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If ever. The Central Limit Theorem requires the distribution to have finite standard deviation.

On your suggestion I browsed the front page for 10 minutes just to see what all the fuss has been about. Tiktok is worse than I could have imagined.

You're bringing into clear relief why I wasn't accepted to Stanford.

> Where Stephen Fry discovers the concept of the Eternal September.

Wow, you're right. I missed that interpretation.

The rules for newspaper headlines is not the same as for normal sentences.

> "Tanzania bans song for two years"

That's ungrammatical as a sentence but a perfectly good headline.

Yea, in metrizable spaces, those statements are equivalent.

There's no One True Definition of what it means to be fractal, but a lot of working mathematicians use the criterion that a space's Hausdorf dimension is not equal to its topological dimension. Oftentimes (but not always), the Hausdorf dimension will be fractional, which is where the word comes from. Self-similarity is an easy way to satisfy that requirement in a way that's easy to explain, but it's far from the only way.

The article posits that maybe advanced alien civilizations may be motivated to build larger (and hence harder to to detect) Dyson spheres for the efficiency gains. While that's a possibility, it's also possible that being harder to detect is an end unto itself for safety reasons.

> A common example to help explain sunk costs is the movie theater experience, where a person buys a ticket and, 20 minutes into the movie, she realizes that it is a horrible movie and it will only get worse.

Offtopic I know, but twice in my life I've walked out of a terrible movie at the theater within the first 30 minutes and gotten a refund from the manager. Don't think you have to sit through terrible movies!

Can you add ?share=1 to your spider to get all Quora's content?

I know who you're talking about.

Yea, I agree. Yudkowski found his voice starting around chapter 20. The initial chapters could use a good rewriting.

So worth it. If you read it, you'll wish there were more.

Don't bother with the rest of the Ender Quartet. While they're not terrible, they don't hold a candle to Ender's Game. There's just better uses of your time (like any other book on this page).

> drove way too fast, kept less than required safety distance

Welcome to driving.

I'm on something similar. For about half a year, food tasted bland, but now most of the time I eat at a restaurant, food tastes gaggingly salty.

If you have out-of-band connections with all your friends and you have friends who are willing to jump through weird, nerdy, technical hoops, what do you need Facebook for?

Majority, sure. But I wouldn't call 54% (the percentage of voters who voted for somebody other than Trump) a "sizeable majority".

Huh. That's an interesting definition of "vacation".

Thank you. I appreciate the guidance, but I'm not attempting to troll, and this is something that I would say in an in person conversation and have.

I really honestly believe that you'd do these kids a favor by euthanizing them. It'd be a relief to their parents and the future people who wouldn't be victimized, too.

It was dumb of Assange to make the offer.

There's another factor at play in Samantha's case - she was adopted. The article mentions that no evidence of abuse was ever uncovered by previous parents (both biological and foster), but who knows?

I don't know for a fact, but I would very much expect the answer to be yes. The relevant metrics to look at would be body fat percentage, cholesterol, triglyceride, and blood sugar levels, resting heart rate and blood pressure, and insulin sensitivity. After correcting for those, weight is just not a risk factor, so far as I know.

I sincerely hope that when I'm that old, I'll be above such pettiness.

I would assume that most American retirees are mostly living off of Social Security. Pensions and annuities are in there too.

I've thought before that CRPGs are decent training for how to handle money (emotionally speaking).

It's relevant to me.

BMI is a terrible metric for weightlifters.

Would you care if it's a cloud or a reflection off glass?