adrianbg

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by adrianbg 13y ago
Are you sure you've looked back at history? People's freedoms are typically limited by elites in their own country, not by foreign enemies.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Programmers should learn more about other domains and domain experts should learn how to program. Programming is becoming nearly as basic a skill as writing.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
My mantra for this is "only solve problems".
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by adrianbg 14y ago
They might adopt it if it's more stable than their currency, like how Ecuador uses the US dollar.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
What do you mean by "block"? A limit on the number of entangled qubits?
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Academic self-proclaimed "babe" correctly points out minor flaws in a major insight, misses the forest for the trees.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Brain function is not the only variable at play here. Software and culture change constantly.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Who has more power to do good in the world? A rich business person or a "powerful" politician in a democracy? I'm going to go with the business person. They're free to do anything they can afford, unlike politicians who are at the mercy of
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by adrianbg 14y ago
too long, don't bother reading: A proposition is only considered proven when a bunch of experts reach a consensus that a proposed proof is correct. This is currently not the case for the ABC conjecture.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Yeah it occurs instantaneously but because you can't influence either particle without destroying the entanglement you can't use it to communicate faster than the speed of light. http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=612
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by adrianbg 14y ago
What're we in court here? Does pg come in at the end and bring up the highest-voted comments at his next illuminati meeting? The original article lists lots of pretty bad things. The fifth amendment is relevant to the extent that it should
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by adrianbg 14y ago
It's weird how often discussions about amendments get caught up on wording, precedents and people's intentions rather than what is good or bad. It's as if the founding fathers figured it all out and wrote it all down back in the day, and wi
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Entanglement alone can't be used to transmit information. If this is the first time long-range entanglement has been possible then the communications advances they're talking about would include anything that requires parties to share entan
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Didn't find any climbers but found lots of bits of dust on my screen.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
> The problem is that the people willing to pay are exactly the people the advertisers most want to reach. So charge more. Instagram et al are trying to make money, not serve advertisers. If privacy-conscious people are willing to pay m
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Why don't online businesses start offering privacy-conscious customers the option to pay for their services? This seems like a pretty obvious alternative to paying with privacy. I doubt they would even have to charge much for it to be profi
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by adrianbg 14y ago
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by adrianbg 14y ago
I don't understand how people feel so helpless at the hands of Facebook and their friends. I've been a satisfied Facebook user for years without ever checking it more than a couple of times a week or uploading a single photo. When some noti
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Until it can't. Then five years later you get Spanner.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Does Amazon explain anywhere what regions, availability zones or whatever have single points of failure for each of their services? I guess that's supposed to be what an "availability zone" is but somehow that doesn't quite seem to capture
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by adrianbg 14y ago
"the libertarian writer Charles Murray blames the hollowed-out middle for straying from the traditional family values and old-fashioned work ethic that he says prevail among the rich" "Following the June Seventeenth uprising the secretary o
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by adrianbg 14y ago
And Nigeria has the largest population of English-speaking nobility.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Right. The relevant metric is how long you remain fertile, not how long you live.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
That doesn't account for inflation over time in the value of candles.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
If you live longer you can have more offspring. Maybe constraints on your time and resources for raising offspring are really what prevent longevity from being much of an advantage?
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Does anyone know what economic conditions cause a market to transition from being car/house-like (no fixed price, annoying sales process) to what is normal for cheaper products in first world countries (more-or-less fixed prices, less aggre
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Twitter and LinkedIn are successful in distinct niches from Facebook. Companies and privacy-conscious people apart from activists (Germans?) may also be interested in a social network that lets them own their information.
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by adrianbg 14y ago
This looks really neat. How are you going to get people to start using it? Anything more active than hoping that an app/user ecosystem develops?
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by adrianbg 14y ago
Would you mind elaborating? Isn't it more convenient to be able to navigate without having to scroll to the top?
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by adrianbg 14y ago
... a rich ecosystem which combines copying with innovation and with less money pointlessly wasted on lawyers.

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