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by ttz 6y ago
There's no accusation. Everything I said in my post is opinion . Please read the original post, in its entirety.
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by ttz 6y ago
Not sure where in my post it postulates anything about "truth". The entire point of the post is to say, we don't know the truth, but in the balance of probabilities, I wouldn't trust the CCP's version. Did you even
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by ttz 6y ago
First gen Chinese, grew up in NA. Have contact with relatives "on the ground". My own experience: Don't ever trust the Chinese government on issues that could potentially involve the reputation of the party. Note that I'
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by ttz 6y ago
Nothing misunderstood. IMO it's just a mediocre book with overemphasis on hiding middling meaning in prose. A story that speaks many words but says little.
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by ttz 6y ago
While a valid point, perhaps this article isn't the most appropriate place to raise it...
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by ttz 6y ago
I don't know you, but I think we'd be great friends based solely on this statement.
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by ttz 6y ago
Yes, but without faith in mathematics, you cannot trust scientific results.
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by ttz 6y ago
Engineers build things to make life easy. Business people rewrite the rules so that engineers have to constantly build. Order and chaos - primordial forces.
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by ttz 6y ago
This is single handedly the greatest increaser of my productivity.
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by ttz 6y ago
Two buzzwords that make both statisticians and computer scientists roll their eyes: "statistically significant" and "Turing test". It's not downvote worthy, but it is cringey.
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by ttz 6y ago
Linux sucks up your time, yes. But once it's setup, it's unparalleled, if you can stand minor GUI annoyances. However, the set of people willing to invest that time to reach that stage of setup that I'm aware of, is currently
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by ttz 6y ago
In their attempt to remain relevant, (amateur) philosophers will take anything and run with it, sometimes totally incorrectly. There's a special place in face-palm hell for philosophers who've argued that Godel's Incompletene
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by ttz 7y ago
The problem is that the base "axioms" (really, definitions) he's working off of are basically alien language, and almost nobody understands why they are relevant. Add to that he is not saying "turn the crank like this&qu
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by ttz 7y ago
There was actually a proof by a German mathematician a while back (name escapes me and I'm admittedly too lazy to look it up now) in which his proof was met with criticism for being difficult to understand. It ended up being correct. N
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by ttz 7y ago
You're entitled to your opinion. But perhaps it is more constructive to email R dev mailing list and suggest your ideas for improvement.
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by ttz 7y ago
Check out Mailspring.
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by ttz 7y ago
Mailspring. Excellent, except it doesn't have Outlook Calendar integration.