DavidSJ

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by DavidSJ 6y ago
"One of us in each world" is shorthand for "one of us in the entire system described by the wave function, with different amplitudes in different states". There is only 1 detector, and it, along with the detected particl
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I address your first point here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25999766 (in brief, photons are treated no differently than people). I agree that the meaning of probability in the MWI context is an interesting open qu
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
It does apply to photons and electrons. As I understand it, it becomes ever more difficult to maintain a coherent quantum state among larger and larger collections of particles (this is why making large quantum computers is difficult), so f
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
In MWI, the problem doesn't exist to begin with. In e.g. the Copenhagen interpretation, observation plays a special role, because it's the moment of wave function collapse. In MWI, there is no wave function collapse, so there&#x27
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
it still doesn't explain WHY we can only "see" one such "world" It's just that there's one of us in each world. The one in this world sees this one. The one in that world sees that one.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
If you're referring to the Everett multiverse (although the OP was not, so maybe you're not), then its status is not so different from that of the unobservable portion of our own universe. That is, if we take the simplest known co
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
No, but I do see people use them inaccurately in those contexts also, and I suspect that’s partially out of habit.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I hate to be a stickler for this but please say MB, not mb, when you mean megabytes. There are contexts where the distinction between m and M, or b and B, really matters!
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I think that's the opposite of what they said.
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Gliese 710(en.wikipedia.org)
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Bug 34572: Use native context menus on Mac OS (opened Apr 5, 2000, now in work)(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anythi
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Why not just tax TV sales? That's much easier to enforce, and has ultimately almost the same effect.
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Exporting Messages from Signal for iOS: A Journey(cight.co)
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I guess I’m just saying I don’t think it’s a reasonable request, and this was my way of politely explaining why. It’s okay for users to express anger over something like this. The fact that devs are doing volunteer work is great, but it doe
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Yes, unfortunately this is inadequate. Note that only transfers to other iOS devices are supported, and also “your old device will delete your message history after the transfer is complete”.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Hello, thank you for your comment and for your work on Signal. I wrote a comment here outlining my frustration over the lack of export ability in iOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25763997 I feel this goes beyond si
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I also am extremely frustrated by the inability to export and backup chats. In combination with mobile/desktop sync problems, it means that I have lots of personal memories on one device, with no way to get them off and protect them. T
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Exactly this. I wanted to use Signal as my primary messenger. I really did. But I had a ton of sync problems between my phone and my desktop client, tried to report them, and the developers didn’t care. Then one day I got a new phone and
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
If this is really such an easy way to make a city grow economically why aren't the artists making money off of this to fund their next move? The economic benefits to the city of having a thriving art community might be diffuse enough
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Pando (Tree)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I think you might mean offering, not offing.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
It’s an ironic error in a comment about being bad at statistics. :) And no shade intended by that. We might all have made an error like this.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Amazon frequently releases a bunch of new cloud services all on the same day.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
In-situ resource utilization to mine propellant from the Moon and near-Earth asteroids could bring a dramatic improvement in ∆v budget (and hence travel time), using only conventional rocket propulsion. If you think about it, your car would
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Apple has that right. But sometimes the way rights are exercised can still be concerning to others.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
The point is the tension. It’s very easy to acknowledge (1) and (4), or (2) and (3). It’s very rare to acknowledge all four. That said, there’s a misunderstanding here: (3) says much , not all , of the power is increasingly centralized, a
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Falsifiability was Popper’s demarcation of science, not his demarcation of tolerance (if he had one). Note that he specifically says in that passage that he’s not advocating the suppression of all intolerant speech. Thus even if some speech
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Here's Popper in his own words: "Less well known [than Plato's paradoxes of freedom and of democracy] is the paradox of tolerance : unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tole
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
There's some give and take over time, I grant. But compare the situation today not to the 1950's, but to the early 2000's, when there was a thriving ecosystem of independent blogs and bookstores, to today, where a few big med

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