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eipipuz··on Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
I agree with what you are saying but remember the twin scenario. Spoiler alert, the kids are nonetheless different.
eipipuz··on Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
Is it just me or the s Z and z S should be swapped?
eipipuz··on Fun with uv and PEP 723
The learning curve is so low that yes.

Try it for <20mins and if you don't like it, leave it behind. These 20mins include installation, setup, everything.

eipipuz··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
Assuming this change is causing the layoffs, then these companies know about this.

If these companies don't know about this change, then why would we believe this change is causing it.

eipipuz··on Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic
Except as the article says, names tend to stick, scopes don't.

This PaymentService grew into fraud detection. So the new hire will be even more confused. Asking "What does Picard do?" is natural, where a new hire might have trouble asking "What does the PaymentService do?"

eipipuz··on Ask HN: How to Make 1M $?
just in case you weren't aware, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
eipipuz··on How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'
They ruled out logos where the M is not the main element. The Muni logo spells "muni" giving each letter roughly equal value.
eipipuz··on Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)
I don't get that at all. To me the answer is "we want things out of the vcs that we don't get from git nor github/gitlab."

The fundamental difference is: sqlite is a cathedral, git is for bazaars. That's kind of a big deal.

eipipuz··on Amazon Appstore will reduce its developer revenue cut
That's what I understand as well.
eipipuz··on Learn American Sign Language Fingerspelling with Machine Learning
If you are interested in ASL, I think a good resource is: https://www.lifeprint.com/
eipipuz··on Learn American Sign Language Fingerspelling with Machine Learning
(disclaimer: I'm not Deaf, just interested in ASL.)

Signs very geographically even in ASL. (See: https://www.reddit.com/r/asl/comments/dcvqo9/is_there_much_d...)

Wouldn't your argument hold for spoken languages as well? Why do we have french and spanish? Because it would be impossible to force most people to learn the other language.

English is the widely spoken for economical reasons and yet that's only 13% of the world population.

No sign language has that kind of pull. We would need TV shows / movies that pushed a particular sign. The internet helps but how do you prevent groups from drifting?

At some point accents become dialect that become languages. Written ASL doesn't seem to be growing.

Why do people communicate in different languages? Because they live in slightly disconnected social circles.

eipipuz··on Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'
There might be a survivor bias here. How can we know how many similar projects didn't make it out of that cohort?
eipipuz··on Black holes are like a hologram
IANAP but black holes evaporate without losing information. So in your model, how does that work?

Also, observation is that inflation has been ongoing for a long time, we don't seem to have spikes of growth. Afaik we have basically 2 phases one where inflation dominates and the one prior.

eipipuz··on Facebook is giving $1k to every employee
Because then you would be taking away the employee's bonus? Not every employee might be charitable. Probably giving everyone 1k is keeping them within budget.
eipipuz··on Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?
Don't know but look at places like Kaggle:

* https://www.kaggle.com/brendaso/2019-coronavirus-dataset-012...

* https://www.kaggle.com/kimjihoo/coronavirusdataset

eipipuz··on A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5k Check
As the article mentions, so you can sue if something goes wrong.
eipipuz··on Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns
I don't know Portuguese, but from what I can understand the pun translates perfectly to Spanish. Incidentally, pun also translates to fart.

– ¿Para qué sirve una barriga vacía? – Em, ¡Pa' nada!"

eipipuz··on Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang
I only know of one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Muslims_in_Myan... but WP seems to have more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence
eipipuz··on Hostility toward spiritual traditions may be hampering empirical inquiry
This seems to me a "how" disguised. Presumably, you WANT the answer to be conducive to people caring about other people. Or would you accept as answer "No, there's no reason to care about others in this situation"?

So if you want a particular answer then you are asking "How can I make it so that people care?"

eipipuz··on Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
FB is not supposed to make deals with minors without adult supervision…
eipipuz··on iOS 12, reviewed
why have one pivot at all? why can't french be the pivot between spanish and english?

if we must have one and you believe in euroversals, then german and/or french might be better than english…

eipipuz··on First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe
Assume have an equation like `Energy = 0`, where `Energy = Mass + Photons`. It works great for almost everything, we can get the curvature of space by `f(Energy)` where `f(Photons) = 0`.

However there's this one experiment that says the answer is `Energy = 42`. `f(x)` is still useful, everything else works.

We can just amend the equation to be: `Energy = Mass + Photons + DarkMatter` where `DarkMatter = -42` and `f(DarkMatter) = 0`.

Or we can keep the E=M+P but change the way f works to be: `f(Photons, X) = Y` where for almost any value `f(Photons, X') = 0` and in this one case `f(Photons, X") = 42`.

To me it's clear that the first approach is less complicated. The first approach raises one question, "why -42?" The second approach raises "why does X?" exist and "why 42?"

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By the way, you are mistaken, we do interact with Dark Matter, that's how we detected it (Bullet Cluster). Gravity does interact with it.

eipipuz··on First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe
An implicit assumption is that the universe is isotropic and homogenous at that scale. Meaning, it looks the same from any point and any direction.

So you might not detect photons in one particular direction, but we should assume that they should be going in all directions. Otherwise that theory is just moving the goal from "where's this energy" to "why is it pointing towards that".

CMB is consistent with, every direction is the same, so you would have to say "photons are going everywhere in this range, but towards that in this segment of the spectrum".

eipipuz··on Instagram daily use surpasses Snapchat
Where are you getting those numbers? Bay Area: $758.5B, Mexico $1,046B

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area#Economy https://tradingeconomics.com/mexico/gdp

eipipuz··on Why aren’t Google and Facebook enriching our lives more?
Are you sure you aren't mixing 2 different set of people? I know people in both areas but no one that does both.
eipipuz··on Show HN: Arrived – Stack Overflow for US Immigration
Maybe because of connectivity? Not everyone has a data plan when they arrive to the country.
eipipuz··on The link between language and cognition is a red herring
Can you think mathematically? Do you know how to code? I would call that thinking and at least for me, that's not verbal. I can explain what I'm thinking but by default I just think without a need to have a voice in my head.
eipipuz··on A Message to Our Customers
Is it possible to update a phone without the user accepting the change (with the phone locked)?

Do you want such a tool (the one the removes the security of updating) to exist so that anyone with physical access can replace the OS with something else?

eipipuz··on Apple unlock: Judge compares request to execution order
IANAL but companies don't have the 4th, only humans.
eipipuz··on Slack, the Ultimate Workday Distractor
Why don't you leave the room? If they ping you, you'll get invited to rejoin it.
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