SetTheorist

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by SetTheorist 22d ago
Accuracy and truth matters - if you allow a "noble goal" to justify lying and misleading, then you will lose credibility and trust, and this could cause much longer-term damage to your cause, even if it were a worthwhile and good
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by SetTheorist 1mo ago
I have trouble understanding what a statement like "Basque predates PIE" could possibly mean. Are you claiming that Basque has been spoken unchanged for 6000 years? Are you claiming that PIE speakers were speaking no language at a
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by SetTheorist 1mo ago
? They are not classified as "proto". The "Proto-Baltic" label is clearly attached to the knot 2 "levels" closer to the center.
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by SetTheorist 1mo ago
Russia in the 12th year of their unprovoked conflict with Ukraine and the 4th year of their full-scale invasion. Putin has stated multiple times his desire and intention to "restore" the russian empire, which necessarily entails
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by SetTheorist 2mo ago
AIUI if you have an (polynomial-time) algorithm to reduce some NP-complete task to P then you have indeed shown that P=NP.
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by SetTheorist 2mo ago
The original quote is a bit unclear, but it does refer to being on a playground: "Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: an easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming from the swing itself. The swing carries us; we do not fo
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by SetTheorist 2mo ago
The "realities" being that increasing profits for a few people is more important than the lives of the people doing the actual work?
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by SetTheorist 2mo ago
The "realities" being that increasing profits for a few people is more important than the lives of the people doing the actual work?
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by SetTheorist 3mo ago
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/average-least-16-child... https://zmina.info/en/news-en/russia-has-killed-661-ukrainia...
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by SetTheorist 3mo ago
That seems to be true only in British English. In other dialects (USA, Canada, Australia), corn refers only to maize. (I'd never heard corn used as a general term, though Miriam-Webster does affirm this British usage.)
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by SetTheorist 5mo ago
Background discussion: https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies...
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by SetTheorist 6mo ago
Stating objective facts is not "copium". It is simply false that "half the country [voted] for Trump".
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by SetTheorist 6mo ago
That's absolutely what it stands for. To see this you need only listen to what they say and observe what they do.
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by SetTheorist 6mo ago
On what basis do you make the claim that "It is vanishingly rare for users to scroll up when reading content unless they want to reach the top"? If I were to judge from the comments here (and my own behaviours) it is quite common
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by SetTheorist 7mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35863186 12,500 years ago seems to be a more sensible and evidence-based estimate.
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by SetTheorist 7mo ago
I'm not sure someone who writes things like "Text generated by LLMs also remind me of autistic people. Like, actually autistic people. [...] How annoying." is the best judge of culture and humanity. I agree with the basic pre
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by SetTheorist 7mo ago
Concentrating people in one spot with minimal hygiene available so that infectious diseases spread as much as possible does not seem to me to be ICE "doing their job".
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by SetTheorist 7mo ago
One of the meanings of the word "democratization" is "the action of making something accessible to everyone", which is clearly the sense meant here.
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by SetTheorist 7mo ago
77,302,580 people voted for Trump in 2024. That is not "half the country". Nor does he or ever did have the support of "(over) half the country". His maximum approval level in 2025 was at the beginning of his term at 4
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by SetTheorist 7mo ago
"It's that the people running them are committing ethical crimes that have not been formally illegalized." I think it's even worse than that - they are committing actual crimes that many people were punished severely for
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by SetTheorist 7mo ago
They've kind of patched this for direct questions, but distractions can still confuse it into nonsense. ("drive it over when it's ready to be picked up"??!) e.g. Welcome to Opus 4.6 Dude, should I do a walk to or drive o
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by SetTheorist 7mo ago
There is no general rule that something created by an X is therefore an X. (I have difficulty in even understanding the state of mind that would assert such a claim.) My printer prints out documents. Those documents are not printers. My ca
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by SetTheorist 7mo ago
I think it's unfortunate that this anonymous and careless person refuses to acknowledge the harm done, their culpability in this, or real lesson. For example, "Sure, many will argue I was irresponsible; to be honest I don’t really
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by SetTheorist 8mo ago
No. That is not the case. The majority of deportations are of non-criminals.
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by SetTheorist 8mo ago
It is absolutely not the case that 60% of the population wants all non-citizens deported. On what do you base your claim?
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by SetTheorist 8mo ago
You are explicitly saying that you feel more in common with Taliban or Tren De Aragua than with someone who wishes to exercise their Constitutionally protected right to peacefully protest against unlawful actions by agents of the government
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by SetTheorist 8mo ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health... The data does not support the claim that the US has "better quality of care"
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by SetTheorist 8mo ago
As recently as 15 years ago, Google _explicitly_ stated in their employee handbook that they would NOT, as a matter of principle, include ads in the search results. (Source: worked there at that time.) Now, they do their best to deprioriti
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by SetTheorist 8mo ago
"There are at least as many problems with trying to use statistics as evidence as there are with using anecdotes and fictional references." This is a dubious claim.
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by SetTheorist 8mo ago
"Damit wird insbesondere zu der interessanten Aufgabe, eine quadratische Gleichung beliebig vieler Variabeln mit algebraischen Zahlencoeffizienten in solchen ganzen oder gebrochenen Zahlen zu lösen, die in dem durch die Coefficienten b

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