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Re:The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:56PM (#12822387)
Thank goodness you shared your opinion.
Do you know why share count decreased? I was under the impression that new shares have been continuously issued.
Re:Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC on Friday October 21, 2016 @05:12PM (#12764871)
Why is it OK to burden one group of people (visitors) but not another (residents)? There's something missing in your argument.
Re:Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC on Friday October 21, 2016 @05:06PM (#12764816)
I'm curious why you desire 12 month leases over, say, 4 month leases. What's the major difference from an owner's perspective?
Re:Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:54PM (#12764672)
Indeed!
Re:Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:28PM (#12764404)
When I visited NY recently I found that hotel pricing was competitive with AirBnB.

Some people prefer AirBnB so they can feel like they live in the cities they're visiting, this certainly sucks for them.

Re:Shame on Y Combinator on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:08AM (#12733965)
Why?
Re:Shame on Y Combinator on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:01AM (#12733925)
One candidate has repeatedly been dishonest and suspected of corruption while in government previously (and honestly, the list goes on and on). If people don't take a stand against this type of thing, it is a tacit acceptance.

No it is not tacit acceptance. People weigh pros and cons of each candidate and make a choice. No donation or endorsement implies 100% allegiance, only an overall preference. I'm sure Thiel thinks Trump is fairly idiotic. "But he's a sexist" doesn't change anything even if it were true.

Anyone is free to shun people for their publicly stated political stance but any particular policies or personal attributes of Trump or anyone are not in a special category that is shun-worthy.

Re:Logical Induction on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:29PM (#12491429)
Although P_n can't be computed in anything like n steps.
Re:Logical Induction on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:03AM (#12488288)
I'm not an author but this property with respect to a universal 'semimeasure' holds in the limit as time goes to infinity, as do most stated properties of logical inductors. The fact that they're computable is academic.
Re:Logical Induction on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:15AM (#12487414)
In this setting we're using discrete probabilities so we don't have to worry:)
Re:Logical Induction on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:14AM (#12487406)
It's not clear if there are any practical applications to automated theorem proving (and that's not the goal of the work). This is primarily motivated by very "theoretical" decision theory.
Re:Logical Induction on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:04AM (#12487329)
Solomonoff induction is useful because without it there's no model of induction with infinite computational resources. "Logical induction" is not useful in the same way because without it we already have such a model: simply prove/disprove the propositions.