JesperRavn

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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I really liked this article. Even though we don't have access to the most relevant information (e.g. dollars per ton CO2 saved, or a cost benefit analysis using a shadow price of CO2), the author presents a lot of very compelling figu
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
On the other hand, China did have the equivalent of losing a war and living under a foreign imposed rule, which was the aftermath of the Opium Wars. The result was about 60 million deaths, mostly due to the breakdown of law and order. Due
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
For those mocking Russia for this, note that they are joining Germany and France in enacting these laws[0]. While I believe in democracy and freedom, I also think that anti-Russian sentiment is being stirred up for the wrong reasons, by pe
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Thanks a lot. Yes, Trump is very wealthy, but on the other hand there a lot of big wealthy companies who would fire their employees for saying the things that Trump does. Universities even more so. The middle classes are basically forced
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Just some more on dependently typed languages: The article actually mentions them in footnote 1. So as it stands, the CSS part really doesn't make sense, because everything written about CSS applies to these dependently typed languag
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I think there is a huge opportunity to move more software development to developing countries. It could become the next version of sweatshops, which have done an immense amount to improve the wellbeing of people in the third world. The wi
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I would be very interested in volunteering for Donald Trump. Does anyone know how I could get involved? I like the way he is the only candidate with the guts to oppose illegal immigration, even though it should be obvious to everyone that
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
This thread is about how great it is that volunteers are coming together for a good cause. Let's keep politics out of it.
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
While I question the tone of the original post, it is correct. The difference between being Turing complete and implementing rule 110 is crucial, and any discussion on the subject needs to make clear that these are not the same. You are obf
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
No, increasing competition for labor is good for everybody in the long run.
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I think there is also a political dynamic in the US, where the inconsistencies in moderate politics have to be resolved one way or another, and people resolve them by choosing extreme views. By inconsistencies, I mean that anyone who is mod
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
It's just not right. Given the existence of options, shorting is no more bound by liquidity than being long on a stock. Imagine saying "Stock X is great, but the market can undervalue X longer than I can stay solvent"?
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
American corporate labs are the stuff of legend. Researchers dream of the halcyon days of Bell Labs and its eight Nobel Prize winners, who brought us the transistor and Unix. Others reminisce about Xerox PARC, which came up with the graphi
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Well that's a good example of what the original argument was talking about since the comedian's argument was terrible (e.g. by the same logic we should not say that slavery is immoral, because the ancient Greeks practiced slavery)
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
There is also a correlation between having an academic background, and having specialized knowledge that is inherently hard to communicate with non-academics. Just because the format was a blog post, doesn't mean that the author was a
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I think the author makes some good points, but I think the term "learned helplessness" together with the arguments made, imply that if reasoned arguments can't be trusted then nothing can. But I think that a better character
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I see a lot of comments suggesting that medallion owners should be compensated. But the government is not morally obligated to compensate people whose investments lose money due to changes in regulation. And it would be prohibitively expe
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
4chan (and it's successor 8chan) mix two tendencies. One is to post horrible or strange things for the sake of it. The other is to post things that have some validity or purpose, but would be censored in other places. Now clearly wh
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
The flipside of that is that patients might bias doctor's decision away from what was a good decision in the first place. I've had many American doctors be somewhat apologetic when they recommended no treatment, or a less invasiv
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
No that you mention it, I think that would be possible. The main problem is that by its competitive nature, mining rewards are actually deadweight loss. Every dollar value of bitcoin that is given to a miner is value that is destroyed. To
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
The equilibrium price would be set by the demand for money-as-currency. But in the limit of instantaneous (electronic) settling of payments, this demand premium converges on zero, with the only residual demand being for money-as-store-of-v
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
The economics professor stated As money, Bitcoin is terrible – a deeply deflationary currency that’s within a bubble. I'd like to expand on this a bit. The deflation issue is complex. It's hard to imagine a stable situation wh
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Yes, I agree that the issue is in the toolchain. And more reproducibility in this area is a much more general and important problem. Even without aiming for bitwise reproducibility, it's still very hard to properly package your softw
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
That is a really good point. Perhaps one could compare it to creating and driving an car from the 1920's, and trying to satisfy all the regulations around cars nowadays. On the other hand, I do think that combination of extreme scarci
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Of course, but Robotness would probably be an improvement over humaneness given our tendency to ignore animal suffering as long as it's out of sight.
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
TrueNorth chips would probably be a competitive disadvantage. I found Yann LeCun's critique[0] compelling. In short, simulating the brain via spiking neurons is less efficient than just doing the floating point math like regular neur
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Given that floats are already bitwise reproducible (provided the compiler is appropriately shackled), what does this idea add to reproducibility?
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Interesting idea, although it has the same failings as classic sci fi and much of the modern left when it comes to economic illiteracy (in particular agricultural efficiency being mandated by law instead of left to the market). Also project
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I don't think the effort needed for this is worth it. Most scientists even ones who code, don't even know what bootstrap binaries are. My original point is that the complexity of dealing with differing environments and code versi
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
In principal there is nothing wrong with what you say, it's just that you need to now keep track of every possible change to the code and the environment. For what I am proposing, keeping track of the major versions of dependencies sho

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