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by yk 10y ago
I already ranted about unicode earlier today, my main argument is, that unicode is what happens if everybody qualified thinks: "That's a great idea, of course you have to handle X and Y and Z and I just remember that I forgot to f
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Against Dog Whistle-ism(slatestarcodex.com)
7 points by yk 10y ago|0 comments
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by yk 10y ago
By now, they probably filter the array from the history.
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by yk 10y ago
Admittedly it is the kind of argument that needs some justification. Roughly what I mean is, a car in the middle of the desert will just roll until it stops because there is a lot of friction between the tires and the ground. By contrast a
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by yk 10y ago
I think that autonomous vehicles make flying cars possible. On one hand, learning to fly is difficult (the problem has a dimension more than driving on the surface) and people really do not like wreckage falling from the sky. So one needs a
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by yk 10y ago
Intuitively this sounds like confirmation for the current system. The thing is, that it takes time to understand truly novel research, while a measurement like the discovery of the Higgs has a immediate impact, because the Higgs mechanism w
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by yk 10y ago
Did you report the bug? (Perhaps in the "optional comments" field.)
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by yk 10y ago
Disturbing thought, I wonder if free speech is only politically feasible under the assumption of limited distribution. If we look at free speech two decades ago, the two ways of enjoying free speech were, you could convince an editor, or yo
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by yk 10y ago
Dear MRAs, please try to lift the entire debate to a 20th century understanding, you are making me look bad. To give a short primer, Patriarchy: A social structure, which in modern discourse is largely influenced by work of Zetkin and Luxen
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by yk 10y ago
Gold was also the heaviest known element until the middle of the 19th century, which means that all impurities swim at the top and so it is easy to purify simply by melting it. Plus you can assay it by a touchstone. So there are a lot prope
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by yk 10y ago
Somehow this sounds like starting with the easy case. It may well be, that people who get basic income in a pilot study behave better than people who get basic income as a right, however this seems to accentuate the benefits of basic income
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by yk 10y ago
Because most of the developments are a net loss for the user.^1 The most important benefit of an ad blocker is not that it blocks ads, the most important benefit is, that the web is a lot faster. I basically stopped surfing on my tablet, be
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by yk 10y ago
The problem with burying cables is, that the first mover advantage can not be overcome. The calculation of the first guy is, that he has some cost X for N subscribers who will have to pay a monopoly rate M. The calculation of the second guy
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by yk 10y ago
I think there are two important points, first that there is no longer a clear distinction between public and private spaces. To pick the immediate example, I am currently sitting in my bedroom, but on the other hand I am writing in a public
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by yk 10y ago
A photon would produce a different shape of the electron spectrum. (It would not produce a bump at 16 MeV, but some extra contribution to the entire shape, since it is massless.)
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by yk 10y ago
In quantum field theories the forces are the same as new bosons. (The exact relationship is a bit hard to explain, since particles enter the picture as a really cool trick to solve PDEs, not as a fundamental entity of the theory.)
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by yk 10y ago
Can you expand a bit on the 2. point? (Probably there are some implications for bariosynthesis, but I don't have a good feeling how they should look like.)
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by yk 10y ago
Looking quickly through the two papers mentioned [0, 1], there is a (statistically) very solid result that something is going on with 8Be, which is only very barely a nucleus and is probably better thought of as a bound state of two alpha p
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A Severed Head, Two Cops, and the Radical Future of Interrogation(wired.com)
3 points by yk 10y ago|1 comments
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by yk 10y ago
I was thinking pretty much the same, a oscilloscope module or an android module could be pretty handy at times.
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by yk 10y ago
Usually I would agree, but it is written in the context of SymPy, as symbolic math library. There I would expect 1/2 is the solution to 2*x=1 .
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Who Will Own Your Data If the Tech Bubble Bursts?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by yk 10y ago|0 comments
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by yk 10y ago
If the driver can sleep, than the car needs to handle everything that can happen on the interstate, including deer or people on the road. So I would guess that a interstate autopilot has the same difficult challenges, but 'simpler&#x27
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by yk 10y ago
The interesting challenges on a interstate are pretty similar as the usual challenges of autonomous vehicles, so what happens if there is a construction site, or if there are people on the road. (But you have to deal with that at a lot high
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by yk 10y ago
No idea about snakes, but a sensor will glow itself at these wavelength, since it has room temperature which is basically the same temperature as body temperature. So to stop the sensor from blinding itself, you need to cool it significantl
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by yk 10y ago
All of these are made worse by a fork. [Edit:] Since I am getting downvoted let me get through their stated reasons: Number of active core developers at an all time low, no process for getting more new people involved. A fork
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by yk 11y ago
That's probably because the older physicists learned the hard way that nobody has ever made any money by betting against the standard model.
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by yk 11y ago
Minkowski geometry preserves causality, that is all observers agree on the order of events, not necessarily on the time between events. So every observer sees me catching the ball after he sees me throwing it into the air. If I would move f
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by yk 11y ago
The electron goes forward and backward in time and interacts with itself. (In quantum field theory you can replace a positron with an electron going backwards in time). Regrettably the theory does not work, since it would predict the same n
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by yk 11y ago
Semi-random thought about the article on middle class people who can not afford a $400 emergency a few days ago[0], media creates remarkably unrealistic expectations. In that article someone estimated that one needs $100k - $150k for a midd

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