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by _xnmw 5y ago
Also see, the purpose of modern advertising. It's for the 2nd and 3rd order effects. Most modern mass advertising is not to convince you (directly) to buy the product, rather it's to convince you that *other* people are buying the
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by _xnmw 5y ago
No, you're misunderstanding the Chinese room argument completely. It's not about scale, it's about the concept of "understanding" something. Here's another version that might make sense to programmers. I know P
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Got there at 11 AM, shelves were still half-full, but bread was gone and it was clear everything would be gone by the end of the day.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I'm in downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine right now (SaaS founder born in Canada). Woke up to explosions at 5 AM this morning. At 12PM still some explosions, can feel the ground shaking, but the streets are mostly calm. Went out to buy some gro
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Looks like I just lost the bet. Woke up to explosions at 5 AM this morning.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
You're on! $25 USD by TransferWise. There will be no further Russian military incursions into Ukraine proper by March 31st, except perhaps some shuffling around of the Donetsk/Luhansk border. Note I'm not expecting Putin to s
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by _xnmw 5y ago
The assumption is that the actual borders of DNR and LNR will be solved by diplomacy, and Kyiv has hinted that it will try to find a diplomatic solution.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
The assumption is that the actual borders of DNR and LNR will be solved by diplomacy, and Kyiv has hinted that it will try to find a diplomatic solution.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Brother, I believe it is in their interest to stabilize the situation now that Donetsk and Luhansk are officially protected by Russia. Previously the shelling continued for 8 years because of the rebellion.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> Putin did not go through this massive hoopla just to get a small strip of land. He achieved his political objectives by just threatening invasion, without actually invading. An actual full-scale invasion is something nobody wants, leas
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I think you're reading the sentiment backward. Of course Ukraine wants stronger sanctions against Russia in any case, because an invasion already happened, not because they believe a full-scale invasion will happen.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I never said Putin had a right to do it, I'm saying he already did it. Of course it was a totally illegal invasion, but it's done now. What I'm saying is we believe this is the end of the conflict. The official position of th
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I refer to the cities, not the whole oblast.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
The President of Ukraine and all official channels say they do NOT believe a full-scale invasion will happen. Only America says it will happen. We lost Donetsk and Luhansk a long time ago. It's gone now. Hopefully this will end now.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Why would Putin want to annex a country full of people who hate him? Donetsk and Luhansk and Crimea had 70%+ ethnic Russians with pro-Russia sentiment. Everywhere else in Ukraine he is hated, there's no way he will want to expand into
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I'm in Ukraine right now, where I've been living for the past few years (Canadian Citizen born and raised in Toronto). This is completely overblown nonsense. This "live map" makes it seem like there is some kind of war s
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> IMO religion has done so much damage Actually the worst wars and killing events in history (WWI and WWII) were secular, technology driven. And religion has cured far more than it caused. The statistics are pretty damn clear: religious
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by _xnmw 5y ago
As a fintech founder myself, I'm trying to understand how on earth a SaaS can be used to commit a financial crime. Is this a hacking tool?
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by _xnmw 5y ago
How can a solo founder SaaS "be used" to access financial institutions? Do you mean simply creating a bank connection through an API like Plaid? People in Russia may have bank accounts in the US, you know?
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Network failures do not affect banks alone.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Interesting to contrast this with PG's most recent essay "Putting Ideas into Words" where he argues that people who don't write don't have fully formed ideas. What else is a business plan besides a thoughtful writeu
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by _xnmw 5y ago
A published result that cites another result is not "a thoroughly modern thing". Mathematicians have been citing each other since Pythagoras and Avicenna.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Sure there are incomplete proofs and dead ends. But I have yet to see an example of an "established mistake" which disproved an entire line of research that depended on the mistake. Sure, mistakes have been published. But it never
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Words represent ideas. Fewer words is good evidence that there are fewer ideas. Sometimes multiple words represent the same idea, so in that case homogenization is "good". It is also possible that multiple ideas are represented by
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> Lexical homogenization is not the same as idea homogenization Actually it IS evidence for idea homogenization. Words represent ideas. Unless you are claiming that the same word is used to represent different ideas, which would be even
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Reading just the top answers from those threads, I see no significant results that have been disproved. Only the "intuitions" and "footnotes" and some "trivial assumptions" of mathematicians, but not an actual
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by _xnmw 5y ago
That's not a corner case, that's just more advanced math. No one ever claimed that triangulation on a plane is the same as triangulation on the surface of a sphere.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
What? I'm sorry but this is utter bullshit. Math is not just anything that works. Every hot new theory is assumed to "work" in the era which it is produced, and not everything is called "math". There has been no sig
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by _xnmw 5y ago
So which part of those 2 statements you quoted is false? Sure, the energy of usage of Bitcoin is not directly used to process transactions, but it still part of the Bitcoin system.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> Having the full client state available on the backend is really incredible. Got the exact same feeling writing my latest app with Laravel Livewire. The ability to use backend state seamlessly on the frontend without explicitly passing

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