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by sn41 6y ago
As a liberal and a person who believes in the milk of human kindness against all contrary evidence, I do have a problem with this overenthusiasm. When the trifecta becomes republican, will liberal podcasts be banned? There must be some arbi
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by sn41 6y ago
Great for you!! I am considerably younger, but I am currently learning Forth, essentially based on the same principle. However, I don't have a lifetime of earnings to provide for my family yet, so I have to pretend to care about boring
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by sn41 6y ago
I finally understood what monads and monad transformers are about. And there comes arrows and linear types. Ouch, my head hurts.
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by sn41 6y ago
Actually: in-place quicksort in Haskell is as verbose as in other languages. The 5 line quicksort uses linear order additional space.
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by sn41 6y ago
AFAIK no Indian court has complained about VPN access to twitter accounts. The parent seems to be right, there seems to be an overreaction by Twitter to an issue under consideration, not even completed. Twitter might have, as you said, just
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by sn41 6y ago
I will try this, thanks for the suggestion.
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by sn41 6y ago
It is used primarily to make the person ineligible for that post again, to ensure that he does not run again for president, for example.
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by sn41 6y ago
This is really a nice point. My parents' home computer is about 12 years old. They have a Windows XP machine, which is too basic to install Windows 10, so even upgrading Chrome and Firefox is not an option. (They cannot use Linux, let
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by sn41 6y ago
According to US law, a president can be impeached even if he is no longer in office.
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by sn41 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. There's nothing special about this country versus that country when it comes to inhuman behavior. I somehow am very disappointed at humanity. People who argue for peace, forgiveness and solidarity are often vi
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by sn41 6y ago
It's not absurd, but there is a lot of hypocrisy surrounding the British Raj especially with regards to how concerned they were with the welfare of the Indian subjects. There were a lot of good British administrators who were benevolen
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by sn41 6y ago
I also have a lot of connections there, but it's just a very questionable choice. If they really cared about serving a large population, they would have connected Calicut to Palakkad (both of which were part of British Malabar).
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by sn41 6y ago
I recommend Shashi Tharoor's "An Era of Darkness". The reason why the railways became so developed during the British Era is because the Crown promised up to 10 percent returns in many cases. So it was a speculative boom, wit
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by sn41 6y ago
> repeatedly clicking the first link on Wikipedia This is an interesting random walk experiment :)
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by sn41 6y ago
I did decline. But I have seen many of my parents' generation getting increasingly radical (I am not American, BTW. I am talking about India). They don't have the tools to understand what is going on. Their entire life was trainin
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by sn41 6y ago
The recommendation should be based on what a large fraction of my time is spent on (average over the timeline of my history), rather than a large of fraction of people who watch the last watched video is based on. Why does one video entire
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by sn41 6y ago
You are being naive. I wanted to see what the impact of a 50 caliber looks like on iron plates. This is just a childish curiosity for things that go bang. Immediately I was bombarded with recommendations of barely concealed white supremacis
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by sn41 6y ago
I think the Emacs doctor drilled down my insecurities down to a bad exam in school. (S)he ? claimed that his/her secretary will send me the bill, but I haven't been back so they must have forgotten.
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by sn41 6y ago
oh wow. I thought junk food might be involved with such long bouts. But I didn't correlate caffeine with this. What I wondered originally was, whether sleep deprivation/loss of quality sleep for as little as one week could lead
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by sn41 6y ago
I have been fascinated with the effects of solitary confinement on mental health. Why the Covid pandemic has added horrors is because large parts of human populations are under virtual imprisonment, not being able to visit and touch friends
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by sn41 6y ago
Just a general question, is it known why overwork and things like playing games for long hours has not just benign effects like fatigue, but actually leads to sudden death? There is the notion of karoshi in Japan which is death due to overw
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by sn41 6y ago
I do respect the talented Miss Spears. As mentioned in the website, Hedy Lemarr was just a class apart - a great beauty combined with prodigious scientific talent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
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by sn41 6y ago
I think this could be it. Perhaps I did not explore Thunderbird enough to find the exact match feature. I was surprised because Thuderbird and Seamonkey should be from the same code base, so they should behave similar. Anyway, thanks for yo
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by sn41 6y ago
I am really happy with Seamonkey email client. One of these days, I felt sheepish, and went to Thunderbird. Didn't cut it for me. The killer feature in Seamonkey for me is the search. The default works, but so does MacOS mail - but the
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by sn41 6y ago
Related: Postscript is a great stackbased language to learn to program in. A good initial exercise is to write a factorial function: https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF http://paulb
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by sn41 6y ago
That's perhaps true, but it is important to distinguish a gentle creative genius from the company itself.
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by sn41 6y ago
The consistency of ZFC cannot be proven in ZFC - this follows from the second incompleteness theorem. The consistency of ZFC is a very useful theorem. There are also very easy to understand number-theoretic and combinatorial results, like t
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by sn41 6y ago
This technique by John Perry (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Stanford) actually makes sense: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ The idea is that we'd rather be doing something else. For example, currently,
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by sn41 6y ago
Politics/business nexus. Unsolved problem since the dawn of time.
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These clauses are used by lawyers in civil disputes (divorce etc.) to speed up the legal proceedings by making it a criminal case, and to reduce the number of adjournments. Criminal conviction is not the real end here, it is a pressure tact

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