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by waterhouse 1y ago
To be sure, in the original context of Popper's writing, I believe "intolerant" meant something like "committing violence against others for disagreeing with you", and "tolerate" meant "refrain from i
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by waterhouse 1y ago
Hmm, you are correct.
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by waterhouse 1y ago
~> wc -cl /usr/share/dict/words 235976 2493885 /usr/share/dict/words One might even expect a program to use a common Unix preinstalled dictionary.
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by waterhouse 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 "We've had a huge spike in traffic lately, from roughly 24k daily uniques to 33k. This is a result of being mentioned on more mainstream sites [...] You can help the spi
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by waterhouse 1y ago
> Testing it out with my disk benchmarking script, I got up to 3 GB/sec in sequential reads. To be sure... is the data compressible, or repeated? I have encountered an SSD that silently performed compression on the data I wrote to
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by waterhouse 1y ago
If you want a definition, a "woke" person is one who prioritizes waging identity-group conflict over other priorities. The more woke, the more things they sacrifice and trample upon to that end.
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by waterhouse 1y ago
The principle of the separation of church and state may be cast as a principle that, in conflicts between religious groups, the state must remain neutral. This avoids the situation where, when one group gains control of the state, they get
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by waterhouse 1y ago
Does this approach ultimately lead to the conclusion that people on different sides of the abortion issue can't work in the same company?
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by waterhouse 1y ago
I learned how to type em-dashes on Mac (option-shift-hyphen) 10+ years ago and have been using them with some frequency since then. Picking 2023, here are some comments with emdashes that I personally typed: https://news.ycom
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by waterhouse 1y ago
After about 5 minutes of reading, I'm proclaiming that its proper name shall be the "hivemind fallacy".
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by waterhouse 1y ago
"There are those who tell us that any choice from among theoretically-equivalent alternatives is merely a question of taste. These are the people who bring up the Strong Church-Turing Thesis in discussions of programming languages me
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by waterhouse 1y ago
Theoretically, if there's not enough visual information for AI drivers, then there's not enough visual information for human drivers, and that's a problem with the road. (Which, to be sure, occasionally there are roads lik
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by waterhouse 2y ago
One danger with "factually proven issues" is cherry-picking facts or otherwise taking them from context. For example, there might be stats on which a president sucked for most of his term, but in the last few months those stats w
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by waterhouse 2y ago
The citation is "Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors": https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
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by waterhouse 2y ago
If you look carefully, what happens there is prions screwing up your brain, and insomnia seems like more of a consequence than a cause. > The cause of death for people diagnosed with fatal familial insomnia is damage to the brain and ner
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by waterhouse 2y ago
I think people make this stuff illegal because a lot of people really hate pedophiles and anything associated with them, and logical thinking ("Does this policy actually increase or decrease the number of children abused?") and
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by waterhouse 2y ago
I think the better statement is that, if, say, you're running the Miller-Rabin test 10 times, you can be confident that an error in one test is uncorrelated with an error in the next test, so it's easy to dial up the accuracy as
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by waterhouse 2y ago
> never talks back clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Not a guarantee, but it appears there's a nearly 200x difference between the most dangerous and the safest countries in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_d...
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Profit caps presumably create perverse consequences. If the profit I'm allowed to make is proportional to X, then I'm incentivized to maximize X. If X is my costs, then... Maybe that's where these unbelievably high line ite
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by waterhouse 2y ago
I don't think that's the primary reason for CEOs being paid a lot. I think a much bigger reason is: For large companies that manage large amounts of resources, company-scale decisions are extremely impactful, and therefore it may
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by waterhouse 2y ago
> Pretty much every mass shooting by the colloquial definition makes the national news. I am unaware of any one that has not. Now that sounds like obvious selection bias. Also, the Wikipedia article says "specifically for the pur
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by waterhouse 2y ago
> The reason for anxiety and pessimism is because people are feeling more lonely. Might anxiety cause loneliness? Seems pretty logical. > More than half the people in America feel lonely, and the numbers are actually the greatest amo
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by waterhouse 2y ago
I think "doesn't engage the language center of my brain" is more accurate (and less pejorative) than "mindless". It certainly engages spatial reasoning and some logic.
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by waterhouse 2y ago
An oldie: https://ashwinram.org/1986/01/28/a-short-ballad-dedicated-to... Describes the evolution from: (cdr (assq key a-list)) to: (let ((val (assq key a-list))) (cond ((not (null? val)) (cdr
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Does your model of the world have anyone who genuinely believes that these things will someday develop levels of expertise in weapons (bio, cyber, or other) which, in the hands of terrorists or other malefactors, would be a real danger?
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by waterhouse 2y ago
One could argue that the whole point of ads is to draw your attention and put things into your memory, which is not necessarily the case for those other things. Some radio programs probably are meant to draw attention, but you could noti
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap. — V.I. Arnold: "On teaching mathematics" (1997)
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Correct. The study in question: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10246135/
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by waterhouse 2y ago
Some googling yielded: https://www.bikeattorney.com/bike-accident-common-causes.htm... 18 percent – driver failed to see cyclist 24 percent – cyclist ran a red light or failed to stop for a stop sign 22 percent – dr

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