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by tps5 9y ago
People always say that math students don't learn about applications of math. This was never the case for me. When I learned trig ratios, I always understood some basic things that trig ratios could be used for. The teacher always int
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by tps5 9y ago
You're entitled to your opinion, but posting that thesis and saying it's "more truthful" is tremendously silly. You should be able to understand that it's a hypothesis you find convincing without evangelizing it as
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by tps5 9y ago
I don't see any evidence that this is a "facial recognition system." It's likely hard to legislate against software that attempts to detect if there is a person, what their expression is, and guesses at their gender. You
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by tps5 9y ago
On some level it's hard to believe that people say things like this, especially out loud and with women present. (But I do believe it)
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by tps5 9y ago
I don't understand this attitude. Atom's look/feel/functionality/default keybinds are based on sublime text. Sublime text is a lot faster/more reliable. Atom has a large community building addons for it. Tak
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by tps5 9y ago
> I also don't know how an ISP would get your actual internet history if the website uses HTTPS. Your ISP can (and likely does) monitor your DNS queries, which (as far as I know) are not encrypted. Personally I think the net neutral
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by tps5 9y ago
> I don't think its any coincidence that TV and movies show the murderous and thieving side of piracy as to condition us to be appalled by them, in general. Is this really true? There's a long history of sympathetic portrayals
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by tps5 9y ago
This seems right to me. the analogy I'd use is driving a car versus sitting in a passenger seat of a car. When I'm a passenger, I never remember the route we took. I retain almost no information about lefts and rights and landma
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by tps5 9y ago
Your argument sounds a lot like "criminals will always find a way, no point in gun control." The thing is, that argument can be applied to all laws. Why even have laws? Criminals will always find a way. Look, I agree that anony
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by tps5 9y ago
Do you have any references to recommend on this subject?
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by tps5 9y ago
If "love of money as a possession" is so rare, then how come so many people who have huge amounts of money don't spend it? Anyway, the general point here is that as you acquire more dollars, the relative value (to you) of a d
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by tps5 9y ago
Here's Keynes with another perspective: > When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral princ
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by tps5 9y ago
I know plenty of men who lived through that era (and one man who was born 4 years after Feynman) who are not in the slightest bit sexist. Or are at least far too polite to show it. Feynman was clearly a bit of a prick. It also appears tha
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by tps5 9y ago
I know a lot of people who found The Road incredibly depressing. But I thought it was optimistic and the most moving thing I've ever read. I haven't read Blood Meridian yet, but Child of God (another McCarthy novel) definitely la
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by tps5 9y ago
Some pretty highly regarded economists in the past century have backed up the idea of a land value tax. Does that alone make it a great idea? No, but I think it makes the parent comment seem pretty silly. I certainly have an opinion, but
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by tps5 9y ago
It's not a horrible idea. It's an old idea that's been popular with various economists including (gasp) Adam Smith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax (I don't know enough about this subj
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by tps5 9y ago
I have no idea what "native" means in this context, care to elaborate?
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by tps5 9y ago
Agreed: the writing is poor for reasons unrelated to grammar.
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by tps5 9y ago
I agree that saying they "suffer from illusions" is silly. But the rest of your analysis here seems off. There's no reason to lionize these people and act like "society rejected them." It's just (comparativel
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by tps5 9y ago
Can I check out Apple Maps in a browser? I'd like to take a look, but I don't have easy access to ios or macos. The screenshots do look fantastic. (Not a criticism of Apple if this isn't possible)
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by tps5 9y ago
I never see anyone talking about google's elevation data for buildings and the process they've used to drape imagery over that elevation data. I wonder why that is? Maybe this isn't a hard problem and it's just a quest
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by tps5 9y ago
> no sane programmer in this day and age would ever use anything other than open source. Apparently I'm insane. Well, good to know I guess.
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by tps5 9y ago
> If I went around on some other private forum and said "all people who share attribute X with tps5 are sub-human and should be subservient to me" is that more or less okay? Yeah, it's okay. I would say that, because we ar
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by tps5 9y ago
I don't think you get it. It doesn't matter what some guy posts on some message board (unless it's a threat, an incitement of violence, or something along those lines). It doesn't matter if he says he believes in "
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by tps5 9y ago
> Perhaps at some point online publishers [will] find a new way to solicit advertising from reputable companies that pay properly. Someone get on this.
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by tps5 9y ago
I don't think the language is the slightest bit confusing. I also think your definition of "web server" is wrong. I would say a web server is a program that processes HTTP requests and optionally responds with something (co
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by tps5 9y ago
I think you have to be careful about how you're using the concept of "manufacturing consent." Part of what makes that idea so plausible to me is that there's no need for conspiracy. It's not the "mainstream me
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by tps5 9y ago
> One of my colleagues went on to ascribe the ‘horribleness’ of many computer systems in everyday use to the “brusque masculinism” of their creation. The idea that males must be more "brusque" than females is the same thing a
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by tps5 9y ago
The perspective is simply that it isn't the job of the media to say what's right or wrong, just to report what happened. They're not saying "these aren't terrorist attacks" only that the word "terrorist&q
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by tps5 9y ago
I think you're right that the "modern" perspective seems to be: "bias is unavoidable, so be clear about your bias." This is why it's not considered wrong for newspapers to endorse candidates, or for the NY Tim

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