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by waqf 9y ago
Those aren't synonyms. A bell that is tolling is not pealing.
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by waqf 9y ago
You're reading it correctly and it's working as intended. The people who should have reasonably expected that their job involves overtime are the ones who shouldn't be able to demand punitive extra pay when it turns out that
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by waqf 9y ago
Three roles — it gives individuals rights versus the federal government, which on the one hand is a fairly logical extension of a treaty between the states and the federal government but which on the other hand has the problems you descri
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by waqf 9y ago
The other advantage of the UK system is that when the government comes up with some dumb new idea to abrogate human rights for people born on Tuesdays or whatever, the public debate is couched as "is this really a good idea?" In t
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by waqf 9y ago
Most likely Mrs. Cringleton knew about the hyperbolic secant and just assumed it was unique up to linear factors.
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by waqf 9y ago
> mom > tea and bicuits Where are you claiming to be from?
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by waqf 9y ago
Well, most larger airports don't like you walking on the apron more than absolutely necessary, and if they don't have a jet bridge available they put you on a bus even if the plane is only a few yards away. But IIRC Frankfurt is t
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by waqf 9y ago
Not technically routing instructions since each processor executed only from its own memory. To execute code on the other processor you'd have to do a block memory transfer over the Tube, then send a request to execute code at a stat
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by waqf 9y ago
It doesn't, I was being ironic.
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by waqf 9y ago
That's why I made an exception for widebodies, although I accept that "making an exception for widebodies" more or less undermines my point. But I claim that, for example, you can't realistically have a 737 layout that i
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by waqf 9y ago
To be fair, GP did address that point: the current renters of a city have votes [in local government], and the future renters do not.
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by waqf 9y ago
But the seat width is determined by the seating configuration and the plane is designed so that one or two particular seating configurations will work well. (Although it matters less for widebodies where there's enough wiggle room to
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by waqf 9y ago
Direct flights to more destinations from any hub still means a superlinear increase in the number of slot pairs required. Are you suggesting that that wouldn't also be problematic at hubs in North America?
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by waqf 9y ago
But New Orleans/London isn't two smaller cities, it's one smaller city and one major intercontinental hub. Doesn't expecting to have a nonstop flight from London to every city in the world put unsustainable pressure on l
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by waqf 9y ago
Fix scrollback. Sometimes I run a command and it has 50,000 lines of output. Either I don't care about the output — in which case I should be able to click to fold it up and be able to see my history before that one command — or I do c
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by waqf 9y ago
Sure, but that's another way of saying the same thing. Because by "no realistic option" GP means, in effect, "no option that middle class people would stand for". If you build a transportation infrastructure that&#x
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by waqf 9y ago
Well, that's silly too. They should play a separate pre-departure jingle 30 seconds or whatever before the train is expected to depart.
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by waqf 9y ago
I don't see how you can justify the claim that a scrollable map with hotel locations and prices isn't "presented to actually help visitors". Of course there's some synergy between helping visitors and profit to Goog
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by waqf 9y ago
And yet it sounds as if his restaurant wasn't totally nonviable, he just didn't have nearly enough runway for all his first-time mistakes. He might even be successful next time with what he's learnt, if he had the stomach for
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by waqf 9y ago
Isn't Southwest the one that just launched obligatory in-air concerts? https://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2017/11/hitting-wro... I think I'll give that a miss.
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by waqf 9y ago
I have noticed that waiting around on the subway platform or at the bus stop is way more stressful than sitting on the subway or the bus, even if the subway/bus is just stuck for some incomprehensible reason and showing no sign of prog
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by waqf 9y ago
> Subways solve this problem by running every couple of minutes. Similarly, in many transport corridors intercity rail runs several times an hour (not so much in the US) and shuttle flights run every hour or two. Which are also suffici
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by waqf 9y ago
You begged the question here. The question is whether and to what extent the creator of software should have "ownership".
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by waqf 9y ago
I think we should shift time zones a little every day, so that (in some designated location, say New York or DC) the sun rises at exactly 6am every morning. This eliminates the sudden transition to daylight savings which is the source of mo
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by waqf 9y ago
There are two, somewhat overlapping, problems here which apply to a lot of parts of the entertainment industry. The first is that supply exceeds demand: "everyone wants to be" an artist. This is basically unfixable. The second is
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by waqf 9y ago
What's the point in the world having more art, culture and mythos if it doesn't have more that's accessible to any single individual? The best way for each new cultural artifact to reach the most people is for it to be create
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by waqf 9y ago
AlphaGo is still based around layers of 3×3 local convolutions. That represents a strong assumption about locality in the network design. I would expect AlphaGo to perform poorly on the game "Go with the vertices randomly permuted&quot
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by waqf 9y ago
Only two states allow felons to vote while incarcerated: http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-v...
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by waqf 9y ago
I agree with the substance of what you say but I don't think it's wrong to invite everyone to have a general sense of the big picture. And by big-picture standards, because of the way the US is constituted, the questions that make
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by waqf 9y ago
So you could say that the algorithm for "should I claim any given intellectual property right?" is the one implemented by /bin/true.

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