silent_cal

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by silent_cal 4mo ago
Yes, the same type of confusion we are used to hearing from pop physicists like Lawrence Krauss, Neil Tyson, etc.
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by silent_cal 4mo ago
The author demonstrates a common misunderstanding about medieval philosophy. The medieval Scholastic tradition does not maintain that the body and the soul were "distinct entities", or that matter was "vile". In fact tha
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by silent_cal 6mo ago
If you think of yourself as a "programmer" or "coder" I think it's fair to say you might have incorrectly defined your role already. Your job is to design and implement software solutions that are reliable and compl
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by silent_cal 1y ago
No sympathy from me. Guy was the CTO, probably making millions a year, and now he's whining about how a $1.2B investment failed on his watch and nothing was his fault? Sorry guy but you are the leader, you are responsible.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
From what I've seen, most scientists don't even publish their raw data.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
Cool, thanks for the info. What do you actually trade? Do you buy ETFs, CFDs, or do you actually buy the futures contracts themselves?
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by silent_cal 2y ago
What platform do you use for trading, and which commodities do you trade?
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by silent_cal 2y ago
Many cops in the US have a massive superiority complex
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by silent_cal 2y ago
One way out is to just admit that "justified true belief" is not a satisfactory definition of knowledge. I know that's not really the point of this article, I'm just saying.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
How hard is it to just go to the public university in most states? Where I live, you can get your tuition completely covered if you keep a B average. Young people can get whatever degree they want without having to worry about debt as long
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by silent_cal 2y ago
Yes you've nailed it. The P&V translations respect the way Russians construct thoughts and sentences, even if it differs from the way English speakers typically do so. This is (in my opinion) very important for showing the reader w
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by silent_cal 2y ago
The fact that a 290 million euro fine isn't considered meaningful does tell me a lot.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
I don't dispute any of this
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by silent_cal 2y ago
I didn't say that America "shaped" the internet, I said that America invented it, which is a fact that you've admitted.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
I hope so too. It's great literature and there is a lot to admire about their culture, although admittedly the golden age of Russian culture is now well in the past.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
Here you are on the internet which America invented, on an American website, complaining about how America is unfair, while they pay you billons of dollars in fines.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
It's kind of like an ambulance-chasing lawyer. Yeah the driver at fault did real harm and owes money to the victim. But the lawyer is not a selfless justice crusader - he's looking for a payday. That's how I see the EU in the
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by silent_cal 2y ago
It's my impression that big US companies can do pretty much whatever they want in a number of European countries. Just look at Ireland for example.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
If it is then Europe doesn't seem too upset about it. How could they be when it pays them so well?
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by silent_cal 2y ago
I know EU has stronger data privacy laws. I just wonder if they're really all that upset about American companies breaking them. They get to use the new tech and fine the companies that bring that tech to them. It's a win-win.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
I love these two. If I ever read a Russian book I insist on using one of their translations. I can speak and read Russian on a basic level. They're able to make texts sound like Russian, but it English. It's pretty amazing really.
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California's newest revision shows no net job growth during 2023(lao.ca.gov)
6 points by silent_cal 2y ago|2 comments
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by silent_cal 2y ago
Everything old is new again
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by silent_cal 2y ago
"...we may witness shameless intrusion into the privacy of well-known people according to the slogan “Everyone is entitled to know everything.” But this is a false slogan of a false era; far greater in value is the forfeited right of p
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by silent_cal 2y ago
A notebook is just an IDE for writing scripts. There's software you can use (like Databricks and Azure Data Factory) to orchestrate them. But obviously if you are building an application they can't be the only IDE you use. A lot o
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The Open Commons of Phenomenology(ophen.org)
1 points by silent_cal 2y ago|0 comments
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by silent_cal 2y ago
A lot of it is dead, but there are still some live wires. Phenomenology is a very vibrant field nowadays, for example.
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by silent_cal 2y ago
I agree. I'm not sure if it's a fair representation of Margaret Maconald's view or not, but it's definitely inadequate. Philosophy has always been considered a "science" in the old sense of a discipline that al
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by silent_cal 2y ago
I had a thought that maybe increased marijuana use is a factor in this. I did a quick search and there are a quite a few studies and stories on the relationship between marijuana use and suicidal thoughts and attempts. It could also be that
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by silent_cal 2y ago
Nerds make things complicated, no matter what. It is their fundamental impulse that cannot be tamed, like the scorpion who must sting the frog that carries it across the river.

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