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papln

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    Comment #22205554

    In my college in Antarctica we were taught x ^ y = y x^T - x y exp(ε x ^ y) v ~ v + ε x ^ y * v = ε y (x,v) - v + ε x (y,v) because we use the left-hand rule down under.

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    Comment #22205490

    But 3D is the D that matters for 3D games. video games are concrete mathematics, not abstract mathematics.

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    Comment #22205448

    I miswrote. Rotation calculations are represented (in quaternions and in geometric algebra calculations) as a 3D subspace of R^4, with the "extra" dimension accounted for by constr…

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    Comment #22205277

    > getting discouraged and quitting is bad for both player and business

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    Comment #22205250

    > reliably throws out improbable events. which is another way of wording "reliably generates and serves improbable events"

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    Comment #22205219

    > There is just as much money to be made in tearing down a civilization as in building one up. Do you think Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates …

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    Comment #22205176

    I have allergies and my nose runs a lot. Somehow I manage to not throw my tissues on the ground. Is it so hard to carry an ash box with a cigarette box?

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    Comment #22183193

    ToS aren't signed. They are terms of service, not license agreements. ToS merely need to be disclosed, and the site cna decline service if you violate the terms. A license agreemen…

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    Comment #22183179

    Like hiQ, you can file a lawsuit and try to win. You might want to wait to see if hiQ wins their case.

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    Comment #22183165

    Per hiQ's arugment, but not per any existing ocourt decision.

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    Comment #22183089

    No, because what one side of a case argues is not the law. What judges decide is the law.

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    Comment #22183048

    When is it "damage", and when is it "declining to contribute" ?

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    Comment #22183042

    Does that mean that ia grocery store offers free samples, I can go in every day and take all the samples, and the grocery is not allowed to selectively prevent me access?

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    Comment #22183017

    There's no reason to believe that.

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    Comment #22183010

    Please read the linked decision before putting words in judges' mouths: https://parsers.me/appeal-from-the-united-states-district-co...

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    Comment #22182997

    > hiQ argued That does not mean that hte court agreed. The judges said that CFAA doesn't apply. In other words, the judges said that LinkedIn couldn't use the US legal system to fo…

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    Comment #22182854

    Here's what Google says. Ask your lawyer if you want to know what it means . https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?p=web_app_... When Web & App Activity is on, you can …

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    Comment #22182628

    I'm not anyone's lawyer. These are questions, not answers: GDPR is about collecting data from you, right? If Site X is sending data about you to Facebook, perhaps that's an issue w…

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    Comment #22182540

    > inciting drama and outrage between people just for kicks. or "popping their filter bubbles", or "are generally interested in boundary-pushing ideas", or "are susceptible to the r…

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    Comment #22182479

    The metric (Jaccard distance) is symmetric. The assymmetry comes from ranking: JordanPeterson is more special-interest/intense-interest with a narrower more homogenous audience tha…

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    Comment #22182335

    HN is not the place to file bug reports on Reddit, and people here can't help you find workarounds since you aren't enabling tools that allow you to configure your experience.

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    Comment #22182296

    Small request: Can you turn off the initial jumble of nodes before the graph is built and laid out? It's distracting clutter that adds no information. Animations are fun, but only …

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    Comment #22182222

    You might (justifiably) not like it, and it might inspire you to boycott the business or plead for regulatory relief, but it's not an "incident" from their perspective to be intent…

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    Comment #22182190

    > Obviously the sites are not getting the benefit How is that obvious? Surely sites would eventually stop going through the extra effort to maintain trackers if they didn't get a b…

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    Comment #22182171

    That last part makes sense. If you want a different identity, you need to choose a different ID. Better to make you be more explicit about what you are trying to do (multiple accou…