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by beefield 6y ago
Interesting. How is the value of that currency maintained so that it actually would be an usable currency?
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by beefield 6y ago
It is a bit weird that cryptocurrency folks talk about "disrupting" financial system when they actually talk about rolling monetary policy back to about middle ages. Come up with a currency anyone can create and there you have a
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by beefield 6y ago
> Why doesn't google.com have a comprehensive list of these? It is quite obvious that google does not give a s&it whether I find what I think I want to find. Google is much more interested in 1) serving me ads they think are mos
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by beefield 6y ago
There was a nice list of good popular physics books in the beginning of the article. I wonder if anyone has similar lists for other science disciples?
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by beefield 6y ago
> It's shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems Yes, my all-time favourite is the shortcut fn-backspace for delete. How handy to not need to use a distinct delete b
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by beefield 6y ago
Well, I have to say that if that is the most approachable and easily googled content in the internet to figure this out, I am not too surprised I had to figure it out on my own...
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by beefield 6y ago
I don't know, my college days were a couple of decades ago, so I have already forgotten plenty. But if you can point to a good source in the internet that explains this, I could try to see why my research efforts failed.
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by beefield 6y ago
Funny. Only some months ago I needed to figure out how to represent unit vectors of (a rotated) coordinate system in another coordinate system. After some days of drawing on the paper I came to the conclusion that actually the rotation vect
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by beefield 6y ago
A weird bastard child of ideology and mathematics.
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by beefield 6y ago
Sometimes I would like to see a small fraction of explainability required from human brain output than what is discussed and wanted from DL.
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by beefield 6y ago
I recommend book "Stop reading the news" by Rolf Dobelli. To put it short, daily news are bad for you. Especially and including your understanding of the world. (Yes, I am still addicted, but trying to work myself out.)
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by beefield 6y ago
Is there a company that consists of people that actually are willing and interested in getting "constructive feedback"? Basically I think that it would mean that the people are so intereted in the quality of the work they are doin
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by beefield 6y ago
> Do people actually have fights like this with management at their companies? There was a time when I thought this video was funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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by beefield 6y ago
Reading all the comments I can't help appreciating two observations: 1. How vastly differently we experience the world 2. How little our experience resembles what there actually is outside. That brain of ours seems to be a real little
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by beefield 6y ago
> This is a serious problem in all big search engines I have never really understood why search engines do not let customers create blacklists of domains they do not want to see in the results. Are they really so cynical bastards that
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by beefield 6y ago
I think both patents and cooyright should be taxed so that the time progressivity is high. Say first year or two practically free, but if you want to keep your ip at 20 years, it should cost you billions. You can stop paying tax any time yo
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by beefield 6y ago
Exactly this. What is really weird, though, is that I have occasionally tried to promote this approach to people that ask my help, simply by asking them to write the request to me instead of calling. Also, getting the help request in writte
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by beefield 6y ago
People with high incomes from sources with no ethical dilemmas may also think that there are successful idiots. And not only because they do not understand the game the idiot is playing.
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by beefield 6y ago
Or maybe you do, but simply refuse to play the game due to ethical and moral grounds.
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by beefield 6y ago
You could make it illegal to price discriminate on software sales. I.e, if you sell a piece of software at one unit price to someone, you are obliged to sell with that price to anyone who wants it. Obviously that would disrupt quite a few e
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by beefield 6y ago
I subscribe to the idea of comparative advantage, but I also subscribe to the idea of welfare losses of abusive monopolistic behaviour, which all of these platforms quite openly and obviously aim for. And being a member of a coop does not
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by beefield 6y ago
For me it is one of the more amazing market failures that restaurants can't come up with a food delivery/online order coop. Owned by restaurants and offering services to the owners at cost. (same applies to e.g. hotel booking site
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by beefield 6y ago
Amartya Sen: Development as freedom. Gives perspective what is needed for a country to develop to (and stay) a good place to live for the citizens.
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by beefield 6y ago
Yep, and another is that version control support of databases is still a bit limited. (There are some solutions, at least redgate is doing something for SQL server on this.) I have a workflow where I recreate all views and procedures in the
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by beefield 6y ago
Having occasionally wrangled with relativley complicated queries and jungles of views ans procedures, I have to ask that what would be a better way to get complicated stuff out from databases? I can think of two other options, which I perso
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by beefield 6y ago
Wonder if there is somewhere a list or some document of "interesting" 4d shapes? For example klein bottle, which is the only one I know of.
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by beefield 6y ago
My guess is that they have a/b tested that if you remove the item from the feed user clicked, users become "more engaged" i.e. frustratingly scrolling to find the place where they were.
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by beefield 6y ago
And for the numerically challenged like me who like to see visualizations. First line is 200k and second is 3M oo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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by beefield 6y ago
To me both communism and right-wing (brutalist aynrandian) capitalism are the same in some sense. Both are somewhat nice ideologues in naive theory. But if you bring them to real world, communism brings you Soviet Union and right-wing capit
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by beefield 6y ago
Except that it is precisely the opposite in certain important details. John Galt did not want a functioning society funded by money tax^H^H^H stolen from him. He did not want the society to offer medical care or education to "engineeri

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