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by ahelwer 6y ago
CEO claiming all the allegations are false, factual refutations totally exist, but they can't publish those refutations until the SEC "finishes their job". What a scam artist. Always some excuse, always delays, just milking
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Oh thanks! Looks like another Helwer reclaimed it. I think you can message people on linkedin as part of a connect request maybe?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Well, it relays information in the same way that each of you using a random number generator pre-initialized with the same seed relays information. It doesn't involve faster-than-light communication, is the point. Entanglement differs
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I'll give it a shot. When you entangle two particles, it's kind of like they're connected to the same random number generator. So if you measure one particle it'll collapse to a certain value (at random), and you know th
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How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?(ahelwer.ca)
112 points by ahelwer 6y ago|15 comments
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Trump has floated the idea of pardoning Assange. A Biden presidency would likely be even more against Assange, because of his actions during the 2016 election which generally harmed Clinton.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
There are, of course, atrocities everywhere all the time. Change generally isn't sparked by routine atrocities rumbling along in the background though, but by people coalescing around specific atrocities that gain high profile for what
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You'd probably be interested in part-time contracting. Set your own hours and rates. Often there's a small paid project in lieu of an interview. Lots of interesting projects are willing to shell out for a contractor that aren&#x27
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by ahelwer 6y ago
DARPA is basically just a way to hack the US' intensely militaristic nature to fund basic science & engineering advances. I'm happy some public money was spent researching robotic legged locomotion.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Leadership isn't interested in cutting military funding generally, so there is no opportunity cost here. I very much doubt there are administrative costs that exceed $15.5 million, certainly not for the next several years. Maybe if dem
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Why are other source of government income relevant here?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
No, it isn't nothing. My point is you can't wave away these numbers just by putting them next to a much larger number. These bills ultimately have to be paid, and asking whether a propaganda rag is worth >31 people's lifel
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I really don't know what you're arguing about here. To repeat myself, if I overestimated how much they paid, then it's even more people whose contributions are incinerated. Yay for my original point I guess?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Here you go: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/10... Say it's about $10k for federal, for ease of calculation. If it's less, then that means even more people's life
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The average American pays about $10k in federal income taxes each year. Assuming they do this for fifty years, this means the average American might pay $500k in federal income taxes over their lifetime. So this propaganda rag consumed the
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It was a naked propaganda rag. I have no idea why people care about this.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Not sure what voting is supposed to accomplish here, Democrats love sanctions. Even Elizabeth Warren, who is decidedly pretty far left as far as the party goes, voted for Iran sanctions in 2017.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Presumably the best way to determine animal welfare would be to not eat them in the first place?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
For crimes like this it isn't a matter of "reform" in the same way as when dealing with regular anti-social behavior by individuals. These are people who have been given huge amounts of resources and trust then betrayed us al
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Almost all gym lead routes are overhanging for fall safety reasons. Stemming/mantling (which would use the same muscles as the jetpack) is considered much less burly, anyway.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Some weight would be supported by aerodynamic effects once you start moving (I've seen videos where they have a squirrel suit-like web between their legs). Holding yourself up like that is probably comparable in strength/endurance
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It's not quite so cheap for a site to implement 2FA. It surely increases support costs by quite a bit. Also possibly weakens security, because an authentication system is only as secure as its recovery process. With email + password,
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yeah. I keep my Authy backup password in a tiny safe along with other important documents (note: NOT in my password manager, since that would reduce 2FA to 1FA). Last time my phone died a couple years back I just got a new one, registered i
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by ahelwer 6y ago
After two previous times of attempting to switch to DDG from Google I finally made the switch seemingly permanently earlier this year. DDG is really good these days. Very occasionally I'll send a query over to google, which is easy in
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Presumably, nothing was in superposition when the universe began. Everything after that evolved in time according to the Schrodinger equation, with everything becoming more superposed (i.e. their exact properties less certain) and entangled
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Many-worlds interpretation takes care of this. Anyway, how do you know your experience of the world cannot be superposed? Have you ever been in superposition? We make up stories to maintain consistent histories all the time.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
An alternative way to view measurement is that you're just entangling yourself with the quantum system, and are as much in superposition as the system itself.
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Meditation: Sadly my only weapon against the attention economy(ahelwer.ca)
4 points by ahelwer 6y ago|1 comments
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Are you talking about a coronavirus test or an antibody test? Donating blood is a basically pro-social thing to do anyway.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Well, Red Cross sells the blood to hospitals to recoup costs (not for profit) and from there it enters the regular for-profit American healthcare system. So I guess they do, yes.

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