SilasX

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by SilasX 3mo ago
Yes, it's not an identical situation, but I thought it was relevant because of the concept of recovering a dead body's resources for consumption by the remaining living humans.
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by SilasX 3mo ago
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: "It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
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by SilasX 3mo ago
For the reason the article gives: products would be labeled with the thing that actually matters for safely maximizing producing usage -- how long it's safe to actually use the product ("use by") -- rather than a cruder heuri
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by SilasX 3mo ago
Agreed. In this case, a better title would be "California replaces 'Sell by' Labels with 'Use by', Hoping to Cut Food Waste" Still a simplification, but doesn't horribly mislead you into thinking it's
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by SilasX 3mo ago
Okay but in this case, the act, if successful, would have the outcome that it prevents recovery of critical evidence in a homicide, so yes that would count as obstruction. It didn't, of course, because the plan was foiled, but that&#x2
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by SilasX 3mo ago
What point that I made are you responding to? I was disputing someone’s appeal to a specific intuition for being an unhelpful one to use here. So I obviously get the concept of some intuitions being useful. Did you see the comment being res
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by SilasX 3mo ago
I get that involving a human body complicates the analysis. That was the point: that you can’t appeal to it as a simple example to ground the intuition in other case. Also: >Stacking a weight on top of a table holds it at a fixed height
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by SilasX 3mo ago
Okay but that depends on the intuitions the question is trying to justify, which makes it circular. We also know, for example, that the body uses more than twice as much energy to do twice as much work (because of fatigue on the muscles or
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by SilasX 3mo ago
I mean, this has long been a loophole in US law. Generally, you can't be compelled to testify against yourself (5th Amendment). But when it comes to taxes: 1) You have to declare all income, even from illegal activities. 2) The declara
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by SilasX 4mo ago
I'm aware I can read the prospectus. And, to the extent that I found the relevant portion of the prospectus (that you could have done yourself and posted) here's what I see: >The Fund employs an indexing investment approach des
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by SilasX 4mo ago
Sure, I was simplifying a bit with the technicals. But you're sure their leeway is enough that they can say "nah, we don't like what the index is doing now, we'll do our own deviations from it?" That seems implausib
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by SilasX 4mo ago
No, that's not all. They had additional criteria that they changed right when big-name companies wanted to get added. Now, if they had historically gone by pure market cap, and these companies met that, then you'd have a point.
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by SilasX 4mo ago
This. I don't mind having a phone call, but I do mind wasting time on it by repeating everything that they could have learned about me before the call and running into sanity checks (e.g. salary expectations) that they could have done
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by SilasX 4mo ago
>Correction: index funds don't have a choice. They must follow the index, and so must buy the stock. Right, if they've advertised as an S&P 500 index fund, they have to robotically follow the S&P 500, stupid inclusions
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by SilasX 4mo ago
Yeah, you are being pedantic. The clear meaning is that you're not just allowed to insure arbitrary properties. If you wanted to correct a misconception, you should provide a better , more complete understanding, not just express fr
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by SilasX 4mo ago
>This essay on Japan's corporate diversification and physical tacit knowledge is an interesting read. However, as an East Asian, my assessment is that this system is heavily driven by Japan's unique, subtle classism. It's
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by SilasX 4mo ago
Yeah I'm hesitant to take a strong opinion on this given how many of the replies could themselves be AI, or humans counter-trolling by baiting him to say "aha! I got you!" to the most over-the-top examples. That said, it has
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by SilasX 5mo ago
Heh, one time when I got this style of question[1] (but for JavaScript), I took a glance at it and said "Um ... you really shouldn't write code like that." The interviewer replied, "Oh. Yeah. Fair point." And then w
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by SilasX 5mo ago
Haha agreed, but remember, it's posted on lit[erature]hub, not tech[nical]hub.
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by SilasX 5mo ago
Whoa there. The US being wrong to make war in Vietnam absolutely does not vindicate those who supported the Viet Cong!
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by SilasX 5mo ago
Yeah, I was surprised to learn that Ticket to Ride (downloaded on Steam) uses like a half gigabyte, but the most data-intense thing it does is a few musical tracks and 2D images with scaling. They fit Final Fantasy 3 (SNES) with 3 CDs of mu
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by SilasX 5mo ago
Goodhart's law does not cleanly apply here, because the group cares about more than making money, and would bear all the costs of not doing (what observers regard as) being in their interest -- both in that case, and whether potential
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by SilasX 6mo ago
Even on old.reddit, it breaks the back button. When you navigate back, it usually reloads the entire page you were on and ignores all your collapse actions on conversations.
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by SilasX 6mo ago
Hmmm this is interesting. Because I've long had the complaint that notifications are frustratingly ephemeral. There have been many cases where I've gotten a notification that my phone clearly has but which I can't read, bec
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by SilasX 6mo ago
>In America we generally make bad things illegal, not activities that could become motivation for bad things. Not really, even in America. Like, take alcohol regulation. Your model would be "drunken bar fights are already illegal, s
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by SilasX 6mo ago
Iran is a recognized national government, not a pirate. Oh crud I just opened a can of worms with that, didn't I? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_and_Emperors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by SilasX 6mo ago
I did a double-take at it being Bitcoin fees, since you'd think they'd want some stablecoin (even if not USD) so as to avoid inheriting the volatility, but no, they want Bitcoin specifically: >“Once the email arrives and Iran c
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by SilasX 6mo ago
People don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the same things you care about. Putting quotes around a quote isn't hard.
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by SilasX 6mo ago
It's fair to expect people to pay attention to political issues that can affect them. It's not fair to expect everyone to be intimately aware of every political gaffe, and instantly make the connection when you repeat it so they k
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by SilasX 6mo ago
... and comments requiring the reader to be that way too should be downvoted/flagged. Look at the replies it produced: troll mission accomplished, "productive conversation" not so much. At the very least, they could have put

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