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by smohare 8y ago
I don’t love the new keyboards, but I program without any incident on them, though I try to cultivate a light, clean typing style. I’ll even go so far as to say that I don’t mind the Touch Bar. But I rarely used media / fn keys to begi
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by smohare 8y ago
From a resource perspective there is no surplus, due to opportunity costs in land conversion. Mid-term prospects for meeting global food demand boil down to increasing production yields. (Sure, distant technology will probably change this a
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by smohare 8y ago
To be fair, the Poster did mention they wore gloves.
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by smohare 9y ago
Care to cite all the research showing the interactions social media provide are in fact so salubrious?
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by smohare 9y ago
Lustig has always stuck me as a bit alarmist. Another red flag are his attempts to capitalize on his increase in popularity. That being said, he does seem sincere and not attempting to spread disinformation as such. A somewhat old, but meas
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by smohare 9y ago
As another fellow mathematician (albeit pure), I take some issue with your argument. Rather, I'd say the collection of apples is a clear manifestation of a monoid that is not a group. Why should all physical systems form a group? It se
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by smohare 9y ago
Indeed, Cannes' policy will only serve to degrade its relevance.
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by smohare 9y ago
A movie playing in a theater promotes about as much local business and culture as snake oil promotes health.
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by smohare 9y ago
Coal has vast negative externalities. The toll on health and lost productivity alone are large, not to mention its affects on the climate. http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?Rec...
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by smohare 9y ago
To suggest that mental acuity is uniformly distributed with respect to age seems a bit "post-truth". The priors at play most definetly suggest much greater scrutiny of a 95 year old, but by no means should they be preclusive.
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by smohare 10y ago
No evidence? Except for the vast predictive and explanatory power of science over magical thinking? Please, go ahead and list some major contributions to humanity of the latter.
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by smohare 10y ago
You can always spot someone who has near zero comprehension of science as soon as they speak about "belief in science".
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by smohare 10y ago
Some engineers take exception with software developers using term, given that the disciplines are somewhat different.
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by smohare 10y ago
I'm not one to suggest psychedelics are immoral, but an appeal to antiquity fallacy is hardly warranted. Especially one as fraught with pseudoscience and magical thinking as shamanism.
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by smohare 10y ago
Mercola is one of the worst promoters and profiteers of pseudoscience. https://www.google.com/amp/scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/0... Here Mercola is ranked in the same "pure garbage"category
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by smohare 10y ago
While I understand your sentiment, unmitigated access to treatment modalities is generally not a good thing. People, often children with no real informed consent, die every year because they forsake science-based medicine for quackery. The
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by smohare 10y ago
As a data scientist who spends most of my time in the terminal, I do not regret losing function keys. In fact, I find the touchbar to be vastly more useful and easier to operate in most contexts. That being said, I tend to eschew function k
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by smohare 11y ago
Even the typesetting is atrocious in the Yagisawa paper.