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https://archive.is/A4nST
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I think you are onto something. Study mathematical objects and relations among these objects, without bringing in Categoricity. That's what Structuralism in Philosophy of Sciences is: "In the philosophy of science, structuralism[α
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The problem is: do numbers exist? One group says, they don't. Another say, they do exist in the Platonic world, but this Platonic world is accessible from the world we inhabit in. Next time, look at the folks who looks for Platonic lov
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Yes, that's how 'reputation laundering' works: just acquire all clinics and fool people with the tag "Stanford".
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There are two kinds of mathematicians, or one can say, two cultures of mathematics: (a) problem solving, proving conjectures, etc (b) theories. Alexander Grothendieck belongs to (b). Paul Erdos to (a). You can read Gower's paper on &qu
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When you are working with the same sales people multiple times, it is an instance of treated prisoners dilemma. Used car salesman is just one time prisoners dilemma.
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Apple laid off 200 workers in Apple Car division in 2019 too: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Apple-self-driv...
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Human flourishing works as long as it solely depends on the individual. However if flourishing depends on others, selfishness of others becomes the first priority. Question: is it possible to flourish without depending on others?
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Just because both X and Hitler say y, X doesn’t become a Nazi sympathizer. It is only possible if y is only derivable from the Nazi theory but not derivable from any other theory. Next time, when both X and Hitler are found to be said that
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Default value is 300 seconds: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/vagrantfile/mac... So, just set config.vm.boot_timeout to 900 in the vagrant file, and see what happens.
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It is called Temporal logic or tense logic[1][2]. Linear time temporal logic is used in formal verification. [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-temporal/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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The problem is proving the culpability of a particular individual, because it is the organizational structure that drives criminal acts. That's why big organizations have lawyers on their payrolls in order to provide policies to shield
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Special trusts like this [1] can save ones' assets. [1] https://www.sjslawpc.com/practice-areas/what-is-a-medicaid-a...
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MMT works well, if exporters want to swap their real assets (commodities, food, chips, metals, labor) with US dollars (nominal). No one wants to export their real stuff to Venezuela unless the latter pays in US dollars.
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For business accounts, "positive pay" and "reverse positive pay" are solutions to check fraud. With "positive pay", you upload the check number, the payee name, and the amount to your bank, if any of them don&#
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Maybe, Apple and Goldman Sachs negotiated a better deal with Mastercard esp interchange fees. For instance, Costco pays Visa 0.4% interchange fees for accepting Visa cards exclusively at Costco.
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Poor farmers in India and other third world countries have noticed many phenomena since 1990: (a) unpredictable rain falls, because of which (b) people started to drill wells to fetch ground water, which was abundant at 100 ft. After drying
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Trade unions in India are paper tigers, and have no influence on those who want to go to the Middle East for labor jobs. The genuine question: are conditions for Indian labor going to be worse in Israel than in the Arab countries?
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How to deal with bad odors from sewage heat?
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Demarcation problem is unique to Popper's philosophy of science. That problem doesn't exist in other philosophies of science. The best attack on psychoanalysis comes from the late philosopher of science Adolf Grunbaum's &quot
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Love to see Ackman's project of going after all academics at MIT for any instances of plagiarism. Usually fights between different groups of elites show what's going on.
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One should never short a stock based on fundamentals. That’s an expensive lesson every stock trader would learn after incurring losses.
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Indian grocery stores carry both small peanuts (Indian variety) and large peanuts (American variety). 4 lbs small peanuts cost about $5.99; 4 lbs large ones cost about $6.99
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What you cite is one factor. Another factor is access for students. Once upon a time, curious students had two choices: buy books to learn on their own; or go to whatever low quality teachers they had. Cheap internet, YouTube, LibGen, other
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Candidates can promise many things, but they won't pass laws to ban outsourcing. Even if they do, they dilute it to an extent that these laws become impotent by creative loopholes.
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S-box is used in symmetric ciphers in cryptography. S-box = substitution box or lookup table [3][4]. You can see an example of Rijndael s-box in a python script here [1][2]. [1] https://github.com/kokke/tiny-AES-c/
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Governments indirectly forces banks to not deal with physical cash any more. If you frequently deposits/withdraws cash or any untraceable monetary instruments, AML algos flag your account as risky, leading to closure of your bank accou
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I think Apple gives all days off between Christmas and New Year. That's for employees, but not for contractors.
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Besides all good references you see here, try to understand human beings as selfish creatures. Cooperation comes into being when you need to play with the same person/team many more times, that is, iterative games. If other party, say,
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That’s how every response to this sort of criticism: when people criticize capitalism, response is “that’s not a true capitalism”. When people criticize policies of communist regimes, defenders of communism say that these regimes are not in

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