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by zoky 3y ago
I mean, in principle I agree with you. If Qantas or Lufthansa can come in and run things cheaper and better, I have no problem with letting them try to compete on the open market. But just like I wouldn’t want a US government owned airline
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by zoky 3y ago
I guess I just don’t get it then. What’s wrong with the following scenario: 1) China comes in and undercuts US prices. 2) US carriers are unable to compete with a business subsidized by one of the largest economies in the world, and China A
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by zoky 3y ago
Given that many foreign airlines are at least in part government owned, this could be problematic. Do we really want Air China to come in and drastically undercut US based carriers in order to drive them out of business?
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by zoky 3y ago
The concept doesn’t really make any sense on its face. Gold is gold. A kilo of gold is worth the same in the United States as in China or India. So when you look at the nations backing this—the BRICS countries, plus a few other nations that
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by zoky 3y ago
Well, half their mother. And it’s not really all that unusual either. Bees are the same way. The males (called drones) are hatched from unfertilized eggs laid by the queen. They have no stinger and can do no work for the hive. Literally the
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by zoky 3y ago
The link between drug use and poverty is far from clear. While there is a correlation between drug addiction and poverty, there has not been a causal relationship shown between the two. In many cases, poverty may be a result of drug addicti
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by zoky 3y ago
Technically correct, but I think it can be assumed from the question that it's referring specifically to a conical frustum. Of course, the answer is then that the shape of such an object would be, well, a conical frustum, which renders
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by zoky 3y ago
It's probably better to think of time as the "zeroth" dimension, in that everything that exists in any other dimension has to exist for some duration of time first. Of course, we can still consider theoretical objects that ex
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by zoky 3y ago
> IMO, there is a huge qualitative difference between 15 and 14.7; 15 is an integer, while 14.7 isn’t. Yes and no. The fact that one is an integer and one isn’t only really matters when considering them in the context of a set, e.g. when
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by zoky 3y ago
I guess what I’m saying is that they should. We all grew up learning math before programming, and mathematically speaking, there is no qualitative difference between 15 and 14.7, and no difference whatsoever between 15 and 15.0. So why do p
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by zoky 3y ago
I feel like the implementation of floating point is a bit weird, but the concept really isn’t. You have a big string of numbers of more or less a fixed length, with a decimal point somewhere therein. Floating point lets you specify what the
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by zoky 3y ago
It's interesting how he mentions Google Glass having captured the public's interest in such technology… which it did, if only for a hot minute. Now, ten years later, Apple has thrown its hat into the ring, and we'll see where
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by zoky 3y ago
> Sidenote: is he writing equations comically large on the blackboard for a reason? Well, yeah, he probably can't see them properly otherwise. Remember how grandma always used to tell you you'd ruin your eyesight by sitting too
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by zoky 3y ago
No worries; I assumed you weren’t being malicious.
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Spelling errors? In The Grauniad?[0] Forswear! [0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/12/guardian-200-t...
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by zoky 3y ago
Hanlon’s Razor states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." I’m saying Reddit is incompetent in this case, rather than stupid. Not quite sure what you’re getting at?
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> I think the lack of activity since the conspiracy theory started could be easily explained by the user being creeped out by the witch hunt and abandoning their account. The problem there is that nobody made the connection until after
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by zoky 3y ago
Not at all. A single post on the account would be enough to completely disprove the theory. The whole reason the theory exists is that the account was previously extremely active, and all activity stopped abruptly when Maxwell was arrested.
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by zoky 3y ago
Yeah, so, at first I scoffed at the notion as well, but I kept following up on it, and… are we really so sure that it wasn’t Ghislaine Maxwell? I kept looking for them to post something, anything… but nothing. https://old.reddi
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by zoky 3y ago
As much as I hate to give Reddit the benefit of the doubt, I think you’re right that Hanlon’s razor may well apply here, albeit substituting incompetence for stupidity.
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by zoky 3y ago
Ah, gotcha, I see what you’re saying. I guess I’d just say that you seem to be implying that the human instinct for perception of danger is not really tied to actual danger. And while one could argue that in the modern day that may be true,
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by zoky 3y ago
Maybe instead of pretending homelessness is a strictly capitalist problem we should look at whether it’s been a problem elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Russia https://en.wikipedia.or
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by zoky 3y ago
I don't know SF all that well personally, so I really can't say. I do know that where the person I know stayed was in the Mission District, which was (and still is) widely known to be among the more dangerous parts of San Francisc
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by zoky 3y ago
I mean, okay, but don't you think there's generally a correlation between “feeling of danger” and “actual danger”?
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Well, keep in mind that he was working somewhat odd hours. He would often be leaving work at around 23:00 or later. There are definitely parts of San Francisco where you do not want to be walking even a single block through that late.
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> Although, OS X was painful for many years. I guess it depends on how you define "many". I bought my first Mac in 1998 (the "Smurf" G3) and used MacOS 8/9 for quite a few years after that. I remember looking for
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by zoky 3y ago
The hotels may or may not be themselves run down, but there's also the neighborhood to consider, especially when you're talking about San Francisco. I know someone who used to travel to SF for work a lot, like 10-12 times a year.