bobcostas55

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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Somehow none of those issues are a problem in Europe.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
This is just deathist brainrot. If we lived for 10k years "naturally", would you support killing people off after 70-80 years? Of course living longer would make things better.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Is this the same Gerard who has a bizarre hatred for Scott Alexander and harasses anyone on twitter who talks about him?
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
The kindle hardware is excellent, but the kindle software is one of the worst pieces of garbage ever. Just filled from top to bottom with utterly deranged behaviors.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Seems pretty utopian to me tbh
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
>Actual medical science, and science in general, doesn't make claims beyond what we know for certain What would you say about the FDA's recent approval of aduhelm? Do we know that it works "for certain"? Or is the FDA
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
I'm thinking of this projection here: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SR15... Which gives an estimate of 2.6% of global GDP in 2100. The one you mention seems
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Probably <$15/ton if you do it at scale. Here's a good primer: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/pc0reb/an_a...
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
5% is still much higher than the costs of climate change for at least a century (at least if you believe the IPCC projections).
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
You can remove CO2 extremely cheaply using olivine today, this is a completely fake problem.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Energy is not fungible. Just because you have electricity in place A doesn't mean you can get it to place B in a cost-effective way, so mining next to, say, a hydro station with spare capacity (where electricity is cheap) doesn't
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
>Capitalism vs socialism isn’t about the existence of that capital, just who owns and how decisions are made. You can't just assume the existence of capital. It's not an exogenous variable.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Is a CCG that uses NFTs to track ownership of cards any more scammy than a CCG that uses a centralized DB to track ownership of cards?
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Do they literally not have a QA department or what? You'd think this sort of thing would be caught by automated testing.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
There aren't any, though there's a new one coming out very soon which might be good.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
async/await is not about multithreading at all though...
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Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens(youtube.com)
4 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|0 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
The Orwellian language in this piece is absolutely ridiculous.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
He created the excel file. If he wanted to clear his name he could publish the original data as it was sent from the company, but he hasn't done so. And the company obviously has no incentive to falsify the data.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
It's seems highly likely that Ariely did it, not the company.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
There's been a lot of discussion about AI bias on HN lately, this paper discusses just what kind of fairness is possible.
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The impossibility of fairness: a generalized impossibility result for decisions(arxiv.org)
3 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|1 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
During his tenure the market cap has increased by about $2 trillion. How much of that value has Cook captured? A very small %. Perhaps even smaller than his actual contribution! You could easily make the argument that Cook is being exploite
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
>ADAMS. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. >JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hu
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
There was nothing incorrect about their scientific judgments. Modern behavioral genetics have confirmed both the concerns and the potential effectiveness of the eugenicists. What changed was that, as a society, we no longer think the trade-
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Some minor stuff with dispatching to the UI thread, nothing serious. Oh and you'll need a new package to get the System.Windows.Interactivity stuff.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
I don't really agree, the point is to provide high-level abstractions that hide a bunch of complexity. But even in a high-level non-functional language, there's not a lot of friction in terms of the model of the language vs the ha
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
One aspect I don't see mentioned very often is that the FP model of computation is completely different from the model of the underlying hardware, which makes it very difficult to reason about things (and often involves putting blind h
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Think of it as a stationary bandit trying to limit various upstarts that might threaten his position.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
The Afghan people who by and large do not want Taliban rule.

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