Confusion

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by Confusion 8y ago
What matters most is actually selling when your strategy tells you you should. If you ignore your sell signals, you are toast.
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by Confusion 8y ago
It’s our knowledge of chemistry at work. I think https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_bioche... is pretty disenchanting.
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by Confusion 8y ago
For all practical purposes: no. Less than 0.1% attends privately funded schools inside or outside of The Netherlands.
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by Confusion 8y ago
You basically repeat that ‘reading the old philosophers is important’ about three times, but give no reason for why that would be important and what exactly you would learn from that. That they teach it at Eton is not a reason. At most a su
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by Confusion 8y ago
Externalities happened.
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by Confusion 8y ago
https://github.com/middleman/middleman may also be an option
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by Confusion 8y ago
Real time updates and hot reload are almost completely independent of js and webpack. E.g. Middleman has that via the ‘livereload’ feature.
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by Confusion 9y ago
> Airline pilot training is designed to handle this It is certainly designed to do that, but even for airline pilots there are limits to what is possible. You cannot train a human to react within 1ms; that's just physiologically i
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by Confusion 9y ago
Ashcroft and Mermin is only an 'introduction' in the graduate student sense of 'introduction'. I don't think you can make sense of it without previous grounding in both quantum mechanics and solid state physics.
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by Confusion 9y ago
Which should of course not be exaggerated and fully blamed on the reporter. A reporter not understanding what a physicist explained does not mean they lack the ability to understand what a policeman or politician told them. A reporter not b
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by Confusion 9y ago
These numbers include losses and waste. In the most extreme case the US could be wasting a third of their food, while achieving the same intake. So these numbers imply very little about actual calorie intake.
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by Confusion 9y ago
Minor note: Dollar Shave Club was bought by Unilever, not P&G.
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by Confusion 9y ago
The problem is that we have a model that is incredibly accurate for all the things we can apply it to, but that has many conceptual loose ends and leaves some observations completely unexplained. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by Confusion 9y ago
From addressing the great many naive falsificationists that have heard of, or were taught, Popper’s basic idea without any of his elaborations and footnotes, let alone those by people like Quine, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, ... A little know
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by Confusion 9y ago
People who build aircraft are not people who design aircraft. Moreover, the point of the comment isn't about the titles assigned to these people by someone external: it's about the actual skills they have that would cause you
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by Confusion 9y ago
The point is you cannot trust your intuition, even if it is based on your own experience, to determine what works well. As an example, 'regression to the mean' ensures that it seems like blaming works better than praising.
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by Confusion 9y ago
Isn't that just a safety feature, so a child's quick fingers won't do anything?
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by Confusion 9y ago
No one at Los Alamos ever thought that would happen. Someone did wonder if it could happen, suggested it should be checked and that is what they did. It turned out to be as impossible as creating a black hole at CERN. They didn't jus
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by Confusion 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/1860/
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by Confusion 9y ago
Everyone should flag this article. And anyone that upvoted the article should be ashamed of themselves.
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by Confusion 9y ago
They may be right to deride the memo. They are not right to deride anyone who wonders whether writing something like that, and sending it internally to a mailing list intended for discussions of this subject, is maybe not an offence that de
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by Confusion 9y ago
Thinking that the natural state of affairs is 50% of both genders [1] in everything is exactly the assumption that Scott shows to be unsupported by data. And just to be sure: unsupported does not mean 'false'. The 'opposite
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by Confusion 9y ago
If math vs. engineering is a mystery that can't be explained by streotypes, Scott gives an explanation in the article. Interestingly, it's exactly the suggestion commenter peacetreefrog puts forward: relatively many mat
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by Confusion 9y ago
I think 'considering the immediate response' used to be a valuable heuristic, but isn't any more. Too many people have become too polarized. There are a bunch of folks from the tech industry on Twitter that I have followed fo
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by Confusion 9y ago
You have hecksums and other internal consistency checks to deal with those.
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by Confusion 9y ago
There is, according to quite a few, also a huge etc. chasm between 'proved' and 'proved by a computer'. Especially if it's a proof through exhaustive enumeration.
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by Confusion 9y ago
> Splitting a company in two [..] Splitting an organization in two so the non-profit part can enjoy the benefits the law intends to bestow upon a non-profit is exactly what the government wants you to do. Separate rules for separate ki
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by Confusion 9y ago
You call yourself a 'good person' in your bio, but you show little evidence of that. A good person would be charitable and assume good faith. Boudewijn Rempt is a good person.
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by Confusion 9y ago
Now imagine what the Lindy effect implies when technology becomes available that undoes the damage caused by the mechanisms called 'aging'.
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by Confusion 9y ago
Generic graphical programming, in things equivalent to your examples, has so far sucked. Anyone who has ever been forced to do it for more than a trivial amount of time, creating more than trivial programs, has experienced that. I understan

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