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by tntn 9y ago
ok? This comment doesn't really tell us much. Was the book missing its cover? Did you not realize what the book was about? Did you dislike the presentation style?
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> Ask a millennial that has no other way out of the class system they were born into. I don't know that betting on cryptocurrencies is a desirable & admirable method to increase social mobility. Bitcoin lost > 60% of its valu
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It will probably have its own satellite network that serves as the Mars internet, with a high-latency intermittent bridge to the Earth internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
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Great, I'm glad it works for you. I'm mostly concerned about the UI, which promotes frequent trading based on hype, and their advertising. Supporting cryptocurrency seems to be another step away from promoting sound investing for
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This is not the paper corresponding to the research described in the article. A paper that describes a similar system by the same researchers from 2015 is here: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7181113/ Its not
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I understand the complexity and function of the FFT. However, the sluggishness of this demo is not due to the actual synthesis of the final wave, it is due to calculating and render each individual waves. I agree you could easily synthesize
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I can certainly name a number of investments with less risk than cryptocurrencies. Namely, basically every traditional investment: stocks, bonds, gold, real estate, ... I don't quite understand why saying that cryptocurrency investment
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And Robinhood becomes even more of a gambling app than it already was. This is not investing. EDIT: Sure, you can call it investing. But I would say it isn't sound investing.
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> What's the doctrinal reasoning here? Many religions view marriage as a sacred sacrament, instituted by God to join men and women. Under this view, same-sex marriage is easily viewed as mocking God and debasing the sacrament.
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> not universally accepted moral code on others isn't exactly the nicest thing to do after all. There is no such thing as a "universally accepted moral code."
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> Why is being "complicit" in same sex marriage any worse than being "complicit" in a marriage for someone who has sinned, possibly grievously, in other ways? If you subscribe to the view that same-sex marriage is a s
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You are talking the legality of same-sex marriage. Point #3 is not talking about the legality of same-sex marriage. It is an opposition to compelling people to be complicit in same-sex marriage. Churches may still have some protection again
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Is #3 an example of fear or "thinly-veiled contempt"? Seems to express something more like "I believe in moral absolutes" and "some things are sacred."
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> My point is that discrimination against conservative viewpoints is not a significant phenomenon in SFBA tech, unless by "conservative" you mean sexist or racist. Or don't think gay marriage should be legal, or are religi
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How would that help? The IFFT would left you quickly synthesize the total waveform From the frequency spectrum, but the whole point of the visualization is to be able to show all the frequency components and interpolate between the individu
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It's potentially worth noting that both those statements should be past tense, not present. My understanding of the apartheid thing was he said something in college that someone else heard and remembered for many years. I think that 1.
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> I really wonder where he got the idea that it was "at the very center of Jesus' thinking" Probably the idea that he ministered primarily to the outcasts, the sinners, the hated of society.
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One interesting perspective: "Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man , which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of min