the6threplicant

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by the6threplicant 8y ago
I call it the cultural event horizon.
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
But how do you become ideological in the first place. Either you're a conspiracy theorist and believe so many weird things that adding another believe won't top the cart. Or is it that we want to believe explanations that we under
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
Or the bugs that disappear when you're debugging and then come back hen you're not.
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
Great so people hostile to your research (eg Republicans) can turn your research political because they can take your notes out of context (try using the word "trick" in your research journal or emails) and use it against you or y
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
The number of discussions I have had with the staff in mathematics and computer science about the need for such journals would last years. Everyone pretty much wants them because they know the need of saying "hey I already did this an
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
Fun fact: If they cut you open to remove your appendix and find out that it isn't inflamed or infected then they still remove it since the scar left after surgery is universally known that you already had an appendectomy and so doctor
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
Evernote is one of those applications that I use in a permanent WORN mode (Write Once Read Never). :) I'm still waiting for the killer extension where I can take all my restaurant reviews (for a city) and dump them on a map to see the
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
A comment from someone who has actually read the article: https://np.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/9ely8y/why_the_w... For example: ...the EFF argue that the idea of what constitutes a link is not fu
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
I think you have found most people's problems, not just with Evernote, but with all other clipping services: it's write often, read once (if at all).
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
My biggest gripe with the clipper when used on pdf's is the lack of any metadata searching in the pdf for a title suggestion. I hate that I have to type in the title of the pdf as the title is usually "PDF - www.example.com".
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
Can I ask where there people from different castes there or is it totally ignored?
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
They'll need phones with two SIM cards. Every Indian IT person I've met in India always look at me with disdain, but also :), when I tell them I can only have one SIM in my phone.
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
But that's the beauty of this calculation it just takes one splinter group of one splinter group and they could easily populate the whole galaxy in under 10-100 million years - which, being the conclusion that Fermi found, is nothing a
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
I love the Drake equation. It's like the shortest shorthand for "Where is your civilisation at?" If you go from left to right, each value determines where you are in the history of galactic civilisations: R* : you need to und
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
The problem is all of these institutional systems rely a lot on people being in "good faith". From the president to the police-man. I feel like our institutions are being populated by people who just want to destroy them instead o
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
Maxwell's equations show that the speed of light is invariant in all inertial reference frames. In other words, the speed of light is the same no matter what speed you are going. This was a bigger inspiration to Einstein than the MM e
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
It's literally him and David Attenborough that have the job everyone wants.
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
I was reading about the Hong Kong episode for Parts Unknown just yesterday where his girlfriend directed it and they used a famous cinematographer too that Anthony always wanted to work with. I read Kitchen Confidential when it came out. A
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
TL;DR: Invest in blue-sky research since you might never know when you need it.
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
This reminds me of the thick manila envelopes I got in the mail at university. "I have discovered a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that is at most two pages long." Starts off with the wrong definition of a prime number. Ugh!
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
The other figure to look at is the amount of money spent. If it's similar to the hardware percentage then you're right, if on the other hand, macOS users spend more on games then a rethink is in order.
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by the6threplicant 9y ago
Copernicus also used epicycles - since he assumed orbits to be circular instead of elliptical (as Kepler deduced).
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by the6threplicant 9y ago
Remember when the right wing groups were up in arms about the censoring of non-liberal news by the news moderators and FB had to reorganise the whole team. Now we know the so-called liberal bias was that they were censoring all the (mostly)
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by the6threplicant 9y ago
Is this what is bricking Safari on the occasional YouTube video? Sometimes a reload works, other times I need to copy the URL and paste in a new tab.
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by the6threplicant 9y ago
Except those on the right are members of Congress and the President himself while those on the left are fringe groups and internet comments. See the difference?
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by the6threplicant 9y ago
If you replace scientists with coders then what you're saying is that programmers should allow people to see your code at any time, instead of allowing them to release the code when they see fit. Since she states: The first step is
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by the6threplicant 9y ago
There has been a lot of examples generated by computer proving conjectures of their existence, I think a people now call this experimental mathematics. For instance in finite geometries, construction of new generalized quadrangles, flocks e
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by the6threplicant 9y ago
Does the Drake equation include us, that is, Earth? In other words do we know that N > 0 (since we exist) or can N = 0 (since we're not included).
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by the6threplicant 9y ago
To me it shows why "big government" is a necessity (as well as a curse). You can't regulate a company that is bigger than the enforcer of the regulations.
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by the6threplicant 9y ago
Hopefully when we start using voice activation as much as we now use the mouse, then the open office space will become a thing of the past. One can hope.

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