DoctorZeus

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by DoctorZeus 11y ago
I generally agree - we do want to give people space to privately struggle to reach their professed ideals without risk of public humiliation. But surely that must be balanced with some expectation that a person's actions not be in blat
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by DoctorZeus 11y ago
This article has some interesting figures on pollution from gasoline vs electric cars: "There Are Places Where Electric Cars Pollute More Than Gas Guzzlers" http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/07&
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by DoctorZeus 11y ago
Presumably that's from rounding errors... for example, the distribution could be 4.7, 38.7, and 56.6 ... which adds up to 100, but when those numbers are rounded up they then add up to 101.
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by DoctorZeus 11y ago
The #run directive addresses some major pain points for me. Is there anything analogous in other languages?
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by DoctorZeus 11y ago
I encourage anyone who reads Pinker's book to also consider Nassim Taleb's critique http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/longpeace.pdf
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by DoctorZeus 11y ago
You might be interested in the book 'The Righteous Mind' by Jonathan Haidt... he talks about that group psychology, and the importance of having social contexts where those energies can be expressed in a non-destructive way - such
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Language Game Inspired by Noam Chomsky's Linguistics(bigthink.com)
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Show HN: iOS Language Learning Game Designed Around Natural Language Generation(playmationstudios.com)
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
I admire your passion and dedication to having a positive impact on the world. My challenge to you is this: What gives you confidence that the impact you'll have on the world will in fact be positive? Engineering certainly gives us the
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
And how does dismissing critics as "pc lynchmobs" advance the conversation? Some people have oversimplified Paul Graham's perspective; doing the same to other people's perspectives will get no one anywhere.
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
Your right! I wouldn't want to diminish the value of spending time with one's family or enjoying one's hobbies. But the article doesn't mention those, just security and having a sweet paycheck.
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
This could be titled "Why I Am Content With A Mediocre Life and Why You (Probably) Are Too." Fighting for a product I believe in. Developing a product I'm passionate about. Late nights of creative problem solving in my code t
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
Most of us on here have probably had, at some point in our lives, the fantasy to attain a batman-esque power while behaving heroically against some clearly defined evil. And most us hopefully have gotten over it. The most difficult problems
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
A worthwhile take on the historical place of MOOCs. The problem with these has always been not just that they are oversold, but sold from the wrong direction. Call them an alternative for the traditional college course, and we can see how c
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
The market selects for amorality; the structure of corporate governance (especially with publicly traded companies) ensures that everything hinting otherwise is really just particularly effective PR.
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
Good question. It would take some serious time studying history to have even a decent guess.
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
Not necessarily. Slavery might have indirectly assisted the north's industrialization in at least a couple ways. (1) Accumulation of financial capital in the hands of an investment class (2) Cheap cotton gave northern factories a compe
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
Those who censor are not the only enemies of the internet. When being monitored by an unaccountable organization capable of all manner of violence, a threat is implied and speech is hindered. Furthermore, why remove speech when you can just
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
You can't reduce economic growth to single factor. Oil itself wouldn't be worth much without technologies to exploit. And without the right human capital, those technologies wouldn't exist in the first place. And without the
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
Sure, these are variables, so they correspond to different possibilities. X can be anything, and given X, the amount in the other envelope is one of two different possible values - 1/2X OR 2X. So there are far more than three possible
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
Well, that singer might succeed, they might make to the Top 10 charts, after all we hear bland generic pop on the radio all the time. I just wish we wouldn't celebrate it.
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by DoctorZeus 13y ago
Taking out the specific dollar amount doesn't change the math at all. If X designates the amount in the envelope I've selected, than 50% chance the other envelope contains .5 * X and a 50% chance it contains 2 * X, so the expected