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by api 7y ago
How do you get quality feedback? In my experience people will often say yes when asked or shown a mock up but will not buy. You don't find out who will actually buy until they try a functional product. I really suspect that the lean st
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by api 7y ago
JavaScript is quite a bit faster than Ruby in most cases.
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by api 7y ago
That may be the case but I don't think it solves the power mystery. It may be a simple algorithm but it does an awful lot of np-hard/np-complete things on very little power. Among these are absurdly fast learning and fuzzy associa
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by api 7y ago
I wasn't comparing performance at a specific task but performance at tasks of equal or greater difficulty. Mouse and bird brains have evolved to operate mouse and bird bodies, not cars, and their learning ability isn't as powerful
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by api 7y ago
Everything on the Internet has to be "free," so that's the business model.
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by api 7y ago
We can build less accurate computers and analog computers. Neither of these even begin to approach what brains can do. A self-driving car's computer takes hundreds of watts to run, uses reduced precision and custom silicon wherever pos
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by api 7y ago
I'm not sure the buggy whip makers thing is applicable. Industrialization put a ton of people out of work, but growth created new jobs for them. We are now in a near-zero growth environment, so I'm not sure growth will supply a ma
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by api 7y ago
I agree that #1 is by far the most likely. #3 would mean we (meaning natural science) are wrong about the nature of the universe. I included it mostly to get across the mystery we have here, namely that what brains do cognitively on so litt
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by api 7y ago
It's many orders of magnitude larger than 40 watts * 5 seconds. :) I have a running bet with some friends that one of the following is true: (1) The brain is somehow leveraging quantum computing to achieve polynomial or square root acc
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by api 7y ago
YouTube's deplatforming and demonetizing is about improving content quality for a broad audience, so they have been taking steps to fight spammy content. They will probably have to do more. The systems that died were systems that were
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by api 7y ago
Your brain consumes about 40 watts and you wrote that sentence.
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by api 7y ago
That's too much time and work for 99% of users, even tech-savvy ones. Think of it this way: lets say you value your time at $50/hour (very conservative for a tech-savvy person). If it takes an hour a month to admin that box, that&
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by api 7y ago
We do need to phase out fossil fuels, but we must do so in a way that is not only physically and economically but also politically sustainable. As we have seen, big changes of any kind that displace or destroy the livelihoods of vast numb
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by api 7y ago
Greed is as normal and natural as sex. If there is no legitimate, productive outlet for it, it finds illegitimate and unproductive outlets. This is IMHO who communist states turn into mafia states: the mafia becomes the outlet. Part of adap
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by api 7y ago
I hope so, but if you mean cryptocurrency wake me up when there is more to it than speculation and gambling. Other than the "wire transfer" classic use case for Bitcoin I see nothing new that anyone is actually using that is not o
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by api 7y ago
You're forgetting spam. Spam destroyed all those first generation federated systems. IRC survived because it was too niche for spammers to target much but spam is the primary thing that killed Usenet and email as a truly open system. T
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by api 7y ago
Degrees, especially from prestigious schools, have become a kind of writ of noble title that can be purchased. Systems like that can be very sticky. Everyone who has one has a vested interest in preserving their value (like taxi medallions)
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by api 7y ago
This has been a repeated point since "enterprise" Java (a.k.a. Jabba) became a thing in the late 90s and early 2000s. A ton of enterprise code is comically inefficient and held together with scotch tape and used chewing gum. It en
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by api 7y ago
One point I've made in alignment with this is to ask why decentralized systems are inherently more private. Most decentralized systems seem to have more surface area for surveillance, not less. Why couldn't surveillance agencies a
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by api 7y ago
History has shown that user experience is the most powerful force in computing, at least at the consumer level and increasingly in other areas too. People will trade privacy, security, cost, freedom, openness, and virtually any other qualit
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by api 7y ago
Have you driven one? Energy is 1/4 the price or less and efficiency is better even if your electricity comes from fossil fuels because small heat engines suck. Torque curve is better. Little maintenance, no oil changes, quiet, better h
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by api 7y ago
The second is not direct.
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by api 7y ago
All that stuff doesn't work between systems behind firewalls or NATs.
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by api 7y ago
I recall a rather amazing paper a while back arguing that markets cannot be perfectly efficient unless P=NP. There are too many brutal NP-hard optimizations involved. I suspect the same would hold for any attempt at central planning. If the
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by api 7y ago
I would consider buying a folding robot on awful credit terms. Seriously though. Laundry folding is the last of the endlessly tedious household chores to not fall to automation.
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by api 7y ago
It's 2020. Is it finally possible to send a file over the Internet directly from one machine to another? Only if you are not behind symmetric NAT I suppose. Tangent: why does symmetric NAT exist? It seems like the kind of thing firewal
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by api 7y ago
PSA: I would pay upwards of $5000 for a robot that can reliably fold and put away laundry. I mean in a real bedroom, not some contrived setting, and real clothes that are not pre-sorted.
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by api 7y ago
Just install a real RSS reader. There are many for every platform.
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by api 7y ago
EPIC also had numerous problems. The most severe I think was that it exposed the innermost workings of the chip. That sounds like an awesome idea, but it's actually a major issue because once you expose something you freeze it in time
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by api 7y ago
Quantum entanglement can't transfer information because you have no way of knowing whether the other end has "observed" their particle(s) yet. A conventional signal is required to establish this. But... as far as I recall the

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