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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> Pretty sure this was a relic of prohibition right? The feds would contaminate ethanol with methanol to keep people from drinking it We still do this now. We don't do it because alcohol is illegal, we do it because we levy higher t
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
You say that like interstate commerce regulation was more egregious for wheat than it was for marijuana. But Raich is significantly more egregious: the theory on which the government won Wickard v. Filburn , that private consumption of w
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> Not hard to imagine a lot of users want to organize their libraries by location in a easy way, but still not share the location of every photo they share online. The location isn't just embedded in the EXIF tags. It's also em
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
This a very weird set of choices by Google. How many users are uploading photos from their camera to their phone so they can then upload them from the phone to the web? I bet almost 100% of photo uploads using the default Android photo pi
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> As I have explained above, what you propose does not work. It works in functions with 3 or more parameters, but it does not work in binary functions, because you cannot make binary functions from unary functions (without using some aux
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
What are you responding to?
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> Hypergeometric functions are functions with 4 parameters. Granted, but the claim in the abstract says: >> computing elementary functions such as sin, cos, sqrt, and log has always required multiple distinct operations And I don&#
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
But f(x) = eml(1, x) and g(x) = eml(x, 1) are different operations. What operation are you saying is supposed to be its own inverse?
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> isn't the operation its own inverse depending on the parameter? This is a function from ℝ² to ℝ. It can't be its own inverse; what would that mean?
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
Have you gone through The Little Schemer ? More on topic: > No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos, sqrt, and log has always required multiple distinct operati
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
My landlord preferred to be paid through Alipay. I had to pay in cash because Alipay wouldn't let me make payments that large. (Because my Alipay account was backed by a foreign credit card as opposed to a Chinese bank account, I assum
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
There's never been a system like that. Given this reality, it seems like a stretch to say that people need one.
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
They'd like to. Vending machines will no longer sell to you unless you can pay that way. For more significant things, you can still use cash. I'd go down to my landlord's bank every three months to pay the rent.
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> No. The analogon to TFA would be that the old keyboard would have a Yen key and no backslash key, and the new keyboard would have no Yen key and still no backslash key. The point is that the Yen key would be removed because its charact
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> This really reads like a modern Ancient-Greek story about inscrutable gods who suddenly decide to complicate your life for some unclear reason If you read the ancient Greek stories, a consistent theme is that, if you offend the gods, t
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> Unicode was introduced to solve that very problem, and it largely does. What? Unicode doesn't address the problem at all. Your emoji password will look completely different depending on the encoding you use. We have multiple popul
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> People who live near the equator probably don't have much care for the notion of the winter at all. My understanding is that tropical regions tend to divide the year into "wet season" and "dry season".
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
When I had a MacBook, I was quickly compelled to do something about the fact that its sharp edges scraped things, most notably scraping off the surface of my fingernails. But the obvious way to handle that problem is to put it in a case. Fo
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> Similarly for the second component. Hmm. {a + b, c + d} = {a, c + d} + {b, c + d} = {a, c} + {a, d} + {b, c} + {b, d}. {a + b + c, x + y + z} = {a, x + y + z} + {b, x + y + z} + {c, x + y + z} = (a sum of nine direct brackets). This d
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> An ideal machine learning model would not care what order training examples appeared in its training process. From a Bayesian perspective, the training dataset is unordered data and all updates based on seeing one additional example sh
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
True as stated, but if you generalize the statement to " enemy concepts", who decided that? For example, where did the term "freeze peach" come from?
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> IE you can’t make 1/10th the median wage in a subsistence economy long term you just die. But a homeless person can survive for decades in the US on ~500$ a month. There are two things I'd like to know more about for this: 1.
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> but if you have a goat in a village of no goats, you're rich No, you need more than one goat if you want to be rich, regardless of what other people have. Really, you need a few dozen. One goat can't do anything but age and d
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> I like the Dark Souls model for user input - messages. > Premeditated words and sentence structure. With that there is no need for moderation or anti-abuse mechanics. I guess not, if you're willing to stick your fingers in your
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> Bitcoins across old unused wallets worth $30B to $80B depend of how you count it. It's worth considerably less if you make any attempt to count it accurately. The market capitalization reflects the fact that old unused wallets are
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
The arguments that the Athenians give also go unheeded. Nobody gives any arguments that have an effect. What do you want to conclude from that? > I think it’s appropriate to attribute the quote to Thucydides. Sure, just as appropriate as
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” —Thucydides You can't honestly attribute that quotation to Thucydides. The idea appears
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
Think of it as reflecting the will of God.
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It's comparable in that it's a nearly-identical construct that functions in an actually-identical way. Constructing the Strait of Hormuz was cheaper than constructing the Panama Canal.† That doesn't change anything about the
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by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> I guess Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Iraq, and Qatar don’t exist lol. They’re not just attacking ships in one tiny area - ships have to pass through bidirectionally which affects trade for everyone. Stop trying to defend this stuff. You

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