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by Hasu 11y ago
No one said that regulations are going to make everyone perfectly safe all the time. However, you cannot convince me that people will somehow be safer with no regulations.
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by Hasu 11y ago
I suspect that this is a motte and bailey trick. Users of the iPhone claim that they use a better product, where by better they mean "objectively better", but when challenged on what it is exactly that makes it so much better, ret
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by Hasu 11y ago
Because, having used both, there's nothing "premium" about the iPhone experience except the perception in iPhone users' heads.
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by Hasu 11y ago
>A skillcap is a level of expertise which allows the players in it to dramatically beat the players which belong to the lower level of expertise. Where are you getting that definition? I've always seen "skill cap" defined
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by Hasu 12y ago
D'oh. Missed that we were specifically talking about IEEE floating point. That was very stupid of me.
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by Hasu 12y ago
Infinity is Not a Number, so 17/0 is NaN.
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by Hasu 12y ago
Here's how we stop AI from ending humanity: deny them property rights, require human approval of all AI decisions. Every single argument for AI destroying humanity requires humanity consenting to being destroyed by the AI in some way.
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by Hasu 12y ago
>Brian Williams was just suspended for six months without pay for lying about a single news story more than a decade ago. From a business perspective, NBC knows their viewers won't take them seriously if they keep a potentially dish
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by Hasu 12y ago
Preference orderings have very little to do with "meaning in life" or "meaningful things in life". "Meaning in life" is a vague, ill-defined phrase whose referent is not a real thing.
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by Hasu 12y ago
>If people of type A can have a productive conversation about things that type B considers non-existent, which belief system makes more sense? Type B. Replace "meaningful things in life" with God, fairies, the aether, Pokemon,
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by Hasu 12y ago
> Well, like, when people use "like," it's like they're narrating a video scene in their own heads in a way that would cause another person from a video-soaked culture to, like, make it play in their heads too. ;) The
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by Hasu 12y ago
Scholarship money comes from a lot of places, but usually from wealthy alumni. It definitely doesn't come from sports at most American universities. There's something for the argument that sports attracts students who will become
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by Hasu 12y ago
I didn't say anything about coaches with million dollar contracts. I was responding only to the claim that football pays for the rest of the sports, which, other than men's basketball, are pretty much universally unprofitabl
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by Hasu 12y ago
> What I heard was that college football tends to pay for all of the other sports at a school. Yeah, at the most successful football schools. That's a minority among schools that have football programs. [1] [2] >If anything spo
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by Hasu 12y ago
Then one could simply predict "always fails" and be right more than half the time, which is an improvement on the 50% claimed.
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by Hasu 12y ago
What? A coin flip would still be 50% accurate. If 10% of startups succeed, and we say that heads is "succeed" and tails is "fail": 5% of startups will be predicted to succeed and will succeed (correct prediction) 5% of s
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by Hasu 12y ago
It reminds me of Dune, or more specifically, the allusions to the backstory of Dune, in which a religious jihad destroyed all computers and forbade their construction. Some relevant bits, from Dune and God Emperor of Dune: "Once men t
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by Hasu 12y ago
>Conclusion: we don't want to pay related to the value we receive for a certain service, but to the amount of effort involved in the delivery of that service. I don't think that's a fair conclusion. There's much mor
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by Hasu 12y ago
It's not like this is the first time it's ever been cold outside. The New England Patriots play a lot of football, yes? They often do so during the winter months, no? It's exactly what you'd expect from the laws of physi
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by Hasu 12y ago
That wouldn't stop anyone with deep pockets(Microsoft, Apple) from taking a shot. Netflix or Twitch may be in a good position to adopt departing YouTubers, as well. If the content creators leave YouTube, their audiences will follow the
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by Hasu 12y ago
>If Google decides to tighten the screws on YouTube performers, where else do they go? Where else can they go? To whatever startup(or other business) that successfully takes advantage of the market opening that Google has created by tigh
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by Hasu 12y ago
>Maybe Microsoft is coming back from the dead the same way Apple did? No, because Microsoft was never "dead" the same way Apple was. Apple was unprofitable and on the brink of bankruptcy. Microsoft had new competition, but was
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by Hasu 12y ago
Interesting, I've been thinking about something like "openlag" lately. It seems like an ideal compromise between the need to make money and the desire to open source everything. When I've been thinking about it, I was
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by Hasu 12y ago
Why does one have to focus on being humane/considerate/farsighted instead of being rational, rather than focus on both? We don't have to pick one measuring stick. I certainly hope you don't think that being irrational
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by Hasu 12y ago
I know of a company that does this, too. It IS possible to report individual reviews, and I did just that with several obviously-faked reviews from management. Glassdoor responded that management and CEOs have a right to post reviews, too.
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by Hasu 12y ago
Can I ask what kind of shoes you were wearing, and if you tried other shoes? Have you ever tried running barefoot? When I started running, I wore shoes, and my feet hurt all the time. I stopped wearing shoes, and the foot pain stopped, too.
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by Hasu 12y ago
I have never understood why Frank Herbert isn't enshrined as the 20th century's best science fiction author, since that's exactly what he was. He always gets overshadowed by Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke, who are undoubtedly a
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by Hasu 12y ago
Prune your subscriptions brutally. I recently logged into Reddit for the first time in over half a year. My personalized frontpage was filled with garbage- in the 8 or 9 months since I'd stopped using the site, a bunch of small, awes
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by Hasu 12y ago
>Or people just disagree about the definition of 'politics.' Once you get to a point where "no book is genuinely free from political bias," you've basically reduced 'politics' to 'point of view.&#x
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by Hasu 12y ago
I can't figure out how I'm expected to use more than one digit on this thing at once. I usually type on a touchscreen keyboard with at least two fingers(either both thumbs, or the index and middle finger of one hand). The sliding

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