perhonen

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by perhonen 5mo ago
they did not manage to stop the law. what i am saying is that the leaders were trying to pass a necessary law and the population was against it, so you can't pass off blame for the dysfunction on them
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by perhonen 5mo ago
European societies are the most truly democratic states there have ever been. You have educated populaces making decisions with full information (comparatively more than anywhere else in the world, ever) to choose your leaders. All your pol
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by perhonen 10mo ago
who owns the rain? what if it was just going to fall in the oceans?
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by perhonen 2y ago
nah i'll take the crime thanks
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by perhonen 3y ago
perhaps because the threat of "comply or there will be consequences" worked.
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by perhonen 3y ago
Babur, in his own words (the Baburnama), explicitly talks about the slaughter of apostates and infidels, creating towers of their skulls, the glory of being a killer of non-Muslims. The ethnic hatred is not only everpresent, it is celebrate
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by perhonen 3y ago
when do you think the British Museum will be able to publish an article on the neoclassical watercolors of Adolph Hitler without mentioning antisemitism, the holocaust, or WWII?
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by perhonen 3y ago
there's got to be a reasonable point on the spectrum between "child labor is legal" and "government mandates color of post-it notes in offices" if a company decides they function best with all their employees in the
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by perhonen 4y ago
It doesn't take place in Antarctica, but The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard describes such a future - the last remnants of civilization have retreated to Greenland, and London is a flooded tropical lagoon.
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by perhonen 5y ago
but... this is not true? McGaugh himself [1] mentions that there are mass discrepancies even using MOND analysis, and that this favors the dark matter paradigm [2]. [1] https://twitter.com/dudedarkmatter/status/109
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by perhonen 5y ago
are you saying an environment is only appreciable if it's a biosphere? why? that seems utterly arbitrary. i'd quite enjoy bouncing around in 1/4 gravity, or sailing over lakes of hydrocarbons if i could. sure it's equall
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by perhonen 9y ago
So does UofT - I myself and at least a dozen other 1T7 grads I know personally are headed south as soon as we graduate. This is a Canada-wide problem which won't be fixed unless salaries equalize.
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by perhonen 9y ago
UMontreal has Bengio, UofT has Hinton. Toronto also has Google Brain, and many UofT phd students and postdocs have ended up there (Sutskever, Karpathy).
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by perhonen 10y ago
It's a collection of articles, not a single text.
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by perhonen 10y ago
Donald Trump has stated his opposition to net neutrality [1], although it is unclear to what extent he intends to pursue this issue. Trump's picks for his FCC transition team are both supportive of permitting differential pricing model
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by perhonen 10y ago
There's also a video following this guy (Ian Purkayastha) on one of his daily routes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sJ6IJZJhUU
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by perhonen 10y ago
It's pretty simple. bash, zsh, fish, powershell are shells. iTerm, Terminal, and Hyper are terminals - wrappers around a shell.
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by perhonen 10y ago
His position (which is explained on his webpage: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html ) is a little more nuanced. Relevant section: > Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on