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by avz 5y ago
> aleph-1, which is the size of the power set of aleph-0 In ZFC, aleph-1 is not the size of the powerset of aleph-0. Instead, aleph-1 is the next larger cardinal number after aleph-0. The size of the powerset of aleph-0 is called continu
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by avz 5y ago
There exist countries with simple tax code, inhabited by people who do not want to pay tax. Therefore any valid explanation why US has a comparatively complex tax code must cite something specific about the US. A generic reference to human
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by avz 5y ago
I am concerned that the type of defense of privacy exemplified by your argument (that reporting the happy hour to the insurance company was a privacy violation and should be illegal) will backfire sooner or later. Assuming that the guy was
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A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex(biorxiv.org)
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by avz 5y ago
> the human genome is littered with viral genetic material accumulated over time, god knows if it's for good or for bad In some cases, we know too, e.g. synctin-1 [1] is a viral protein coded by a gene integrated into the primate ge
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by avz 5y ago
> [...] lots of people see what looks like the "story changing", and distrust anything coming out of their government, [...]. Changing and updating our beliefs as evidence comes in is a fundamental ability that underlies numero
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by avz 5y ago
I think the presence of international standards like the one potentially being established by GDPR makes outsourcing easier, not harder. It would make little sense for an Argentine developer to learn the intricacies of Slovenian data protec
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by avz 5y ago
These caveats make sense. I think that the role of computing and automation in law will be similar to their role in many other fields where the new technology does not necessarily eliminate humans completely, but instead increases their pro
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by avz 5y ago
> You literally drop heavy stuff from orbit If you literally drop something in orbit then it stays in orbit. In order to make it fall to the ground you first need to de-orbit it.
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by avz 5y ago
This is an entirely sensible position, as long as we don't simultaneously decry winner-takes-all market dynamics. On second thought, we can in fact do both simultaneously by shifting the responsibility for supporting good journalism on
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by avz 5y ago
> Quantum supremacy is debated, and so not something I can reasonably comment on. From the explanation above however, you can see that supremacy is achieved whenever you do something with a QC that cannot be done with a classical compute
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by avz 5y ago
> But country-specific things aside: * The DMCA already makes it easy enough to... DMCA is a country-specific thing. Moreover, it is specific to a country the article is not about.
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by avz 5y ago
I want to add a historical remark. Very early forms of human government, such as ancient kingdoms in various parts of the world, had one or a few prominent members of society hold full discretion and decision-making power. Later, we codifie
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by avz 5y ago
> No one actually wants a society being ruled by computers, except maybe the people running those computers. Humans in charge are known for injustice, kickbacks, favor trading, selective enforcement and other forms of corruption and abus
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by avz 5y ago
> A decade or two of stagnation would be frustrating for those in the field but probably overall a good thing. Is a decade or two of a head start given to high-tech totalitarian regimes like China overall a good thing? > Plus I don&#x
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by avz 5y ago
> Just seems odd that somehow the FBI is the best server admin here? Without arguing for or against it, I can see this new role viewed as a "sysadmin of last resort" wherein an authorized institution steps in to ensure a minimu
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by avz 5y ago
Developing complexity theory of quantum algorithms without a quantum computer is not any more outrageous than developing complexity theory of Turing machines with oracles. The former might a least be built one day. And yet, people produce i
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by avz 6y ago
> this concept of a 'widely digitally delicate prime' is that you can take such a prime, prepend it with any sequence, and receive a prime in return. This makes no sense. Let X be a number that satisfies your condition and cons
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by avz 6y ago
Perhaps I can share a different perspective. I like unrestored ruins. I perceive a restoration as admixture of modern techniques and fresh touch onto an old and genuine core, and a recreation as a modern construction made to look old. When
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by avz 6y ago
This has nothing to do with the alleged erosion of personal lives. Money is simply not the only aspect of a job that determines how rewarding it is. Other parameters that people find relevant include meaningful mission, ethical concerns, wo
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by avz 6y ago
In the absence of a physicist, I suppose that a software engineer in the room might do. After all, the counterintuitive consequences of relativity have their counterparts in counterintuitive effects in distributed systems and concurrent pro
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by avz 6y ago
I don't find the argument that distances are too great for intelligence to meet particularly convincing. At its core lies unjustified extrapolation that the ratio of average lifespan to typical interstellar distance - a pure accident o
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by avz 6y ago
> Can a person live a decent life without working? Here is how I read this: "Can I live a decent life?" - > Can other people make sure I have what I need when and where I need it? "...without working?" -> ...wit
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by avz 6y ago
Returns on investment in automation increase with the scale of the system being automated. Therefore, automation promotes centralization of control. Be careful what you wish for.
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by avz 6y ago
VLBI arrays [1] are networks of radio telescopes that combine data from multiple instruments spread out over a continent or the whole planet. A network like this emulates a continent-size or a planet-size radio telescope and produces radioa
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by avz 6y ago
Can an employee on EB green card leave their sponsoring employer to start a PhD in the US and keep the GC?
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by avz 6y ago
> and if black holes really do explode at the end of evaporation, then maybe that is also observable I suppose her reason to assume we can't observe this is that evaporation takes extremely long time. For example, a solar mass bla
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by avz 6y ago
Not the OP, but I suppose one can read their comment as referring to the original colonizers who crossed the Bering strait, not those who crossed the Atlantic.
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by avz 6y ago
Earth is a graveyard of species. Looking at the geological record, more than 99% of species that ever existed here have gone extinct [1]. Overwhelming majority of them long before we showed up. And in any case, this planet will not support
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by avz 6y ago
> How could you upload just your brain and be the same person? Need your whole body, surely? In practice, people who received heart transplants are generally considered to be the same person as they had been before the transplantation, s

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