Vraxx

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by Vraxx 11y ago
While the post you're responding to doesn't explicitly state all the detail you were looking for, I do think you're being a bit too dismissive. Not sure on the accuracy of the claims, but the "hand waving" is saying
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by Vraxx 11y ago
It is hypocritical, but that doesn't mean it's not a good idea. That's also not to say it isn't necessarily unfair. I tend to see it like progression in a game's tech tree, in some sense the prior steps (oil) were
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Do you think a thousand amateurs working together could be Lee Sedol? I'm inclined to believe that having 1000 of them would only make an impossible feat harder. Strategy quality doesn't, in fact, scale with the number of indivi
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by Vraxx 11y ago
My main complaint with this line of thought is this. It is claimed that it is not fair due to energy usage comparisons, but if you asked people before AlphaGo if it was a "fair" competition to pit a Go AI versus a world class pro
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Not a very good argument considering they're coming out with cheaper models. Not to mention, just because someone bought something doesn't mean they can afford it by a wide margin, it's sad but true. I think the poster you
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by Vraxx 11y ago
That's based on the assumption that computing must exist as silicon transistors. When would we have reached the bounds of computation based on physical limits if we had stuck with vacuum tubes. The point is computation is an abstract
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Games may have existed, but the relative skill level of the players was likely a lot lower when people weren't spending as much time mastering the game, spreading and consuming strategy knowledge, and constantly holding events to compe
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by Vraxx 11y ago
There's an implied upper bound or they would have used a more extreme term to play it up even further. 18,000 times a year is "dozens", but you're going to say "thousands of launches per year" if you're c
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Woah woah woah, slow down. You are infering that childcare and other non-work flex time activity isn't work. I was not saying anything at all about time spent outside the job. I was trying to clarify the argument that you were r
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I think the point he was trying to make still holds without such absurd multipliers as "doubling", it's just an intuitively easy to grasp multiplier. What he's saying is that increasing your number of hours may get more
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Close, but I don't think that quite accounts for the whole story. For instance, if minimum wage is raised, it depends on how much it's raised by to determine what % of workers will have increased wages. If we took it up to (pure
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I think the more pressing question that was implied by "sick days" is what happens if nobody claims the shift before the shift starts? Sick days are often unplanned and have much less notice, so other employees may have no idea t
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Yeah.. That's what I was speculating from reading the page. IMO (but by no means am I an expert) I think it would be easier to convince a limited amount of content producers to offer up some value that would attract users than it woul
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Yeah, that was pretty much what I gathered. Out of curiosity have you tried working with content producers to form some limited partnerships that you might be able to offer users? I was thinking something along the lines of a limited (to
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by Vraxx 11y ago
To me this seems like it would suffer from a chicken and egg sort of issue. To expand, this is useful to me as a consumer if I could install it and browse the web ad and guilt free, as well as having access to pay-walled content with my At
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I don't think it's really that harsh if you look at it as a bug in a critical system. Certain fields with safety critical systems (such as medical or aviation software) face similarly strict regulations and enforcement for the go
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I'd say that is quite the oversimplification you have there. You might want to check some of your base assumptions like how women only desire wealth and looks as well as men only desiring youth and looks. Generalizations tend to be w
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I don't mean this in a derogatory manner, mostly curious, as I've heard similar stories from extended family and have become rather concerned. Looking back, do you see any warning signs of a future marriage like the one you descr
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I've found this train of thought has applications in maintaining an exercise routine as well. It was more about finding a routine that I'd actually stick to than one that was optimal for fastest/best gains, which was my orig
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Hmm.. I agree with this a bit, but I think (like all things) the answer lies in the middle. Speaking purely from anecdotes, I'm well versed in the math behind interest rates and debt management, yet I still find myself with urges comp
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I've had the same qualms, my guess was always that it is subsidized by those that use the rewards cards in a suboptimal way, such as carrying a balance and paying interest. Either way, the end result has been me having a desire to be
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by Vraxx 11y ago
In fact, the first thought I had on the matter is it's actually a little depressing if he/she turned out to be the right person for someone else and yet the two mistaken people suffered together for some number of years that could
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Even if it's not to that extent, the bigger number leaves a bigger impression without giving it much thought, even in a relatively trained mind. Once you parse that it says percent, sure, you can deduce that it's describing it pr
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by Vraxx 11y ago
They won't try to evict you assuming you're abiding by your local renting laws, because I'd bet they've read them as well considering it's part of their job. A lot of landlords will take advantage of the fact that
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by Vraxx 11y ago
No, the poster you are responding to didn't say that at all, or even imply it. Presumably the reason these cases are different, despite being symmetrical, is that if you're already pretty well off you can probably spare some bene
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I don't see how it should affect the perception of his skill. Presumably AlphaGo could beat any player ranked at his skill level or lower, in which case AlphaGo beating him says no more about his skill level than his ranking does.
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I think the common complaint here is that there are plenty of "crimes" that are committed on a daily basis like minor speeding (going 1-5 mph over the speed limit), jaywalking, etc, that are nearly impossible to entirely enforce.
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by Vraxx 11y ago
I agree somewhat with you, I think this could easily be a hotbed of controversy moving forward. At the same time though, maybe that era would simply be akin to the early industrial eras when workers unionized and fought for better working
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by Vraxx 11y ago
The licensing deals that can be made with local broadcasters. They are making profits, just not from you. Supposedly if you wanted to watch it legally you would pay for whatever service is allowed to legally broadcast the content to you.
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Yeah, I made a full convert with that one! He had a GoPro, but I thought he'd like the data overlay feature and I was right there. He likes to compete with his old rides and this makes it a lot easier to compare the rides as well as

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