amptorn

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ROT13: good version(qntm.org)
44 points by amptorn 7y ago|22 comments
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by amptorn 7y ago
Inventing manned flight without anybody dying would have been completely possible. Use more caution, pay more attention to safety. But that's not the right hypothetical. This is inventing manned flight without endangering or killing i
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by amptorn 8y ago
That's like the dictionary definition of "exploitation".
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by amptorn 8y ago
> You may as well decry the budgeting for legal as saying the company wants to break the law. The only reason to have a lawyer is because you broke the law, got it.
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by amptorn 8y ago
If holding people responsible for their actions, whether carried out via an algorithm or not, stifles innovation, I don't care. I mean, yeah, fomenting genocide through algorithms is genuinely innovative. Protecting people is more impo
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by amptorn 8y ago
"...please."
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by amptorn 8y ago
> hiring [...] without consideration for anything but merits I would only be concerned about this if I lacked merits.
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by amptorn 8y ago
I heard of a story where Walmart did an experiment in one of their stores where they rearranged all of the displays, made the aisles wider, all sorts of things which made the shopping experience more pleasant and less stressful. Customer fe
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by amptorn 8y ago
> How can you make the most number of groups happy with their seats? You mean, make the most money? Nobody cares about making customers happy.
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by amptorn 8y ago
I don't believe the Avogadro constant needs to be an SI unit. It's like having 12 as an SI unit, or a million, or 1. Sure, it's a useful constant scaling factor, but it doesn't need to be canonized at the heart of the SI
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by amptorn 8y ago
> I asked her to "cut the bullshit." Yikes.
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by amptorn 8y ago
Consider donating it to a school?
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by amptorn 8y ago
> unsavvy customers [...] should expect to pay a premium No, they shouldn't.
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by amptorn 8y ago
This is a terribly muddled metaphor.
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by amptorn 8y ago
So in the metaphor of the story's title, Atlas, whose shrugging caused the collapse of society, is the looters ? Not the successful entrepeneurial giants, Galt et al. , who in their collective departure from the world leave it, figur
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by amptorn 8y ago
We should routinely red-team elections. It would literally be amazing if I were kidding.
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by amptorn 8y ago
Well, Google would tell you something more like "business hours are 23:00 to 24:00 and 00:00 to 03:00 Monday to Thursday, 00:00 to 03:00 Friday, closed Saturday and 23:00 to 24:00 Sunday".
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by amptorn 8y ago
In many parts of the world it will e.g. turn from 23:59 Friday 17th to 00:00 Saturday 18th in the middle of lunch. This means a simple term like "lunchtime on Saturday" is suddenly ambiguous/useless, since it could mean aroun
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by amptorn 8y ago
He's just a stay-at-home parent. It's a completely conventional thing. Let me go ask my Mom how she "retired" at 25 and lived off her savings (and also Dad's wages).
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by amptorn 8y ago
Step 1: make about $110,000 a year, apparently. Then, save a lot of it up. Amazing. Also, his wife is still working?
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by amptorn 8y ago
A killer in what way? More popular? Better community? Actually make money?
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by amptorn 8y ago
The Nazis were not socialists. Sure, it was in the name, but are you seriously going to take a Nazi's word for it? They were fascists.
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by amptorn 8y ago
How? Being self-driving doesn't make a car take up less space.
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by amptorn 8y ago
What's the solution?
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by amptorn 8y ago
There's also the fact that Hofstadter persistently equates strong AI with grandmaster-level chess-playing, and the entire chapter of nothing but totally unscientific, unfounded, incredibly wrong, biology-free speculation about how the
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by amptorn 8y ago
I've been saying Watson is a red herring for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262397
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by amptorn 8y ago
You just leave the axiom of infinity out.
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by amptorn 8y ago
To make sure you covered those edge cases correctly!
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by amptorn 8y ago
This kind of thing becomes a lot of fun when you're trying to schedule a regular international call between e.g. the US and the UK, where the offset in hours changes four times per year because their daylight saving adjustments are n
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by amptorn 8y ago
I enjoy the section of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide which explains how Bash has sparse arrays which "are useful in spreadsheet-processing software".[0] Because someone out there is apparently writing spreadsheet-processing so

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