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by wnoise 11y ago
> "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" fallacy It's not a fallacy. Absence of evidence really is evidence of absence. The fallacy version is "absence of proof is proof of absence".
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by wnoise 11y ago
Unfortunately, there's no "herd-immunity" externalized benefit, so the efficient way to allocate it is by individuals buying doses for themselves. (Well, for Homo economicus, rather than Homo sapiens.)
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by wnoise 12y ago
The attack is not on Baidu, but via Baidu. Whoever is the attacker appears to control the great firewall of China. Who else would that be but the Chinese government?
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by wnoise 12y ago
What happens if you add a second camera? The actor/CSP model makes each device a separate process, which can be hooked together with processing nodes works wonderfully.
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by wnoise 12y ago
Reasons are listed in the comment you replied to: they're different areas of law, with different mechanics. Details matter. Yes, it also helps the pro-GPL crowd. That's not an argument against it (nor for it). An argument agai
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by wnoise 12y ago
They both takes tons of government money (admittedly, for research, rather than teaching.)
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by wnoise 12y ago
At 26, quite possibly.
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by wnoise 12y ago
In any case, for arxiv papers it's bad form to link to the PDFs rather than the abstract.
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by wnoise 12y ago
A shame they didn't use "@" for the dereference operator...
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by wnoise 12y ago
Is it really gratuitous? Don't we want to show that some behaviors (like not reading the content) aren't welcome? Spelling that out rather than the mystery of a downvote is useful.
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by wnoise 12y ago
> then the other is resolved simultaneously. Relativity of course makes a hash of that. Still it's as close as you'll get with a classical analogy, and if you only have access to a fixed basis is entirely correct. Expanding be
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by wnoise 12y ago
In "Let's hope marijuana legalization spreads throughout America", I would indeed assume they meant the U.S.
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by wnoise 12y ago
I meant adding H to the NICE acronym should clearly make NICHE.
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by wnoise 12y ago
If they were going to add "health", why didn't they go for NICHE: National Institute for Care and Health Excellence?
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by wnoise 12y ago
> The more gambles you take, the better you become at reading the tea leaves and figuring out if your next gamble is going to work. This reeks of survivorship bias.
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by wnoise 12y ago
Schwarzschild.
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by wnoise 12y ago
Sweet. I loved the promise of SFS and was really sad to see the development on it die.
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by wnoise 12y ago
Absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence. It's absence of proof that is not proof of absence. It may or may not be strong evidence, depending on how likely evidence is, but it is evidence.
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by wnoise 12y ago
> Is a newspaper article slandering him It's not slander if it's true.
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by wnoise 12y ago
Close. Yes, they keep the same date, but the common use of the date is the _last_ day it should be available for sale, so the day before the next issue is out. This lets bookstores and newsstands throw out everything with a date before to
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by wnoise 13y ago
That's unfortunately still too much. Raising any more money will only delay the death of a project that has suppressed the use of better written projects by dominating that niche in the ecosystem due to first-mover advantage.
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by wnoise 13y ago
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, combined with a regulated economic structure of cooperation between major corporations and the government. This is rather different.
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by wnoise 13y ago
The purpose of patents absolutely is to provide incentives for innovation. What you describe as the purpose (protecting capital intensive R&D from free riders) is merely the method. To the extent that the method does not result in the
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by wnoise 13y ago
That's not static.
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by wnoise 13y ago
A liquid wealth tax. The actually wealthy have many vehicles for hedging against inflation, from owning durable property, to complex financial instruments.
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by wnoise 13y ago
Not necessarily. Temperature determines which way heat energy flows, it says nothing about how fast it flows. I can hold my hand in an oven at 500 degrees with no problem because the transfer is very slow. Briefly touching a much cooler
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by wnoise 13y ago
Sure, not disputing that, only the definition expressed.
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by wnoise 13y ago
In other words, you don't want to actually be useful to former colleagues...
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by wnoise 13y ago
> terrorism (systematic use of violence as a means of coercion for political purposes) All warfare seems to fit under this definition. Commonly explicitly added qualifiers are "against civilians" or "by non-state actors&q
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by wnoise 13y ago
There is a good chance that this was a deliberate misusage.

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