akimball

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by akimball 5y ago
Yet FinCEN allows artists to just make paintings as they please, and their trade is unregulated. Shocking!
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by akimball 5y ago
Rational arithmetic needs better matrix libraries. No loss of precision then.
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In-country.
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Many other people experience taxation very differently than do you. Taxation is implemented in many ways.
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by akimball 5y ago
While you may know this, I know otherwise. Time will tell which of us has the more predictive knowledge.
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by akimball 5y ago
We've seen what a nuclear failed state looks like, multiple times, in Russia, already.
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by akimball 5y ago
Today, Ukraine MoD announced they will take anyone, except Russian citizens - no military experience required. 16000 Ukraine foreign legion sign-ups last I heard.
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by akimball 5y ago
Pyrrhic victory is Pyrrhic. Gaining accountability in one case while the apparatus of brutality and repression grows - that is not a good outcome.
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Assignment: Compare and contrast juché vs sisu.
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Sputnik: A brief alarm heard around the world, followed by an infinitude of silence.
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This is destroying Putin's legitimacy in Russia too
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Russian military morale is so low it's almost a non-force. You see them unloading into chicken farms and monuments rather than fighting. They are running out of fuel all over the place - probably because they sold it. The corruption
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by akimball 5y ago
There is no meaningful Russian air presence in western Ukraine. No good reason not to establish an NFZ there. To avoid conflict, stay west of the Dnieper. Appeasement does not work.
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by akimball 5y ago
Defending Ukraine is not attacking anyone. It is defending. Abandoning defense gives away the game before it starts
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by akimball 5y ago
If defensive operations create too much risk of near, then Putin can slow walk all the way to Portugal without resistance. Appeasement will only insure larger conflict
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by akimball 5y ago
Yes, it is. The contrary position is motivated by a scurrilous need to justify ignoring the mechanism for 40 years, using semantic obfuscations.
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by akimball 5y ago
But a really great source of fast neutrons
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by akimball 5y ago
I fear you may not understand Putin's religious war. He needs Kiev to bring Ukraine under the Moscow patriarchate.
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by akimball 5y ago
It is what I would call the biochemical level, not the quantum chemical level. It is sufficiently detailed that the functions of genes can be observed and analyzed.
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Detailed simulation of complete minimal cellular life(cell.com)
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This is true in the sense that NNs offer a convenient way to estimate a distribution of hidden values conditionalized upon visible values. That is an approximation of what is usually understood by "a reconstruction". I would arg
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by akimball 5y ago
One problem is that Leviathan teaches that coordination problems must be solved by centralized force. Another problem is that it views society as competition for resources. The extremes of its rhetoric are a memetically potent drug, and tur
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The "knowing" may possibly be creating the result you observe.
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This is true only if your range of available strategies is constrained to a closed competitive subsystem. The actual range of available strategies is unbounded, given unlimited rationality.
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by akimball 5y ago
Competition is a bad thing when it squeezes out cooperative strategies with superior outcomes. This can be expected to be more frequent in a society perfuse with pro-competitive and anti-cooperative incentives. Competition is conceptually
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by akimball 5y ago
Leviathan is the most frequently read book in the ivy league, and this is why the American establishment is a wretched hive of villiany and scum.
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by akimball 5y ago
Not if you are using exchange tickers
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Not a FAANG
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Accounted deaths are a fraction of actual. The Economist used a pretty good model to estimate 15.3mm excess deaths globally back around November
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Consumer Labs is high integrity, however

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