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It isn't nonsense. 7/2 represents a real number. You can round a real number up or down. So you can round 3.5 to 3. 7/0 doesn't represent a real number. It doesn't even make sense to do anything to an undefined number.
US alliances? Funny how our alliances are with countries that we've nuked, invaded and occupied. Is it aggression or is china trying to liberate these countries from foreign occupation.
Imagine if china nuked/invaded japan, korea and the philippines and built military bases there. And then pretended they were protecting them. We'd all laugh at them.
The love of money isn't driven by need. It's driven by want.
What is waymo's valuation? How much has alphabet invested in waymo? $10 billion? What could they sell it off for today? $30 billion? More? What would the ROI be?
> when treasury bonds return almost 5%
And yet alphabet invests in waymo? I wonder why? Oh that's right. Alphabet created waymo as tax write off scheme. Absolute genius.
It's insane how ingnorant hn commentors are when it comes to finance, investment and technology. Every earnings and every financial news, it's the most ignorant who rant about nonsense confidently. But then again, according to the geniuses of hn, tesla, meta, bitcoin, etc would have imploded years ago.
Good god that escalated quickly.
A $700 billion market cap 'meme stock'. Don't think so.
Agreed. It's frustrating to solve a problem and being unable to check if it is correct. It's even more frustrating knowing that if you had the answer, it would help you to solve the problem. Sometimes the answer pushes you in the right direction to figure out how to solve the problem.
> with clear explanations.
Hopefully separate from the answers.
For programming exercises, we should be given datasets so that we can tests whether our code works or not. Heck books should provide links to unit tests.
We really have amazon to thank. Major book sellers ( Barnes and Nobles, Borders, Waldenbooks, etc ) were a major source of clean bathrooms. If you needed to use a bathroom, you could visit a bookstore, use the bathroom, browse for some books you might like to buy and go home and order it on amazon tax-free that night. Unfortunately, amazon did to bookstores what the asteroid did to dinosaurs and we are all worse off for it.
Cute. It's always those bad keystrokes. If only these crowdstrike employees worked on their good keystrokes that morning. I blame management.
> Russian hackers working on behalf of Vladimir V. Putin bring down hospital systems across the United States. In others, China’s military hackers trigger chaos, shutting down water systems and electric grids to distract Americans from an invasion of Taiwan. ... Among Washington’s cyberwarriors, the first reaction on Friday morning was relief that this wasn’t a nation-state attack. For two years now, the White House, the Pentagon and the nation’s cyberdefenders have been trying to come to terms with “Volt Typhoon,” a particularly elusive form of malware that China has put into American critical infrastructure.
So we have cyberwarriors and cyberdefenders? And the russians, china, etc have 'hackers'. If ever there was a doubt what the nytimes really is.
> The fear is, in an election year, that the next digital meltdown may have a deeper political purpose.
Oh dear. More bad keystrokes on the way?
Did anyone glean anything of value from the article? There was a lot of words but no substance.
And that's the only embargo that matters. Given a choice between an embargo by the US or embargo by the rest of the world, cuba and every country in the world would choose 'the rest of the world'. Especially so for cuba since it's just right off the coast of florida.
> The rest of the world trades pretty freely with them.
No they do not.
Shakespeare is modern enough to be understandable by any english speaker. What shakespeare requires isn't a translation but annotation for the cultural/historical/etc references and archaic words.
> "Indeed, the irony today is that the Russians, the French and other people in foreign countries possess Shakespeare to a much greater extent than we do, for the simple reason that unlike us, they get to enjoy Shakespeare in the language they speak."
I don't think you can truly enjoy shakespeare in a language other than english. After all, the value in shakespeare isn't the plot, but the language.
> However, we would never complain a translation of Beowulf 'isn’t Beowulf'
I would. But it isn't worth learning old english just to read a book. It is worth reading a bit of annotation for shakespeare.
Certainly this 'well-known linguist' isn't equating the difficulty of reading beowulf with hamlet?
Yes it was. Always. It's just that morality, being a human invention/illusion, varied from culture to culture and from era to era. Your examples ( slaves, caste system, etc ) isn't a lack of morality or non-application of morality, it's just different morality applied in different cultures. India has/had morality and the south has/had morality, just different morality than we do today in the US.
Regardless, morals can only be applied to humans. Try to apply it to animals and you get nonsense. I asked basic questions in my comment. If an elephant has 'moral weight' then killing it is wrong. So must we arrest and prosecute lions who kill elephants? Do we arrest everyone working for national geographics for profiting off of snuff films?
What? It's taught in american schools. Who hasn't hear of the erie canal?
> but is a huge huge reason why we have a United States of America, and not 50 different countries with fractured cultural, military and social histories.
If that was the case, the civil war wouldn't have occurred. The Erie Canal was about making western expansion easier. Plans for the erie canal was developed decades before independence. The federal government, single currency, civil war, etc were the binding force, not the erie canal.
Agreed. But pi = 3.14...pi... isn't combing 2 infinite sets. It 'combining' infinite amounts of infinite sets and not in a linear fashion either.
You have to keep in mind the 2nd pi in the equation can be expanded to 3.14...pi...
pi = 3.14...pi... when expanded is pi = 3.14...(3.14...pi...)...
and you can keep expanding the inner pi forever.
> The digits would still be countably infinite.
How can you ever reach the first number after the inner pi in (pi = 3.14...pi...). Or put another way how do you get to the 4th '.'? You can't.
This is a classical example of countably infinite and a continuum.
Was there difference in hunter-gatherers in europe/asia/americas compared to africa? Why hadn't the ancient elephants, giraffes, etc been hunted to extinction?
> I think work over the past few decades has rather convincingly demonstrated that humans had a pretty substantial part in the extinction
A substantial part in the extinction? What does that mean? The extermination of the buffalo in the US required industrial scale resources ( guns, railroads, etc ) along with the migration of millions of europeans and habitat loss ( via farming ). It was a conscious and intentional effort. Are they claiming something similar happened throughout much of europe, asia and americas more than 50,000 year ago?
> “When we restore forests, we can’t just think about the trees,” he says. “We must think about the animals that belong there.”
This. The most devastating blow for the buffalo, wolves, bears, etc was habitat loss. It was ultimately what did them in. Did ancient hunter-gatherers alter their environment to such a degree to wipe out herds of giant animals from entire continents?
I have a hard time believing that hunter gathers in tiny tribes traveling on foot with primitive weapons could have hunted and wiped out entire species of large animals from continents. I wish they would give more specifics.
Our side? What side is that? Israel's side?
> on your side you have a bunch of snide remarks and mental gymnastics.
If that was the case, you and your buddy/alt account wouldn't be so frantically responding to me.
> “In God we trust, all others bring data.” —Deming (maybe)
You have to do a poll to see if your parents love you too? If america's support of israel is so apparent, you wouldn't need polls. You certainly wouldn't need to censor so heavily.
This is getting stupid. This is the problem with israel. I don't give a shit about it. America ( at least 99% of it ) has nothing to do with it. And yet, it is wasting so much of my time and america's time. I hope within my lifetime we won't have to waste so much time and resources on a foreign nonsense. Whether that be israel, taiwan, cuba, etc. More importantly, I hope one day americans can express ourselves freely as is our right.
> Pew [1] has a pretty much even split on military support for Israel
That's embarrassing given the decades long pro-israel propaganda campaign and the nearly 100% political backing.
But me and my 'remarkably absurd logic'. Using my 'remarkably absurd logic', I'm guessing this thread is flagged because the 'antisemites' who run this site don't want to see the outpouring of love of israel. Every israel related thread must be flagged because of the impending pro-israel comments from americans. Right?
Every social media platform censors because they don't want americans to drown israelis with love. It all makes sense now.
Yes. There is an issue with the premise as it leads to a contradiction.
> Like djkorchi mentioned above, if we knew pi = 3.14....pi..., that would mean pi = 3.14... + 10^n pi for some n, meaning (1 - 10^n) pi = 3.14... and pi = (3.14...) / (1 - 10^n), aka a rational number.
Yes. If pi = 3.14...pi ( pi repeats at the end ), then it is rational as the ending pi itself would contain an ending pi and it would repeat forever ( hence a rational number ). I thought the guy was talking about pi contain pi somewhere within itself.
pi = 3.14...pi... ( where the second ... represents an infinite series of numbers ). Then we would never reach the second set of ... and the digits of pi would not be enumerable.
So if pi cannot be contained within ( anywhere in the middle of pi ) and pi cannot be contained at the end, then pi must not contain pi.
You are right. We love israel. So lets tear down those silly holocaust memorials in the US and create memorials for native americans who were actually genocided in the US. A holocaust memorial in the US is as silly as a lenape genocide memorial in germany.
You should let the ADL and the thousands of israel aligned groups in the US that their services are no longer required.
America <heart> israel.
'... and the problem is: The US is supporting Israel and supplying it with weapons. Neither Presidential candidate has any intention of changing that, nor is there majority Congressional support for changing it.'
The american people are mostly against israel and sending billions to israel. And yet nearly all of congress, presidential candidates, etc are in favor of it. Something is awry with representative government when nearly 100% of the politicians are not representative of the american people.
You think ASU consumes more power than a nuclear armed nation of 20 million people? You sound like someone who graduated from a state university.
What you are essentially saying is that pi = 3.14....pi...........
If that was the case, wouldn't it mean that the digits of pi are not countably infinite but instead is a continuum. So you wouldn't be able to put the digits of pi in one to one correspondence with natural numbers. But obviously we can so shouldn't our default be to assume our premise was wrong?
> It is a completely irrational concept, thinking rationally.
It is definitely interesting to think about.
Google is doing the same thing with youtube. Youtube was a place to get away from traditional media, cable tv, etc. That was the point of the "You" in youtube after all. But now, no matter what I search, it's mostly corporate/traditional media in the list. Youtube was a major part of the 'cut the cord' movement. Now youtube is rebranding itself as 'cable tv re-imagined'.
It's amazing how google and youtube did a complete 180 in just a few years. Google search and youtube are nothing like what it was 10 or 15 years ago.
Also, keep in mind that this article, like so many such articles, was probably a paid industry advertisement. I'm assuming by this time, everyone is aware of graham's submarine article.
Maybe it will change cancer treatment forever, but as far as I know, cancer patients still go through some form of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, etc.
What? Every major global institution and nation is backing 'family planning', encouraging women to work, etc.
https://static.mothership.sg/1/2018/05/family-planning-cover...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-child_policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
> Similarly, the only people I see pushing natalism at this point are far right wing people
And what 'far right' people are in charge of any major nation or global institution? None.
You'd have to be blind or driven by agenda to not see it. For the past few decades, from hollywood to the UN to education, we've been getting a certain messaging. As an american, I don't remember a single time where we were encouraged to have lots of children. All the messaging, in school, on tv, in movies, etc were all discouraging you from having children early and having lots of them.
Now whether it is a good thing or a bad thing it's up for debate. But it's silly to deny it. In modern times, birth rates are determined by the state. Prior to the current decline, many countries, such as china, iran, etc actually encouraged high birth rates and hence experienced population booms. We had a baby boom generation prior to the elites deciding to lower it.
So if the elites really wanted a population boom, they can switch the messaging and get the propaganda going. The masses follow where the propaganda leads them.