torpidor

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by torpidor 7y ago
I think the real answer to your question is politics. Helicopter money is a political question in a way that QE is not. The question of what social programs we have, and what they cost, who gets them, etc., has been a major issue already
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by torpidor 7y ago
Similarly, I'm not a confirmed case but I've been isolation since Friday just out of general precaution, and I developed a mild chest tightness while here. I was sure it wasn't covid because I didn't have a fever, but j
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by torpidor 7y ago
VLC was removed because a VLC developer (copyrightholder) asked them to. Specifically, they alleged apple did not have the rights to distribute VLC unless they also allowed users to modify / recompile the software. There is a way for e
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by torpidor 8y ago
The average traffic speed in Sydney is 55kph, so a 45 minute drive covers a distance of 25 miles. Taking the IRS standard deduction for gas and depreciation, you pay about $1 in operational costs for every $1 you spend in tolls. I understa
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by torpidor 8y ago
I think you don’t understand the point of view of diversity advocates. (I don’t mean this negatively, it’s often difficult to understand people who have very different perspectives) > I have not observed anyone ever trying to intentiona
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by torpidor 8y ago
Narcissism is more of a spectrum of behavior than a bistable formalism, but it is mostly characterized by feeling superior in general (not only in J2EE) and that superiority not based on actually being better. Keep in mind that most delu
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by torpidor 8y ago
Color is overrated in a world where most are colorblind . Red means danger or stop because you have seen a lot of stop signs. In a world of colorblind people, stop sign colors are chosen by the colorblind, based on something like &quot
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by torpidor 8y ago
I was also puzzled by this earlier in my career. If tech is so hot why is it hard to get hired? I will now share the answer I spent years looking for with you, perhaps it will help. There’s an enormous shortage of software developers. Wh
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by torpidor 8y ago
> You are confusing the type of the variable with the type of the object/value contained in the variable. I’m not “confusing” them; I’m prioritizing the former over the latter, whereas you are prioritizing the latter over the form
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by torpidor 8y ago
> That means that greeter and greeter1 are just two references to the exact same underlying object They are two references that differ in type . It is a feature in Swift (and any strongly-typed language) that references are typed and
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by torpidor 8y ago
> What an object is, which is roughly equivalent to its observed behavior, should never depend on how it is declared. This is actually a statement that strong typing should not exist. A "declaration" (really a type declarati
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by torpidor 8y ago
If you read the study, they find the gap is fully explained by two factors: 1) men drive faster 2) men work more hours, and therefore learn the platform faster. If their conclusion is accurate, I am puzzled as to what solution can be propos
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by torpidor 8y ago
What you're missing is that bikes, and especially ebikes, are far more viable for transport than most Americans think. In Copenhagen for example bikes are actually the primary mode of transport, outnumbering cars on the roads. Bikes
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by torpidor 8y ago
> but all the past evidence points strongly towards a combination of "this researcher is incompetent" and "these statistical methods are useless". Your arguments seem to be based in unfamiliarity with the paper. Bem
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by torpidor 8y ago
argument from relevant authority. A professor of "science and society" at an accredited university would be a relevant authority for the topic of the scientific method and its impact on society...
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by torpidor 8y ago
Although you present it as ridiculous, whether or not 2+2=4 is actually a serious topic among mathematicians. The search term you are looking for is "alternative axiomatic set theories". The alternatives may or may not be useful