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by stolio 12y ago
Others may view the barking in a different way than you do and that could explain their different reactions. If a dog is barking out of fear scolding it may be a bad option because 1) you proved them right. They thought it was a bad situat
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by stolio 12y ago
I'm referring to service dogs for severe disabilities: multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, traumatic injuries from war, things like that. The "Emotional Support Animals" referenced in the article certainly are not receivi
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by stolio 12y ago
False. Society has a certain amount of patience for people taking their dogs everywhere, it's not unlimited. Not everybody likes dogs, some people have had traumatic experiences, some people are allergic, there are health codes to wo
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by stolio 12y ago
For reference it costs about $25,000 over a period of 6 to 9 months to train a service dog. If you see somebody with a service dog it's because they absolutely need it. There are waiting lists, background checks, interviews, even th
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by stolio 12y ago
For an example of what isomorphism+macros can do, here's what dynamic HTML generation looks like in Clojure: https://github.com/yokolet/hiccup-samples#recipe-4-form There's a small DSL (domain specific langua
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by stolio 12y ago
Sounds like the plot from Revenge Of The Nerds. Very unlikely because of the same problem as before: the ability to attract females correlates with the skills needed to start a successful new tribe that can compete with the old. The only w
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by stolio 12y ago
It sounds like Racket. The IDE feels a little toy-like and it's a very academic language, though in a good way. The stock IDE does not communicate a feeling of raw power. (edit: I stand corrected, it was Common Lisp)
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by stolio 12y ago
I might as well argue that women started polygamy so more of them could be with the top males. If you lack all of the things it might take to attract female partners (health, money, power, social status, charisma, intelligence, humor, etc.
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by stolio 12y ago
I started reading that Baumeister article to complain about the current political climate. Even though it turns out I'm sympathetic to his views there were a few interesting angles, as you put it. One that had never occurred to me: &
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by stolio 12y ago
Can't find the link but I once saw Carlsen (or maybe Nakamura?) say a computer miscalculated the value of a pair of pawns in a position. Essentially the value of the pawns wouldn't become clear until much later in the game and th
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by stolio 12y ago
Nakamura's been the main GM willing to at least publicly enter that arena. See 2008's Rybka vs. Nakamura [0] for some background and the more recent Rybka+Nakamura vs. Stockfish[1]. In his computer enhanced form he's affectio
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by stolio 12y ago
On the opposite side of the spectrum from too much multi-tasking is what happens if you single-task intensely for 15 hours a day, 300+ days a year. For guinea pigs we have professional online poker players, one of whom started noticing som
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by stolio 12y ago
> In 1962, physicist and historian Thomas Kuhn proposed that science makes progress not just through the gradual accumulation and analysis of knowledge, but also through periodic revolutions in perspective. Kuhn is almost always referred
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by stolio 12y ago
This is the second time in a week this article has come up so I read it. I've never read anything about economics that made any less sense than that. > As soon as you implement the results of your sufficiently-sophisticated model,
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by stolio 12y ago
You learn about the people that you're bullshitting with. We're social animals, we live in groups, we solve problems in groups, we tackle adversity as groups. Our lives depend on our abilities to function within groups. Bullshit
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by stolio 12y ago
You learn a lot while bullshitting, but probably not about what you're talking about. Like in programming: a lot of "functions" don't return anything, they're ran for side-effects.
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by stolio 12y ago
Those are divisive topics, those are debates that matter . For increased social cohesion play-fighting over bullshit is better, there's a subtext that the only reason it's worth it is you actually enjoy the company of those aroun
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by stolio 12y ago
I apologize, I was being a bit presumptuous. When it comes to quantum physics I do see your point. For astrophysics I view the math as a stepping stone to understanding those things in the sky that we see at night. In that sense there&#x27
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by stolio 12y ago
I'm looking forward to reading this, Oppenheimer was a very rare breed of intellectual. He learned Sanskrit in order to read Eastern religious texts in their original forms. When he famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita[0] that's tho
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by stolio 12y ago
If you can't talk about Interstellar with somebody who doesn't understand topology, I will gladly do it for you. Maybe they're below you, but they're my favorite people because they're the people who will get as ex
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by stolio 12y ago
I'm guessing you're aware, but for other readers this is often called The Tragedy of the Commons . Since nobody's made much headway since it was introduced 50 years ago new ideas are needed. http://en.wikipedia.o
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by stolio 12y ago
I would really like to know. NOAA has a really impressive map here[0] (with a really impressive name) but I don't think it's set up for "surface area of ocean above X elevation." However, I would expect dragging to occu
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by stolio 12y ago
> Bottom trawlers scraping large nets across the sea floor have already affected 20 million square miles of ocean, turning parts of the continental shelf to rubble. That's a number I wouldn't have guessed, that's about 1&#
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by stolio 12y ago
I see hints of them using Matlab and Python, anybody know what they're using for the heavy lifting?
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by stolio 12y ago
Stopping distance scales with v^2 (unfortunately)
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by stolio 12y ago
For those who don't know that's the thread macro and IMHO it should be a bigger selling point of the language. I think of it like the Unix pipe operator (i.e. "ls | grep X") but for programming. https://cloju
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by stolio 12y ago
It is. In terms of community size it's probably Clojure-jvm, ClojureScript (Clojure compiled down to JavaScript), then Clojure-clr.
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by stolio 12y ago
It's not like we'd have to print more gold.
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by stolio 12y ago
In a similar vein are videos from the speed-running community. Linked below is a video of an Ocarina Of Time speed-run where the guy explains a bit of what it's all about. The level of reverse-engineering is impressive. https:/
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by stolio 12y ago
> Are these Vipassana retreats suitable for someone who has very little knowledge about meditation and zero experience? If you're young, in great health and looking for a huge challenge: maybe. It's a very extreme intro to med

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