thekingofspain

Apologies in advance for not adding anything to the discussion, but I believe you mean "I would much rather", because "I'd much rather" != "I had much rather".

Based on my experience being in Germany recently, it's worse or about the same as Canada/US.

Can you expand on this more? I'm looking to learn about finance, but it all seems so... overly complicated. It's hard to digest information when the simple stuff is hidden behind tons of terminology. I will definitely look more into Matt Levine. Any other recommendations for how to learn more about finance in general?

I mean, it's only one example, but Lord of the Rings?

I don't have anything to say, other than I really enjoyed your reply and think the debugging analogy is great!

> The spouses who believed they were in a monogamous marriage deserve a divorce and the chance to be with someone honest who cares about them.

I agree, but that's not for us to act upon.

The thing about rape is that the intent and the act are very much intertwined with the victim's feelings of it. If the victim does not appreciate whatever is going on, the onus is on the perpetrator to realize that and stop. Failure to do so is "the act" and the intent is.. well, the state of mind where you do not choose to find out/acquiesce to the other person's desires.

However, if the "victim" says there was no rape, and has never said so, then the whole premise, including both the intent and the act, is unseated.

Disclaimer: I am no lawyer, and do not know much about this specific case. These are just my intuitions about rape laws. I also believe that if the laws, in fact, are much different from these ideas in spirit, they are SORELY off-base.

However, that would only become a problem after centralization, correct? Otherwise, it would require a concerted effort by most/all miners to take the same approach, rather than competing for staying power etc.

A quick google informs me that punishment != negative reinforcement.

No, you're thinking of pokemon :)

Please don't do this unless you have a hands-free system!

Um, whatever key you used instead of 'u' in 'fucked' made almost your entire message italicized.

It appears to me like a portmanteau of hoist and yank.

Those phases exactly mirror the phases listed in the article.

I don't know whether you went to college/university or not, but my program definitely gives you both of those things, in addition to very good theoretical fundamentals. Not to say that you've got the necessary real-world experience after completing it, but you're well on your way.

I'm not talking just about dreaming, I'm talking about lucid dreaming and dream control. If you're not lucid in your dreams, then I don't think it's too ridiculous of me to assume that those dreams are "normal" for you, so you wouldn't expect to see any improvement, even if dreaming about things like that could offer improvement.

What I'm talking about is people who can realize they are dreaming, and then make a concerted effort to consistently use that time for mental training like the article mentions. That seems far more likely to yield results than sporadic running dreams.

Would seem that this could tie into Lucid Dreaming and Dream Control. Wonder what would happen if the same workouts were done while dreaming. Same results?

It's bad if it's susceptible to running an attacker's arbitrary code.

Did you just (sic) your own comment? I'm confused.

Interestingly, it would appear that monotonically increasing in general means "strictly increasing": http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MonotoneIncreasing.htm

It only means non-decreasing in the context of a monotonic function, where the definition, I believe, is that the derivative of the function is never <0.

Ah you're just missing the point.

I kid.

I notice it very much when walking in my day to day life, although it also happens in car rides. As some others have expressed, it feels to me like my brain is more active and focused on the destination, whereas I'm more likely tired and docile on my way back, slipping into the rhythm of the trip. Specifically, I'm thinking of this in the context of a night out (alcohol or not), where incredibly long walks are feasible on the way back. Obviously, there are other psychological factors that influence perception at this point, but I notice the exact same effects all the time, just slightly less pronounced.

I also wonder about what I'll call the "Lifetime" effect. Consider how car rides in general or long wait times at a doctors office start to feel shorter as you grow up (infinitely long as a child, pleasantly short as an adult). Intuitively, this is because of your life experience (or lack there of) and the fraction of your life-to-date that any given wait takes up. The time lengths stay relatively constant, while they progressively eat up a shrinking percentage of your life-to-date. Perhaps this same effect could happen over the course of a day, or a couple weeks, or an hour. The initial trip consists of 100% of your experience thus far until you get there and subsequently turn around, but at that point any task necessarily takes a smaller proportion of the overall time than the initial trip felt like (and was) at the time.

Perhaps something like that would explain it as well.

Yeah, especially because the Korean link was probably what started the "The Interview" saga. Not really a contradiction.

Wonder if the match referenced at the end is true. Fun read.

I dunno. At a low level, piracy is just copying bits. It just so happens that certain bits contain some people's "intellectual property". If we concede that this makes sense and want to fight a losing battle anyway, it becomes a philosophical line-drawing fiesta about the bits you're copying. I propose instead that it's futile for people to try and monetize a certain sequence of bits given a certain interpretation. Then the natural conclusion is to move toward services, like free-to-play games or streaming products where the actual "bits on sale" are free, but the "action of using those bits to bring in the bits you want" is what costs money, rather than whatever the actual bits are.

Probably a better way to phrase that is almost all numbers contain all the digits.

I can only assume that this article is much better after having read The Bacchae. Because I thought it sucked without. I couldn't really fish out the point, and the synopses and quotes were confusing and jumbled.

Maybe someone can shed some light on it for me.

But at the same time, if the supervisor thinks your idea is good in all ways except for likely citation count, then why should you be prevented from researching that?

Additionally, I think what's key is to note that he wasn't pumping Clojure too hard in the post. It was more a post about why he's leaving Scala. And in that analogy, you can be pretty certain that the girl you're leaving is definitely not "the one".