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by _yosefk 11y ago
There are many kinds of evidence and many ways to interpret it - and many kinds of science (physicists disagree with each other less than economists for a reason.) Incidentally, most "morons" disagree with you on matters where the
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If there are no bugs, you're right. However, every bug that does ship becomes harder to debug, and so does every bug you fight with during development. The impact of bugs becomes more severe and less predictable on average (dangling re
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IMO simpler is better. A legal guarantee for anonymity that might end up being backed by complex technology is worse than a legal guarantee that you can pay with paper money regardless of anonymity. That's because paper is less likely
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What did the Unix tradition of composability though pipes produce though that was more complex than grep, to put it in an exaggerated form? It sorta seems that the classical Unix approach breaks down for big tasks, hence in practice big pro
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What harm is done by giving something away without restricting anyone's options? How is it similar to a regional monopoly giving preferential treatment to some content? What are the reasons to oppose this that do not apply to giving aw
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I thought net neutrality was about protecting consumers from selective high prices set by regional monopolies. Here it "protects" them from a free product that anyone is AFAIK free to compete with. Do I miss something or did thing
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My old Chrome version actually renders the penis (the text, I mean) for a split second and then it disappears.
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Actually economists are easily the worst offenders of any field - they even gave a name to it, "economic imperialism"
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Not that it's my prediction, but evolution can also work by all humans dying due to the destruction of their environment and then something else evolving of whatever creatures survived. Human extinction is not different from dinosaur e
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Low quality doesn't automatically follow from cutthroat competition, at least not nearly as automatically as it follows from a lack of competition. "Too much" competition might result in shipping too quickly to capture mark
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C is more portable than the LLVM IR though. So you get an inferior in some ways, but a more portable program as your compiler's output. And if you want to debug in a debugger that uses a proprietary format rather than DWARF, C will wor
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I dunno, it's very easy for me to express things differently in C++ and get a different runtime. It's easy enough for a bunch of C++ programmers writing needlessly slow code whom I've known. It must be equally easy for the au
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As a 10/10er, I think the fact that people tend to score less goes to show that: 1. The photos are low-res enough to hide the most ridiculous artifacts produced by neural nets 2. The machine-generated images are trying to emulate the l
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I got 10/10 (no Facebook or Twitter account to share this, unfortunately.) Update: my wife got 10/10, too. Right now neural nets do pretty poorly with "loose/messy" styles (you get noise instead of brushstrokes; i
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What you pointed out is significant and I probably should have mentioned it in the article together with the other things; my point, however, is that these problems kick in at a higher frequency than those historically reached by many accel
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Sticky for people already employed, perhaps, but probably not for new hires, I'd guess. Also, anecdotally, in 2008 some of those fired were expensive new hires. "The bottom 25%" might be defined as those fired but otherwise I
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Have I ever used the Pirate Bay? Why, it's illegal ! Have you ever used the Pirate Bay? Anyway, I crafted my link for comedic value rather than "realism", and then my point was that someone could put, on a web page in thei
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On the other hand, and not that I'd like to be sued for placing links, if the link in my page is something like <a href="ftp://thepiratebay.com/avatar.mp4">Avatar Movie Download</a>, the argume
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Microsoft indeed improved quality a lot, though Windows 7 inexplicably grinds to a halt and sometimes outright hangs on my desktop occasionally (one can blame my Wacom tablet but that contradicts the thesis of driver verification working wo
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Humans do require training, they're slow, they sleep, rest, lose concentration, vary greatly in performance etc. All true and economically significant. That is however distinct from no machine being able to do some of the things humans
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I get the "leveraged up the wazoo" part, it's unpleasant when someone defaults on debt that you hold. To match 2008 however, the pile of debt ought to be large enough and the risk has to be mispriced. (Those who hold junk bon
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Actually, having a generic way of saving the program state into an executable that then runs from that point could be really useful, and some Unix versions had it (and Perl used a Unix utility called undump to implement a "Perl compile
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Long names are hard to read. This makes autocompletion dangerous (I had a terrible bug where I locked the wrong of two mutexes with long, descriptive names which were too similar visually.) A good name is short enough to read as a sign in i
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Until it isn't. Once humans are handily beaten in both games, it's kinda hard to tell which game is harder (I guess you could compare the amount of computations needed to beat the top human player, but that does not let you distin
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Actually, Marx was saying the exact same thing about machinery unemploying people that HN is saying every now and then(I don't have a firm opinion on the matter, I just found it amusing to read the same argument made 150 years ago; Mar
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There's a lot of machine effort though, if the data structures are big. If you're doing computer graphics or vision and you have to send images or 3D assets around, it won't perform very well. I think Armstrong consistently u
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They are used for other things, but * They're better at graphics than that other stuff, * Other auxiliary processors exist which beat GPUs on most kinds of that other stuff (though they aren't as accessible as GPUs), * Most import
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Are you extrapolating from something that did happen with other organ transplants, or just assuming it would happen even though it didn't happen with other organ transplants? BTW, one big problem for a rich old guy is, it's very l
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That's true, and it's true of most languages, and unfortunately people trip over it even when they can totally avoid it by hiding threads behind other abstractions. So yeah, silly of me to have forgotten it. That said, AFAIK lang
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Neither your comment nor the comment you cite replies directly to mine - meaning, neither of you addresses the question what happens if people refuse to work for universities at the current level of compensation (perhaps some do not have a

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