FisDugthop

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by FisDugthop 7y ago
I am still worried about privacy, and it seems like the design of PeerTube is no longer flexible enough to consider making the desired improvements. In particular, it sounds like peers can still know which videos somebody has requested.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
It's kind of the point, in two ways. First, the constant usage of the Bible to justify political discourse is both a staple of the USA and also painfully stupid. It doesn't matter how nice of an imaginary picture is painted by the
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Hypocritical, not ironic. You mean to highlight that the USA does not treat other sovereign states like the USA expects to be treated. There is no ironic contrast between the USA funding Crypto AG and China funding Huawei.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
I really like how the current top two comment threads need to be glued together in order to get a coherent understanding of the timeline of this work.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
As another algebraist (category theory and computational complexity), this makes a lot of sense. Euler's identity is capricious and Euclidean to me, and far from the most beautiful equation, although it is still remarkably elegant. I d
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Oh look, it's the gateway-drug argument [0] all over again. The short version is that, for those other drugs that the grandparent listed in their comment, they are already scheduled for medical usage. Only the psychedelics are schedu
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Indeed, one would hope that the author knows enough category theory to know that choices of syntax are arbitrary and that choices of semantics are forced; any Turing-complete language will do, and the rest is optimization and trying to conv
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Swift may have borrowed it from E, where the half-open variant is `1..!5`, read "from 1 up to, but not including, 5". It is extremely useful for 1-to-n sorts of counting tasks.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
By your own numbers, this could translate to a 30-second AES key exfiltration in the cloud. This isn't a non-issue, even if you personally aren't affected.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Thanks for mentioning that not everybody responds well to Ritalin. I was medicated with it while in grade school, and it was not pleasant; the school nurse would check my mouth to make sure I took the pills each morning, because I would spi
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
The norms haven't changed, but society is more atomized and thus the norms can't exert the pressure that they once did.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
I would choose to starve, too. But I'd probably kill a few slavers before I went. Why not, right?
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Put up a public Web page with your friend's location. Every time they do anything, update the page. After a day, show them the page, and explain what you've done. See if it gets through their thick skull then!
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
It's easy to make unethical technical decisions when you don't have to bear the cost, either. And yet, we expect better from people.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Presumably the garbage will stop getting posted as soon as HR departments stop writing it.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Right. We should all be using OpenTheory [0]. [0] http://www.gilith.com/opentheory/
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
This pagoda and rock are nigh-unbelievable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyaiktiyo_Pagoda I am amazed that, despite all the traffic and building, the rock has not moved.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Presumably the grandparent is thinking of organisms like Pando [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Ah, and that explains the neutron star skepticism [0] too. [0] https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/neutron-nonse...
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
The Sea Peoples were real, and so was the Bronze Age collapse. There's no need to speculate about Atlantis when we know that there was a very real epidemic of Mediterranean civilizations collapsing due to pressure from invaders.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
Foucault would politely disagree; he used "schizophrenic" (literally, "a mind split into pieces") to describe the way that (post)modern society uses symbols and signs to point at cultural features, without actually under
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
What I find interesting is the implicit assumption that the underlying function being learned is differentiable or continuous to begin with. That's not always the case; for example, we often work with "categorically labeled"
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
You're entirely correct. As an Oregonian, there's really only one reason that I enjoy this law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjhhkuvTq9g (If you're not able to watch videos right now, this is a video of a
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
History repeats itself. LBJ knew that Nixon and Kissinger had sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks, and almost certainly ensured LBJ would lose to Nixon at the voting booths, but couldn't do anything because he came to know about the sabo
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Documents show Foxconn refuses to renegotiate Wisconsin deal(theverge.com)
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
See, that name sounds like religion-down-the-throat. When I was younger, and I volunteered at a food bank in (let's call it) Foo County, it was called "Food for Foo County". Ambiance matters.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
I'm not sure whether a covered car can be brutalist, to be honest. When I think of a brutalist car design, I think of go-karts. Other features of brutalist design: * By exposing the skeleton, the object shows itself as a platform that
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
The top 5% is not wealthy enough to be affected by the proposed wealth taxes that people are currently fearing. Even the top 1% is not totally affected. Yes, some of us are in the top 10%, even in the top 5%. No, we are not going to be up a
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
And yet this reasoning works for every newspaper with an editorial/opinion section: The opinion and editorial columns are not held to the same standard as the rest of the paper.
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by FisDugthop 7y ago
I work in a dozen-story building, colocated with a half-dozen other tech companies. There is a daycare on the first floor. There's also a couple loud restaurant. However, due to quality construction practices, adjacent floors are not a

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