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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
You’re abstracting to connect the math: 2, 5, 10, multiplication, and primality are all abstract concepts that don’t exist. What you’ve pointed out is that the interactions of your cards, when confined to a particular set of manipulations a
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Physics doesn’t exist. Reality does, stuff happens, etc. But physics is an abstract model we use to make predictions about reality — and triangles are part of that abstract model, not things that actually exist. You can’t, for instance, sho
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Much of your comment seems to be about your culture — eg, assuming things about axioms and weighting different heuristics. That we prioritize different heuristics and assumptions explains why I don’t find it surprising, but you do. From my
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
They’re literally exploring the same object: properties of networks. That you can express the constraints of network colorings (ie, the measure theory problem) as network algorithms strikes me as a “well duh” claim — at least if you take th
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Asymptotics is a good example of CS using infinity practically. Also, a small aside: there’s a finite amount of matter in the visible universe. We could have infinite matter in an infinite universe.
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Is it? The notion of algorithms and computer science were invented to discuss the behavior of infinite sequences: examining if there’s descriptions of real numbers. This was extended by connecting complicated infinite structures like the hy
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Opera, symphony, etc weren't the affairs we see today throughout their history: the quiet sterility is a modern behavior — and my understanding that it used to be quite a bit more like, eg, movie premiere crowds that made noise in resp
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Using a timeline from LA to NYC, since you made me curious: - life formed 3.7B of 4.5B years ago, which is 700km towards NYC from LA; or about Colorado - proto-humans formed 2M of 4500M years ago, which is about 1.7km “from” NYC; a distance
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
It’s an intentionally difficult to parse network of public and private groups. I did say specifically what I was talking about — public funds like Seattle, where $18000/homeless per year disappears through the network into employee poc
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
That far more than 20% disappears into petite bourgeoisie pockets in government programs — what we were talking about in this thread. Eg, of the budget in Seattle.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
The US is playing nice with Argentina and El Salvador while harsh with Colombia and Venezuela due to the perceived difference in their politics. Carrot, stick. > This is rich guys helping out their rich guy buddies using taxpayer dollars
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Root password is a shared secret that does not implicate the leaker; sharing your personal credentials, however does.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
This comment isn’t even technically correct — OP frames it as quitting bad habits and then suggests common problems people have, eg people who want to quit drinking or smoking habits that negatively impact their lives. You then parsed that
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
By your standard, those Ukrainians are complicit in the crimes of neo-Nazi groups inspired by Bandera who engaged in ethnic cleansing over the past decade. I don’t personally view things that way — but I think it’s very interesting in how
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Creating programs that lower fertility, discussing how that causes demographic issues, and then proposing replacement migration[0] rather than restructuring fertility incentives looks really bad. Especially when done by a small cabal of tec
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I’m unconvinced: machine made fabrics go into my nicest shirts, at a price I can afford several. How would quality be improved by making the fabric by hand? — how would I benefit from a less standard, less fine, more expensive weave of thos
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Capitalism is just a term for the concepts that predated Louis Blanc and were discussed by Adam Smith et al. Your definition is nonsense: capitalism is a system in which the invested capital is also rewarded and not collectively owned. But
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Steeped in blood compared to what? History as a whole is full of unsavory things, but we have to decide between things that can happen — and many atrocities have been committed trying to build Utopia. For example, the massive casualties of
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
US already does that just fine with EBT. I think most discussion of “digital dollars” is just jingling your keys in one hand while taking away physical currency with the other — as the final step in their long war on using cash.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
> Could you explain how a market participant who makes one trade a day is negatively impacted by high resolution price discovery? They’re negatively impacted because the SNR drops when the gain is turned up and causes algorithmic ringing
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
That would likely lead to a revolution: Millennials are 30-45 and they’re not in a good place; neither is Gen Z. We’re already seeing revolutions elsewhere — and it’s likely that trying to loot them further by generations who sold out the n
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
They call themselves Liberals because co-opting a party is easier than starting one and because it’s useful that people think they’re liberal. But a label doesn’t necessarily match reality — just like North Korea isn’t a democratic republic
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
But that would only be something nationalism signaled if the converse weren’t also true — eg, totalitarian states like the USSR, CCP, etc. Those also had: - grievance narratives; - a tendency to divide the world into loyal citizens and enem
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I don’t think you need the statistical: If you engage in behavior with known and predictable risks, which then kills somebody, it is manslaughter. Like recklessly operating a vehicle or blindly throwing knives. That sometimes your behavior
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I wouldn’t even be surprised to find that it’s a matrix: multiple causes correlate with multiple (but not necessarily all) expressions. Like myocarditis or auto immune diseases.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
You’re the one trying to include people in your photos without their consent. Everyone should be allowed to enjoy public spaces without you imposing on them for your activities — and that includes you taking photos. Nothing about their desi
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
We have numerous laws that ban those things in shared public spaces: - littering - jaywalking - excessive noise Etc. And we impose fines for all of those — under the consistent logic that you can’t infringe on others use of public space wit
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I think you should be fined for posting pictures of people publicly without their consent. None of those things require you to invade their privacy and enjoyment of public space — you’re just negatively impacting them because you’re lazy an
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Why shouldn’t they be fined for invading someone else’s privacy because they’re too lazy to touch up the photos on their phone? — why should their laziness negatively impact others use of public space? You’re just making an argument for inc
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
What part of those requires posting my unblurred face online?

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