AbrahamParangi

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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Insurance spreads risk over outcomes . The social function of spreading risk over people (subsidizing risky behavior) is both incidental, accidental, and a clear moral hazard. Insurance would still be extremely useful even if we knew with
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
In an efficient market insurance premiums are essentially zero sum. The more that one person pays to offset their own risk, the less everyone else pays. Safe drivers subsidize unsafe drivers and this subsidy can and should be reduced when p
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
It would be surprising to me that even if DEFCON could be considered to have a license, that that license would be irrevocable. At the end of the day they have received work product for free which they do not own and the owner is saying the
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
There's a tendency in academia (and frankly society, and particularly in this paper) to say that X is bad and wrong and justify that it is bad by demonstrating that it is wrong, but this is a unsustainable. What happens if X is bad but
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
very cool that you don’t need to worry about thermal effects, nice work!
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
As someone who's built/designed multiple metal 3D printers before, this actually looks really cool. Every metal 3D printer requires high temperatures, inert and reducing gasses to prevent oxidation, and most of them require powder
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
This is true of all non-physically accurate fluid simulations which are essentially all of them.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
I think the core advantage of content is that the idea density is actually much higher. Many books could be essays and still communicate the main points. Many essays could be paragraphs. Many paragraphs could be sentences, etc. Density is a
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Back in the day I implemented this, the trick is that the firmware motion planner is generally by default not designed to handle smooth curves in 3D, only in 2D. We could have adjusted to fix that but the other issue was it makes the printi
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Nationalized in that the benefit is socialized and there is now little to no incentive for Tesla to improve their network as it doesn't advance their market position. I don't see how this is hard to understand.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
When I played around with implementing this last night I found using a radial basis function instead of Fourier coefficients (I tried the same, nice and parallel and easy to write) to be more well behaved in training networks of depth great
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Kind of buried the lead when they wrote that regulators are pushing Tesla to effectively nationalize their charger network and they just coincidentally cut the entire team.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
What is the news value of this?
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
This is arguably more Google's fault than the content, obnoxious though it is. Google has been sacrificing search quality at the altar of search ads KPIs for a decade or more now and it shows.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
This is a fantasy either way. I mean, really.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Co-ops are fascinating to me as an alternate evolutionary branch of capitalism. Like the marsupials to the placentals. Also like the marsupials, in most cases where co-ops compete with regular capitalist businesses they go extinct.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
I mean, they can simply start firing people who don’t do their job or prevent their colleagues from doing their jobs. It doesn’t seem like wishful thinking to think that that will work.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
I would not assume that our modern understanding of Christian orthodoxy totally applies. Christianity is a syncretic religion nearly everywhere.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Apparently the stat I gave was the ratio of homeowners to Californians which is something like 18% and the lowest in the nation, but if we use the % of households which own their home we get something like 55% which is still very close to t
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
California has the lowest rates of home ownership in the country at 18%. More people are subsidizing the current system than are benefiting from it.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
It should be linear with no limit.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
This is a bad example because the market usually fixes this problem. The reason why the market doesn’t fix the cookie banner problem and the reason why this is bad law is because users defacto do not care , it is merely annoying. There’s a
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Man, I am not a pessimist and I am very bullish on AI-the-field but my spidey sense is tingling that this is BS. - It is written in a way that sacrifices legibility for supposed precision but because the terms used can't really be appl
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
From what I've heard the new test is more volatile/less informative. I wonder if this is a result of College Board reacting to the trend that started a few years ago where universities started saying that the SAT was a bad indicat
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
This seems to assume that intentions "don't count" in some way, as if they were nonphysical, whereas unless you presume a supernatural soul, they are as physical as any other part of the experiment.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Let's imagine that we ran it as a simulation and we ran it a million times. The two people would have a different distribution of results. If you ignore the intention, you ignore reality as if that intention were not a part of it. Do y
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Yes, indeed.
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
I'm confused in that I don't see how this is troubling. Yes, the two experimenters rolled dice and got the same result, but it's as if one of them was rolling a 6 sided die and the other a 20 sided one. Each experiment is not
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
I read about economic growth and modernization and brilliant public transport projects in China all the time. I read about how Shenzhen is a Mecca for technology product development. I read about the great success of Chinese software compan
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by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
Are there any news articles from mainstream journalism you could point to that were harsh but fair regarding China, or is any negative or unflattering statement about China “anti China propaganda”?

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