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by wnoise 10y ago
You can lock yourself in a place where you can't move though.
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by wnoise 10y ago
To be precise, the main difference is that git filter-branch operates primarily on the underlying "snapshot" model, while rebase essentially looks at everything as diffs.
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by wnoise 10y ago
A new class of matter has a whole bunch of constants -- mass, interaction coefficients, mixing angles, etc.
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by wnoise 10y ago
> ... heroin market, smack dab ... Heh. That must be deliberate.
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by wnoise 10y ago
log_2 of 60*90 is about 12.4. This shows that a naive scheme would expect to get about 12.4 + (23 - 12.4)/2 = 17.7 questions right. I would be very skeptical about any scheme that purports to guarantee better than this. A reasonable
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by wnoise 10y ago
Distribution of political views doesn't matter. Unimodality is instead a requirement on each individual voter's preferences. You can't have "anti-centrists" that prefer both extreme left or extreme right to center
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by wnoise 10y ago
Now I'm wondering about pressure-cooking tea...
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by wnoise 10y ago
Variance and standard deviation gets a lot of hate here, that I don't think it deserves. It really does have nice properties, generally nicer than the MAD. Squaring feels to me much less of a hack than the absolute value. The proble
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by wnoise 10y ago
Even "bug" was in usage for malfunctioning electronics before computers.
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by wnoise 10y ago
They're not visible at the level of looking at one SNP at a time. If you look at a whole lot of genes, you can get a very good idea of race.
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by wnoise 10y ago
> the early 20th century attempt to formalize mathematics and put it on a strict logical foundation. That this program ended in disaster for mathematical logic is never mentioned. Is he joking? Yes, it "failed", but in doing s
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by wnoise 10y ago
There are also many subreddits where expressing even slight deviations from the dogma earns you instant permanent bans.
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by wnoise 10y ago
I agree it's unlikely. I was just saying that when it does happen, it's actually a reasonable result.
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by wnoise 10y ago
> So, you could very easily end up with a single-issue candidate being "approved" by the vast majority and winning, even though absolutely nobody would choose them over any of the other candidates. This is true, but not necessa
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by wnoise 10y ago
It's tricky and the notation confuses things a bit. P and NP are not the machine, but the set of problems solvable by deterministic/non-deterministic Turing machines limited to a polynomial number of steps. P^X is set of problems
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by wnoise 10y ago
That's a thread on terms of use for Tesla autopilot.
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by wnoise 10y ago
And look what happened to him...
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by wnoise 10y ago
Immunity plus the bonus would be a better incentive to rat them out.
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by wnoise 10y ago
In the short term, i.e. for this election, yes. In the longer term, it is a signal to the parties that they are leaving votes on the table, that maybe they could pick up by altering which policies they support. It really depends how you we
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by wnoise 10y ago
Wait, why do the British courts care?
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by wnoise 10y ago
The hook for this over other ones is that this is designed to have no binary blobs required, completely open and auditable firmware, etc. It's for people that care about security and are disgusted by the trash-fire that is the lowest
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by wnoise 10y ago
1. Fixing the first step is important and necessary. 2. Exposure at the next level will normalize the idea that women and non-whites should be given serious consideration in hiring.
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by wnoise 10y ago
> Intelligence officials told Reuters that all Yahoo had to do was modify existing systems for stopping child pornography from being sent through its email It's such a convenient wedge for getting the technical capabilities and laws
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by wnoise 10y ago
Of course I did. And presuming one explanation for the stats is more likely than another because of background knowledge is not unreasonable. I'd go edit in "interpretation of", but it's too late to edit.
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by wnoise 10y ago
> The presumption of innocence needs to be a two-way street, surely? The presumption of innocence is a legal standard to partially offset the immense might of the state. The prosecutors should need to do a very good job establishing tha
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by wnoise 10y ago
> Why not? Well, that's not the problem the site owners were trying to solve, and it appears that trying to solve it would impact what they are trying to do.
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by wnoise 10y ago
What does "unlawful, but not a criminal offense" mean?
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by wnoise 10y ago
Why the exception for built-in types?
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by wnoise 10y ago
Worse, it's like trying to control where you can drive it.
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by wnoise 10y ago
The first time you recognized one, maybe. And why are you certain she was Roma?

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