conistonwater

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Siege of Melos, the Melian Dialogue(en.wikipedia.org)
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by conistonwater 5y ago
Pointless pedantry, just because I've been watching TWiV: the PCR test is detecting virus RNA because coronaviruses have RNA, and there's no DNA there. The rest I absolutely agree with.
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by conistonwater 5y ago
True, in fact I think a lot of those ideas are not even remotely new. For example, in shogi (Japanese chess), stalemate is a loss for the stalemated side (because that side can't make progress), and three-fold repetition is a loss for
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by conistonwater 5y ago
Wikipedia isn't very good at explaining go, Sensei's Library is much better and has the advantage of being written by go players for other go players: https://senseis.xmp.net/?Kikashi https://senseis.xm
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by conistonwater 5y ago
> 1. e4: "This game is a game that I lost because of a tactical oversight on my part. I had a tactical idea in mind, but in this game, black resigned. I would have played on for a while, but I was able to find a way to convert my ma
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by conistonwater 5y ago
I think so too: the mice went from 27g to 38g (32g for control mice), so they gained a lot of weight on this diet. For a human that would be like going from normal weight to borderline obese in six months. But I wonder if the mice were st
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by conistonwater 5y ago
> Stimuli previously tested were other Mozart compositions16, Beethoven’s Fur Elise19, and a string version of K44810. Why would you not test other things too? Are there not enough of these IED episodes, or you have to wait around for
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by conistonwater 5y ago
This might be Regulation DD, set by the Federal Reserve if you're in the US, or something similar if you're elsewhere: https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/caletters/2009/0914... > It must r
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by conistonwater 5y ago
There was an episode the TWiV podcast a few months ago where they discussed the biology-based evidence for why SARS-COV-2 wasn't made in a lab. I think it was this one: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-762/ O
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by conistonwater 5y ago
It's worth noting that the consensus in the MathOverflow thread seems to have been that it was a complete waste of time to spend any further time on that paper and the proof. That's the opinion that they reached based on the gener
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by conistonwater 5y ago
You're right, but I'm not sure how to refer to something that doesn't seem to have been ready after this much time.
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by conistonwater 5y ago
If you're going to use the scientific notation for billions, you should just use it for everything. I don't think it's so obtuse anyway, it's exactly how I'd spell that number in code.
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by conistonwater 5y ago
Is that actually true? According to [1], McDonalds (in 2020) was buying EUR160e6 worth of Irish beef accounting for 20% of its beef sales across Europe. It would make quite a loss for them if they shipped beef into Ireland while buying that
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by conistonwater 5y ago
The "Russian counterparts", if I understand correctly, are something like two different entities. One is the Russian government itself, which is mostly interested in PR. E.g., I read a rumour somewhere that part of the reason that
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by conistonwater 5y ago
But Earth-based stuff isn't designed to last too long precisely because it can be maintained. Why wouldn't the ISS be somewhat different in this regard? I don't really see how this analogy is supposed to work.
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by conistonwater 5y ago
When there was a fire on Mir, Nasa said "Small Fire Extinguished on Mir" [1], and the actual thing was pretty severe: "The flames were large enough to span the breadth of Kvant-1, cutting off access to one of two Soyuz escape
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by conistonwater 5y ago
There are already some countries that made a business of looking the other way when somebody wants to launder some money, that's been going on forever and isn't related to Bitcoin. The benefit to the population is that because the
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by conistonwater 5y ago
Doesn't that undermine the argument the Bitcoin is a good store of value, if that's the trouble you have to go to with an "unspendable fortune"?
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by conistonwater 5y ago
I agree with the other comment about there being a lot of predecessors to IEEE floating point numbers. What happened was that when people designed other, non-IEEE floating point arithmetic, they sometimes got things wrong. Not wrong in th
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by conistonwater 5y ago
The first one reads like somebody just found out about functional programming and functors and tried to "improve" a straightforward bunch of if statements. I can read the second program without having read the plain English descri
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by conistonwater 5y ago
> Except the boringness of it. There is no solution to it, except running in a large park or nature. I like podcasts and audio books. Since I started running I got through a lot of books, way more than I could possibly read physicall
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by conistonwater 5y ago
If you find that your slowest running pace is still not conversational (which happens a lot ), try the run-walk method, and accumulate as much total running time as you can with enough walking breaks that keep you listening to podcasts.
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by conistonwater 5y ago
Painful, exhausting, and boring is a combination that usually means you are running too fast for your fitness level. It's usually recommended people run at a pace that allows them to have a conversation relatively easily, and it's
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by conistonwater 5y ago
There was a very good book, Being Mortal , where one of the points is that from the point of view of a doctor working with old people our bodies slowly but surely degrade until we are no longer to get on with our lives. So one aspect of li
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by conistonwater 5y ago
The startup performance issue is just a regular difficult issue, as far as I'm aware. I don't think it has much to do with the goal of "being readable pseudocode" or something. It's getting better with time too. The
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by conistonwater 5y ago
> Those goals are always going to run counter to performance These days Julia is a very clear counterexample to this sort of claim, I don't think this is true at all.
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by conistonwater 5y ago
That's not true at all. Also, historically, there's been a trend of attributing negative things to depression. I've read John Cacioppo's work (here's an interview: https://www.theatlantic.com/health&
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by conistonwater 5y ago
Just to be clear: if running is "intense exercise" that means you're doing it wrong, and you will have a much better time of it if you slow down to easy conversational pace. (People usually use the run-walk method to develop
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by conistonwater 5y ago
I wonder if there is maybe some other, easier, way of checking if someone's an idiot.
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by conistonwater 5y ago
No, vaccines effectiveness can be substantially lower than 100%, so if you're vaccinated, depending on the vaccine type, you still might not be protected. It's much like the normal vaccines for the normal diseases, you don't

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