andriesm

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by andriesm 3y ago
Me a little too, it's not usual that we think about "increasing safety" as delivering tangible benefits. Of course I come down on the other side of the debate when it comes to safety - the machines are still quite far away fr
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by andriesm 3y ago
Ib my younger days I used to get all excitef about new scientific breakthroughs. After decades I know better and apply the heuristic of disregard whenever I come across the hidden punch-line "In mice". It really is a very good met
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by andriesm 3y ago
Banning plastic straws is one of the lowest effectiveness and most absurd ideas ever. Plus those paper straws are really bad for your health and the contain "forever chemicals". I'm sorry for the inflammatory comment but anyo
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by andriesm 3y ago
Making the strong claim that this infrastructure was for a fact built by a government is not merited, unless you have some compelling evidence? I am also not sure if the article's claim is merited - it sounds a little too convenient an
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by andriesm 3y ago
I'm always amused by how much people value wealth differences above absolute measures of poverty. I am more a fan of, let's increase wealth inequality even more if it means we can raise the bottom. In America very few people die o
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by andriesm 4y ago
Why is it so important to you as a goal, to not give money to Joe Rogan?
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by andriesm 4y ago
What I find interesting, was the starting assumption that serious societal problems need to be solved centrally, at the top, by a govermental-type body like a "town council". This article shows why "rule by committee" is
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by andriesm 4y ago
For me the most practical way to realize such interactive programing, in ways that solve real world problems for me, with visual interfaces, is to use jupyter notebooks. You just have to bind sliders to variables, and tie your outputs to gr
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by andriesm 4y ago
Cutting off one of your two perfectly functional legs, to match your mental image of having one leg - that is objectively crazy. You can rationalise and claim this makes that person happy. Maybe it does, but that would be indicative of a ve
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by andriesm 4y ago
exactly. It works well for 95 percent, but the other 5% sees the propaganda for what it really is - lies, dishonesty and fake news.
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by andriesm 4y ago
Nicotine self medicates for a bunch of reasons. It may even be beneficial for certain neurodegenerative conditions. While the answer is, let people use "real" medicines, or safer forms, remember people themselves know all the reas
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by andriesm 4y ago
It's nr 2 variant is a lot less pleasant apparently, not to mention how it would affect dating prospects and such, so it's rather sad that science has no solution for these and many other viruses. What I don't understand as a
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by andriesm 4y ago
exactly. Reason is, businesses that engage in lots of inefficiencies get outcompeted, and if the inefficiencies/mistakes are egregious they go out of business. Government has the ultimate monopoly, where the only remedy available for m
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by andriesm 4y ago
I suspect it comes down to the difference between the two questions (a) Whether SSRI"s a/d meds work (b) Why/How they work. Clearly these things help many people. But not everyone and may even be harmful in some cases. Why
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by andriesm 4y ago
In promotional materials they often show pictures of the laptops without the notch. If the notch is such an obvious eye-sore, why aren't they abondoning it?
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by andriesm 4y ago
I don't just want to live, I want to understand why many things still seem to operate so irrationally in terms of cost. vs. value received. I actually appreciated the unique perspective, and the experience, and don't care that it
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by andriesm 4y ago
Uhm why are you trying to get your cat addicted to something ;-) you drug pushers you!
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by andriesm 4y ago
I don't know. The Guardian has published misleading stories before. It's very possible that this is in fact a true and accurate summation of the situation. But I also cannot be sure that this is tainted by some propagandistic moti
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by andriesm 5y ago
Why are they so desperate to make the point that entrepreneurs aren't responsible for their successes? Let's play a game of pretend, none of us are responsible for our lives, everything is luck. And those who do better than others
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by andriesm 5y ago
Yes thinking that good CEOs would be cheap in a free market shows you have essentially ZERO understanding of basic economics, just like the author who thinks there is a specific ratio that CEO pay is not allowed to be relative to the averag
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by andriesm 5y ago
Well they fired the previous competent CEO for political reasons. If politics and what you do in your private time is more important than competence, then this is what you get. Well deserved. FireFox getting it what it deserves. If you hire
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by andriesm 5y ago
I agree - most people should buy low cost index funds but that is not enough - they have to space it out as monthly contributions over many years. If you put all your money in at thr wrong moment, like say the Nasdaq in 99 then you waited 1
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by andriesm 5y ago
No it can be skill. Was Warren Buffet and Charlie munger just lucky, year after year? Was Michael Burry of the Big Short just lucky to short the mortgage backed securities market, no he also side stepped the dot com crash and bought value s
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by andriesm 5y ago
I wonder if a big part of the allleged theft from the little guy isn't due to dishonest CPI statistics that manipulate officially reported inflation to be lower than the cost of living increases most people experience. Also perhaps fra
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by andriesm 5y ago
I'm very interested in Charter cities/special economic zones/free cities... I find it interesting how local populations view these as a threat and an attack on them. Which of course is their right. But these countries like th
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by andriesm 5y ago
Should certain favored religions be taught in a preferntial light at state funded schools? If not, why should certain preferred political ideologies be taught at state funded schools. Critical race theory is always one sided, its always abo
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by andriesm 5y ago
Reading between the lines to read race into a law where race is absent seems to me to be racism. The whole point of laws is, they should make sense when you reverse race or leave out race completely. And this is why critical race theory is
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by andriesm 5y ago
Operation fear is ticking along nicely
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by andriesm 5y ago
No I think the real insight is that production systems benefit from professional log monitoring tools more and dev environments benefit from real time light-weight on-demand immediacy of tailing. He is increasing our understanding and aware
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by andriesm 5y ago
The only redeeming feature for me is that the scope is so limited... to some number of artists... because an unbounded program would just be an incentive for all unemployed people to lie about being artists... By limiting the numbers means

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