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by colossal 3y ago
well it still is delivered by guys with swords in a sense -- now they're just guys with guns and jumpsuits bearing the words "US ARMY."
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by colossal 4y ago
A 2.5mg/kg dose would be (extrapolating linearly) like a ~200mg dose for a 65-70kg adult. That's wayyy more that most casual users take, probably enough to induce a "k-hole" in the majority of people. Would be a curious
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by colossal 4y ago
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly app
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by colossal 5y ago
You need to switch the drivers from WDM to ASIO. Most DAWs have this as an explicit choice with WDM as the default.
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by colossal 5y ago
I think the author takes issue with it not being intuitive, which is understandable. They do seem to acknowledge the generality is beneficial, however.
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by colossal 5y ago
Because its the obvious outcome of the ancap principles that many on here are strongly in favour of. Company appeals to the largest market share by designing devices that work well for the majority of people. It just happens that HN readers
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by colossal 5y ago
you should also get checked out for thyroid issues if you have hormonal problems. They can cause some/all of the symptoms you're describing.
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by colossal 5y ago
Yes. The lottery is (supposed to be) uniformly random. You cannot do better than choosing a random number. If you could do so provably, that would mean the lottery wasn't fair.
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by colossal 5y ago
If you provide historical options data that would be amazing.
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by colossal 6y ago
It has shown to be correlated with better outcomes. It is also correlated with being healthier, being active, and eating better. As far as I understand there is no strong evidence for a causal relationship. To be clear, if you live in the
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by colossal 6y ago
Can't wait to see the bugs! GAN's are famous for some... interesting reconstructions. And better still, nvidia will have no way to debug it since the model is essentially a black box.
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by colossal 6y ago
mm hows that boot taste
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by colossal 6y ago
It's somewhat pointless without a female voice though. I don't think most players will assume you are anything but male unless you speak...
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by colossal 7y ago
Yes but physics != engineering. You really need very minimal higher math to do engineering work. As far as I know, at my school the furthest engineers go is a course in vector calculus, ODES, baby linear algebra and simple probability. None
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by colossal 7y ago
Have to disagree with this. I'm a math undergrad but a good chunk of my algebra class this semester was physics students. Additionally, the author said they have a graduate degree. As far as I know (which is not very far) modern physic
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by colossal 7y ago
I think it's incredibly disingenuous to call yourself a self-taught mathematician when you already have a masters in physics.
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The Priest of Abu Ghraib(smithsonianmag.com)
113 points by colossal 7y ago|37 comments
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by colossal 8y ago
I think the result would be the same no? Assuming the characters are stored in ASCII the result of a single bit flip can only possibly modify one character. Of course this assumes the program is resilient against modification in general and
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by colossal 8y ago
In my completely amateur opinion, that is the one major reason why value investing is so much harder today. When Graham and later Buffett were executing this strategy to enormous success, most of a companies valuation could be traced back t
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by colossal 8y ago
But surely having 80% of some revenue is better than having 100% of nothing.
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by colossal 8y ago
> I think you're arguing on the side of "countries need monarchies because the people can't be trusted" and "printing presses allow seditious ideas to spread and must be outlawed or tightly controlled", but,
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by colossal 8y ago
Can you explain to me how to solve the decentralization problem then? It seems that with the current generation of blockchain, the problem is that eventually it will become no longer feasible to store the entire ledger on one device, and th
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by colossal 8y ago
They even use one in an episode of the wire (circa 2003).
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by colossal 8y ago
> The interesting property of cryptocurrencies is that the supply of money is constricted and can't be manipulated by any nation's central bank. I don't understand how people believe this is a good thing (not implying you
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by colossal 8y ago
Why would anyone listen to anything he says at this point? The cognitive dissonance among the blockchain fanatics is incredible.
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by colossal 8y ago
It is relatively easy to define good or bad though. Telling black from white isn't hard. The problem is all the shades in between (where the majority of the colours are).