selfishgene

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by selfishgene 6y ago
Bitcoin is a direct assault on the authority of central banks to control money supply and set interest rates. The time is long overdue for citizens to start playing a more direct role in these two important functions of monetary policy. Bit
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Yes -- big difference.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
https://twitter.com/frankwilczek/status/1183476893049380867 Shame on Frank for trying to downplay his connection to Jeffrey Epstein! Pinker once tried to claim that "he never really liked the guy" either
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by selfishgene 6y ago
The lawyer in me asks why would a woman who has consented to 5 other sexual liaisons in the last 3 days be any more entitled to hide the true nature of her sexual behavior from the jury than let's say a member of the LGBTQ community wh
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by selfishgene 6y ago
It's not just in California where elitist property owners are passing snob-zoning ordinances to artificially inflate the value of their homes ... often by hiding behind environment quality or historical preservation acts.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
I'm always interested in applications to signal processing: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-36104-3 You can download it for free from academic libraries that have SpringerLink.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Before buying into all of this "research," do realize that it is written by academics who are likely to be among the least impacted by releasing a large number of criminals back onto the streets, since many of them live and/o
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by selfishgene 6y ago
What is the best open-source cross-platform alternative available?
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Would nudging tax rates a little higher on the highest income brackets and Congress taking steps to close the many tax loopholes that companies exploit to avoid paying their fair share of corporate taxes in this country not also help fix th
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by selfishgene 6y ago
That is exactly why I recommended it along with his entire website. But thanks for adding the comment. Suggested edit: "... the way a world-class mathematician does." (because it may have a lot to do with why his book is so much
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Best place to learn about a lot of topics in math including the necessary background for understanding the Feynman trick and related maneuvers is Terrence Tao's website: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ Measure theory i
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by selfishgene 6y ago
TeXmacs is an impressive project spanning several decades: https://www.texmacs.org It uses Guile as its scripting language and documents created within TeXmacs are represented as Scheme programs. In addition to providing a LaTeX
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by selfishgene 6y ago
TeXmacs for scientific publishing. www.texmacs.org
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Is former MIT president Susan Hockfield going to apologize for taking money from Epstein? Is she going to apologize for not firing Sloan School hedge fund charlatan Gabriel Bitran after he confessed to a $500 million scam that the SEC only
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by selfishgene 6y ago
There are some important mathematical subtleties that this article glosses over. More details can be found here: http://fy.chalmers.se/~tfkhj/FeynmanIntegration.pdf
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by selfishgene 6y ago
What about libel?
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Can one edit or remove a post after creating it? How long are posts guaranteed to stay available? Do your future plans for the service include creating an authentication method so that users can edit/remove earlier posts or download al
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by selfishgene 6y ago
One of the best introductions: https://forallx.openlogicproject.org/forallxyyc.pdf Highly recommended. Also provides good preparation if you want to go on to study topics like non-standard logic and automated proof systems
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by selfishgene 6y ago
... and at MIT apparently: https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/mit-professor-arre...
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by selfishgene 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/china-technolo... https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-is-investigating-more-than... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-u
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by selfishgene 6y ago
And according to Signe Swenson, who blew the whistle on the protection racket that Rafael Reif was running for Epstein, apparently MIT got some of that $158M through the "Leon Black route" https://www.axios.com/jef
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Don't know about law firms, but there were certainly universities standing by to help Epstein conjure up a strategy, like Harvard and MIT. All MIT did to earn $850,000 from Epstein was send him a thank-you note personally signed by pre
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MIT president and faculty members defend professor arrested for China ties(bostonglobe.com)
4 points by selfishgene 6y ago|0 comments
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Yes, but Element is also a client for many protocols, Matrix being one of them. Maybe then I should have asked why still use Pidgin over Element?
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by selfishgene 6y ago
In a nutshell, what reason is left to prefer Pidgin over using a more modern protocol like Matrix with the Element client and bridging to legacy services as necessary? All the FAQ for Matrix offers on this point is the ability to unify ones
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by selfishgene 6y ago
I would assume that she could create an email address using a service like Proton and access it through Tor Browser.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Think of what Jeffrey Epstein was obtaining from MIT president Rafael Reif in the form of a personally signed thank-you note in exchange for donations to the MIT Media Lab that started back in 2002 with co-founder and accused co-pedophile M
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by selfishgene 6y ago
That's why she wants help setting up a secure site for leaks.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Can you provide a contact email in your profile?
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by selfishgene 6y ago
More to the point, she was Fed Reserve Chairman under Obama, which makes her a prime suspect here. Crypto currency is a direct assault on that agency's ability to levy the most insidious and regressive tax of all on the American people

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