beevai142

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by beevai142 8y ago
> A large part of what makes the first world so productive is its culture In view of history including colonialism this statement sounds very naive indeed.
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by beevai142 8y ago
That is a consequence of failed premises in the city planning in the US.
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by beevai142 8y ago
Joyce scholarship in some sense seems like mathematics --- the construct is an invention, axioms can be whatever they are decided to be, and the only question is in how productive and beautiful the construction is. That being said, from thi
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by beevai142 8y ago
> known-to-be-flawed academic peer review system That something is flawed does not mean it is useless. You can find the fully unmoderated preprint forum at vixra.org and the results speak for themselves.
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by beevai142 8y ago
> From the simplest cases like being ignored on PRs You're not entitled to having your PRs merged, or even having anyone look at them. PRs not of particular interest to those maintaining the project simply get low priority. Especial
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by beevai142 8y ago
But the stackoverflow answer is right, and accounts for the fact that in the majority of cases the person who is asking a confused question is indeed confused. If what you are trying to do is to get best performance, make use of work that o
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by beevai142 8y ago
> Don't forget that companies are made of people This is totally irrelevant, because the governance model of a a company is a limited dictatorship, and not all those people are equal. A company is only the people at its top, the res
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by beevai142 8y ago
I have used an ad blocker for the last 10+ years. I don't know how Adsense has improved my internet experience, and I suspect it has had no effect.
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by beevai142 8y ago
Evolution only optimizes for having offspring in the future. Trying to find a rational reason for some evolved behavior is not necessarily a fruitful way to think about it.
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by beevai142 8y ago
Not a surprise and not a disappointment either, when it was clear from the start that all results are within measurement error bars, so that there was neither experimental nor theoretical reason to expect to see something.
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by beevai142 8y ago
It was not "NASA" who indicated something, but a couple of guys working for NASA. Also, the "pilot wave theory" stuff is just idle speculation on topics of which the authors did not appear to understand much.
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by beevai142 8y ago
> There is no substitute for you, the person reading these words, to stop accepting plastic bags and as much similar things -- coffee cups, utensils, etc. There is: regulation by the government, restricting use of items harmful to the en
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by beevai142 8y ago
> Mercurial? It's not. The basic feature set is pretty much the same, and requires similar effort to grok. Some things are much harder to do in Mercurial, and some things are just confusing (multiple heads, pushing branches, multipl
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by beevai142 8y ago
The problem with stackoverflow is that answering questions sucks in the long term, for most people. It's basically an user support job, and if you are not suited for that sort of job eventually you start to lose patience with fools, of
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by beevai142 9y ago
Another natural language programming language (in Finnish): https://github.com/fergusq/tampio It's technically somewhat amusing as it runs a morphological parser in order to deal with the Finnish word inflection s
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by beevai142 9y ago
I hear (but is it true?) that for a philosopher to build a career, it is important to be thought as very smart by other philosophers --- and that this is much more so than in other fields, such as the sciences. If it's true, it would e
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by beevai142 9y ago
Perhaps it is an action boosting EU-based companies? Otherwise they are at a disadvantage in competition, because US-based Googles and Facebooks game the e.g. the tax system in a way that EU-based companies cannot.
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by beevai142 9y ago
The source you link to has its own agenda: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/JunkScience.com
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by beevai142 9y ago
> I don't understand how governments have the authority to make private companies (journal publishers) give-away their product for free. Nobody is telling publishers what they have to do. The directives are aimed at publically funde
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by beevai142 9y ago
> When Nature releases an article, they put a lot of work into formatting it for publication so it looks nice. That final product does and should belong to them. Don't you think that this is of very little added value? Nature could
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by beevai142 9y ago
Let's say that you suddely start caring once your library drops subscriptions to journals that you need.
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by beevai142 9y ago
The journal choice is still not fully voluntary. Each field has certain flagship journals, and you are going to publish in them because they have large impact on the prospects for future career. The journals are flagships for historical rea
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by beevai142 9y ago
Why not term limits for all occupations? 1 year white collar work, 1 year on the farm.
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by beevai142 9y ago
DDT was never banned for use in fighting malaria and other diseases. Its use declined because mosquitoes develop resistance to it, and more efficient methods became available. Of course, some interest groups like to present a different pict
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by beevai142 10y ago
The problem with SELinux is not really in the beginner documentation, but in the documentation of the policy macro packages eg. in Fedora -- which are what you in the end should/need to use for actually writing or modifying policies. A
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by beevai142 10y ago
I expect the article itself is more carefully worded than the press release. I don't think people in the scientific community in general really care much about the press releases. The publicity is more something that the funding organi
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by beevai142 10y ago
The code is next to the explanations in the books. Who decides whether your implementation is "completely different", especially if you admit that yours is not a clean-room implementation, since you read the book? Do you want to
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by beevai142 10y ago
I wrote about the interpretation usually used in published papers, and obviously decoherence alone does not solve the measurement problem as it only shuffles it to the bigger system, you need many worlds / Copenhagen / etc. I don&
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by beevai142 10y ago
This is correct. As it is usually applied in practice in the literature, the measurement device decoheres the quantum system and becomes entangled with it --- and at the end of the calculation, Copenhagen interpretation is applied on the me
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by beevai142 10y ago
If someone wants to fight the "unending hamster wheel of capitalism and technology", then certainly shutting up is a bad strategy. The reasons for making noise about this given in the article are not personal, but ideological. Pre

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