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by RickHull 6y ago
Which section of the essay reads "only I and my buddies should run Athens"?
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by RickHull 6y ago
Fair enough, but there is a structure and pattern to independent thinking relative to the universe of things we care about. By analogy, consider John Boyd's OODA loop. He broke down goal-seeking behavior into a 4 part loop: Observe O
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by RickHull 6y ago
Ha, you jest, but you bring up a subtle point. There are degrees and dimensions of similarity. For example, two people who uphold a principle of freedom of speech may nonetheless completely disagree on any particular issue. But they are
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by RickHull 6y ago
For those railing against this essay, who feel that PG is fluffing himself up and patting himself on the back like a nerdy middleschooler -- you've missed the big point, badly. PG writes unapologetically, directly, and simply, and thi
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by RickHull 6y ago
We built this city on TensorFlow!
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by RickHull 6y ago
> except the narrowest of uses like decryption, compression These seem like broad use cases to me. Also consider ETL and database applications. Time series, finance, machine learning, search engines. It seems like the primary benefi
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by RickHull 6y ago
Title has a typo: What's so exciting about Postgres
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by RickHull 6y ago
Yes, it looks like the author confused Charles' last name with that of Aaron Swartz who is also mentioned. RIP The Internet's Own Boy
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by RickHull 6y ago
This feature doesn't seem live in my web browser. Iceland still looks like the old version.
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by RickHull 6y ago
If they have deprived you of your discovery, then theft. If you retain your discovery, then copyright or possibly patent law.
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by RickHull 7y ago
Actually, the US is probably the best country for COVID-19 treatment due to the number of ventilators per capita. 52 ventilators per 100k residents. Italy has only 5 per 100k. Not sure what Norway has. https://medium.com/
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by RickHull 7y ago
Actually, the website does cover this in the '''Q&A''' section: > What is a chosen-prefix collision? > A classical collision (or identical-prefix collision) for a hash function H is simply two message
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by RickHull 9y ago
> You can't just say production is a better use of resources than consumption We're not talking about resources though -- capital is "the means of production". It's not the final good which is consumed. Capital
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by RickHull 9y ago
Everyone consumes. It's the basis of the economy. The producers produce that which is consumed. The best thing for consumers is for producers to produce more goods at lower cost. If one of those goods is a bicycle, then the highest
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by RickHull 9y ago
Rationally can be understood to mean something like: * Put goods to their highest use * Allocate capital to those who can produce more rather than consume it In general, nothing is given to anyone. Increasing capital (i.e. by a single indi
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by RickHull 9y ago
Those surprised tend to measure success by intent rather than consequences.
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by RickHull 9y ago
Evil is an interesting choice of words to mean not wrong and impressive ...
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by RickHull 9y ago
Not even this is sufficient any more. They now have a "verbatim" search, but I think even then some terms can be ignored -- terms which are not conventional "stopwords" like the .
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by RickHull 9y ago
> That’s how cartels get power in the first place, but once they’re there, they’re in the business of preserving revenue streams and territory and thus power. An anarchocapitalist would note that this is straight out of the statist pla
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by RickHull 9y ago
Can you elaborate? Say Alice and Bob are market makers. They are colluding on some target price, say $10k. What's the spread, how does the trading proceed, and what is the effect on fairness and the public?
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by RickHull 9y ago
> My outrage isn't directed at your moral failings,which are unfortunately all too common, but at your intellectual failures. Would you care to enumerate the moral failings of mine which you have identified? Or is this just an in
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by RickHull 9y ago
I don't think jerf is saying that the increased prevalence of witch hunts is an argument levied against the internet. I'm pretty sure jerf is an enthusiastic supporter of the internet. Nonetheless, the increased prevalence of wi
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by RickHull 9y ago
Really? That just seems like a dispassionate accounting of facts. There are such things as political correctness and establishment dogma, and these things constrain large scale social programs. I don't see the hysteria or moral outr
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by RickHull 9y ago
> If you're cheering for guilt by association to make a comeback just because the evil establishment thinks it's a bad idea, I'm at a loss of words. I'm not cheering for anything. I'm pointing out that machine
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by RickHull 9y ago
There will be a big hurdle of political correctness when the machine spits out answers that don't conform to establishment dogma -- e.g. https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/02/machine-learning-and-human...
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by RickHull 9y ago
Yeah -- "inescapably"? Tyler Cowen would call this mood affiliation .
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by RickHull 9y ago
Um, so why should Facebook be baked into the ROM?
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by RickHull 9y ago
I've been using https://hakiri.io/ for this on my ruby github projects[1]. [1] https://github.com/rickhull?tab=repositories&type=source&lan...
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by RickHull 9y ago
Because it explains the behavior of the security guards, presuming they didn't "get the memo" about a small group of people with fake-looking badges that are actually legitimate.
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by RickHull 9y ago
This has the markings of a PR stunt. As a reader of the article, I'm very curious what the badges look like, as those are a legitimate cause for concern for security. Any legitimate reporting on this issue would investigate that deta

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