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by _Nat_ 5y ago
This has nothing to do with what I was saying about negative cashflows leading to a negative-sum game. Are you trying to make the point that this is meant to appeal to a " fight-the-power "-type crowd who'd be willing to suff
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Sounds like an online [bucket shop]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market) ). And seems like it's a much worse proposition than the actual stock-market. With real stocks, shareholders buy/s
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> For an aerospace engineer this all makes a lot of sense and is a super great tool, I'm sure. The article seems like a decent introduction to the Poisson-equation. But the original title was very misleading. Because the Poisson-
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Hah, okay, that sounds human enough. Sorry for the misunderstanding; I truly meant no offense. Thanks for clarifying! =)
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
This comment doesn't seem too related to the article except for the words " Jason Snell " and " Realtek ", and both of those appear misused. So I don't mean to be rude, but I'm guessing this is a chatbot?
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Seems like a problem for folks who try to develop their own understandings -- which probably correlates with " being gifted ". By contrast, folks who don't feel smart enough to question the established-wisdom, and so just bel
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Did you find anything about the current post, " How to Work Hard ", contentious? Honestly that'd probably be the one criticism I don't have.. most of the content I've seen is pretty mild-mannered and mundane.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The reason I'd advocate in more public settings is that things ought to be secure-by-default, and that adopting security only upon realizing its necessity is a hazard-prone policy that constantly backfires. But for a specific example o
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I was kinda expecting to open a *.txt-like page. xD
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Most ordering-apps I've tried allow customers to customize items and make special-requests. It's often easier to do these things on an app, and these modifications are automatically reflected on the receipt. I guess an app could
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Why? I mean, we have all sorts of ways to generate heat and light already. So what special quality do you perceive sonoluminescence potentially having at a large scale?
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Admittedly I'm a puzzled by the quality-level of these posts. A lot of stuff, like the lack of formatting and HTTPS, give off an antique feel, almost like a signal that they're not meant to be taken seriously. Ditto for the over-
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It'd be nice if articles about some common term, e.g. " work hard ", would start out with a clear definition.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Guessing that site's showing composite-images? Many of the images seem reasonable. They can have odd asymmetries that may give an unnatural vibe, though most don't seem to have majorly overt issues. Most of the more overt issues
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I'd guess that people who aren't clearly male/female would probably tend to be grouped in the more competitive category. For example, say that an intersexed-athlete (not simply male nor female) plays two sports: one where mal
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> What benefits is Texas seeing from the Sunset Commission? https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/ shows a lot of what appear to be wholly spurious licensing types: [...] - dietitians [Their site]( https://www.tdlr.texas.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> Why should the government do that? Free-market dynamics require a lot of intellectual overhead. For example, in a theoretical world with unbound computation and information-sharing, all stocks on the stock-market should be perfectly pr
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> All assets liquidated today, what do you think the true value of a Tether is? $.70 USD? I guess you're assuming that their assets are truthfully reported, would be sold off, then evenly distributed? Not worried that someone might
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It's that " precise control of the manual " that's enabling. Presumably we'll see the same thing with fully self-driving cars in the future. This is, a mature self-driving technology should eventually out-perform (
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Seems like some folks like simple stuff because they feel more included in the magic of it all. Kinda like.. some folks like manual-transmission cars with simple constructions that they can modify. Or machine-code/assembly. Or buildi
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Yes, math changes, but it's moreso the presentation that's ancient. The formatting is so retro that it seriously damages legibility while simultaneously failing to give students a taste of actual mathematical discourse, and the c
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Nope, fast-radio-bursts (FRB's) aren't commonly attributed to quasars. From [" Not all fast radio bursts are created equal "]( https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03894-6 ), 2020-01-06: > Cu
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Looks pretty out-dated (1991). A lot of the math is very poorly formatted, and a lot of code's in an ancient form of BASIC. Doesn't look like a good fit for a primary textbook since it's too scattered and slow, though some o
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The article defines " thought leader ": > Uncontingent advice is what I think of when I hear the term thought-leader - someone has a single solution that seems to fit every problem. Apparently it's a reference to folks who
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Also, " semi- " might add some quantitative ambiguity. " Bi- " is more specifically a factor of 2, while " tri- " is a factor of 3, etc., though " semi- " can be a looser qualifier. If someone said th
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It is pretty silly for " flammable " and " inflammable " to be commonly defined as synonyms. Also pretty silly for " flammable "/" inflammable " to be synonyms when " combustible "&#x2F
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I get the sense that you're focusing on when stuff like GPT-3 isn't useful. For example, yes, a customer with a complex issue to a call-center may need to speak to an expert that understands stuff beyond the level of a decent-q
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> With academics you need to be especially vigilant about the difference between vanity metrics and real output. What would you consider " real output ", especially in contrast to " vanity metrics "? Asking mostly bec
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> We're finally starting to realize none of this has a practical use. Even a decent-quality chatbot could be applied all over the place. For example, video games, education, sex toys, auto-generated narratives for books/movies
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> I find nothing natural in doing operations related to zero i.e. related to nothingness, meaning that I see “adding” and “zero times” as an oxymoron (you cannot associate an action, “adding”, to nothingness, i.e. to “zero”). Seems relat

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