ysofunny

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   by ysofunny 3y ago

   > They aren't competing based on quality of search results. not anymore, but when they first started out they certainly were much better than everything else available at the time
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   by ysofunny 3y ago

   a globally accessible, replicated database that should be writeable by anybody and which contains autoritative data about which number (IP) maps to which name? seems like a use case for a blockchain???? runs for cover
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   by ysofunny 3y ago

   all I'm saying is how mandatorily drafting people to go fight a war in another continent is extremely hard whereas getting people to fight in a way that's happening near YOUR (meaning their particular case) state border is super e
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   by ysofunny 3y ago

   but there's nonetheless a difference surely not in principle because anything that's been written may be read out and spoken (and viceversa, anything is potentially transcribe-able) nonetheless, when push comes to shove there&#x27
5. 365.▲
   by ysofunny 3y ago

   maybe the American way to have a draft is to fight a civil war?
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   by ysofunny 3y ago

   you may as well prepend "in the kingdom of heaven" like so: "in the kingdom of heaven the judge is a perfect AI, lawyers do not exist, and true justice does happen normally"
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   by ysofunny 3y ago

   more difficult to bribe and threaten? immunity to blackmail?
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   by ysofunny 3y ago

   there's a difference between things spoken out loud and things written down? to speak is not equivalent to writting
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   by ysofunny 3y ago

   > Surely they mean algebraic numbers not real numbers. that's an extremely subtle distinction! I don't really understand this distinction to my own satisfaction. in my mind the concept I need to understand better is the gen
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    I think in some other context it's actually preferred to be precisely wrong than roughly correct maybe this is the difference between a business (or engineering) mindset of "it must work effectively, how and why it works are secon
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    don't forget about TSVs
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    I think it a testament to the collectively perceived value of semiconductors. I'm saying IMO no matter where in the world the fabs were that place would be a military hotspot. the miltary hotspotness will follow the top of the line fab
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    the answer is the same as tabs or spaces
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    where to draw the line? when other people get their hands on the files we must admit (and later on embrace) the digital possibilities we have. if the artist or model want it deleted they best make sure nobody copied it first else, in my opi
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    right now it's only the scrolls but I bet they're coming for the parchments later then the papers and finally the books! when does it end!!??
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    doesn't matter, they'll be friends on facebook, or have otherwise interacted with each other online
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    euler is the last titan of pure raw 'classic' mathematics because gauss was a pretty strong 'theoretical' physicist. how have the mathematical contributions of quantum physics affected mathematics? have they?? maybe the
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    this one? https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chef the closest thing to what I had in mind, thanks to another reply, is british PHP
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    I'd be interested in a joke programming language that mimics the modern tone and language used by living royals to order food or ask for trips in their private travel infrastructure and so on.
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    but talking is part of the contest (I should not have said it was about "text"; nonetheless academia still maintains an oral tradition in teaching and thesis defenses) so while written philosophy is verbose, philosophers talking c
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    I'm not saying it'll be good for people, users, and gamers. but my business intuition says it's a good corporate move
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    yea, you're technically correct what I was trying to say is that microsoft owns the developer space, Valve has been a tough contender but also, microsoft has never gone straight against valve probably because the business wigs consider
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    exactly, when Facebook actually did do this, Cambridge Analytica happened which is how they were forced to let 'higher order' (i.e. shady) players have the tweak-able ad-targetting marketplace they know and love
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    instagram is only one of their brands, it's like people quitting Budweiser... the corporation owns most other beer brands so they aren't really affected
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    because they wanna get into the video game business alas, microsoft owns that space
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    Meta should buy (merge with, gobble up) Valve I bet Microsoft would hate this
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    all because they aren't in the data-center cloud provider business
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    but this is not about facebook, this discussion is about the protocol given how this industry protocols work, is likely that other big corporations that run data centers are also part of the real protocol discussion, some of those will be c
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    I'm running a contest in my head: "which academic discipline can transfer more information with less text" so far it's a close race between philosophers and mathematicians. I'll take your comment as a vote in favor
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    by ysofunny 3y ago

    sorry, but the proper american phrase is "license and registration"