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by akiselev 4y ago
That doesn’t make much sense. Every atom of calcium in a chicken bone came from a field somewhere that now has to be augmented with more calcium. The easiest way to supply that calcium is to grind up the chicken bones and sprinkle them on t
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by akiselev 4y ago
Honestly.. yeah. That situation is so ridiculous that I can’t give a serious answer. I’d need to spend hours interrogating a flat earth believer just to figure out how to suspend my own disbelief. Question 1: how do you think Magellan’s exp
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by akiselev 4y ago
Some intern at the corporate HQ
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by akiselev 4y ago
To add some pedantic anti-pedantry: high speed digital electronics is almost indistinguishable from analog. Once your signals are in the range hundreds of MHz or more (i.e. DDR bus), designers of digital electronics have to worry about the
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by akiselev 4y ago
I don’t think it has any sort of model of the world, just enough of a vague understanding of real world categories that enables it to function as a domain specific Markov chain.
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by akiselev 4y ago
> "people who screw up colons shouldn't be coding" If you can’t get something as simple as a colonoscopy right, you shouldn’t be anywhere near a terminal.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Now know as the “no true cryptobro” fallacy
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by akiselev 4y ago
We should start a podcast! No one will be able to tell if we’re serious, trolling ourselves, trolling each other, or trolling the audience. The essence of postmodernism is actually plausible deniability.
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by akiselev 4y ago
That’s exactly what a nihilistic postmodernist would say.
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by akiselev 4y ago
It’s “simply mismanagement” is a trivial tautology that can be applied to any situation. Team didn’t deliver? Mismanaged the team. Team failed to deliver because they didn’t do any work? Mismanaged the hiring process. Massive wild fire? Mis
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by akiselev 4y ago
Imagine applying it to the tech job search: unique resumes and cover letters tailor made for each job application.
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by akiselev 4y ago
> It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth." Down the nihilistic rabbit hole we go! That's this layman's und
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by akiselev 4y ago
The way we colloquially use words often contradicts their more precise definitions because one often inherits from the other in messy and unpredictable ways. For example, in botany the "fruit" of a plant is a ripened ovary contain
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by akiselev 4y ago
Most hardware companies are decades old and so are most of their established competitors. Until one of the old guard breaks rank or a new competitor manages to break into the industry using software as a clear competitive advantage (i.e. Te
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by akiselev 4y ago
That I sucked at math olympiads :)
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by akiselev 4y ago
Your prompt was ambiguous and wouldn’t seem out of place on a math olympiad. You didn’t ask it to “square a circle,” you asked it for instructions on drawing a square with the same area as a circle using geometric equivalencies instead of m
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by akiselev 4y ago
It seems AIs are bad at obscure popculture references Another point for the AI in the Turing Test
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by akiselev 4y ago
For the vast majority of recorded history people married someone from their village of 200 people or from a nearby village a few miles away. It doesn't matter how weird our mating rituals are when there's not much variability to b
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by akiselev 4y ago
The hard part isn’t writing the code but making sure it’s valid against all the data in (for example) the PDG Review of Particle Physics book. A bug in the code would throw doubt on every paper published with it so the expected value for an
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by akiselev 4y ago
Since when did micro- and nanoplastics become an SI unit? Where do I put my feet?
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by akiselev 4y ago
The GP phrased that way too much like an allegory from under a rock and not enough like an internet comment. (I think) He means that digital currencies remove plausible deniability. The Polish government can both claim to crack down on gamb
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by akiselev 4y ago
Thank you for the exact numbers! I don’t know why but that extra factor of two somehow makes it even worse. 0.05% of assets isn’t even enough for petty cash for most businesses and they couldn’t do some due diligence when it was $75 million
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by akiselev 4y ago
Just go beat the market.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Would calling someone a "crook" even qualify as defamation? That's an opinion I can have about my local grocer because he charges slightly more for a half gallon of milk than Trader Joes does for a gallon. It's still an
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by akiselev 4y ago
If you mean graphics tablets like the Wacom displays with the pens, no. It works fine with parametric graphics or CAD, for example, so long as I stick to simple dimensions so one hand is on the numpad while the other holds the pen but the s
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by akiselev 4y ago
Thank you! You’re the first person to call me an elitist from an ivory tower. Spam was introduced in 1937 and three years later 70% of urban Americans were eating it. Around 100 million pounds of Spam were shipped to troops during World War
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by akiselev 4y ago
> But their grandmothers probably baulked at that too? I don’t think it’s a very big leap from mortadella (circa 14th century) or bologna sausage (some centuries later) to vienna sausages. Abundant fresh meat and vegetables are a very
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by akiselev 4y ago
Many grandmothers who lived during the great depression ate ultraprocessed stuff like spam and vienna sausages that I barely recognize as food and most of the fruits and vegetables I have available are barely recognizable to them. I don’t
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by akiselev 4y ago
It’s ironic how [insert group here] continue to redefine words like “bullying” to play the victim.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Interest rates exist to incentivize loans in a universe where there’s a risk borrowers might not pay them back. The Roman Catholic Church decisively proved during the middle ages that no interest = no loans You just described escrow with ex

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