salthound

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by salthound 7y ago
Kudos for looking into it, and offering a correction. If you don't trust Romero's account for some reason, you can find this corroborated by Carmack (his only answer on Quora [1]). [1] https://www.quora.com/profile
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by salthound 7y ago
That is exactly what it was, a very interesting piece of foundational research in anthropology justified by allusions to the dangers of nuclear pollution.
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by salthound 7y ago
I don't understand this. Work on making what illegal? Facial recognition? Or breach of duty? Or making mistakes? It seems to me that we already have the proper way of dealing with this situation. Have the company pay punitive/exem
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by salthound 7y ago
The law provides remedies: someone has been wronged, and the legal system provides recourse. The law also regulates conduct: the punishment acts as a deterrent, to avoid similar violations in the future. A negligible settlement won't a
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by salthound 7y ago
> it is inconceivable in Western Europe that homelessness would be tolerated near a national monument. Name the country. I have lived in many cities and towns across Europe. I know that homelessness is tolerated one street down from Edin
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by salthound 7y ago
Do bees produce "naturally" food for bears? Do hens produce "naturally" food for foxes?
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by salthound 7y ago
I think the actual analogy was lost in translation: the point is that, unlike its older brother, Sgr A* is not going to "pose" when you point your camera at it.
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by salthound 8y ago
> You also can't consent by going somewhere where for all practical purposes you are legally compelled to go. There is no legal issue. E.g. this happens to people in the army (and conscription is legal under US law), who are not all
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by salthound 8y ago
But it should be pointed out that induction is essentially unrelated to Gödel's theorem. For example, Robinson Arithmetic is a finitely axiomatized theory whose axioms contain only one existential quantifier, but just like full (Peano)
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by salthound 8y ago
No. What the article details is not an ordinary exit from the French market, but an overnight attempt to pressure France into a change of government, which would involve disabling critical infrastructure and not fulfilling contractual and l
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by salthound 8y ago
That's one silly power fantasy. But what if they really tried to do it? Well, the most likely outcome would be the US government declaring Google a risk to national security, and taking direct control. After all if this could happen to
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by salthound 8y ago
In humans, the optic nerve routes in front of the retina, creating a 14 degrees wide blind spot in our vision. The nerves could equally well route behind the retina, eliminating the blind spots essentially for free. Given how important visi