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by x1798DE 11y ago
Yeah, anyone describing anything that Kevin Warrick is involved in as the pinnacle of anything* obviously wouldn't know a scam if it bit them on the face. *Other than possibly hype generation
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I personally think there is something wrong with having to leave a country because you can't maintain permission to be there, but then again I'm an open borders guy.[0] [0]: http://openborders.info/
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I wouldn't even consider that my doctors' business. It's your business, full stop. Your doctor is a contractor whose job it is to help you interpret the results, same as a medical device.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I have no experience on the hiring side of this, but I always assumed that a lot of companies prefer not to make any clear statements until after a decision is made, since at this point it's basically zero cost to defer making a first
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by x1798DE 11y ago
How does that relate to profile pictures, though?
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Actually I don't see how being a manager at bigco or being a wealthy student in an expensive school with lots of means helps you bootstrap a company on a shoestring. I don't think the question is whether it helps you, the point
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I don't think that follows. If "your" consciousness is just the consciousness that has a continuity of memory with a previous version of you, then the two copies would both be you, but they would not be one another.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
This would make a lot more sense if she were talking about mediocre female engineers. No one needs any kind of terrible engineer.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm tempted to write "[citation needed]", but to avoid snarkiness, I'll rephrase as: What are you talking about?
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I think the point would be to do something like: a = 3 b = 4 c = 6 "A is {a}, C is {c}, B is {b}".format(**locals()) Then you don't have to figure out specifying order or definitions like ".format(a=
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I was specifically wondering why the Orion-like bomb is so bad that no sane civilization would ever use it. The parent comment seemed to indicate that even if you knew you wanted to go into space and had the idea for an Orion-like system,
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Why would they care if you made an exact copy of Michaelangelo's David? I imagine that if I had the actual Declaration of Independence on display, I'd be flocked with visitors, but if I had an exact copy, indistinguishable to the
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Why would no sane civilization use Orion-like bomb propulsion? I imagine the cost-benefit analysis changes when liftoff is nearly impossible with available chemical rockets, though I'm not quite sure what your objection is.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
As pointed out in another post, the way timezone rule changes are stored actually does effectively what you are saying. For each time zone / locale, when there is a rule change, it is appended to the existing rules along with the date
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Yeah, this was always my understanding - time zones, DST participation and dates, etc all change more frequently than you'd expect, and time zone databases keep track of when things happen precisely for this reason . If that weren&#x2
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand why he needed to make an article to watch something get deleted for notability "in real time". These decisions are made constantly and you can always watch the process by going to AfD. I hate artic
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I wrote something that was hashing audiobook files that was taking forever, so I tried using the first N bytes (likely much more than 10kB), but soon found that for any given audiobook, each chapter's MP3 had a large identical header o
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by x1798DE 12y ago
You can definitely disprove negative statements - any positive statement can be expressed as its negation (and vice versa), so to the extent that you can prove positive statements, you can disprove their negations.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't think creepy stuff is less creepy if you're not doing it for profit.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't, but good on Apple for exposing that functionality. My understanding last time I looked was that in Android it's not even exposed to developers (though I didn't look too deeply into it - there may just be no native AP
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by x1798DE 12y ago
One of my biggest problems is the all-too-pervasive attitude that #2 means that users shouldn't be able to control things that "do the right thing", rather than that the device defaults to doing the right thing. I find myse
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Just a (cheap) shot in the dark, but I suspect that readers of "low tech magazine" might not shower every day either.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I'd say it's pretty risky either way, but you could insulate yourself from risk somewhat by using a raspberry pi with a fresh image on the SD card each time. Also, if it's possible to run a raspberry pi from a write-protected
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by x1798DE 12y ago
To be fair, in the parable of the loaves and fishes, Jesus was providing the largest value added, not the farmers/bakers or fishermen, since only he was able to multiply those things; as the marginal producer of the wealth, it's n
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by x1798DE 12y ago
In my experience, key distribution is the easiest thing about PGP / GPG. EnigMail and most other clients can already query key servers easily. Enigmail routinely asks me to "download missing keys", and if my recipient's
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by x1798DE 12y ago
While in some ways I agree that these password rules enforcements are not ideal (they are hardly scientific, they seem much more "common sense" to me), I think making you use a harder-to-remember password is part of the point. The
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by x1798DE 12y ago
The article is claiming that the guy can predict which things are going to succeed and which are going to fail, not make them succeed or fail. His evidence for this is that 50% of the time, he's right (e.g. [success, success], [fai
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by x1798DE 12y ago
That's... not accurate. There are two success conditions (Fail, Fail) and (Succeed, Succeed), and two failure conditions (Succeed, Fail), (Fail, Succeed). If you flip two coins, the chance that they come up both heads is 25%, but the
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I suppose the fact that it's reduced by blinding the patient is a wash (consistent with both theses), but now you need to add two new causes to explain why single and double blinding work, whereas none of the observed phenomena are i
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I am very much not convinced of the interpretation of the placebo effect as "the fact that just thinking that you're getting some treatment of benefit can have actual benefits." The placebo (and corresponding nocebo) effect i

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