throwaway4747l

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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
Ah yes, yet another occurence of adaptationists trying to shoehorn literally every single trait into their framework. It's basically intelligent design that doesn't say its name.
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
India is naturally poised to displace the US and become the second world power behind China, so I definitely see it happening.
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
I'm actually agreeing with you, perhaps the sarcastic tone didn't go through.
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
Together with factor analysis the most abused concept of the biological and social sciences.
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
I mean, if your algorithm is accurate 99.9% of the time, and you're using it 24/7 in a country with millions of inhabitants, you should expect tens of thousands of false positives every day . This is why some wet blankets have be
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
These articles are interesting not by themselves, but for the reactions they stir on HN. It's interesting how aware of cognitive biases and critical minded one suddenly becomes upon encountering a study that challenges one's world
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
How do you fix it though? I mean you can do thing like legalizing sex work and providing sex robots or something, but for most incels, it isn't about sex (if it were, there wouln't be incels in place where prositution is legal).
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
I think GP isn't talking about the passport acquisition process but really the experience of living there. The culture shock is real and you're in for a rough surprise if you think Europe is anything like the US. For starters, y
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
I wish they'd restored their old blog posts doing a bunch of stats, that was fun. I don't know why they've been taken down.
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
That is not dead which may eternal lie, and in strange aeons even death may die. Remember that weird language that looked like Java and was used by nobody except script kiddies until the Web exploded? Or that quirky little language with for
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
I try to maintain some consistency (as you probably noticed) but as I switch devices I honestly can't be bothered to remember the throwaway handle I last used. If that's really an issue, I'll try to stick to a handle that&#x2
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
Sorry, how is it a 'crowded space'? Languages aren't startups, they don't have to compete on a market to be viable (unless they're proprietary of course). As long as someone somewhere has an interest in it, it will
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
Ctrl-F "Signаl": 10 instances Seriously, it'd be nice if we could have one thread about Telegram without S-advocates showing up and complaining about "security". Yes, we know Telegram isn't as secure, yadda y
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
Remember when 4chan was a bunch of teens being edgy portrayed as 'far-left' by Fox and a couple years later you'd woken up surrounded by actual Nazis?
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
You're right, with the caveat that France as a country with a strong social safety net and the best healthcare system in the world© is also a thing of the past. We're on our way to become more like the US each passing day, make
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
There's no need to be this harsh. We should always celebrate people making things even if they don't benefit us directly, to me that's even the essence of hacking
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
Doesn't Python 3 exactly do this? Not saying I would use non-ascii characters in variable names but presumably populations that don't use the Latin alphabet have different use cases?
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by throwaway4747l 6y ago
To the detriment of the authors who should know better than publish there if they have something interesting