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anthony_romeo
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About anthony_romeo
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Comment #37511639
Got it, thanks!
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Comment #37505363
I think their license works for the current version at time of purchase and next version, so you’re good to go till version 5
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Comment #37483873
Minor and pedantic: should this instead be “Ternary Decision Tree”?
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Comment #36497594
Fun! But I wasn’t able to finish: I got a captcha with digits 5, 3, 7, and 8. When the chessboard appeared, the best move was Qe6. These conflicted with the rule to have all digits…
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Comment #35496822
As also a non-expert, I can add that the superposition and entanglement of qubits are performed using gates as in classical computing. There’s the Hadamard gate which takes two par…
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Comment #33818802
For another logic text, I really enjoyed Walton’s Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach . It describes arguments as existing within different types of dialectic contexts (e.g. debat…
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Comment #33644364
I’ve been dabbling in this, and created my own keyboard layout to include all kinds of math characters using the right Alt key for level 3 and level 4 shift. Also replaced caps loc…
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Comment #32225920
> Why were lockdowns so unquestionably pushed? If memory serves me right, early on in the pandemic, the health care systems of a number of countries and cities (e.g. Italy, NYC) we…
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Comment #32169956
Who are "the news media companies" here, exactly? Who is "they" and what do you mean when you say they "forgot race relations to push other issues"? I ask this because I'm pretty s…
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Comment #32048649
10 feet away from what, exactly? A ‘law enforcement activity’? Is that area defined in a meaningful way? What if a bystander records 10 feet away, but a second person stands in bet…
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Comment #32048410
So hypothetically, if one is being illegally beaten by a person who happens to be an on-duty police officer, all the victim has to do to achieve justice is turn on their camera to …
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Comment #31872191
Thanks for your response in the other thread (FTR your reply was already flagged dead by the time I noticed it). I’m responding to that. I understand your position. On your point a…
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Comment #31870469
What do you actually believe then?
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Comment #31865142
You're not suggesting this, but your line of reasoning can be applied to prevent people who are sterile from getting married. Couples without children can adopt children, regardles…
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Comment #31836682
Don't hold me to this, but if I recall, the recommendation is to consume 8 cups (1 cup = 8 oz ≈ 0.23L) of water a day, and the water contained in our food counts. This is to say, p…
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Comment #31792770
In the past, a recession was defined as two consecutive quarters of decline in GDP [I think the definition has loosened somewhat recently, but I’ll ignore that]. Real GDP (which ac…
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Comment #31700257
I was responding to your suggestion that avoiding calling monkeypox a ‘gay disease’ was “just political correctness” by suggesting that some meaningful percentage may instead be “a…
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Comment #31698927
Neither syphilis nor unsafe sex nor HIV are unique to gay men, nor is monkeypox. I think that is enough to genuinely disqualify it as a ‘gay disease’.
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