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by waqf 10y ago
Firstly, the sentence you quoted, while unfortunately ambiguous, is correct if you take "of which" as picking up "assumptions" instead of "results". That is, the assumptions, of which a famous one is AC, have
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by waqf 10y ago
It's not a choice†, it's market forces. You'll never change the world effectively if you don't start by correctly diagnosing the problem. †(as far as your objective is concerned. Yes, Google could choose not to have secu
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by waqf 10y ago
In your model, how do you expect anyone without a current academic affiliation to get hold of obscure books? (Interlibrary loan is a significant partial answer here, but as soon as you take ILL into your model you realize that you want to c
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by waqf 10y ago
Cheap Christmas LEDs with no electronics look so awful because they strobe at 60Hz and are completely off for a full half-cycle (while the LEDs are reverse-biased). I can't speak for you but I find the full-wave rectified ones not to b
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by waqf 10y ago
It's worse than that, because there's adverse selection. The hospitals that make errors in the client's favor or that don't make errors at all are more likely to go out of business than the ones that make errors in the
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by waqf 10y ago
If the human race had collectively had only a decade of Go-playing experience (as was the case with Arimaa), it might have been possible for an AI coded with "classical techniques" to defeat them. (To be specific, my guess is that
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by waqf 10y ago
You're not British, are you?
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by waqf 10y ago
Notice, after takeoff . Takeoff and landing are when centre of gravity is critical. You're supposed to return to your originally assigned seats for landing too.
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by waqf 10y ago
There's a formula for the coördinates of where two arcs meet, where a line and a circle meet, etc., in terms of the coördinates of the points which generated the lines and circles — and you only need a few such formulæ (linear and quad
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by waqf 10y ago
Your cause and effect are backwards. People think that obesity, depression, alcoholism, ADHD are moral failings because they think that they're under your conscious control and therefore not susceptible to biochemical intervention. (
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by waqf 10y ago
Then don't print the price on at manufacture time. In any case, why is it any more reasonable to presume or mandate that the price be the same everywhere before tax and different after tax, than it would be to presume or mandate that t
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by waqf 10y ago
From your comment I'd like to segway into a discussion about how brand names are causing people to forget how to spell normal English words.
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by waqf 10y ago
And the EgyptAir flight and the SilkAir flight if you're going to count deliberate pilot actions. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot#By_pilots_in_... ) But Air France 447 is a recent example where it&
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by waqf 10y ago
Philosophers have come up with a long string of traits which supposedly separate us from the animals, and they have a very poor track record: "Animals can't recognize themselves in a mirror" "Animals can't use tools
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by waqf 10y ago
If Google were generally thought to have shitty top search results from the place that paid them the most, this criticism would make sense.
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by waqf 10y ago
> I generally take a dim view of regulators, who generally seem to have less expertise than the people they're regulating. The thing that always worries me is — if we try to prevent the "revolving door" whereby regulator
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by waqf 10y ago
I don't know about you, but I am certainly uncomfortable (in a way that would probably manifest with loss of eye contact, fidgeting, closed/protective body language etc.) standing up while talking to someone who is sitting down (a
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by waqf 10y ago
> If they noticed this being a lot more common when they were in the chair than when they were out of it, that implies that the change is in them, not in the other party's base level of social anxiety. And if they are more socially
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by waqf 10y ago
I understand that people not being able to look you in the eye makes you feel extremely disrespected. But I don't think it helps anyone for you to jump from there to assuming that what's going on inside their head is "[I do
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by waqf 10y ago
If you live in a small subsistence community with a barter economy or primitive trade, then it's a great deal more obvious that destroying capital just makes everybody poorer.
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by waqf 10y ago
Yeah, or it's an incentive to not shop there at all. You can't just use "incentive" as a reason why you expect to succeed with a UX that punishes your users for small mistakes.
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by waqf 10y ago
The fact that people feel compelled to go to greater lengths to hide it is itself a net positive, no? The higher the costs of doing X, the less X there will be.
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by waqf 10y ago
That's sort of what I meant by semi-direct speech. It conveys the sentiment rather than the words (like indirect speech), but it uses the tense and person markers that the original occurrence would have used (like direct speech).
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by waqf 10y ago
The Sanskrit word इति ( iti ), which literally means "thus" or "like this", can be used to offset direct or semi-direct speech (without needing a verb to make the meaning clear). In respects it's very similar to th
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by waqf 10y ago
Not if properly combined with other technologies. Cryptographically signed voting enables vote selling only in the same sense that requiring voters to present ID at the polling place already enables it.
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by waqf 10y ago
How is it tongue-in-cheek to suggest putting a professional with relevant experience in charge of critical national infrastructure? One of us has a misaligned Overton window.
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by waqf 10y ago
That was much more sane and reasonable than I thought it would be. Two sides of the same coin.
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by waqf 10y ago
Not really. The UK is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights and the law can be challenged under that. See for instance here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/20/human_rights_court_r...
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by waqf 10y ago
Don't worry, the 'Agree to this cookie' thing is an EU directive. So that's what the UK is currently destroying their economy in order to be free from.
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by waqf 10y ago
F/G don't have a monopoly on ad sponsorship — partly because they refuse to sponsor some kinds of unethical content.

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