NotAnEconomist

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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> There’s really no benefit to decreasing consumption of electricity. There’s no difference between decreasing demand by 1W and increasing solar output by 1W. This ignores the sunlight that reflects back into space, and if conversion int
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I'm not sure what you want for evidence here: those two topics are common themes across a range of medical failures, across a range of areas, when you look at say, reports on why vaccination or mental health education programs fail. Th
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> The antivax movement is powered by the same propagandistic and diversionary tactics that powers all conspiracy. Yes -- and their ability to recruit and sustain their movement, like all movements, owes to a serious social problem that h
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
You seem to have reading comprehension trouble: it literally validated some of their claims (about censorship rather than response), but not others (about medical facts). That said, your comment is an excellent demonstrating of my point: it
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
If I'm reading the chart right, GPU servers on AWS are cheaper if you utilize them less than 65-75% of the time, and turn them off when not in use.
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> Godel was programming the integers. That is that. And he didn’t even know it at the time; truly impressive. It seems strange to say that Godel didn't know it at the time -- Godel's work was part of the effort to mechanize log
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I didn't mean to imply Brexit was a solution to anything - just that people can understand what the deal with free movement is, but be against it for perfectly rational reasons.
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> Free movement is not without consequence, address it honestly, attempt to solve real issues and maybe people come around. The problem is that unrestricted movement disrupts culture and lowers a lot of social statistics all at once - in
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> Conversely, have you ever worked under a non-technical product manager you loved? Would you mind sharing details about your situation? I've had several. The key feature is that they bring something to the table: I don't actua
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
This is one of the many existential risk vectors we face as a species. It's also disturbing that the same people who brought us widespread hormone-like chemicals leeching into our food are arguing that this, too, is good for us. Scient
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> This accident stems from the fact that imported chemical materials do not meet the requirements, resulting in flaws in the wafers produced. It's possible one of the washes or doping agents was contaminated, rather than the wafers
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I think you're looking at a much shorter time horizon than I was. The counter-argument is that on the long term, killing a bunch of wealthy people seems to be the only mechanism that resets the behavior and norms of the wealthy.
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
That line of thinking is why phrases such as "penny wise, pound foolish" exist. Setting your house on fire is also an "efficient" way to generate heat, unless you account for the full future reckoning, which was similarl
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
Everyone thinks it's a national security concern. From 1980 to now, wealthy people have sold out the well-being of the US for slight increases in their personal wealth. Historically, the solution is to kill wealthy people until they st
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
Just because I found it interesting: - 16x cost for new connections or flows per second. - 32x cost for active connections or flows. - 1x cost for traffic carried in GB per hour, which you'd expect.
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I wanted to add that in principle turning it off is enough -- in practice, with human foibles, you should leave it at home. It's easy to stray into leaving your phone on too long or forgetting one of the times. Leaving it at home is mu
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
This seems like a technology enabled by our capacity for language and abstraction.
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I would suggest that anyone reporting on tech agencies leave their phones and tablets at home when meeting a source. Use your laptop if you must use a computer or the internet during the meetings, but you'd be better served by an ind
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I'm deep into the Amazon ecosystem, so I use a FireTV Cube. There, the Amazon video content is some kind of default invisible app accessible as a tab at the top of the screen and via searches, so it sort of "just happens". Wh
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I don't pirate... but I pay around ~$100 a month to say that (for video), and still don't have access to a fair bit of content that exists in silos. For reference, that's buying: Amazon Prime ($10), two channels on Prime ($
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> If there is less work to be done in the world, everyone will work less on average. Another solution would be that we end up with fewer people, through any of several rather nasty mechanisms. I'm not as optimistic as you that socie
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> This is possible, but more work than a two-click mute on social media platforms. It was four clicks for me to set up an email filter on Gmail in response to a message in my inbox. And there's considerably more filtering options, h
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I've had a 100% success rate at getting an offer once I realized the problem was me . (And I've had some bad interviews in my life before I got there, for sure.) If the company doesn't extend an offer, it's because I
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
You can deploy containers in a "serverless" configuration, if you're not actively managing the underlying fleet and scheduling (eg, Fargate). FaaS is just one kind of "serverless" computing. Most of the modern &quot
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
It's really just that they selected the wrong serverless architecture. Code repo -> docker build -> AWS Fargate. Easy to set up CI/CD pipeline that doesn't require you manage servers and can support long-running, CPU in
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> mostly because they don't have informed opinions or the cultural means and interest to join a non-technical debate This is somewhere between slander and trying to explain away other social groups bullying engineers. The truth is m
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
Also, just because the servers stay online cheaply don't mean that the operations and security teams work for free. If the government can't keep staffing those teams, the responsible thing is to pull the servers down on their way
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
If an established approach that has been made into a library matches a novel approach, then it's not something to "look beyond" -- it's validation that the novel approach is probably worth investigating more fully.
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> You seem to be implying that it's perfectly fine for the US to bomb a family home if a terrorist is in there, accepting civilian casualties, because they might harm the population? Yes, just like you should throw the switch on the
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I think the media has a lot to do with that. They run stories about how the military bombs some civilians while fighting jihadists, but not about how those same jihadists routinely round up and torture children, kill scores of locals, etc.

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