Tichy

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by Tichy 14y ago
Wikipedia seems to do a good job (even if not precisely specified), but I wonder why no competition has emerged at all (or has there)? Why is there no Wikipedia that allows everything?
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by Tichy 14y ago
I did not make that assertion, what I said is that the advocates of government spending only shift the burden of decision making and don't really propose anything at all. Or in other words, the claim "government spending can fix the economy
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by Tichy 14y ago
They hired a lobbyist? That means they are evil, right? What would they need a lobbyist for, it's not as if freedom of information on the internet is under any threats at all? Nothing to see here, move along. And they sent some people on a
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by Tichy 14y ago
"public goods and commons goods, the two known categories where "the government" is clearly more efficient than markets." Could you give me a reference for that? I am not an expert in economics, and that claim seems very doubful to me. Unle
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by Tichy 14y ago
Samsung is from Korea, Apple, the judges and the USPTO are from the US.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Best we can hope for in the case of Facebook is some kind of rescue and archive act like for Geocities - although I think the Geocities archive started too late and some of it was lost :-(
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by Tichy 14y ago
"I tried a half dozen ways to get standard out from that thing. Makes me feel dumb." Sometimes real world programming is annoying like that. I still stand by my point: you seem to be able to autonomously dig through API documentations and l
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by Tichy 14y ago
Here is why this government spending recommendation is just a head fake: assuming the economy can be in a functional state at all, it is obviously true that if the government would spend money on the right things, it could create a function
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by Tichy 14y ago
Yet Krugman derives his ideology from a tiny babysitting ring that didn't print enough money. Even smaller sample than Estonia...
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by Tichy 14y ago
The scary thing about Krugman is that his whole ideology seems to depend on that example of one babysitting exchange ring that didn't print enough money and therefore couldn't trade. It's an interesting story, but I wouldn't simply translat
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by Tichy 14y ago
The fun thing with economic predictions: make enough of them, and some of them are bound to come true. The whole fond business seems to dwell on that, publishing lists of successful predictors by the end of the year. Research has shown that
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by Tichy 14y ago
I'd think it would still have to brake using Orion technology, so it is doubtful if it could be built smaller than Orian itself.
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by Tichy 14y ago
"It seems almost like a fix when the same positions are left open week after week but you've already been turned down (with and/or without an interview)." I've heard that some companies even post fake job offerings because it makes them loo
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by Tichy 14y ago
How big was that town? Perhaps the sample size is too small. Aren't there are statistics on gun accidents? My personal rule is to avoid people who play with weapons. They are not playthings.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Is sewing still a viable source of income? There are a few shops where I live, but they all seem to be run by old people with immigrant background (no offense, it just might indicate that they are willing to work for little money). Carpentr
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by Tichy 14y ago
Then again, it could help with more problems than just mass shootings. Pointing a gun at the students might do wonders for discipline. Also it might be a useful skill to practice problem solving at gun point. According to movies those situa
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by Tichy 14y ago
I just looked it up on Wolfram Alpha, apparently the speed of Voyager is 17km/s, or ~1/18000th the speed of light? So it would take Voyager 216000 years to make the journey? Bummer :-( We probably couldn't even build a probe that would last
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by Tichy 14y ago
Why even bother with internship? I think this kind of system where you have to work for free just sucks... Also it sounds to me as if you are actually a pretty good programmer. Not many people would be able to stand debugging their code for
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by Tichy 14y ago
Just looked on Wikipedia, it is 12 light years away. So how long to get there with conventional technology? I suspect speed isn't even the worst problem, harder to deal will radiation? Also I suppose any such mission would have to be fully
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by Tichy 14y ago
I remember when we bought our first flatscreen full HD TV (I think full HD - honestly I lost track of what means what, I guess it has a somewhat higher resolution than the old tube). Everything looked shocking at first, too - like HFR is de
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by Tichy 14y ago
In hindsight you can of course always identify indicators for the coming catastrophe. Even a storm needs some build up. The problem is we can not see the indicators in time. Otherwise they would not be black swans, they would more be like t
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by Tichy 14y ago
"Surely you can answer my question why the wages went up and then down." Pretty funny - explain some complicated topic that scientists have probably been debating for decades in a HN comment. While you're at it, could you also explain Quant
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by Tichy 14y ago
What would you self-teach yourself at a library that would land you a job later? It might work for programming, but not for that much else? "Hi I'm your new physician, I learnt how to operate reading books in the library" :-)
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by Tichy 14y ago
It's not a given that there is always something valuable to do. And even if you start some venture, success is not a given either. I agree with not giving up, but what if you need money right now, to eat and get a roof above your head? Star
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by Tichy 14y ago
Where does your faith on government spending come from? Because I have exactly the opposite impression. The most extreme form of government spending is communism, and that didn't work out at all. The problem with governments is that they sp
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by Tichy 14y ago
I must admit, I am impressed by the sophistication of your argument. Still, not being well versed in Christian mythology, I have lots of questions. For example, isn't god supposed to be all powerful, so that he created everything, including
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by Tichy 14y ago
I read Scott Aaronson's article on religious rules of interference the other day, and I guess he nailed it: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=232 What he says is that for religious people, rules of logic and interference only have to a
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by Tichy 14y ago
Maybe to protect rhinos, a bunch of balloons would do? Or satellites if they get ever more cheap?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Well time will tell. It still seems odd that the natural reaction to them doing dangerous things against your will is wanting to kill them.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Why control them 100% of the time? Sure, the discussion is pointless because all kids are different, but somehow I would expect them to have some kind of survival instinct.

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