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by algorias 7y ago
That statistic sounds highly suspect: if I inherited $5M 30 years ago and am now wort $50M, do I count as "not having inherited my wealth"?
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by algorias 7y ago
Well, here's an analogy: If you have $1000 salary and $900 of fixed expenses (+ $100 of disposable income), then a reduction of just 10% in your salary reduces your disposable income by 100%. A reduction of 20% in your salary puts you
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by algorias 7y ago
Well, "we" don't all eat bacon and wear the skin of cows. What's strange about wanting to respect other living beings and avoid harming them? This is also not incompatible with the belief that a human life should come fi
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by algorias 7y ago
Presumably, the eventual goal is to grow full-sized organs inside some larger animal. Then the organ can be harvested and transplanted to a human who needs it. Per my understanding, medicine does a lot of work with rats because they're
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by algorias 7y ago
There's a very interesting economics paper discussing exactly this kind of issue and the market failures it causes [0]. My favorite quote: "Dwarf tossing is an activity in which a large person throws a small person. The venue ofte
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by algorias 7y ago
Sure, but the first step of achieving an actual effect is to aim to achieve it, then think about how to achieve that aim. I know that it's frustrating when even scientists sometimes act with naive recklessness. A prime example is when
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by algorias 7y ago
For Switzerland, that distance sounds about right, tending more towards 100m (in major cities). There is bound to be a dataset somewhere: being a tiny country means that we map everything in great detail, and the government takes these topi
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by algorias 7y ago
Some people seem to be missing the context in which this article was written: 80000 hours is about effective altruism, in the sense of deliberately building a career that does the most good in the world (whether that be charitable work, pol
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Tell HN: "Shader Showdown" live coding competition at Revision 2019
5 points by algorias 8y ago|1 comments
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by algorias 8y ago
> The definition of enumeration commonly used in computability does not require that you know when you are done enumerating. Sorry, but this is a non-sequitur. In order to find (by enumeration) the shortest program producing a certain ou
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by algorias 8y ago
>> This is because TSP is not in NP Um, the decision version of TSP (does there exist a Hamilton path of length at most x?) is definitely in NP. It is also NP-hard (your definition of NP-hardness is wrong). I guess what you're tr
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by algorias 8y ago
um, what you're describing sounds exactly like regulatory capture.
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by algorias 8y ago
> So we’ve got an exact algorithm that needs to solve an np-complete problem to produce a result, making it at least as hard. This is not correct. It's very obvious that all-pair similarity search can be solved in O(n^2) calls to th
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by algorias 8y ago
I feel for the guy, but keep in mind: just putting some text in your readme does not create a legally binding contract.
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by algorias 8y ago
That's great to hear. However, keep in mind that appendicitis is still an extremely serious condition that will kill you if left untreated. The fact that you can avoid surgery in some cases doesn't mean that surgery is not an
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by algorias 8y ago
No. In Braess' paradox both the situation with and without the extra road have the exact same total flow from A to B. Removing flow capacity is not allowed.
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by algorias 8y ago
> Perfect competition, perfect information, etc. -- these assumptions weren't commonly built in to models because they actually simplified them Um, what? That's exactly why these things end up in so many models. > (there are
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by algorias 8y ago
I have health issues that make avoiding steep streets important for me. The problem with topo maps is that it's a pain in the ass to read them, specially in areas with lots of features, such as cities. I like color-coded height maps, t
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by algorias 8y ago
For extra fun, if you plot the number of times a specific prime factor occurs, you get a fractal pattern. E.g. for the prime factor 2: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 0
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by algorias 8y ago
Maybe he backed a security with the house and sold that instead...
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by algorias 8y ago
I think the conceptual difference between a clone and a reference is that clones have no hierarchy. If I have two clones, then removing either one will cause the other one to become the "original".
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by algorias 8y ago
I attended this talk at IJCAI, and I must say that the whole system 1 / system 2 analogy rubbed me the wrong way. A solver for e.g. 3-SAT is general only in a very narrow sense, namely that an entire class of problems can be reduced to
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by algorias 8y ago
I think that would be 5% of gross revenue, not profits. I think it's an appropriately large number.
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Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons(autonomousweapons.org)
2 points by algorias 8y ago|0 comments
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by algorias 9y ago
I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to sell a pot made out of unsafe materials and market it as a cooking implement. I'm also quite confident that it's technically possible to make a safe vaping device. So the issue would
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by algorias 9y ago
I don't understand exactly what you're afraid of. I often prepare the food I eat in a contraption of "heated metal alloys". We know perfectly well how to make such things safe.
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by algorias 9y ago
If you talk about the "volume of a sphere" (like the article does), then a sphere embedded in 3 dimensions should be 3 dimensional. This would usually be called a ball and not a sphere, though. Note that analogously, a cube in 3 d
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by algorias 9y ago
Hey man, I also have some permanent health issues (not as serious as yours probably, but still) and I totally get the frustration of people applying wishful thinking to your situation without having any experience with the kinds of problems
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by algorias 9y ago
Sorry, but this seems like cartoon logic to me. What power would knowing the word PANDA give me in this case? None. What knowledge does it give me? That the US does signals intelligence, and that someone on wikipedia/HN claims that suc
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by algorias 9y ago
It definitely does work. I suspect that vouching (like voting itself) has an influence weighted by the reputation of the user in question. Reputation being some secret sauce correlated with, but not identical to karma.

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