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by api 11y ago
What if papers were cryptographically signed so that they can be claimed later and there were a period of, say, one year of anonymity after publication? This period would allow things like peer review and initial recognition of the paper to
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by api 11y ago
Hollywood is ripe for disruption. They remind me of the old 1970s auto industry: fat, happy, and stagnant. They don't do "plot" anymore, churning out nothing but totally formulaic rehashes and reboots and franchise flicks. I
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by api 11y ago
The hole in the positive sum view of capitalism is the effect that savings have on asset and commodity prices. Savings equals debt equals savings. Money has to be put somewhere. When the savings of the top 10% or so exceed a certain thresho
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by api 11y ago
I think there's a fascinating flip side to what PG calls the refragmentation: the decline of counterculture both materially and in terms of relevance. PG talks about his yearning for something outside the mainstream bubble. For decades
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by api 11y ago
The ISS delivered far more bang for the buck than quite a few other megaprojects. Last but by no means least it provided a target for the nascent private space industry, leading to things like reusable rockets. That would have been possible
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by api 11y ago
Pittsburgh, Austin, Portland, and Raleigh - Durham also have a decent tech scene and sane housing prices.
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by api 11y ago
"The people" are sort of a non entity. A person can resist propaganda, but a propagandist does not have to convince a person. A propagandist need only convince enough people to sway an election-- and any subset of people of any ag
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by api 11y ago
The highest value of the ISS is not as a scientific experiment but an engineering undertaking. It's given us a lot of operational experience on long duration space habitats and space flight, as well as constructing and operating large
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by api 11y ago
Is there actually any such thing as a democracy, and if so would we want it? A pure democracy would actually be a nightmarish form of totalitarianism in which the majority was able to enforce its norms upon any minority without any checks
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by api 11y ago
Years ago I remember a thread where people were bashing the Bitcoin ecosystem for being full of bubbles, scammers, ponzi schemes, criminals, and con artists. Some smart-arse replied "so you're saying Bitcoin is a real currency?&qu
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by api 11y ago
Interesting, and I generally agree, but the parent post could easily be interpreted as "there's nothing to see here, we already know everything, so no need to look into it."
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by api 11y ago
If all that tissue is not needed, then why did evolution conserve it? It consumes energy, adds size, and increases weight and head size which reduces agility. I really dislike "Chief Wiggum skepticism" that likes to just hand wave
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by api 11y ago
Matter is energy. I was speaking to how much energy, in some form, is involved in propulsion. Rockets move more energy (as matter propellant) because they have lower isp, while a photon rocket has the theoretical maximum isp. Photon rockets
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by api 11y ago
Conventional rockets take many orders of magnitude more than that. Calculate e=mc^2 for the mass of propellant they expel. :)
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by api 11y ago
This is not writing. Not in the conventional sense. It's a new art form.
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by api 11y ago
20ms baseline latency is pathetic. Ping from a data center in Los Angeles to one in San Francisco is typically a little over half what it apparently takes your modem to send a packet upstream. 20ms is like half way across the country. Why i
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by api 11y ago
I'm not sure why everyone makes such a hero of Dotcom. He's a jerk who got rich by monetizing other people's work without compensation and in direct violation of their terms and wishes. I'm sure the same people lauding h
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by api 11y ago
The scientific method is absolutely at odds with how human beings behave socially and politically. It's kind of strange that we ever came up with it. Our natural tendency is to use ideas to manipulate, to believe to belong rather than
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by api 11y ago
Big science is made out of meat like everything else and suffers from all the same biases and cognitive blinds and fallacies. Scientists are genetically 99.9% identical to new age woo woo peddlers and quacks. Science is more rational becaus
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by api 11y ago
Is there a general principle here? Do loan subsidies lead to a condition in which the loan recipients are able to reap the benefits intended for loan originators through progressive inflation and risk transfer?
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by api 11y ago
That would reduce the profits of companies with large numbers of lobbyists. Edit: and even if we did it in the West, China obviously doesn't care about making the inhabitants of its major cities huff heavy metals and coal dust so why w
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by api 11y ago
"In short the loan system is transferring the benefits of the education away from the students and allowing the institutions to take it for themselves instead." That is by far the most concise summary I've ever read of the na
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IF bubble might pop THEN(medium.com)
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Fifth Generation Computer (1980s AI-oriented parallel supercomputer project)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by api 11y ago
I've thought for a long time that a huge amount of business advice is cargo cultism, since the actual underlying determinants of success are so complex and hard to pick apart. Anything far beyond the basics of value, product market fit
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by api 11y ago
#2 is a very important principle that spreads across all kinds of areas and domains. The top of the pyramid almost by definition tends to monopolize domain-specific talent, therefore the only revolutions that ever work are those that convi
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by api 11y ago
It's tough because infosec is a terribly inefficient market. The vast majority of end users don't care about security until they are impacted by it , at which point they blame the vendor and scramble for a quick fix and then quic
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by api 11y ago
Agreed that the article's "case" is weak, though it does contain some interesting information. Ultimately I think what happened is this: (1) The financial world made a lot of risky bets that it didn't know were risky bec
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by api 11y ago
In the world of regular employment, usually they don't. But in the tight-knit circle of CXO-level personnel of major financial institutions that may not be the case. It strikes me as a club, and to stay in the club one must help other
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by api 11y ago
Negative emotions are deep and profound. Positive ones are silly and trite. To smile or be happy is the least sexy thing a person can do, and negative articles get a few orders of magnitude more clicks than positive ones. It's the old

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