recall seeing in Linode docs that Linode itself blocks outgoing mail, unless you contact them to arrange for them not to.
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Yes, the article mostly assumes that the initial effects of AI generated fake content will be the same as the final effects. This is silly. People will change what they do in response. Though at the very end, he does say "We should l
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Missing from the article is any explanation for why the statues were above water 600 years ago, then below water most of the time, and are now above water again (at least briefly). Has there been some change in the course of the river? Was
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Related: Lincos, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos_language
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Yes, it could be useful, if seen as a natural language front-end to a symbolic math package.

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