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by abnry 5y ago
This essay is just one giant complaint that "The map is not the territory." No way. It is further annoying because it laments that modern progressive political concerns are not appropriately modeled in the game. Maybe people who p
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by abnry 5y ago
All the scenarios in my mind are bad. Either (1) we have actual aliens, which in bad inasmuch it is freaking crazy and novel; (2) the government is incompetent in identifying the physical effects manifesting in the sensors and is okay in ex
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by abnry 5y ago
Even if it is perfectly safe with no potential for abuse, I deserve to make the decision to opt-in, not have it silently downloaded and installed. If the government thinks I am too stupid to understand how safe it is or that I should just t
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by abnry 5y ago
Wow, I thought I was someone who didn't get the app when I checked the icons but once I went into settings, there it was. I even have a NH phone number but live in MA.
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by abnry 5y ago
> There're a lot of people in the comments here who don't seem to know what depression is. There is a lot of people who don't seem to know what depression is because no one really knows what is depression. It is complex, i
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by abnry 5y ago
Yes, but unless the answer was edited before the link to HN was posted, the user specifically said you should only do it if you _really_ intend to make a request, not just generate a url. It is conceivable you'd want to log the request
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by abnry 5y ago
I just love Trevor Bauer in all of this.
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by abnry 5y ago
As someone else said in a comment, while any metaphor has its limits, I feel that there are many more analogies to make with chess. As a mediocre chess player who has played too many subpar bullet games, I've begun to recognize pattern
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by abnry 5y ago
Depends. Is Shiller recommending to buy vitamin C?
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by abnry 5y ago
Is there really a shortage of tech jobs caused by open source projects?
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by abnry 5y ago
And what drives these decision makers to act so shamefully is the reputational economy. Yes, sometimes a boycott will damage the bottom line, but most often it is the damage to one's status within the wider society that is being protec
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by abnry 5y ago
> The key question is integration with society and understanding how it works. What does this mean in particular? What does it mean to "integrate with society" and "understand how it works?"
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by abnry 5y ago
In the theoretical PDEs world, non-integer alpha represents a fractional derivative.
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by abnry 5y ago
The idea of a justice system in a democracy is (a) the laws are agreed upon through the political process and (b) due process and impartial consideration are applied in casting a judgment. "Cancel culture" is primarily enforcing t
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by abnry 5y ago
The shape of the curve is fascinating. You see exponential growth in the early part, which makes sense, but then it sort of converges to a bumpy linear function. Network effects would suggest power law growth, which linear fits into, but th
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by abnry 5y ago
I wonder if what you have in mind is like what Germany was before it was unified. Lots of city states that essentially ally together or don't. I don't think it is a stable situation once someone gains the means to conquer by force
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by abnry 5y ago
> Personally I don't feel inadequate when reading about someone like von Neumann, as I'm not really tempted to compare myself to him in the first place. Colleagues are peers, people I graduated with are peers, but von Neumann i
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by abnry 5y ago
That would improve incentives for those trying to get tenure, but what are the incentives for the replicators? That seems to be the biggest problem. It costs money, time, and with the current incentive structure, reputation.
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by abnry 5y ago
Great people are warranted discussion, but as someone who was once in the academic math world, I had to quit reading after a few sentences. Genius is a very real thing, but I don't need to read adulation after adulation in a series of
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by abnry 5y ago
Yes, it is true that new ideas need criticism. However, if one is almost always critical of new ideas, especially ones that push beyond your wheelhouse, then that is a problem because you'll never innovate. PG lumps it with haters and
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by abnry 5y ago
But surely someone would have worked out the math and people would agree that the relativistic explanation fits the data?
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by abnry 5y ago
You can use `xdg-open`.
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by abnry 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. I respect what you are trying to do with shaping the conversation. Yes, you are right about the frustration and you are right about the addicting qualities. I did comment in frustration. I would say, however, it is add
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by abnry 5y ago
Okay, but he gets a comment from you and avoids a faded out comment. If his comment was simply faded out, you would not have replied. Frankly, you need to recognize that there is a mob mentality on this topic and that legitimate comments ar
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by abnry 5y ago
It isn't surprising but this is getting to be the last straw. Twitter is poison.
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by abnry 6y ago
> Twitter, I've deleted the mobile app and I follow no one. I have a separate list of profiles I find interesting. I have to physically go to that list and click on their profiles. Interestingly, this is the same solution I came to
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by abnry 6y ago
I think it is a bit of a plausible deniability thing. Offering a draw after the first move looks bad. There may even be rules against offering a draw before the first X moves. It also takes prolonged confirmation to agree to a draw via repe
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by abnry 6y ago
The most important rule of writing is to know your audience. Every other rule follows from that one.
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by abnry 6y ago
There is usually a precision in writing that isn't possible in lecture.
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by abnry 6y ago
I feel like someone should teach a course on how to use the grouping of command line applications: convert (image magick), pdftk, pandoc, and ffmpeg. Lots of power to be had in mastering them.

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