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by skulk 5y ago
Nationally televised sports are incredibly successful in the US, so it's no surprise politics has morphed into a version of it. Everyone supports a "team" and is focused on winning rather than, you know, actual politics.
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by skulk 5y ago
From the CW project: > In an era where memory is outsourced to Google, GPS, calendar alerts and calculators, it will necessarily produce a generalised loss of knowledge that is not just memory, but rather motor memory. In other words, a
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by skulk 5y ago
Maybe a rock hurtling at terminal velocity straight towards your head (approximately) makes some interesting high frequency sound waves that only dogs can hear?
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by skulk 5y ago
> This is a second Reformation, and all the seriously-worded editorials about the dangers of FB misinformation are just priests annoyed that regular people can now read the Bible in the vernacular. Everything old is new again. On the sur
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by skulk 5y ago
Been playing a lot of Dwarf Fortress lately, and this feels like something that would fit right in. Hell, for all I know it already is there and I just haven't seen it yet.
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by skulk 5y ago
There are still poorly understood physical phenomena that could prove to be tremendously useful, like superconductors. If quantum gravity leads us to room-temperature superconductors (for example), that would be absolutely earth-shattering
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by skulk 5y ago
I know a vocalist who has perfect relative pitch who can pretend she has perfect absolute pitch because she knows the lowest note she can (quietly) sing, giving her a solid reference point.
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by skulk 5y ago
It points to an interesting gap in discourse around vaccines. One side (the mainstream) claims vaccines are effective and safe. The other side, claims that no, we do not in fact know that the vaccine is safe and therefore you should not get
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by skulk 5y ago
This philosophy.se post answers that question: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/7194/how-is-g...
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by skulk 5y ago
It seems clear that if one takes the position that appointing an arbiter of truth is unacceptable, the only remaining solution is an aggressive investment in education.
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by skulk 5y ago
> The lack of practical applications of "advanced" maths is a big problem. I vividly remember self-studying calculus because I absolutely wanted to know how to find the area under a polynomial curve. I knew how to find areas of
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by skulk 5y ago
Compared to opioids peddled by pharmaceutical companies (who are, no doubt, responsible for the US pushing to get kratom banned), kratom _IS_ a miracle drug. Edit: also, I'll bite on the r/quittingkratom link. The first upvoted th
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by skulk 5y ago
> The theory of algorithms is more important particular language or implementation details. They agree on the philosophy, but Knuth disagrees on the praxis.
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by skulk 5y ago
Full transparency is in the "DNA of crypto" imo, and shady dealings being out in the open is definitely a check against "crony capitalism." However, beyond the surface, claiming that crypto will clean up corruption is la
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by skulk 5y ago
> these findings never come from physicists or engineers working on wireless technologies It's not hard to believe that there's pressure from the telecom industry to not find out these kinds of things. However, it seems quite f
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by skulk 5y ago
I had to scroll for a while to get past the politics or explanations of how the radiation is produced. Here's the only explanation I could find of what "harmful" entails: > Many biologists and electromagnetic field scienti
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by skulk 5y ago
huh? That was their announcement in 2015 which this article is quoting for context.
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by skulk 5y ago
I guess strictly, it is a contradiction because indeed "all of existing mathematics" cannot be derived purely constructively. The way I choose to see it, however, is constructivism is the activity of seeing how far you can go with
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by skulk 5y ago
Here is a lecture series on HoTT from CMU. The video recordings are abysmal, but I still find the lectures very interesting because of how the instructor motivates everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92V0OMgvhM&
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by skulk 5y ago
It's not a contradiction. In the constructive sense, we don't know the real numbers except the ones that can be talked about using concepts that are more intrinsic to our reality such as rational numbers or circles. You can expres
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by skulk 5y ago
Does modern neuroscience get us any closer to assigning utility to any given pleasure? That seems to be the focus of the article, not merely defining pleasure.
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by skulk 5y ago
weigh-in: $ mkdir /tmp/umi-weigh-in $ cd /tmp/umi-weigh-in $ npm init && npm install --save umi $ du -hs node_modules 130M node_modules
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by skulk 5y ago
> We — the programmers, designers, product people — collectively decided that users don't deserve the right to code in everyday products. Users are too stupid. They'd break stuff. Coding is too complicated for ordinary people.
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by skulk 5y ago
I still use the basic HTML version, it works fine and does all the things I need a mail client to do (except a "select all" button, which I've added with a short userscript: http://ix.io/3pXu/js )
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by skulk 5y ago
What is 'Type'? Is it a Type as well? In a toy dependent type system I'm building I just declared the top type as an instance of itself without caring about soundness. I'm curious what the approach is here.
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by skulk 5y ago
How is this different from Lagrangian mechanics? It seems as though the author is substituting "action" in Lagrangian mechanics for "task" and calling it a new theory.
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by skulk 6y ago
looked at your source code, I think `window.requestAnimationFrame`[1] may fit your use case better than `setTimeout`. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requ...
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by skulk 6y ago
They're just showing their dedication to transparency.
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by skulk 6y ago
slightly relevant: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
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by skulk 6y ago
> Not wasting the first 18 years of a person's life might be an alternative It's not an alternative, it's strictly necessary. People look around and wonder how 70 million Americans voted for a certain someone, and the clea

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