yafinder

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by yafinder 8mo ago
This comment is a part of the chain that starts with a very judgemental comment and is an answer to a response challenging that starting one. You don't need legal knowledge of the French law to want to distinguish real child abuse from
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by yafinder 11mo ago
For something that you think is a de-facto standard, public suffix list seems kinda raw to me for now. I checked it for two popular public suffixes that came to mind: 'livejournal.com' and 'substack.com'. Both weren&#x27
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by yafinder 1y ago
Let's call it Polyphemus and its interesting moon Pandora.
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by yafinder 1y ago
Reading this thread from Russia feels surreal.
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by yafinder 3y ago
I think this is just an "r>g" rule made famous by Piketty. When r (return on investment) is bigger than g (overall economy's growth), the rich get richer. It's unsustainable in a pure mathematical sense, the rich cann
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by yafinder 3y ago
What happens when everything stops growing, though? For decades our industry growed faster than almost any other industry and definitely faster than the economy as a whole. It's mathematically unsustainable. It must come to an end at s
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by yafinder 3y ago
I was born in the USSR, so, with all due respect, I think I know more about the internal mechanics of undemocratic states than a person who watched YouTube.
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by yafinder 3y ago
Any sufficiently big country is very anarchic in that sense. US and India are made of literal states. Russia resembles a medieval feudal structure. UK is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and it all would be about 5% population
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by yafinder 4y ago
It seems that aphantasia is much more common among programmers. It must have something to do with the fact that autism and mathematical ability is correlated, or the third fact that autism and exotically expressed drawing abilities are corr
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by yafinder 4y ago
Is there a second paper about showering?
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by yafinder 4y ago
Now I wonder what about children? Do they have different dummies for different ages and different car seat sizes? If not, what's the equivalent of > women are 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash > and 73 percent more lik
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by yafinder 4y ago
Ummmm planet = [ name := 'World' nick := 'Earth' ] 'Hello, ' + (planet :: {WAT}) Output: 10585168
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by yafinder 4y ago
> The word robot derives from the Slavonic word robota, > roughly translating to servitude, forced labor, or drudgery. Robota simply means "work". These two words are as similar in meaning and connotations as words from two
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by yafinder 4y ago
Ok, this is clearly crowdsourcing a dataset for AI alignment right right?
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by yafinder 4y ago
The problem is, faster than light travel violates causality in some reference frames [1]. This is a big problem. Forget grandpa-killing travellers; even several bits of time travelling information allows one to easily solve NP-complete prob
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by yafinder 4y ago
What does an average home in Prague look like? Is it an apartment or a detached house, how many bedrooms? In Eastern European countries, the quality of housing varies greatly, from cramped apartments in gray concrete buildings to elegant ma
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by yafinder 4y ago
Mercedes, Porsche and Lambo aren't startups though. They aren't even normally described as "innovative" (which is kinda weird).
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by yafinder 4y ago
> Yandex is a huge beneficiary from the war This is not true. On the contrary, Yandex's business has suffered greatly. You can see it for yourself here https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/yndx Th