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No, I don't think this is what eximius was talking about. I think the kind you're talking about does not use any symbolic notation.

> Compare any math notation to the logic notation used in philosophy.

Aren't they the same? I assume that by "logic notation used in philosophy" you mean the kind that's used by Carnap, Kripke, etc.

> So if you don't go into off topic material, it is a hit piece?

That question can't be answered. What do you think the topic of this piece was? The title was "President-Elect Trump". The piece was not about "let's talk about Trump as the future president". Rather, it was about, "things are going to get frighteningly bad under Trump".

Staying on topic and selective blindness are very different things. The latter was on bold display here, and is a defining characteristic of a hit piece.

> had they not been complete dullards

Even if they were dullards, I'd prefer them to people who have shown tendencies to destroy countries. I think I saw this joke on 4chan: if Gary Johnson does not know where Aleppo is, that's one less place for him to bomb.

> Wehre we seem to disagree is that you believe that Hillary is worse than Donald.

Well, one of them is an egomaniac, talks garbage, has misbehaved with people, and has run shady charities and a university. The other one has received millions of dollars from banks and foreign powers, and has demonstrated that she will say exactly what her audience wants to hear. Not only has she threatened to up the ante against Syria, she has shown she can deliver, in Libya. I think the worst-case difference we are looking at here is a history of misdemeanor and fraud vs a history of fraud and felony. I prefer (peaceful) dullards to these.

> Wikipedia isn't as biased as you'd like to think.

Depends of the topic, I guess. Politifact is biased, and my recommenation for using both resources is the same.

These are pretty much the defining characteristics of a hit piece. I do not enjoy such things, and I do not recommend such things, for reasons I have already given. Many people think that they are being educated (while being entertained) by such programs. In reality, they develop a very distorted view of politics and of reality. If the media keeps at it, the next two candidates will be no different from Clinton and Trump. Who am I kidding? This is what will happen.

Yes, I have written about this in my later comments.

> But partisanship is only relevant if it affects reporting,

It does, here.

> which by your statement would seem like we are of opposite convictions.

I have no idea what you mean.

> without leaving anything out, and I have yet to see anything hinting otherwise.

I don't share your belief. Haven't you seen his hit-piece on third-party candidates? You had two big candidates with little or no integrity, and yet, he paints the third party candidates as not even worthy of consideration because they said one or to silly things, or were unaware of some details.

> why would that in any way affect their Trump coverage (if still factual)?

Would you react the same way about an anti-Hillary piece magnifying her every flaw, when her opponents are just as (or more) flawed? I'd not bat an eyelid if such things were coming out of party propaganda mouthpieces. I feel very differently about it coming out of HBO.

> Is it somehow disingenuous to report on Trumps blatant lies?

Not even remotely close to what I wrote.

> when comparing these statistics

The statistics are garbage. There is no science there. Politifact has some value in that they do some legwork to find primary sources. Readers can read those sources and come to their own conclusions. Think of Politifact like Wikipedia: you can find a good number of primary sources linked from there. But like Wikipedia, they are not the final authority on these matters. Politifact's choice of topics to investigate are not representative of a person, and their verdicts are often whimsical.

That was not my point. Where exactly did I say he does that? He commits glaring omissions in favour of the people on his side.

This extreme partisanship is one of the reasons I'm wary of John Oliver. For example, Politifact, despite its biases or subjectivity, has documented examples of practically every major politian making untrue statements. Including the current POTUS.

We need a systemic approach to dealing with lies and untruths of the people who weild power. If you make it partisan, the liar/politican will just block you out, and so will their followers.

Rather than fraud or lying, I think Dharam Pal Singh may be simply mistaken. My grandmother, who would have been in her 90s now, never knew her correct birthday. She knew her Hindu-calendar birthday, but you can't translate that to a Gergorian date unless you know the year too. Record-keeping in India was pretty patchy back in those days.

> For four years, officials said, they had patiently requested that Dharam Pal Singh provide reliable evidence to verify his birth date: school records, military records, baptismal records, medical records, school records of his children.

Yeah, no. My grandmother could not have done that either. She dropped out before completing high school. Come to think of it, I haven't seen my father's birth certificate either. His school records carry a false birthday, which was pretty common back in the day. If parents wanted to get a child admitted to a school, but the kid was a few months short of being eligible, the parents would just pick a suitable date.

Ravi Varma is a peculiar example of Indian art. Basically, he employed European styles to Indian themes. Now, of course, his style has become a part of the cultural norm, with many homes worshipping his depictions of gods, without having a clue of who Ravi Varma was. Ravi Varma, as far as I know, never influenced other Indian artists.

The article, on the other hand, is about Rajput art, i.e., artists of that time and region created in that style. There are plenty of other regional styles, which may possibly help in understanding their cultures. Ravi Varma's paitings would be of little help there. That's not to say his paintings are good works of art. They are. But I think people have very different motivations for seeking ethnic art and mainstream art.

> building a wall

Just like Hillary, then [1][2]. She changed her tune this campaign season. Why exactly? I don't know. But the only explanation I can come up with is "my opponent's policies are bad"[3]. Most politicians do that when dealing with the opposite party, but Hillary seems to be unique in doing that against her own partymen, be it Obama (earlier) or Sanders now.

> ACA repeal

Just like Hillary, then[4]. However, Clinton had a different endgame in mind.

> Trump is feckless.

This, I cannot deny. Would you say the same of Hillary?

> And a fool.

That remains an opinion. Would you say the same of Hillary?

> you look at photos of McCain shaking their hands

... and I wonder how many of those people were hand-picked for the task by puppets the Americans put in place.

Anyway, this is precisely why I'm laughing so much about Trump's victory.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S1uc47j1Q4

[2] http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/hillary-clinton...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY77j6uBHI

[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-email-shows-clinton...

> It's true that Donald Trump is lying, feckless fool.

Lying? Sure. Feckless fool? Not a fact.

> But that doesn't really change the facts.

You mean, facts like Hillary arming radicals and destroying governments? Or facts like Clinton getting millions of dollars from major banks? Or facts like Clinton wiping email servers? There were floodlights on the liar, but a crook sneaked in behind them. Rampant editorializing drove people away from the media. People suspected a collusion between media houses and the Clinton campain. Wikileaks confirmed those suspicions. What do they do? CNN tell its viewers that it's illegal to read or download stuff from Wikileaks.

> Hollywood doesn't really like asians to be their main characters

Rather than racism, I chalk it up to Hollywood's tendency to spend millions of dollars on people who they consider marketable. For example, I read reviews of "The Man from UNCLE" recently, and noticed Germans talking about the bad German accent of the lead actress, Russians talking about the bad Russian accent of the "Russian" lead. I'll throw in my own complaint of the unnatural Indian accents I have seen from "Indian" characters of Hollywood. Can't they find real Russians or Germans or Indians to play these roles?

I am not a mathematician, therefore, thoroughly underqualified to judge mathematicians. However, I recommend George Andrews' lecture[1] on Ramanujan's relevance to current mathematics. I wish they'd make more movies about (other) mathematicians and scientists too, minus the fake drama like Ramanujan's physical abuse seen in this one.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_0NuOBNobk

About churn, promotions are one of the issues, and the other is a good salary. Many companies are quite exploitative (that's one way of looking at it). If you can't play hardball with your HR, your freshly hired subordinate's salary might end up being much higher than yours. One way that HR can operate is to reward talent and productivity. The other way is to reward negotiation skills.

I can't empathize with the other points that the author made about India -- because I've never worked on an outsourcing job.

> The meltdown of the "media" and shock is just pure funny.

Oh good. It's not just me, there are others who want Trump to win just for the lulz. I don't care for his presidency, but Clinton belongs behind bars right now. I hope Trump wins and then does something to land him behind bars too. That would be my preferred outcome. The media has to change too, but I don't think a Trump presidency would be capable of bringing that about.

> If it can't find the start of the next block, the same thing will happen.

This has been addressed in the article. "Bzip2 is affected by this defect to a lesser extent; it contains two unprotected length fields in each block header. Gzip may be considered free from this defect because its only top-level unprotected length field (XLEN) can be validated using the LEN fields in the extra subfields. Lzip is free from this defect."

> Also, breaking up the data into blocks will decrease compression

This has been tested very thoroughly. Larger block sizes give rapidly diminishing marginal returns (man bzip2). Now, the largest you can go with bzip2 is 900KB.

I haven't read the whole article yet, but gzip and bzip2 recover fairly well from errors. As they are divided into blocks, flipping a bit will make you lose, at most, one block. This is not related to error correction though, but a way of mitigating losses.

>> Just one bit flip in the msb of any byte causes the remaining records to be read incorrectly. It also causes the size of the index to be calculated incorrectly, losing the position of the CRC32 and the stream footer.

This sounds severe enough to me.

> There is literally only one good thing I can say about Windows: the background and lock screen images are really, really nice

You can have that in Linux too[1]. You can configure it to pull fresh images from your favourite sources, including Bing.

[1] https://vrty.org/ seems to be down at the moment

I agree with you in principle, but not with some of the specifics. Of course Brendan Eich has the right to donate to whichever poitical party he wants. But I found his actions distasteful because, in effect, Eich played a role in trying to limit the liberty of a group of people. I also think that the reaction to that was rather overblown, but it's water under the bridge now.

I don't know what to say to that. By its nature, 4chan deters nearly everyone! Indians included [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/55pizd/4chan_users_o...

I'm in India at the moment, but I have lived in other timezones too. I must add that I'm not a regular there. I only go there when some promiment thread makes the nwes... like Tay, or Operation Google, or this. Other than that, my source for 4chan stuff is /r/4chan.

Figure 15 with heat map of hate speech per post puts India, Pakistan, Thailand, Belarus, Zimbabwe, and South Korea as the leaders of the pack. In my limited experience on /pol, this paints a very misleading picture. I hardly ever see people from these countries posting there. (See Figure 4.) They can't just leave the figure as-is, without further explanation.

The posters on 4chan (see dogma1138's post) are as surprised as I am that India features at all. To the contrary, India is commonly the target of scatological jokes.

Although they acknowledge the use of VPN, they might be downplaying its usage. Without making an effort to disambiguate that (with assistance from 4chan admins) I don't see the point of making charts based on countries. If not disambiguate, discarding posts by Tor and VPN users is easy enough.

I can't help but agree with the poster who wrote:

>>Although it is a bit absurd, /pol/ has, some

>>how, managed to place itself at the center of >world politics.

> i can't continue reading this, this is insane.

No, "grammar nazi" is considered inoffensive. Many people pernickety about grammar use that term to refer to themselves.

It's been a while since I studied or worked with these things, but I think your explanation is wrong. A transistor (BJT or FET, doesn't matter) dissipates very little in either cut-off region or saturation region (Rdson -- in FETs). It's in the active region that the transistor drops the most voltage across itself and has a fair amount of current flowing through it. I don't feel like doing the math right now, so I'll just cite something[1]. Anyway, when you're switching transistor from one state to the other, it invariably spends a little bit of time going through the active region. This is where it heats up the most. In the saturation stage, most of the voltage drop is across pull-up or pull-down resistors, so the V drop across the transistor is quite small. The higher the frequency, the more time the transistor spends in the active region, switching between states. This is why a given processor runs hotter a higher frequency.

But like I said, it's been a while since I worked in this field, so if someone knows better please correct me.

[1] http://www.satcure-focus.com/tutor/page4.htm

But why is that relevant? Malala worked on education in war-torn areas. Plenty of laureates worked on alleviating poverty, Red Cross (and associated people) got the prize for health, as did Albert Schweitzer. Snowden blew the lid off US governmental surveillance.

I don't care about the Nobel Peace Prize one jot, but if I did, I'd definitely want a prize for Assange, though he is a very controversial figure.

It's the same on Archlinux, systemd-231. Nothing happened. I was able to start and stop a couple of services as quickly as before.

I really want the Tizen project to succeed. It's tragic that this doesn't even run on mainstream Samsung devices. Talk about faith in their own work!

I don't doubt their intentions, but their execution leaves a lot to be desired. The Youtube app used to have a setting where we could make it only show videos only in low-res mode. It's gone now, and family members who are not tech-savvy use up a good deal more of the monthly download limit than they used to.