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by dmfdmf 9d ago
What about Trump cutting off Mexican cartels from importing fentanyl and blocking China from shipping fent precursors to Mx? Opium Wars revenge of the East against the West is ending.
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by dmfdmf 9d ago
I thought QM and GR were mathematically incompatible. How do you even perform an experiment without accepting one frame or the other? Sus.
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by dmfdmf 15d ago
Late to the party but it does not matter what users or Mozilla does. The problem is all the Big Corps and Gov sites now refuse to work with anything but a chromium browser. We can debate Firefox features and Mozilla missteps until the cows
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by dmfdmf 2mo ago
>With rationals you can only approximate. Approximate relative to what? All actual measurement is implicitly or explicitly approximate such as L = x meters +/- epsilon. There is no infinite precision by which to discount rational m
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by dmfdmf 2mo ago
This is an interesting development. I think trying to program a computer to be "intelligent" without a valid theory of concepts is a fool's errand.
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by dmfdmf 3mo ago
Unless things change we are going to end up like Cuba keeping old '57 Chevys running into the 80's. From what I've read nobody wants these modern ipads on wheels and used car prices of pre-2015 cars, regardless of miles, will
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by dmfdmf 3mo ago
Yes, this is the same argument used when the Biden admin during covid pressured the media companies to cancel people and news they did not like for "misinformation" instead of calling it censorship. This and LEOs buying data from
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by dmfdmf 3mo ago
I am old enough to remember when the fax machine first became ubiquitous in the 80's and read about how the Soviets were threatened by it. Unauthorized use was a crime and they stationed guards at fax machines to prevent mis-use. Perha
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by dmfdmf 3mo ago
So everyone is on the same page on this issue. The First Amendment is the right to anonymous free speech. I doubt they teach it in the govt schools but the Federalist papers, which argued for the US Constitution, was published anonymously
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by dmfdmf 3mo ago
Good point. I don't know how liability works in the Waymo case.
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by dmfdmf 3mo ago
I think the human "driver" of that car will be charged with at least recklessness. Even if you are in a botcar you still have ultimate responsibility for safe operation. From the vids I've seen and the damage to a brick wall
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by dmfdmf 3mo ago
>Now, to be sure, the end product of science is supposed to be science, not grants or tenure. "To be sure" and "supposed to be" are doing some heavy lifting here. I am not so sure about that so I suppose that for many
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by dmfdmf 3mo ago
FYI, En effet = Indeed. Toutefois = However. I had to translate so I thought I'd share.
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by dmfdmf 4mo ago
> we made the intentional decision to not include email on the dumbphone 2 to stay aligned with our values. we created a communication device with essentials that help guide you off your smartphone screen, while still being able to opera
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by dmfdmf 4mo ago
So far, so good. I just let Kagi renew after my first year. The nicest thing is getting relevant search links on the first page or two and not pages of SEO links or ads masked as links that are irrelevant to my search. I haven't even u
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by dmfdmf 5mo ago
My working hypothesis has always been that Satoshi was a CIA or NSA working group partly to fund black ops. Also, it could be that Bitcoin was a psyop to get people used to digital currency followed by the bait and switch to CBDC. Seem to b
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by dmfdmf 6mo ago
Now do Onedrive.
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by dmfdmf 6mo ago
> And besides, when I make phrases, is it really me who is speaking? How can anyone ever say anything original, personal, unique to him, when by definition language obliges us to draw from a well of pre-existing words? You need to learn
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by dmfdmf 6mo ago
>Scientists define the stages of life in biological, societal, and chronological terms—but none of them quite capture what it’s like to grow up. Because unlike the lesser animals, for a human adulthood is not a biological, societal or a
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by dmfdmf 6mo ago
As is tradition, HN has downvoted your legit comments to the twilight realm. I agree with everything you say. Onedrive should be flagged as a virus. Why do they get a pass for things any other app would be blocked for doing? I think the rea
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by dmfdmf 7mo ago
Setting aside i, math symbols that stand for irrational numbers can be treated as numbers in theorems or derivations or proofs but one needs to be careful that a symbol such as Pi or SQRT[2] actually designates an infinite series to calcula
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by dmfdmf 7mo ago
Yes, you can call it "finitist" if you like but that is an error too. Define "exist". Not "most" but all real numbers are similar to Pi, i.e. they are symbols that stand for an infinite process to calculate a r
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by dmfdmf 7mo ago
Pi is not a number, it stands for a method (i.e. infinite series) to calculate a number. Conceptually it is the ratio of circumferance to the diameter of a circle which are incommensurate quanties, i.e. can't be represented as a ration
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by dmfdmf 7mo ago
>Infinity invites resistance. Aristotle rejected the existence of the infinite entirely; to him, infinity was simply a limit that could never be reached, not a true mathematical entity. Off to a bad start. Aristotle was not making a math
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by dmfdmf 7mo ago
Check out Zorin OS. As Win10 was approaching its event horizon back in Oct I was thinking of jumping to ZOS. It is similar enough to Windows to be usable. I never made the jump and still running Win10 but soon it will be Linux's day in
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by dmfdmf 8mo ago
Subreddits have dropped off too. I assumed the migration was to discord or tiktok or other plublic squares. Specialized forum content, discussion and community suffered with the VerticalScope rollup that borged them all a few years back. Th
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by dmfdmf 10mo ago
Interesting post. I noticed that your Optimal: L=2997mm is the same four leading digits as the speed of light 299792458 m/s. I always thought there was a connection between geometry and the math and physical constants. Once I was think
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by dmfdmf 1y ago
I think that now that IPV6 has 2^128 addresses that some of these can be assigned to individuals as a unique ID, maybe at birth like SSN. It could serve as the base of a public key and secret private key blockchain system controlled by the
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by dmfdmf 1y ago
The best advice I got on breaking a bad habit is that you can't do it by ordering yourself "don't do X" which takes will power and teeth-gritting effort. Any success with this method will fail over time. The problem is t
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by dmfdmf 1y ago
You don't actually own your phone if ownership implies control over your property. You just get to pay for it. This was always the goal of our corporate/government "partnership" AKA fascism. Can't wait for Windows 1

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