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Comment · 5 years ago
They improve at knowing mathematics, not raw pattern recognition ability.
Comment · 5 years ago
Company apologies don't work, they buy time until people stop giving a fuck.

Personal apologies generally don't work if they're anything beyond what is demanded by conversational etiquette, since the people demanding them usually just want an admission of guilt they can hold over you forever as leverage, and anybody who agrees with you will be disappointed.

Comment · 5 years ago
>Ideas are not hard to find,

> I have pages of side project ideas

Well evidently not for you. But please don't assume everybody's mind or personality works the same way yours does. You were told to not judge everybody by the same subjective yardstick and your immediate response is to.. project and judge everybody by the same yardstick.

The ability to generate side project ideas or the interest in investing huge amounts of time into a project on your own time are largely orthogonal to the ability to actually build things when it's your job.

Comment · 5 years ago
This does raise the question of how many cases are actually up in the air at all. One would think that given the IQ distribution of criminals a majority of cases involving arrests are quite open and shut, with suspects usually being caught either red handed or after not covering their tracks at all.

A justice system optimized for public safety will err on the side of putting aggressive, anti-social individuals behind bars rather than making absolutely sure they really did do the thing most of them were caught doing. Public safety is therefore orthogonal or even somewhat opposed to the pursuit of truth.

Comment · 5 years ago
Why would you want to install windows on something that doesn't come bundled with it or needs it for work?
Comment · 5 years ago
>6 months and dozens of applications to get a job offer.

I honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be good or bad. Graduated in 2020 and spent over a year looking for work with several hundred applications sent. Ended up enrolling in a masters because of it, only got a job last month.

Comment · 5 years ago
>At some point you browser will just turn into another operating system running on top of your operating system.

Nowadays making calls to the browser API is hardly any different from making system calls, and provides about as much generality independent of the actual operating system. Might just be my new showing but I don't think I remember it being any other way.

Comment · 5 years ago
Where do you place the cutoff for opportunity? Are things like innate ability, motivation, interest in lucrative pursuits for their own merits, luck of the draw not also just another kind of opportunity? There is no standard because nobody can agree on a standard. The only thing we can say for certain is that the kind of society you propose will never be attained through free and democratic political processes. Make of that what you will.
Comment · 5 years ago
>That is the normal social mobility we should expect in a democratic society

That might be what we expect from a perfectly egalitarian society, but expecting any free, democratic society to come even close to perfect egalitarianism is completely delusional.

Comment · 5 years ago
They're not measuring the projection of the acceleration vector on the velocity vector, they're measuring the projection of the velocity vector on the acceleration vector and limiting that. Which makes no sense for a speed limiting method as evidenced by the fact that strafejumping exists. What you said is true and also irrelevant.

To get a true speed limit you would compute the new velocity vector, compute its magnitude and rescale the components by the ratio under the limit. Which is slightly more computationally expensive I suppose.

Comment · 5 years ago
That's not the strange thing. The strange thing is limiting it on a projection rather than the magnitude of the velocity vector.
Comment · 5 years ago
>whatever strawman of the week is used to attack a caricature of a position

Is it really a strawman when a non-negligible number of people in your political camp espouse a position without so much as a hint of irony or exaggeration? Denying the existence of the radicals won't win you any credibility with fence sitters and moderates.

Comment · 5 years ago
The thing I don't understand is why you would limit velocity in such a strange way to begin with.
Comment · 5 years ago
Getting to play again after being shot in the face is not realistic either, yet pretty much all FPS games implement this feature. I wonder why?

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