Silixon

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by Silixon 8y ago
You are the only person who will recognize and value your own overachievements. Prevailingly, others will view your efforts and either think nothing of them or wonder why anyone would go to such lengths. If you're going to go above and
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by Silixon 8y ago
Plenty of smart people drop out of school. Even more smart people never get a chance to attend a school out of which to drop.
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by Silixon 8y ago
There's a code golf problem in there. My money's on sed and /etc/network/interfaces.
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Ask HN: Is there a browser I can pay for?
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by Silixon 8y ago
Opportunity costs only exist wherein opportunities exist.
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by Silixon 8y ago
But the facts are less fun than my indignation!
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by Silixon 8y ago
They can always print fake labels, but they can't deliver fake products too many times. Customers will realize that fraud is happening. Again, there are also ways to make labels that cannot be faked, then attach those labels to tamper-
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by Silixon 8y ago
You don't take the data at face value. The goal of these systems is to reduce human intervention, not to remove the intervention. If a firm fakes data, you still have proof in the bad products and customer complaints. This lets you inv
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by Silixon 8y ago
As an example, food safety in the developing world. Food firms claim food is fresh and came from places where it did not come from. If you introduce an agricultural and food tagging system that logs food item IDs into a blockchain-based sys
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by Silixon 8y ago
We're agreeing. My point is that we should care about a billion people in China and a billion people in the West and billions everywhere. You're right that free speech and dissent are how we make change. I'm questioning the W
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by Silixon 8y ago
Replace "reeducation camps in Xinjiang" with "projects in Philadelphia" and "social credit system" with "private credit ratings" and you see that we're not as unlike as we thought. Yes, the scope
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by Silixon 8y ago
In the limit of infinite passing tests, do we recover the byte we sought? Or does it asymptote to some other quantity? I'm asking relative to a maximum entropy prior.
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by Silixon 8y ago
This is where we revive the debate about whether programming can be creative because it follows such rigid syntax rules. The unenlightened say it's not, and the obsessed say it is. How do we communicate across this gap?
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by Silixon 8y ago
Python? I find the documentation to be confusing and difficult to search. Many of the arguments to standard functions are not explicitly documented nor do they have obvious enough names for me to guess what they mean. As I was learning Pyth
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by Silixon 8y ago
There's a Pascal's wager in this situation. In the worst case, there's no cognitive effect from pollution, but you clean up the environment anyway. Even without the possibility of improving your ability to reason, there are m
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by Silixon 8y ago
Tuttle or Buttle, was it?
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by Silixon 8y ago
As a native English speaker whose first written language was Spanish and who has studied and spoken German, Italian, and Cantonese, it has always seemed to me that English is one of the easier common languages for conveying simple meaning i
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by Silixon 8y ago
The theory of chemistry from the perspective of information theory. Since we can equate energy and information and since chemical reactions are largely governed by energy landscapes and (quantum) thermodynamics, we should be able to reformu