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by gweinberg 27d ago
Here's an even better idea: instead of turns, use degrees!
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by gweinberg 1mo ago
Hey, that's today's smbc https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/r The problem is, there's no good reason to think the concept of 彊 in your mind is at all similar to the concept of 彊 in my brain. After all, we
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by gweinberg 1mo ago
It occurs to me that we can use 彊 to mean "a completely unknown concept that cannot be named". For example if you ask, "when Cthulhu rises from its slumber, what is thefirst thing it will do? Probably it will 彊.
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by gweinberg 1mo ago
Of course, nobody really gets paid for days off, anywhere, ever. Salaries are prorated, people are paid for the days they actually work.
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by gweinberg 2mo ago
Should have kept the original title.
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by gweinberg 2mo ago
"Most research during the past two decades hinted that human evolution has largely slowed or changed so subtly that existing tools couldn’t detect it; evidence seemed to suggest that civilization put humans beyond the reach of natural
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by gweinberg 2mo ago
I imagine "one" is usually spelled out in titles.
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by gweinberg 2mo ago
The symmetry is restored if you say you're playing a two game match and the winner is the one that survives longer as the hares. But the game seems simple enough that I imagine it shouldn't be too hard to play optimally.
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by gweinberg 2mo ago
Okay, but you not only have the question of why they did it when they did it, but also why they didn't in the previous 1700 years. We haven't been to Mars yet because the technology isn't ready, not because nobody has the han
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by gweinberg 2mo ago
Wait, are you saying they can't be solved by a Turing machine, but they can be solved some other way? If so, how?
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by gweinberg 2mo ago
OP claimed relativistic effects explain why mercury is liquid at room temperature. That may be part of the story, but it isn't the whole thing, since other heavy elements are not liquid at room temperature.
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by gweinberg 3mo ago
They don't. LEOs will routinely conduct searches without any warrant or probable cause and if they find anything and the defense tries to have it thrown out, the LEO will say the search was "voluntary". Similarly, they will s
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by gweinberg 3mo ago
I get the same error, and chrome fails also.
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by gweinberg 3mo ago
The idea that the stock market has been shrinking in any meaningful sense is kind of silly. Market cap means something, but the number of shares in a company by itself is meaningless.
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by gweinberg 4mo ago
Yes! I originally read the headline as "a turkey" because of the lack of a capital T. They can call themselves what they want, but it unreasonable of the Turks to expect English speakers to write their country's name with cha
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by gweinberg 4mo ago
Ok so I think I understand your insight: the number of 64 bit numbers you can get from multiplying two 32 bit numbers is the number of distinct results. I guess it follows that, of those 64 bit integers that can be written as the product of
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by gweinberg 4mo ago
It stands to reason that owning must be cheaper than renting an equivalent place over the long term, unless the guy renting to you made a poor investment. But you're usually not comparing equivalent places when you make the comparison.
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by gweinberg 5mo ago
Is the title a reference to "Men Who Stare at Goats"? If so, I think few people got it.
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by gweinberg 5mo ago
Yeah, given the nominal precision it's surprising how far off some of the numbers are. A .38 is the same diameter as a .357.
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by gweinberg 5mo ago
Obviously a torus is the size of a doughnut.
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by gweinberg 5mo ago
I thought it would be a team-up between two. Presumably the elf would help fight turtles and donkey kong, since what good is a plumber in a world without plumbing?
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by gweinberg 6mo ago
So the reason it takes a human and an elephant about the same amount of time to poop is, the ratio of our poop lengths is about the same as the ratio of our poop velocity? That sounds more like a tautology than an explanation to me.
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by gweinberg 7mo ago
Had to wade through a lot of text to find out that apparently Zuckerberg and OP both apparently think the internet is something you access through phones.
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by gweinberg 7mo ago
Not sure how that's possible. Laws may have a lot of strict marriage laws, but in Republic there is no marriage, the state assigns you sex partners in a rigged lottery, and requires the participants to be wearing masks so they can&#x27
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by gweinberg 7mo ago
Pretty sure he was asking about "Passengers".
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by gweinberg 7mo ago
If an integer is drawn from an n bit space, it has n bits of entropy. Yes it really is that simple.
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by gweinberg 7mo ago
Yes! They can choose to leave California!
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by gweinberg 8mo ago
True, but HSBC thinks you read the email, because somebody fetched the tracking pixel, right? The irony is that HSBC and others who use this kind of thing probably aren't in the least interested in when or how many times you open the e
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by gweinberg 8mo ago
Yeah, given that it's been 5 years I would think there would be some followup.
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by gweinberg 8mo ago
Bob isn't giving you any actionable information. If Alice and Bob agree, you're more confident than you were before, but you're still going to be trusting Alice. If they disagree you're down to 50% confidence, but you st

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