velis_vel

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by velis_vel 13y ago
> Regression analysis was used to estimate wage differences, after controlling for the following choices and characteristics: graduates’ occupation, economic sector, hours worked, employment status (having multiple jobs as opposed to one
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> Something like "Appendable" might be more appropriate for C++. So I can append False to True to get False (Boolean monoid under &&) or append 8 to 9 to get 72 (integer monoid under multiplication)? There's also a
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by velis_vel 13y ago
I want an "Ask me about Roko's basilisk!" button.
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by velis_vel 13y ago
Under your Google scenario, presumably the person using Google Maps on Android wasn't operating as a driver working for Google. Uber hired him to drive cars, so they're liable for what he does while he drives them.
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by velis_vel 13y ago
Apparently in American English it can either be pronounced 'key', 'kay' or 'kway'.
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> The one place where we only care what is inside peoples heads and not their feelings? Are you saying feelings aren't inside people's heads?
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by velis_vel 13y ago
Well, 'beautiful' is to a certain extent a subjective quality. 'What makes a Mac Pro beautiful is X' can be interpreted as 'What makes a Mac Pro beautiful to me is X', and that's not really a statement t
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by velis_vel 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> However, Github holds people accountable for actually having to program - funny how meritocracy came up as a bad word to these people! Uh, no it doesn't? There are plenty of reasons someone might be a programmer that doesn't
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by velis_vel 13y ago
What's the joke?
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> I made it through multivariable calculus and grads and so forth, but the computer scientist in me gets upset when I run into undefined or poorly specified notation. Well, at the top of the 'Summation' heading it does mentio
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> Opposition to speed-limit cameras exposes the absurdity of most speed-limit laws: it's a law so bad many (most?) people are opposed to having it strictly enforced. If that's not a bad law, then I don't know what is. Not
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> Sure, they have their bad moments (pun intended), being caught uploading users' address books, spamming user's friends with invites and perhaps paying for downloads. No one's perfect and some of us sometimes do try to st
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by velis_vel 13y ago
What's this weird fake AAVE lorem ipsum thing that this page links as a demo? Is the joke 'haha black people talk funny'?
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by velis_vel 13y ago
Conversely: with an ebook reader, you can bring your entire collection with you wherever you go, and you can add to it from the device without having to wait 2 days, pay shipping, figure out where you're going to put the book, settle o
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by velis_vel 13y ago
The attribution of things to 'ancient Native American proverbs' is reminiscent of the whole 'noble savage' trope.
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by velis_vel 13y ago
The problem is that you can have backwards flow , not just backwards pressure, because water has to be conserved.
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> Three quarters work, and one quarter do not. What's the unemployment rate in the USA now? If you include those who've 'given up' looking for work or whatever, I think it's around 12%. Yeah, let's fork out
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> You're a hacker when a hacker calls you a hacker. All that "being able to self-identify" is narcissism. Hackers have called me a hacker, therefore I'm a hacker. I now declare that every human being is a hacker if th
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> It seems doubtful that the answer to social inequalities is to make special privileges for each group to match the special privileges already enjoyed by others, as opposed to working more towards an ideal of equal treatment for everyon
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by velis_vel 13y ago
The language doesn't support loops; in terms of flow control, you get if statements and that's it. So probably not much of interest.
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> The humanities are still trying to recover from that one. In much the same way that 'science' is still recovering from prestigious journals publishing results that mysteriously fail to replicate[1] and software engineering is
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> For the record, the only other male dominated job category is janitors but I somehow doubt it faces similar outrage by the gender equality knight templars. I'm really curious where you got this information because it doesn't
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> How is what Rap Genius is doing any different than Amazon or iTunes paying you for affiliate links, or you paying a blog to advertise you, or buying a friend a beer to include a link to you? I don't know about affiliate links, but
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by velis_vel 13y ago
Right, but it seems inaccurate to me to say that Lisp code 'has no syntax'. What do you call the reason that 2927(foo"bar. isn't a valid Lisp program? Alternately: If I augment Python by letting you surround a block of P
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by velis_vel 13y ago
I don't know much about Lisp, but the reason people say this about Haskell isn't just that it has a type system, but a powerful one. For example, how would you type the cons function? In Haskell, it has type t -> [t] -> [t
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by velis_vel 13y ago
Yes, and he's still wrong. You don't write 'directly in parse trees', you write in text that gets converted to parse trees. The conversion is very simple, to be sure, but it still exists.
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by velis_vel 13y ago
If you want to take a constructivist viewpoint, it doesn't exist. You can define constructible analysis, where you only work with numbers that you can approximate arbitrarily well using a Turing machine (this is a subset of all numbers
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by velis_vel 13y ago
> That's the thing though. As I understand it, or as it's said to be: points have zero extension. So, no amount of points, not even an infinity of them could ever have extension. This isn't true for an uncountably infinite
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by velis_vel 13y ago
The set of numbers that can be uniquely defined in the English language in a finite number of letters is a countable set, because the set of finite sequences of English letters is countable.

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