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by s_m_t 8y ago
Anti-vaxxers and flat earthers are perfect fulfillments of American values. Watch just about any Hollywood movie or popular YA novel, isn't it always about a bunch of losers discovering a conspiracy, being ignored or hindered by all th
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Shit, I guess I'm a Nazi because I like history. Edit: Just checked my bookshelf and I might also be a genghis khan sympathizer.
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Cool, thanks for the consideration
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by s_m_t 8y ago
You've missed a step here. No one thought to do math until people started to seriously worry about proportions, distance, quantity, time, etc of the natural world. Once you've set up those rules (and necessarily rigged them in f
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by s_m_t 8y ago
The danger is when the state or a political party or some other organizarion with the states levers of power controls the algorithm. It won't be flat earth videos that get deranked it will be anything that contradicts selling us trash
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Have you considered that what this essentially leads to is the only acceptable emotional response being either classic nerd commiseration or over-intellectualizing yourself out of any position that risks any sort of conflict. Essentially, a
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I thought the camera limited match was the only one it lost? Once alphastar was faced with a scenario that couldn't be brute forced with perfect micro it pretty much stopped working.
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Not having to move the camera around is massive. High level starcraft has been likened to something like poker by many pros. Except, instead of getting a steady trickle of information in terms of the cards being put down you have control ov
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Well, ignoring spam clicks, APM is a measure of the number of decisions that a player makes throughout the course of the game. You'd expect a player making more decisions to come out ahead in a game as fast paced and action oriented as
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Isn't the autopilot in a tesla pretty similar to what is called autopilot in an airplane?
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by s_m_t 8y ago
>Maybe your LoS algorithm sucks with 1x1 columns and windows, so decide your game doesn't need them and you move on. I really like this viewpoint. The awesome thing about a game (and a roguelike in particular)is that YOU generate
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by s_m_t 8y ago
The president is the commander in chief of the armed forces so pretty much anything the military does is under the presidents authority or by authority delegated down the chain of command from him/her. The president could personally le
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by s_m_t 8y ago
I guess the tape is just a linked list of bits? What confuses me about lambda calculus, and a lot of math in general, I guess, as opposed to something like the turing machine, is that, how do I put this... To actually implement Lisp or lamb
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by s_m_t 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone
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Its obviously a 'self aware' chan joke. There is a pretty big chan culture and furry culture overlap because of the many conflicts between the userbases. Eventually the furries won and now inhabit quarantine boards on 4chan. The w
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Have you considered that this perspective is also an almost perfect ego preserving technique? It's not my fault I'm bad at math, its just that those other guys have memorized the language. I just think different so of course I w
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by s_m_t 8y ago
In information theory you can't come up with an encoding that will give you more than a bit of information per bit of source on average. Of course, the information we usually care about is usually highly structured, so we use encodings
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Its just compression and information theory.
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What problem are electronic voting machines supposed to solve?
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After using what was essentially this technique to learn to read Japanese I'm not entirely convinced it is actually all that useful compared to just reading. I found myself spending so much time in anki that sometimes I wouldn't d
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Programming itself I think is fairly easy if you have the mindset for it. What isnt easy is making your program work with existing technology and programs. Same goes for writing vs reading code. Maybe we teach and learn programming all wron
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Hmm, strange way to live...
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by s_m_t 8y ago
I think you are missing a crucial point. I as a consumer really do not care in the least if someone hacks my device. Worst comes to worst I either do some sort of factory reset or just throw it out, I was probably looking to buy the shinier
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Yeah, Hitler was no trojan horse. He pretty much laid out his plans in a book... Which he wrote in prison after a failed coup.
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by s_m_t 8y ago
Everyone seems to also forget the then recent success of the Korean war. At risk of confusing what was known then and what is known now, well, look at NK vs SK today. Vietnam under socialist control turned out to be not anywhere as extreme
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by s_m_t 8y ago
So why now. Sandy Hook was five years ago.
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Can't you do the same thing with a simple chain of hashs a la version control?? Why would you need distributed consensus on a patient's health record. My understanding is that Blockchains only make sense in a low trust distribut
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Sorry, in "if cheaters are allowed to completely run rampant this isn't the case." I meant "the case" as something like "the perception of cheating is more damaging than the actual cheating". Poorly writte
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I don't think it is really the cheaters that degrade the experience, it is the knowledge (right or wrong) that cheaters exist that reduces trust that makes for not fun experiences. I've played online games for many thousands of ho
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I imagine it is just easier to balance that way. "Death" in these games really just means teleporting you to a predetermined position and restarting the encounter (in the souls games also adding a chance to permanently lose some o

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