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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
It's because we think in 3D, so we only really see three steps of exponential growth. If we thought in 100D, we might have a better sense for it, because we'd be able to see a hundred of them. Hypervolume grows exponentially. One
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
It's not: There's just a massive failure of leadership in tech companies (well, in general), so rather than deal with real challenges, they smother themselves in carbon-monoxide statistics -- things that don't set off alarms,
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
One could even argue what was so enraging about Clippy (and MS's recent foray into helpbots instead of actual support) was the personality-sans-utility. No, I don't want to forcibly converse with a brick wall that clearly doesn&#x
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
You know they're getting crafty when you can lend them your account for 72 hours to unlock your PC. Legitimate History as a Service?
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
If it's good enough to handle secret information, it's good enough for my official mail to corporations. http://www.wrc.noaa.gov/wrso/security_guide/mailing.htm
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
In the US, you want to send mail to the registered agent. That's the person on file with wherever they incorporated who accepts legal paperwork during business hours -- and thus can always easily be reached by mail. Companies are requi
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
You could hit the level of physical exercise I'm speaking about in 30-60 per day at home with bodyweight exercises, with a very minimal chance of injury. (To the point my 90 year old grandmother can do the exercises -- she's just
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
The most important role of exercise in weightloss is hormone regulation, not the calories burned. (As you correctly point out.) Being less stressed and routinely expending large amounts of energy simply causes your body to run differently (
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Why is this being upvoted? It's literally just 20 random quantum computing papers with an unrelated heading and a Google banner, because they got flagged with a tag somewhere.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
There's still not an entirely compelling reason to believe it's digital gold and not digital Beanie Babies.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> Unless someone forces them to inter-operate, it's winner takes all. So you mandate inter-operation at the same time you break up the biggest, just like we've done with every other natural monopoly.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
That's the very premise behind democracy: That different parties have different concerns and foucses, such that the process of mediating between their different plans leaves us better informed and prepared than listening to a single gr
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Sure, but the same objection applies -- The Cave itself is only given definition in terms of what we might call the Ultimate (in a Platonic setting); though it's essence is to obscure the Sun (a symbol of the too bright to observe Ulti
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Out of curiosity -- what's your SSH tunneling rate in the same setup?
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> Is a redstone interferometer an actually thing, a quick search didn't turn anything up? I'm probably using slightly different terminology than other people -- I haven't played much in a while. The basic idea is to use tw
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
A child you made deaf like that would still discover sound as the vibrations that distorted the lenses on the eye once detection got sensitive enough. I dispute the very notion that it's possible to cut someone off from the basic natur
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Yes, lots of ways: For example, in Minecraft you can build a redstone interferometer to detect things about the computer you're executing on and over time the statistical behavior will detect the physics of the real system. A characte
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Could you support the premise you can make an undetectable simulation? That's a key proposition and you don't support it at all. I find the idea highly questionable.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I honestly think that physicists are trapped until they eat their peas about the Copenhagen extraneous assumption and rewrite physics to remove it. Einstein-Bohm-Bell turn out to have been the right camp, and non-locality not non-determinis
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Running a 120GB DB on spinning rust to the level of a dozen tx per minute is a jokingly light load on modern hardware, and dead simple to set up in the cloud. You don't even do anything with most of the DB once you have it.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
It's just asking if many 3 term clauses ANDed together are true for a given input set, so you'd give the inputs to spend it to your wallet. Automatic bounties on optimization (sub)problems, yep. For various reasons, you probably w
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
It's also an opportunity to drop stock you don't want before the end of Q4. My impression (about the retail version, say 15-20 years ago) was that it was companies offloading stock they wanted off their books at something of a dis
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Targeted ads are basically homeopathic medicine in a different market: They take a small group of people with money who don't care about the shit you sell and honestly resent seeing your beef jerky ad when trying to buy a couch, dilute
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> it's a great way to stay independent while still having a more reliable income for basic needs You should be careful with that -- you can get nastier IP agreements through consulting firms than you might at full-time employment.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Wait... you're offended by a non-gendered joke about the fact that interpersonal relationships in an office environment can impact the enforcement of contracts against you? Do you just look for things to be offended by, or is there a p
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
3-SAT solution verifiers, and modest extensions to other kinds of problem spaces.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Maybe they do. I can't find a single reference on them that contains actual details on the computational model because the internet is full of vapid circular search bait, particularly about cryptocurrencies. The last I checked, the BTC
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
It could also choose to open a steel factory and produce I beams -- why are we not criticizing its low steel output? Twitter would immediately lose all utility to me if it transitioned out of the business of being a forum/socializati
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
No, I would bifurcate research into two classes -- Let's call it 'science' and 'hunches'. (I'm sure marketing people would think of a better name.) There's nothing stopping you from publishing hunches; the
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Comparing a centralized, unified group like a newspaper writing team with a diffuse, decentralized mob like Twitter makes me question your sincerity.

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