ahelwer

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by ahelwer 6y ago
No, I think you have a pretty good grasp of things. In the real world people do use more powerful tactics like ring to skip all the low-level algebraic manipulation (which I personally really enjoyed but can see others finding tedious). You
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yep, it clearly leads into assassination markets - for example, opening a large bet that person X will die on a specific date.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Chomsky's model does not rely on a conspiracy for the media to function the way it does. It simply follows from incentives. Cribbing from the wikipedia article, we have: The propaganda model for the manufacture of public consent descri
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by ahelwer 6y ago
What they are doing is establishing a shared belief among Americans that Chinese people are deserving of punishment (implied: via military means). For evidence I refer you to the book Manufacturing Consent by well-known computer scientist &
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This "I hate the government, not the people" schtick is a cop out. The Chinese people overwhelmingly support the actions of their government. Beyond that, the idea that the media can wash their hands of this because people should
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This phenomenon isn't limited to dry discussion of foreign policy. You see it as an endless barrage of distorted, negative articles about every aspect of China posted all over social media. Try opening a reddit thread about China somet
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I don't think this is fully do to coronavirus. Media across the entire American political spectrum is beating the same drum: China is the enemy, and they need to be dealt with. Any Asian-American can tell you that the average American&
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by ahelwer 6y ago
In what way would he have had to lie on the application? Is it something like "yes I have read these enormous pages you've thrown at me and know what I am doing"?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Not sure about that last part. For some color, here's the Robinhood UI for buying calls: https://twitter.com/neoliberal_dad/status/135778483584729907...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Feeding grandma into the woodchipper as I somehow happily dream that the US government doesn't have its populace under total digital surveillance
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Please explain how quarantine violates human rights, I would love to hear this.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Okay, then take that lesson from them. This isn't a referendum on their entire system of government. It's a demonstration of how much we have failed by comparison. "Power to imprison" has nothing to do with it, or the US
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by ahelwer 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
China and Vietnam. Taiwan to a lesser extent.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yes, that's the point. You won't believe numbers from any communist country. So I provided nearby non-communist countries who have significant overlap in strategy, with good success, whose numbers you will believe. We can infer th
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by ahelwer 6y ago
My suggestion is literally reality in several countries. You are correct there are people who go around delivering the food & supplies or providing medical care. They are given appropriate PPE & training.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Option one is China's & Vietnam's strategy for combating the virus, which has been extremely effective. Parts of it were also implemented in nearby non-communist countries such as Taiwan.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This zombie they're lying about their numbers! cope needs to die. Look at Taiwan. Look at Korea. Both of them handled the virus fairly well, with much less extreme measures, and have good relations with the US so you have no reason t
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Legitimately humorous how the article associates America's failure with a communist distribution system, when communist countries worldwide have completely knocked their coronavirus response out of the park - so much so that it is cons
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yeah I was weighing just upgrading the whole motherboard to a ryzen chipset or something, but I have an ITX build so it would be pretty expensive for the features that I want.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
CPUs are immortal, it's the motherboards that die. If you want to run a certain chipset, after some amount of time it's motherboard availability that will keep you from doing that!
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Might be sitting on a good chunk of change with those! Especially if they're 6gb models.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Graphics card prices really are something. In late 2019 I purchased an nvidia gtx 1060 used for $120. Now just yesterday I sold that same card with an additional year of wear on it for $220. This is a four-year-old card design that can bare
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I don't think you can. The 1070 is $300 used. That gives you $200 to fit in a case, fans, PSU, SSD, motherboard, RAM, and CPU. No way. A comparable CPU would cost at least $100 used by itself.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Try to find any PC build that competes with modern console MSRP today. It can't be done, not even close. The equivalent gpu, the gtx 1070, goes used for $300. PC gaming fans are still living eight years in the past when the frugality a
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The minimum card you need to play current games on 1080p/60fps/high settings is about a GTX 1070, a four-year-old card which goes for $300 used. Remember we're comparing this to the cost of using a game streaming service.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
MSRP doesn't matter anymore. These cards are so difficult to get that they basically go used for MSRP, and on the secondary market for nearly a multiple of MSRP.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The 2008-2017 period was great for PC gaming. Now graphics cards alone cost as much or more than an entire console. The prices only seem to go up. Game streaming has the opportunity to dramatically decrease costs. I think it will work.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Z3 is intended as more of a backend for higher-level languages, like TLA+, to use in model checking. I would be surprised if anyone were writing specs in the input language directly.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This is, basically, an unsolvable philosophical problem. You are the only one who can bridge the infinite lacuna between the idea in your head and its properties encoded in an actual model. There are all sorts of validity tests you can add

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