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by aneth 14y ago
> Occam's razor says that we should give more credence to the simpler theory, not the more commonsensical one Yes, and I find Occam's razor itself to be common sense, which is what my point was. If a theory seems to reflect more closely
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by aneth 14y ago
Yes, and such strange happenstance that all the human brains we've found so far have been in humans. We must be incredibly lucky to have picked this universe at odds of 1 in infinity where no human brains are suffering bodiless in space.
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by aneth 14y ago
If a theory implies an absurd outcome, I think it is a reasonable heuristic to question the theory and it's assumptions. I am not saying absurd implications indicate the theory is flawed, only that they should cause one to suspect so and pe
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by aneth 14y ago
The Bible as historical non-fiction is most certainly absurd, no implications about that. Not saying so out of sensitivity to those who believe otherwise does reason a disservice, just as not calling out Bolzmann because I don't want to off
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by aneth 14y ago
If your assumption is infinite time and complete entropy, yes it's correct. It's also why some level of common sense (e.g. Occam's razor) should be applied before such silliness is seriously proposed. I don't think Boltzmann assumes infinit
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by aneth 14y ago
You may be able to increase your expected value by choosing numbers that are less popular. It would be interesting to research the psychology behind number selection and choose combinations less likely to have a multi-payoff outcome.
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by aneth 14y ago
What's more likely: nearly infinite sentient universes complete with false memories of human experiences emerging from entropic chaos, or that we don't quite understand the nature of entropy? The Boltzmann theory is one of those thought exp
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by aneth 14y ago
I would love to see that list of JP Morgan entities.
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by aneth 14y ago
True, and a good reason not to implement this solution.
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by aneth 14y ago
One interesting observation from the comments: On a Mac, shift with caps-lock on doesn't toggle to lower-case, so they would need to store a fourth version for this to work. OPERATI@NGERONIMO Overall it's a clever UX hack, though I worry th
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by aneth 14y ago
Or invisibility!
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by aneth 14y ago
I've tried to use Bing as my default search engine in moments of frustration but always go back to Google. The main reason is UI. Bing has too much fancy JavaScript that slows it down and confuses me ever so slightly, and the information is
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by aneth 14y ago
Seems like a reasonable solution. My first statement was certainly true in the previous generation of browsers, including IE 7. I'm not sure about more modern browsers. What basis do you have for disagreeing? Refer to: http://www.quirksmod
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by aneth 14y ago
Perhaps like some template engine, but not like any I know of.
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by aneth 14y ago
This is pretty, but unfortunately the only performant way to generate dom elements in javascript is with HTML. HTML parsing is orders of magnitude faster in most browsers. How about a library like this to generate a string of HTML instead o
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by aneth 14y ago
I certainly don't think it's anyone's place to judge something as a "ripoff" versus "inspired." That is in the heart of the creator. And I think it's ridiculous to judge something on such an extreme binary scale - as either a soul-less copy
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by aneth 14y ago
Isn't PadMapper just a ripoff of http://www.housingmaps.com/ , which was the first of its kind? I developed http://www.cribq.com because at the time, both PadMapper (if it existed, can't remember - according to domain records padmapper.c
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by aneth 14y ago
On the contrary, I think there's a problem with a world where this can't happen. If it could not, there would not be incentives for shoot-for-the-moon ideas. There would not be the freedom to benefit from providing value to society. Grand i
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by aneth 14y ago
Either that or programmers will have to play catch up and become fully literate.
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by aneth 14y ago
"We price our domains at 25% of their market value." Don't we all sell liquid commodities at 25% of market value? You know, because we like our customers and we don't like money? Can you feel the credibility chasm expand with that statement
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Terahertz vision sees through walls, clothes(dailymail.co.uk)
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by aneth 14y ago
My understanding was that this was to avoid issuing more founders shares. I was wrong. It is indeed a powers grab.
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by aneth 14y ago
This seems a massive overstatement of the powers of the TSA. They pat you down for weapons before getting on a plane. While it may not be justified or to your agreement, I just don't see how this undermines fundamental freedoms in the US an
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by aneth 14y ago
While I disagree with a large number of TSA policies, I have found TSA officers to be thoroughly professional and nearly always courteous. The anti-TSA bandwagon on HN seems to be the product of people who don't travel much basing their opi
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by aneth 14y ago
It's not a power grab so much as maintaining their current power. Without this provision, the stock split would result in the founders' voting power being cut in half, in which case they would of course elect not to split the stock. If I mi
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by aneth 14y ago
The phrase “Don’t test standard Active Record association” jumped out at me, since I’ve discovered a major bug in the most basic function of Active Record associations in 3.0.x. https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5744 That said, I gene
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by aneth 14y ago
How would you test, say, payment processing, in any sane way, without mocking? How do you test failure handling code when the failure can not be reproduced in a known way by the current code base? I agree these tools are often overused, how
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by aneth 14y ago
Life is filled with simple, easy, cheap, popular paths that lead to ruin. PHPs initial simplicity does not make it a good choice. Looking for happiness? Heroine "just works". Hungry and poor? Eating McDonald's three meals a day is cheap and
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by aneth 15y ago
I think you're supposed to exploit the vulnerability in relatively innocuous but deeply disturbing ways, get banned, then complain about how you only meant well, then be lauded on Hacker News as a martyr who should have been embraced by the
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by aneth 15y ago
Hmm. While thought provoking, this should be identified some in some way as fictional. Anyhow, even in theory, complying with the policy for a moment would be unethical.

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