masterzora

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by masterzora 10y ago
No. Celebrities are, by definition, well known. To pull an example from the article, Ted Bundy certainly qualifies as a celebrity who would generally not be considered beloved.
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by masterzora 10y ago
Absolutely. Syntax highlighting for me is much more about what not to read than it is about what to read. It can be skipping over 'for' for the billionth time but often it's also reading only a couple key tokens to get the
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by masterzora 10y ago
I think comparing text and code actually makes perfect sense but you have to compare the right text. Pick up any reference book. A dictionary, a textbook, a phone book, whatever. Leaf through it a bit. You'll find they all use tex
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by masterzora 10y ago
I actually crawled through enough of those links to get an idea of what happened and I still don't see anywhere that YC/dang really went wrong. I'm sure it's in there somewhere but I've already put in more effort t
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by masterzora 10y ago
That is a very different line of reasoning from that to which I was responding. IANAL so I'm not comfortable speculating too far but "it's entrapment if the government asks you to do it" is something I know to be a comm
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by masterzora 10y ago
The brokers reaching out to the students doesn't mean entrapment, even if we took the case where the brokers actually were government agents. To be entrapment, someone working on the government's behalf would have to do something
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by masterzora 10y ago
> Where am I going wrong? In short, infinities are complicated and intuition doesn't work well. In slightly longer, you're talking about the difference of the rate of growth of two functions rather than actually about the car
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by masterzora 10y ago
In the case where you're using a fingerprint unlock for your own phone, you are both Henchman #752 and the boss.
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by masterzora 10y ago
> Would you design mathematical notations based on the opinion of 5th graders? It's not their opinions. It's about how they naturally think. And, yes, if I could change mathematical notation in a manner that made it easier t
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by masterzora 10y ago
It's not just about non-programmers being insufficiently precise. It's also about the different ways they express precision compared to how you have to do it for existing programming languages. For example, the paper talked abou
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by masterzora 10y ago
> The list of things they taught kids for the PacMan study also seemed very... well, technical. What list? Perhaps I'm just missing it or there's another link I haven't seen but they don't seem to mention having ta
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by masterzora 10y ago
I've heard a few before: "hypothesis contrary to fact", "what if" fallacy, and "counterfactual fallacy". None of the names are really great and none of them seem to be particularly common but I've ne
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by masterzora 10y ago
Where did I--or anyone--say it was different? Again, we're talking abstract, not current status quo. That said, there are key differences between a dentist or plumber and a waiter or cashier. The obvious one is a private-practice d
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by masterzora 10y ago
To an extent, at least, it's not so ridiculous as your "logical conclusion", at least not based on current US tipping etiquette. For one, 10% on $15786 is a little silly, sure. But current etiquette already recommends flat r
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by masterzora 10y ago
You're the first one to say "only waiters"; savanaly certainly didn't. Their statement was clearly in the abstract and not an endorsement of the current tipping status quo.
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by masterzora 11y ago
A few explanations you can add for more-falsehoods.rst: > 15. Unix time is the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970. The section you quote from Wikipedia shows why this one is false: leap seconds. Similar to how the number of hours be
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by masterzora 11y ago
I do. I don't like small coins.
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by masterzora 11y ago
> It is disingenuous and/or ignorant to suggest that temporarily loading an email into memory for the purpose of displaying it on the users screen [...] I may be wrong, but I think they were referring to things like spam detection
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by masterzora 11y ago
I believe you're looking at the wrong part of the equation. It's not about the relative rates of traffic violations among the poor vs everyone else; it's about the relative impact the same fine has. If you have comfortable a
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by masterzora 11y ago
> Schneier is discussing an unpleasant fact; unbiased algorithms often discover that things we previously attributed to bias were actually unbiased predictors. That's an interesting interpretation. To me it looks more like he&#x2
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by masterzora 11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "shenanigans". Erdős was legitimately a collaborator. Going by the article, Graham and Erdős worked together to try to tackle a similar problem but never managed to make it work. Then Graham a
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by masterzora 11y ago
You likely mean something in the vein of The Theory of Everything or The Imitation Game rather than a straight documentary but just in case documentaries count: it's called N is a Number. Incidentally, through his appearance in N is a
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by masterzora 11y ago
"In the best case the programmer and the company will both think they are getting a good deal" is not the same as "if both the programmer and the company both think they are getting a good deal it is the best case." TFA
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by masterzora 11y ago
> Just because someone is offended doesn't mean they're right. I learned the last one the hard way after being a victim of emotional abuse for over a year, when the other party got outraged or sad at random things to make me do
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by masterzora 11y ago
There's a lot going on here and it's hard to properly talk about it all at once so I'm going to try to discuss some pieces and hope I don't lose an aggregate meaning in the process. I see a few key points in what you sai
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by masterzora 11y ago
It doesn't sound like you're actually sorry that they were offended in these circumstances, either, so "I'm sorry if you were offended" is still apologising for something you're not really sorry about, and poor
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by masterzora 11y ago
I'm sorry if I was unclear but I did understand that and was responding to that particular notion. I was attempting to demonstrate that the "and" does not imply the question is now two (or more) questions. Perhaps I can be
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by masterzora 11y ago
Well, the part where it directly mentions excluded middle is the part where it cites Boolos commenting on just that.
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by masterzora 11y ago
While you can construct the answer to "Does 'da' mean 'yes' if and only if you are True?" from "Does 'da' mean 'yes' if you are True" and "Does 'da' mean 'yes&#
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by masterzora 11y ago
I had to call to cancel my AT&T account recently. The conversation was pretty short: I just told the rep that I was moving in with a roommate that already had service set up so I didn't need to transfer my own service (only about

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