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sukilot
6y ago
Real numbers aren't real. Imaginary numbers aren't imaginary. Infinities are unphysical, so you can understand them by analogy to anything that exists in the real Universe.
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sukilot
6y ago
Or you changed because you were attending to what your wife was saying.
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sukilot
6y ago
At a penny for a thousand views, that doesn't seem a smart play.
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sukilot
6y ago
Most people run modern software and data not historical software and data.
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sukilot
6y ago
Gotta walk before run. If you help this version succeed, the hipdi version will likely be developed sooner.
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sukilot
6y ago
Fire tablets are trash that can barely show books and streaming.
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6y ago
That's a difference in scale, but it doesn't make libraries right at the spot they sit. Do libraries pay 100x price for their books? Be careful to avoid reasoning from an axiom that the way things worked when you grew up was the c
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sukilot
6y ago
If I lend you my book and you make a persistent copy, am I the copyright violator?
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sukilot
6y ago
This is the fallacy of assuming that people would pay for content they can't pirate.
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6y ago
You can't when organizations make blunders that destroy themselves.
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6y ago
No, she didn't! Rosa Parks launched a boycott to protest a bus system that was so racist that even the horrific Jim Crow laws weren't enough for bus drivers who kicked off black people (and police officers who arrested them) who
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6y ago
AlphaGo is the result of human evolution too.
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sukilot
6y ago
That's absurd. He works on human+chess research. He obviously hasn't given up on human insight. What he has given up on is a single human beating a computer.
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sukilot
6y ago
Note that everything in software development is R&D. Building (not operating) Gmail and Android and Office and Azure are R&D.
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sukilot
6y ago
So if poor police officers abuse people, the victims don't get any compensation? That's not good.
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sukilot
6y ago
Defund doesn't mean destroy. It means decrease funding.
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sukilot
6y ago
It's not "considered speech". 1A says: > Congress shall make no law [religion stuff]; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government fo
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sukilot
6y ago
Pathology is just personality when you use a -1 to 1 scale instead of a 0 to 1 scale.
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6y ago
That's a huge mistake. Democracy means "people rule", not "majority vote". The minority are part of the people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
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sukilot
6y ago
Ironically, Amazon recruiters tell candidates "Amazon is great for your resume."
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sukilot
6y ago
Employees make your business. An employee Amazon is willing to fight to keep away from you is probably worth fighting to keep.
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sukilot
6y ago
And because they hoard profit instead of hiring more QA staff.
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sukilot
6y ago
Not everyone who could get a PhD does. Compare those number to the 75th or 90th percentile of non-PhD Bachelor's holders, before, uh, getting your statistics PhD.
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6y ago
I'm looking forward to the day when people are empowered to solve the root causes of woifao problems instructions of feeling only capable of acting on tangents. I'm looking forward to a day when "cop" is deservedly consi
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sukilot
6y ago
Study suggests , not finds . Simulation models can't "find" facts. Observation finds facts.
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sukilot
6y ago
"So far" meaning "might save more later" or "only postponed, not prevented"?
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sukilot
6y ago
It's more obviously sexist than racist, and more obviously harmful to actual people named Karen. It's Reddit garbage talk that should stay on Reddit and die.
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sukilot
6y ago
The article's point is that you can accidentally break accessibility. Lots of sites so garbage like not showing text if JS is off.
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6y ago
It's the one place crapware belongs.
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sukilot
6y ago
It's Knot theory, the field of small, hard problems.
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