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by api 12y ago
I generally agree but there are a few caveats: (1) A profiler won't tell you that there is an algorithm that is O(2n) while the one you're using is O(n^2). Only reasoning about your problem will do that. (2) Most profilers won&#x2
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by api 12y ago
Agreed. Lots of aspiring entrepreneurs copy that kind of stuff, doing 80 hour work weeks on Red Bull, modafinil, and ramen because correlation equals causation. Many great musicians had problems with heroin so shooting smack will make you a
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by api 12y ago
I think the comparison continues down the line -- the big difference is how crude or refined an oligarchy is at wielding power. North Korea is particularly crude and "lower class," simply offing people left and right and sending p
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by api 12y ago
I think they call this "jawboning your portfolio," though in this case more colorful metaphors come to mind. Not saying Travis isn't brilliant, hard working, great at Wii tennis, and a tough person to compete with in general,
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by api 12y ago
America is simply much more sophisticated in its methods of mass control. China deploys primitive ham-fisted stuff like web controls and their "great firewall," while America is much more skilled in the fine-grained use of soft po
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by api 12y ago
Exactly... just wondering if energy had to be conserved locally or globally? Let me give you an example scenario: Let's say (ignore the mechanism for now) that it's possible to send a small amount of information from point A to B.
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by api 12y ago
Tangential side question: Must energy conservation be local? Would it be "legal" for -- say -- energy to be spent/dissipated (entropy increase) at one location leading to an apparent over-unity effect ("free" entrop
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by api 12y ago
As things are going, I'm really pleased. This is the first time I've been excited about Microsoft since the middle 1990s.
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by api 12y ago
I've been seeing a lot of new activity around FreeBSD and it's great... I think it has a bit of an opening given the outrageous fragmentation of the Linux ecosystem. There are what... three different inits?
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by api 12y ago
Among many other factors I get the feeling there's a huge pork dimension behind all this mass surveillance stuff -- it's big money for government IT contractors, data mining companies, etc. Any thoughts on what the other motivatin
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No, Mass Surveillance Won't Stop Terrorist Attacks(reason.com)
4 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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Using Artificial Life to Test Evolutionary Hypotheses – Part I(devolab.msu.edu)
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by api 12y ago
Mark Suster has an interesting contrarian piece on convertible notes: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/09/17/bad-notes-on-v...
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Employment cost calculator (2010, so a tiny bit old)(politicalcalculations.blogspot.com)
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by api 12y ago
You were just sentient for a minute. Don't worry. It'll pass.
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by api 12y ago
That was typical of computer kits of the day. MVP of the sort I was imagining would have been something that barely worked if at all and was tossed together in two weeks. Of course what I'm really arguing against is the fake cutout int
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by api 12y ago
There were many hobbyist computers on the market when the Apple II launched.
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by api 12y ago
It would also tell them to develop minimum viable products -- which as commonly interpreted means slap together crap to test the market. Had they done this they would have been forgotten in short order.
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by api 12y ago
While I agree, I don't see why Uber or Lyft couldn't be bribed/pressured into sharing all they have.
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by api 12y ago
I played with it as a kid and I'm perfectly fine. Just look at my comment history.
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by api 12y ago
The Science-as-religion movement, which I personally call fundamentalist positivism, is doing more harm to science than a million creationists and anti-vaccinationinsts and faith healers could possibly do. It undermines science from within
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by api 12y ago
Shifting advice coupled with dogmatic and unflinching posturing of authority provides ample space for fucking wingnuts to spout nonsense. It even works against religions -- this sort of thing led to the protestant reformation. "I am
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by api 12y ago
Very good point about mercury. What are people supposed to think? "Mercury is so bad I'm barely allowed to purchase or handle it, but then I'm supposed to then inject it into my baby?" Yes there's a lot of nuance he
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by api 12y ago
I've wondered if GMO fear mongering isn't an attempt to brand certain foods as premium and therefore charge a lot more for them. http://bitchmagazine.org/post/foodgentrification-and-culinar...
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by api 12y ago
It's a form of protest -- meaning a challenge or accusation levied against the powerful by the less powerful. Such things are inherently dickish and often a bit petulant. Our evolutionary forebears liked to fling their own feces to exp
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by api 12y ago
It means someone could in theory create a vertically integrated alternative to the entire field of medicine rebooted from the ground up with more modern understandings of things like statistics (e.g. Bayesianism) and more efficient bureaucr
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by api 12y ago
Personally I think medical science and the health care industry are so broken that they should just be rebooted from scratch.
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by api 12y ago
What about cases where prestigious scientific institutions have deeply held and advanced utterly wrong ideas for decades? Nutritional science is particularly bad in this regard. The recommendations that were advanced from (roughly) the 70s
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by api 12y ago
Insufficient repetition is a huge problem in medical science. There is no incentive to replicate existing studies, as it doesn't advance your career. A related problem is that there is no incentive to publish negative results.
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by api 12y ago
"I think science has earned its lack of credibility with the public. If you kick me in the balls for 20-years, how do you expect me to close my eyes and trust you?" I'm really happy to see that someone else sees this. I'

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