schoen

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   by schoen 9y ago

   One thing that I've noticed about ethical or socially responsible investment firms is that they have a very specific list of ethical concerns that they offer to help investors use to make investment decisions (maybe the most commonly-e
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   by schoen 9y ago

   I remember a conversation where a group of people considered whether we like turbulence or roller coasters. We managed to find represented all four combinations of liking neither, liking one but not the other, or liking both. I don't l
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   by schoen 9y ago

   I didn't know about this before myself, so I'm afraid I'm not in a position to help clarify your questions.
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   by schoen 9y ago

   Apparently https://freetype.org/patents.html
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   by schoen 9y ago

   Thanks!
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   by schoen 9y ago

   If you want, I can also send you a draft of my book. However, my book is very interested in history and culture so it doesn't have a practical orientation or organization and may present topics in the wrong order, and go into details t
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   by schoen 9y ago

   I didn't quite understand your reply. Did you mean to say that there are no majorities for infinite sets? Edit: It sounds elsewhere like the whole point of this may be the distinctive, counterintuitive properties of infinite sets (in t
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   by schoen 9y ago

   It seems like they have tons of meaning in terms of squares, parallel lines, and many parts of triangle geometry, including the Pythagorean theorem and the angle sum in a triangle being two rights angles.
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   by schoen 9y ago

   I think you're right. For example, if you have U={A, B, C, D, and E}, then given minority m₁={A, B} and m₂={B, C}, m₁∩m₂={B} is also a minority. Given majority M₁={A, B, C} and majority M₂={B, C, D}, M₁∪M₂={A, B, C, D} is also a majori
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    by schoen 9y ago

    Euclid was working in a context of classical geometric construction with compass and straightedge. If you have a line and a point not on the line, you can classically construct a perpendicular through the point. Use a compass centered on th
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    by schoen 9y ago

    There are several games that offer particular challenges and some of those should be a nice way to learn. You might also want to take a look at the FLOSS Manuals Introduction to the Command Line http://archive.flossmanuals.net&
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    by schoen 9y ago

    I wrote a book about Unix which has never been published, and in that book I suggested that the command line's benefits are 1. Remote administration and remote command execution 2. Scriptability and automation 3. Low ambiguity and high
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    by schoen 9y ago

    I don't think that quite fits into the security model of many of the purposes for which people use localhost, as they often want to avoid all external dependencies (including Internet access!) and all external trust. If they do use you
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    by schoen 9y ago

    But the thing about this setting is that you don't possess the secrets, so you can't reveal the secrets by noticing how long things take. An analogy to think about might be blind signatures. In blind signatures you sign a blinded
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    by schoen 9y ago

    I feel like the transliteration issues may be pretty complex! Someone using the site might choose to search for any of यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य (in Unicode) yadā-yadā hi dharmasya yadā yadā hi dharmasya yadaa yadaa hi dhamasya yada yada hi dharma
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    by schoen 9y ago

    There is also this kind of amazing book https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revol... about the time in the early 1970s "when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence".
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    by schoen 9y ago

    While this might feel counterintuitive, it's supported by Supreme Court precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States I think the future of this doctrine is unclear.
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    by schoen 9y ago

    I've been looking a little bit at anaphora resolution in AI and there's the trouble that your phrase could appear in many contexts where Google's translation would be completely correct! If "cousin" is the anteceden
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    by schoen 9y ago

    > Maybe a good example of related development is the disappearance of Þ (thorn) from english orthography, being replaced with th. This didn't have quite the full benefit that you describe, though, because of compound words like &quo
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    by schoen 9y ago

    I've seen a few of these before and found them very entertaining, but I wonder how they get the appropriate ATC clearances to cross all of the airways that they'd have to cross. Wouldn't a lot of these paths conflict with air
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    by schoen 9y ago

    Usually the diacritics exist because of something that is contrastive in the language's phonology. This post is mainly about a concrete example of this, where pączki and paczki refer to two different things that a shop could sell. So i
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    by schoen 9y ago

    I was a dropout, but I wish I had been a linguistics major! There was a post on Language Hat or Language Log where a professor recounted meeting a student who had linguistics "as a hobby", which was astonishing to the professor --
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    by schoen 9y ago

    Ouch, that asterisk does some seriously confusing double-duty in a thread like this... In Internet forum speak, the asterisk means "I meant to say" or "You meant to say". In linguistics, the asterisk means "This for
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    by schoen 9y ago

    I spent a long time learning to say [k'], and when I succeeded I had shirts made for myself and a friend who was practicing with me. They say: "I pronounced the velar ejective consonant [k'] and all I got was this [t']-s
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    by schoen 9y ago

    Wikipedia says Mandarin has all of /t͡s/ ⟨z⟩, /ʈ͡ʂ/ ⟨zh⟩, /t͡ɕ/ ⟨j⟩, /t͡sʰ/ ⟨c⟩, /ʈ͡ʂʰ/ ⟨ch⟩, /t͡ɕʰ/ ⟨q⟩, /s/ ⟨s⟩, /ʂ/ ⟨sh⟩, and /ɕ/ ⟨x⟩, all contrast
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    by schoen 9y ago

    The article says "aren't" rather than "are". Also, !!!! The original source appears to be http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/31/all-pet-anti-vacc...
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    by schoen 9y ago

    This cautious question-answering might feel unusual because it potentially violates Gricean norms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicature (In
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    by schoen 9y ago

    It's entertaining to see Larry Page wishing he had a penny for every time something happened!
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    by schoen 9y ago

    There have been physical turtle robots that are programmed using Logo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot) Part of Seymour Papert's pedagogical idea of programming the turtle seems to me to be that the th
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    by schoen 9y ago

    Some recent HN discussion about neural networks vs. neurons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14790673