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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
While there are exceptions, and in general exceptions seem pretty common, they still require businesses to officially get approval and it gives power to parents to enforce rules that would otherwise be hard to do so. Even with the exceptio
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
The ban we have on gambling seems weak. From trading card games to loot boxes to those arcade games that look to be skill based but are entirely up to chance, children are allowed to do all. The rules feel very inconsistent to the point t
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
There are infinite many such strings, so that alone can't be used to prove the Turing machine of k states can check all strings. So that leaves open the original question, how do we know that a Turing machine of k states is able to ha
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
Is it terrible? If we were to remove the system and keep it gone for some set amount of time, once people realize it was really gone, would crimes not come back? We can compare to other countries and see their rates of crime, but such comp
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
>Have all of the people scammed been brought whole? Can you ever make them whole? Even if you pay them back all their money, there is the period of time without, the fear and pain from losing it, and similar that cannot be undone. For
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
The food bank I worked at had guidelines per item group. Different items had different levels of strictness, though any worker was free to throw away any item if they thought it was spoiled or too badly damaged. Dents were okay as long as
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
Controlling for population density doesn't control for the impact of population density on the issue at hand, as these are two different factors which are related and which are named very similarly. Consider this simplified example. 11
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
Is there anything really special happening here? For a non-technical individual, it can be hard to tell when someone technical is providing value and when they are, to use the term in this post chain, being a parasite. A technical person
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
>The ball starting to move without anything acting on it would violate other principles of classical mechanics. Isn't gravity acting on the ball? Ideally a ball balanced a the tip of a bowl has 0 net force, but only because it has
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
I think they have done that. The catch is that these scientists are likely to take their time, because they want to produce something with weight behind it. This isn't lab #5234's attempt to reproduce it which showed some weird
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
If we assume they are two normal distributed characteristics that aren't related, then it is a natural consequence once you select for those who are at the top of either distribution. Someone in the top 10% of competency or charisma wi
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
If privacy is really private, and not merely a promise from a benevolent entity they won't look at your details, not that they can't, then you will always find in your company those who need privacy because they are hiding from al
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
This feels like something that would, at large scale, be unhealthy for science as a whole. While existing papers have already gone through their own quality checks, this enables bad, misleading, or false statements to propagate which can e
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
This gets into the social construct of what makes a race and what qualifies as racism. For example, often discrimination based on ethnicity and not race still gets classified under racism even though it wasn't based on race. For a pu
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
Isn't the actual simulation argument based on information density being bounded in a way that doesn't make sense. Something like we would think information density should be bounded by 3d. You have twice as much 3d space, you ca
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
A changer that initiates a single change is themselves changing, from a state of not implementing change to a state of implementing change. This also assume a foundation of before and after, that there is a sense of time. This is like look
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
>Oh defining a framework that defines incarceration is hard so we should just have slavery. Got it. That is not my argument. My argument is that incarceration is a subset of slavery. Accepting one specific subset of slavery doesn't
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
While I think there is a definite issue with prisons being used as a source of labor, I also don't see how you can have prison without it being slavery. At the very core, putting someone in a limited area they do not want to be in, fo
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
It doesn't seem to do anything other than play word games with what counts as an 'idea' instead of what counts as 'speech'. An attempt to reset the existing case law, philosophy, etc., without facing it head on. P
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
At the time reddit was not some unknown back corner of the internet and had already begun working with law enforcement to enforce anti-CSAM laws due to material being treaded in private messages and private subreddits. That it took a media
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
Given that many times we have children hurt by the same laws meant to protect them, I have begun to wonder if the blanket desire to protect children is actually based on a desire to protect children, or to fit in with current culture where
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
Is this age range the ones most commonly sending photos, or the one most commonly caught (as a photo sent by a 16 year old is more likely to pass as 18 and not be caught by any detection software or manual detection)? At face value, the ide
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
>allowed to calculate past the divergent part My question was more in doubting if the divergent part actually existed. n!x^n will eventually diverge for 0<x<1, regardless of how small x is, but was that really the issue? I thought
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
I eventually started doing much the same, down to the club soda and lime, but I only did so after my young adult years had passed and even then I would receive a few comments that indicated a disapproval of me remaining fully sober while ot
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
Given the extent that alcohol related establishments serve as the third space for young adults, at least in stereotypical US culture, I do wonder if there is a point where increasingly avoiding alcohol becomes detrimental. I'm thinkin
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
Something can be legally required but also have been originally made into a requirement as a dark pattern. The idea that something is legally defined as being 'conspicuous' in a way that makes it less conspicuous makes me conside
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
I think this ends up being a question that is the cousin of Bertrand's paradox. In that case, the English words in the original question, despite feeling concrete in what they ask for, leave enough vagueness to give different ways to
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by WindyLakeReturn 3y ago
So one question I have in the introduction section is that it seems the article misses the difference between the number of Feynman diagrams to calculate a_n and the value of a_n. They point out that the the number of Feyman diagrams grows
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by WindyLakeReturn 4y ago
I don't think they care who it is, but they care who is a who. They aren't concerned about it being an AI because that concern hasn't crossed their mind. If it becomes common knowledge that the people responding are bots, I
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by WindyLakeReturn 4y ago
Aren't the images in that wikipedia link misleading? In the original case, you have the following statement: If even, then red. You also have 4 cards, 3, 8, red brown. So two numbers that relate to the if side and two colors that rel

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