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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
> The debt is already so large that this barely affects the momentum. The idea that a 66% increase in the deficit "barely affects the momentum" is absurd reflects either your ignorance or your bad faith. Apply that logic to yo
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
Valuable for who? Open source (at the margin) is more valuable for everyone--except the inventor, for whom it is not as valuable. So the inventor keeps the design proprietary, and keeps more money for themselves. But, as is often the case
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
It's the simplest interpretation of the data we have.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
The Bell Theorem shows that any local hidden variable theory wouldn't match the experimental data we already have. There's other options for getting around the weirdness of the Copenhagen interpretation that aren't ruled out
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
> Law of physics implies a casual relationship in nature This is simply wrong. That is not what the term 'law' means in physics.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
> It takes years of education before people realize that the known laws of physics are just approximations or historically refined by discovering new details. It's in high school chemistry textbooks. Typically in the first chapter
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
It's been a long time since my QM course, but, assuming by unitary you mean deterministic, then the answer is that time evolution of a particle's state is NOT deterministic. It is probabilistic. For large collections of particle
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
This sounds like semantic befuddlement (though, not on Wheeler's part; he was just engaging in wordplay). Physical laws are not 'laws' in the sense that nature is required to abide by them. They are simply features of natura
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
Headline is super misleading--it's an electron app that wraps the web interface for Evernote. It's not its own application.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
There are a lot fewer people applying for jobs local to me than there applying to jobs that will let me work remote. By a factor of over 100.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
It's subsidized by those volunteers' time. Time that could otherwise be spent on other things. Granted, there's nothing nefarious about this, but there isn't anything necessarily nefarious about the fact that anything y
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
And full of people applying for them.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
The two kinds of functions are also more clearly declared.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
Whichever team published VS Code seems to be not evil, at least.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
There's also the fact that Walmart achieves low prices by strong arming suppliers into giving them lower quality goods masquerading as the "same" model. Buying anything that you expect to keep more than a year is a waste at W
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
This, a thousand times this.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
All zero of them.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
This eruption has been going on for 35 years, and there hasn't been a mass evacuation yet. I wouldn't worry about it.
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
> Ordinary legislation only requires a 50% + 1 majority. That's not really true of any non-budgetary legislation (for now).
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
> I don't think that juries decide what's true and what's not. In a legal sense, that's exactly what they do. Juries are, by definition, deciders of fact, i.e. they decided what is legally true based on the evidence
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
> We abolished slavery a few centuries ago. Slavery has never been abolished. It was simply made illegal in most places under most circumstances. By any definition of slavery there are more people in bondage today than at any time in t
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by maskedSlacker 8y ago
Nothing that isn't wrong with metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
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by maskedSlacker 9y ago
Oh, you sweet, summer child. There's a reason sweat shops and slave labor happen more in some places than in others.
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by maskedSlacker 9y ago
It's also not done because it is mathematically impossible to certify software as 'bug-free' in the general case. Software isn't like civil engineering where you can mathematically prove that a design is sound.
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by maskedSlacker 9y ago
Relative to Atom, which I left for VS Code: Code is faster and lighter, just as extensible. Better git integration and code analysis, even for Javascript (I finally understand what devs from other languages were talking about!). My workfl
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by maskedSlacker 9y ago
VSCode won me over grudginly. It's faster, lighter, and just as extensible. I was conditioned at an early age to throw holy water at anything Microsoft, and still, I like VSCode better than Atom.
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by maskedSlacker 9y ago
> No question that mentality exists, I'll argue that it's a very small minority of eg millionaires in any society that hold such a view. I'd say it's the majority of millionaires that I've met (all successful sma
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by maskedSlacker 9y ago
It has little to do with the ACA. This has been happening in retail and restaurants for DECADES.
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by maskedSlacker 9y ago
It's incredibly liberating in fact. My life is so much better without it. And I'm not missing anything of value. The people who matter can get a hold of me if they want.
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by maskedSlacker 9y ago
The idea that the patient should be influencing treatment BASED ON WHAT THEY SAW ON TV is absurd. It's like you didn't even read what you responded to. What is this, reddit?

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