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by brownbat 8y ago
Possibly a critique of deriving truth from intuition, which leaves no way to critically distinguish between two conflicting ideas, much as you can't distinguish between cows by color at night. Hegel wasn't exactly from the Strunk
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by brownbat 8y ago
Mitchell and Webb offer the canonical spoof: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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by brownbat 8y ago
Yeah, it's like saying everyone should have shorted housing in 2006. If everyone had perfect information... markets wouldn't even function in a recognizable way. If everyone sold before the peak there wouldn't be any peaks.
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by brownbat 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cannon
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by brownbat 8y ago
I've never heard "amber" used as a modifier for "amber." "Quick, bring me the amber amber, Amber!" I didn't write the comment very clearly, but the petrels were a hint I was talking about language a
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by brownbat 8y ago
Amber, the color of traffic lights, waves of grain and... pretty much nothing else. Reminds me of (grammatical) petrels: https://www.kith.org/words/lists/petrels-list/ It's as if when modifiers and nouns
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by brownbat 8y ago
> Nobody is using it. For a definition of nobody that includes hundreds of millions of active users. Ie, more people than you will ever meet in your lifetime, possibly more than all the people those people will meet in their lifetimes. N
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by brownbat 8y ago
That's the tragedy. It's a business that became one of the richest companies in the world in a few years, obtaining massive capital looking for investments along the way. It then holds all those investments (of money or time or in
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by brownbat 8y ago
> recent reports that Bloomberg killed a China story to avoid irritating the Chinese government They don't mention which reports. Anyone recall the spiked story? Search results about Bloomberg and China are pretty crowded, given rec
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by brownbat 8y ago
Herd immunity is one perk. It prevents anyone between you and the newspaper from inserting some js to turn your machine into a cannon targeting someone else. "Need" may be a bit strong, but there are positive security externalitie
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Amazon Camper Force(amazondelivers.jobs)
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by brownbat 8y ago
> This is fearmongering. Spoiler, the article is actually a playful response to a fear-mongering article titled "The Silent Road To Serfdom," with a bit of inspiration from Asimov at the end. The title is bait for misinterpreta
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by brownbat 8y ago
I wonder if the gains would be significant if the regs allowed side mirrors to be replaced with cameras and a screen or projection onto the side windows.
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by brownbat 8y ago
If we want authentication, public-private key pairs are a great idea. A trusted network is fine, but are the telephone networks trusted? Can't get them to implement simple features in our interests, doesn't seem very much like a t
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by brownbat 8y ago
We might jokingly call this the first bill against robot rights. To play robot devil's advocate... the future dystopia probably isn't a campaign driven by a fear of AI, but driven by a fear of programming in general, and skepticis
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by brownbat 8y ago
Reminds me of this post about how much of a gap there is between crypto mining and renting a box out to researchers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16663689 We're way overdue for a p2p marketplace for cycles.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Well, it's worth asking. On the other hand, one rebuttal would go something like: P1. We should calibrate our tolerance for risk against the level of harm we're addressing. P2. Mosquitoes are at the high water mark for ongoing har
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by brownbat 8y ago
Some of it is different reporting requirements, but some of it is clustered in at-risk groups that are underserved. http://www.nber.org/papers/w20525 Big recent declines are due to safer sleeping practices reducing SID
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by brownbat 8y ago
To your point, the key drivers of the recent decline in US life expectancy seem to be suicides, alcohol, and opioids. Some of these are definitely mediated by the quality of the health care system, but culture, public policy, and economics
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by brownbat 8y ago
Ah. That's not exactly what I meant by liar's paradox. I just meant it's a paradox of self reference. The liar's paradox is the most famous, but the set of all sets that do not contain themselves is another. So it's
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by brownbat 8y ago
It's true you can do some of these in each browser, but not all of them. Chrome on mobile lets you split screen tabs, but seems to require an extension on Desktop. I think you can do tab grouping through a flag, but I haven't real
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by brownbat 8y ago
The essay as a whole has several interesting moments. Though rehabilitations of Kuhn like this remain troubling: > In Kuhn’s view, reality is out there, but it doesn’t speak our language. It remains forever alien, non-linguistic, regardl
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by brownbat 8y ago
Just installed Vivaldi. Wow. Thanks. You can hold shift to select multiple tabs and then do all these operations, like mute them all, group them, display them tiled... and I feel like I'm just scratching the surface. It feels like the
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by brownbat 8y ago
I understand the sunk cost fallacy, but I agree that I'm not sure this is the greatest example of it. Or maybe I relate to films in a completely different way from anyone else. For example, gaping plot holes or impossible character mot
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by brownbat 8y ago
> In response [to unfair competition with pirated international games], the Bonyad has devised a unique policy: It issues Iranian publishers holographic stickers they must use to seal each individual copy of their pirated games before th
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by brownbat 8y ago
They had no authority to compel treatment. I think they used the minimum sentence then worked to set up a mental health court for future cases.
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by brownbat 8y ago
I don't think that cuts one direction. Electronic doesn't have to have a single point of failure, that's a design decision. And paper ballots often have moments where they have single points of failure, like the examples I ci
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by brownbat 8y ago
I'll join you and take some of the downvotes you got, because I have a pet peeve on this topic to complain about. Too often this fallacy is used to criticize e-voting: 1) find a flaw with electronic voting, 2) support paper ballots. Op
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by brownbat 8y ago
You're skipping past the congressional funding negotiations that set up those rules, and the motivations of hospitals to create the conditions supporting either funded or unfunded slots. Sure, we can slice off portions of this process
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by brownbat 8y ago
I was agreeing with you. :)

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