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No, it's an attempt to force, and has the same flaw as all attempts to force, which is: the other side might just call your bluff.

"Oh you think that going ahead before a decision is made and just publish a post will get us to decide in your favor because we're afraid of looking like we're backtracking? How about we don't decide in your favor and delete your post? What you gonna do now?"

All maths is first principles, without the pretentiousness of using the phrase "first principles".

> I've come to the conclusion that convex functions are functions that are trivial to optimize

I think a lot of maths is created like this. I'm trying to solve problem P in domain D. I couldn't do that, but I've noticed that I could do it in subset D1 of the domain. If problem P was important enough and D1 large enough, I become very famous within mathematics and people start studying D1 by itself, without connection to P. After a generation or more a lot of experts in D1 might not know the original reason why someone decided to study it. Eventually some historians of science re-discover the original motivation and publish it as a curiosity.

2 sick days per month? What?

This makes me doubt the realism of the other assumptions on this essay.

Some times it blows my mind to discover that some bleeding obvious things arent well established. Next thing you're gonna discover that kids with funnier parents tell more jokes, or that kids with angrier parents shout more.

It was never alive. The flaw that such a huge vaccum is impossibly expensive to maintain, not to mention engineeringly not feasible to begin with

Shitty company is going down

I would still think that multiple dispatch is a better way to build libraries than OOP, but indeed I agree that wouldn't be enough for something as drastic as changing language.

Also, Russia doesn't have nukes, common misconception

I would like to hear your reasoning as to why you think that a human is especially good at dealing with uncertainty. My experience is the opposite.

> It's not a problem with centrifuges. We don't understand fluid physics. :(

The phenomenon on the video is a consequence on the centrifuge itself. If you think that fluid in a centrifuge behaves like fluid at rest with extra gravitational pull, the problem there is your misunderstanding of non inertial reference frames, not your misunderstanding of fluids. In simple terms: going around in circles isn't the same as standing still.

By the end of the decade? There's war in Europe right now.

You're right, there's absolutely nothing that can be done in this situation. Same as in 1917, nothing could've been done about the czar either.

The "Russian people" cheer for their own oppression. You see, when you're being oppressed you have the perfect excuse for your life being miserable.

You're all taking this way too seriously. You see, Twitter is this guy's way of marketing himself. He's basically showing off what he thinks companies want to see in a manager.

So? I didn't say they don't pay.

What I said is if I copy paste things into my page, Google will kill it because it's spam. If I say "but what I'm actually paying for this content"... That's irrelevant.

I'm not saying that Google is stealing content, I'm saying they're hypocritical is applying and argument when the conclusions benefit them, but not otherwise.

Google does the same. It wants the pages that it indexes to be original; if a page just copy pastes another page's content, its score is affected negatively or even de-indexed, they call it spam.

Google itself on the other hand does just this, for example Wikipedia text and lyrics are taken from other pages and copy pasted onto Google's page.

Try telling a "googler" this and theyll go "noooo but for Google it's different because Google has determined that's optimal and good for user experience". It's difficult to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends on them not understanding it.

America has self correction and self repair mechanisms at the highest level of their government, so it won't completely melt down if it has a bad president.

I love America.

> The clue may, perhaps, be in the name. It isn't called the "license tax".

The name was, perhaps, picked to trick people like you, who look at a turd named like a cake and eat it, perhaps.

What a stupid comment. Greed is universal, it's not especially American. Furthermore America is one of those countries where you can steal millions and still end up in jail. In many countries a few million is enough to avoid jail forever.

It's corrupt because it's pointless. It's easier to defraud by delivering nothing, when the thing you are supposed to deliver is already nothing.

I hear you like downvotes.

Remember folks, real diversity comes from people who look different.

Ok but why would I use the device that I have to trick, when a device that doesn't require an account from factory is available? I don't wanna deal with a company that builds ebooks with the expectation that I need to register to some account.

Can you give me an example of a pricacy-respective ebook reader?

I recently bought a Kobo Nia, and then returned it because it required me to create an account before I could use it.

Afterwards I got a PocketBook Basic Lux 4. This I have been using without having had to create an account. I've also never connected it to any wifi. However, I have no way of knowing, without taking significant effort to investigate, whether it's not connecting to free wifi's and relaying back to home my books list etc..

Why run into law enforcement?

I mean, this guy who has a track record of conflicts of interest, was just shown that it's ok to exploit his conflicts of interest as long as others also get rich.

FiDi?

Do they say what the motive presumably is?