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by asfarley 7y ago
I worked in Shenzhen for a bit, don't remember seeing or hearing about these. There were a lot of electric bicycles and trikes though.
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by asfarley 7y ago
Can you tolerate the concept that nobody "deserves" anything, and that decision-making should be based mostly on outcomes?
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by asfarley 7y ago
I don't think MWI claims, exactly, that an entire universe 'appears instantaneously'. Couldn't MWI represented with a probability cloud? Maybe the many-worlds exists as a fixed-volume probability on all states in the uni
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by asfarley 7y ago
Nexus 4 was my favorite phone - beautiful form factor, nice screen, worked well.
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by asfarley 7y ago
I was agreeing with you
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by asfarley 7y ago
I think the suggestions is that toddlers know the word "chew" but not the word "masticate". Is this hard to believe?
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by asfarley 7y ago
I have to disagree that there are any healthy ways of costly signalling at all. Yes, there doesn't need to be a middle-man but there does need to be a sacrifice, some type of value destruction. On a technical level, you're probabl
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by asfarley 7y ago
Probably, yes... I'm not advocating any particular method of costly signalling, just that it's a valid concept
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by asfarley 7y ago
The theory is not that 'failing to buy over-priced jewelry is bad'. The theory is that buying high-priced jewelry is a stronger signal of commitment than buying cheap jewelry. This is because, if someone is not comitted, it's
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by asfarley 7y ago
In my experience, people committing ethics violations would not have been stopped by taking an ethics course... it's not an information problem
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by asfarley 7y ago
Well it sounds strange the way you say it, but video evidence of someone not committing a crime is often a pretty good alibi, right?
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by asfarley 7y ago
Yes, this is what I meant. To be clear, I'm not accusing anyone of intentionally being misleading. But consider this process: 1) Notice an inflection 2) Search through a near-infinite number of economic indicators 3) Select those other
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by asfarley 7y ago
I used to feel this way until I read about the costly signalling in terms of game theory. Maybe this type of signalling isn't universal but it definitely serves a (not-always-evil) purpose.
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by asfarley 7y ago
Hah, it kind of sounds like your manager was giving you the ol' Walter White "tread carefully" - are you sure he wasn't involved?
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by asfarley 7y ago
What triggered this investigation? I agree that it does look like a phase-change. But did you throw out any graphs that didn't have a phase-change appearance? I'm genuinely curious. Seems like there are different arguments below-t
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by asfarley 7y ago
I guess you can say that, but I think what I'm saying is a pretty standard position in QM: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32665/why-positi...
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by asfarley 7y ago
From what I remember, the book 'Quantum Mechanics in Simple Matrix Form' explicitly discusses which variables are quantized and which are not, according to standard quantum mechanics. It takes a few chapters to develop the argumen
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by asfarley 7y ago
I don't think this is true at all. Position isn't quantized; energy is. An object having a position described by an irrational number does not store infinite information. The object isn't storing anything at all; it's ju
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Ask HN: Article suggesting hunter-mindset is good for debugging
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by asfarley 7y ago
New account, no other posts, anonymous name, nothing to see here move along
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by asfarley 7y ago
Disaster-response is to robotics, as Lenna is to computer vision
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by asfarley 7y ago
This article describes a situation where a bad person did bad things, and was eventually stopped. You are saying: "That was not the solution. But I don't know what the right solution is". How can you possibly know that there
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by asfarley 7y ago
I didn't read that comment as disdain at all; just drawing an equivalence between prehistoric, not-necessary-for-survival activites and modern not-necessary-for-survival activities.
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by asfarley 7y ago
This seems so intuitively wrong to me; like postulating that Windows is necessary for assembly to exist. Almost none of the preliminary claims in this article feel compelling to me: "no physical property or set of properties can explai
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by asfarley 7y ago
I have this tendency to vocalize my prediction of the speaker's next words; this is sometimes interpreted as an interruption. When I do this, I'm not intending to stop the speaker, or even to speak over them; the goal is to demons
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by asfarley 7y ago
This is definitely the easiest for me to use, and to take without offence.
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by asfarley 7y ago
Do you see the value in interrupt-based software? Why should there be any real distinction between software message-passing and human message-passing? The complete rejection of interruption-during-conversation is equivalent to the denial of
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by asfarley 7y ago
Sounds like a failure of pschiatry. I don't accept the conclusion that faulty brains are 'unlikely to be the root-cause'. This is like a systems engineer stating 'this issue is definitely not hardware-related'. Mayb
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by asfarley 7y ago
The real question is - are iPhones a fundamental property of sufficiently complex life? Will the first alien culture we encounter have a 2D vision & touch-based thin interface to their global (galatic) network?
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by asfarley 7y ago
This is very typical for Upwork. I have entirely stopped using their platform.

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