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by retsibsi 5y ago
I don't think the other commenter is disagreeing with you on those things -- they're talking about human perceptions, and saying that although brown is in fact dark orange, that's not how we name it or how we tend to see it.
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That's how I read it -- the claim being that those people are basically doing it for fun, 'playing the role' of someone with important secrets or powerful adversaries.
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I'm not sure about that exact size, but I was looking into large e-readers a while ago, and roughly (perhaps exactly?) A4-sized ones do exist. From memory they were all pretty expensive, and I'm not sure I found one whose quality
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Depends on which 'above' you're looking from though, right? (edit: that wasn't meant to be obnoxiously rhetorical, just to signal that I might be messing up the visualisation myself.) If the planet is rotating around the
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AFAIK it's also unproven that it's not a forced win for black. (Not trying to correct you, I just think it's an interesting addition.)
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If USD became worthless, people would stop denominating the value of bitcoin in USD. This (or less drastic but still major fluctuations of USD) would complicate questions about how bitcoin's value had changed over time, but I'm no
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Why do you think they would do that?
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Why would it have value in relation to some of those and not others? Sure, state action could make it hard to exchange bitcoins for other currencies, but we could still infer a $ value by looking at the btc and $ prices of goods they can bo
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> the seem to want to attract articles that are not mainstream because they are ethically and morally outrageous to most people (say bigotry, cruelty, eugenics, etc.) Some ideas are considered outrageous because people fail to distinguis
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> The truth is there is such thing as a knack for music, but it doesn't really make all that much of a difference in the end, after practice. The people you are comparing, though, are mostly people with at least a moderate 'kna
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Non-American here, but I'd say yes on the apple pie, no on the baseball. I'm used to multiple countries sharing a 'national sport' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_sport ) so it doesn't s
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It seems to be too late to edit, so I'll post here rather than clog up the thread with individual replies: thanks, I appreciate all the explanations. I will have to look up some details but it seems the basic takeaway is 'if in do
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> 32-bit floats are sufficient and desired for performance in many cases, like graphics or audio I was googling this recently, when deciding whether to use floats or doubles in a simple game I was writing. Some answers suggested that (32
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In your psychoanalysis of the country, have you considered the possibility that it... strongly preferred not to let tens of thousands of people die painfully, and hundreds of thousands more become seriously ill?
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You're not taking into account the misery caused by covid. Death is far from the only bad consequence of an unchecked pandemic
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I've mostly been interested in effectiveness against the Delta strain, so the links in my history are recent preprints that have something to say about that: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.
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> What evidence is there of the efficacy of the vaccine that isn’t provided directly from Pfizer/Moderna? There are multiple observational studies looking at real-world effectiveness. If necessary I'll find some links, but have
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Can you flesh this out more? I'm not asking for academic rigour, but at the moment it's hard to engage because your critique is so sweeping and unspecific.
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> Compare that to a shooter I wouldn't claim they're quite so opaque, but Quakelike FPS games have a similar problem. They appear to be about shooting, but in fact at least 50% of the game is resource control (and even the comb
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> Suddenly I want “comment code folding” up in here I'm probably misunderstanding but if you mean you want to collapse comment threads, click the [-] next to the timestamp of a comment.
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The volunteers who wrote by hand learned unfamiliar letters more quickly , and did better on some related tasks after a small number of alphabet lessons: 'naming letters, writing letters, spelling words, and reading words'. It&#x
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To me, the natural interpretation (at least in contexts where calendar-decades don't have special importance) would be 20+ years. The first decade is the first ten, the second decade is the second ten, and the third decade begins after
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Location/accent is important, but sometimes we can get by without IPA. There will be some ambiguity, but often we're sufficiently familiar with each other's accents to interpret phonetic spellings as intended. (Though I do th
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I think "pretty much everyone" is an exaggeration. Google's pronunciations (British and US) are both the 'anus' version -- though the British one has a secondary stress on the first syllable, rather than the schwa o
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He writes big, popular books making grand, confident claims about the world, and purporting to back them up with scientific evidence. Experts in the fields he draws from regularly point out significant errors (or misleadingly selective pres
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I don't think anyone's saying Gladwell is dumb for not knowing about eigenvalues. They're taking his error as a symbol/symptom of his dilletante approach, and the fact that he's making bold claims and 'teaching
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That seems reasonable enough when you unpack it; I just don't see the point of stating it in falsely absolute terms. Maybe (almost certainly) I'm too much of a literalist, but instead of saying 'always' and then clarifyi
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People often insist on this point, and I still don't get it. Honestly it comes across as intentionally exaggerating a claim beyond reason, in order to make it sufficiently counterintuitive to sound clever. The point of the program is t
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But then why did the 5C flop, rather than succeeding in the short term and killing the iPhone brand?
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The claim isn't that it's okay to break the rules, it's that this rule should be changed. We need rules against PEDs to prevent (or at least mitigate) an arms race with serious health consequences; we only need rules against

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