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Shortcuts to move faster in Bash command line(teohm.com)
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by pgayed 4y ago
So it does succeed but just not enough? What if the success rate for currently available devices is 0 percent? Should we not make available something which succeeds in some fraction of cases? What is the magnitude of benefit in cases that
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by pgayed 4y ago
It doesn't matter if commenter is or isn't if such agreements are prohibited by law.
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by pgayed 4y ago
> When a regulatory agency, following due process according to its mandate, says so. Begging the question.
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by pgayed 4y ago
> almost certainly going to kill or maim them You are strawmanning by providing worst-case scenarios. Is it reckless and arguably illegal to offer jobs on an oil rig? As an x-ray technician? A vascular surgeon? When does risk become so g
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by pgayed 4y ago
> That last bit sounds like a powerful and perverse incentive for abuse. Okay, but would you oppose the legality of such an arrangement? In any case, not sure why the family, instead of individual directly, is compensated.
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by pgayed 4y ago
Does the experience of zero-gravity reveal information not otherwise available via its deduction from physical law?
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Udacity Linear Algebra Refresher Course [video](youtube.com)
3 points by pgayed 4y ago|0 comments
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by pgayed 4y ago
The Physics of Human and Superhuman Vision by Philip C Nelson: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL51EEEEE9904D4BE9
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by pgayed 4y ago
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYQV14il9XALl_lTZbgbBdrFW...
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by pgayed 4y ago
engineerguy’s reproduction of Michael Faraday’s 1848 Chemical History of a Candle [0]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UCpOfRuMDR-wlv... This was a set of lectures given by Faraday for the Royal Institution’
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by pgayed 4y ago
Link to YT playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncSF2QwpCB9C3FBF...
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by pgayed 4y ago
In the category of finance, Bob Shiller’s enthusiasm for financial history and his amusement with the limitless quirks and excesses of markets. Financial markets with Bob Shiller (Yale 2008): https://youtube.com/playlist?lis
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Tag Systems(buttondown.email)
7 points by pgayed 4y ago|0 comments
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by pgayed 4y ago
The individuals offering sessions are not employees or staff of the university.
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by pgayed 4y ago
past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813200 repo of scripts mentioned: https://github.com/narkoz/hacker-scripts
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“Now that's what I call a hacker” (2019)(jitbit.com)
3 points by pgayed 4y ago|1 comments
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by pgayed 4y ago
How do you know matters of taste are unlikely to be useful? Is taste arbitrary? Do human preferences have a basis? Do human preferences have constraints? If so, are these bases or constraints available for academic study?
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by pgayed 4y ago
No, but they would want it to be. I asked, “Are you advocating a system where giving airtime to certain ideas, but not including incitement, would be punishable?” They answered in the affirmative. The justification being that entertaining c
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by pgayed 4y ago
I have had discussions with individuals who maintain that entertaining (and giving airtime to) certain ideas itself constitutes harm.
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by pgayed 4y ago
What topics are academic? Which are not? Which questions are fair game for academic inquiry? Which are not? How do we know ahead of time what will be useful and what won't be? Is the question above this line academically useful?
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by pgayed 4y ago
“This video is unavailable.”
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by pgayed 4y ago
Should persuasive speech * be outlawed? * Speech that benefits me but does not necessarily benefit you.
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by pgayed 4y ago
That depends. Would suggesting they be legal be legal?
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by pgayed 4y ago
Do people have the right to be uninformed?
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by pgayed 4y ago
When should statements be outlawed? Are people free to make untrue statements? Are people free to make “falsified” statements? Are statements inducements?
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by pgayed 4y ago
> Making room for the full range of thought and expression is not an end in itself. It is. And it ought to be. The version being espoused here is conditional or contingent free expression. It doesn't mean much. In this form, expre
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Connecting Vim to a Foot Pedal(blog.scottlogic.com)
3 points by pgayed 4y ago|0 comments
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by pgayed 4y ago
Commenter doesn't say you would produce another Terrence Tao: > Don't let the existence of someone be the excuse you use to tell yourself you couldn't also do something cool or great.
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by pgayed 4y ago
What would you suggest for someone who wanted to get started with CL? Emacs and SLIME? (It would be nice to tinker.)

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