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by bryananderson 3y ago
I think this is right (people clearly desire early boarding), but I don’t personally understand it. Being crammed in an airplane isn’t the best—why do people want to do it for extra time (and while sitting on the ground, without the beautif
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by bryananderson 3y ago
> We need to know who is moving, who is coming in, the economics of the region, geological suitability to population demands, needs of the larger state and nation as it relates to the region. And on and on and on. Exactly. And it turns o
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by bryananderson 3y ago
The problem is that these reality-deficient narratives spill out into the real world where they have real consequences. For example, the pitchforks came out to recall the "soft on crime" DA and replace him with a "tough on cr
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Deep learning is out there in real products a lot more than you think. Any system that’s processing images, video, audio, or natural language (better than what existed in 2010, which was almost universally very poor) is almost certainly usi
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by bryananderson 4y ago
I work at company that uses the Newcomen engine to automate about ⅓ of the job of trained artisan laborers. Looking at the Watt engine those artisan laborers are now completely irrelevant. It's going to take years to build the supporti
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by bryananderson 4y ago
This backstop only applies to existing holdings. Banks can't go out today and load up on hold-to-maturity assets and expect the Fed to backstop them tomorrow with loans at par value. Presumably the next step is to regulate HTM holdings
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by bryananderson 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, but the consensus (around here anyway) seems to be that weights cannot be copyrighted since they are the output of an automated process, so perhaps the license cannot limit how the weights are used. The code can be copyri
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by bryananderson 4y ago
So my prior is definitely "it's the phones", and I am totally fine with being old-man-who-shakes-fist-at-cloud about what phones and social media are doing to kids (and all of us). But this article does the thing that infuria
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Their cocktail bar at Fort Mason is still awesome, if nothing else
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Trying to produce more Ramanujans by recreating the conditions of his childhood seems about as likely to work as trying to produce more cargo flights by waving landing signals around on a runway.
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Double bonus points if the “contrarian” thing is the exact opposite of contrarian within the intended audience.
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Then why did it take so much longer after the environmental clearance was done?
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by bryananderson 4y ago
You are confusing environmental clearance with a launch license. Environmental review was completed, with some required mitigations. Launch license is usually something that comes much closer to launch.
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by bryananderson 4y ago
I mean that what the Russian state as a whole has become—including a space program that once made humanity proud—is unfortunate. The current Russian state (space program included) becoming an international pariah cannot happen soon enough,
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by bryananderson 4y ago
This is outdated, unfortunately. The Russian space program has suffered from immense brain-drain, budget cuts, and corruption, all of which have worn it down over 30 years and resulted in vastly reduced quality control. In the past handful
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by bryananderson 4y ago
This only holds if you think of Russia as a single abstract actor with its own interests. Instead Russia, like every country, has individual decision-makers with their own personal interests. The “Russia did it” argument for Nord Stream is
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by bryananderson 4y ago
If Russia does not wish to look untrustworthy to its ISS partners, it should probably look into increasing its quality control: two coolant leaks, a launch failure with crew aboard, a hull leak, a brand-new module that sent the station spin
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by bryananderson 4y ago
This is exactly what they have said about e.g. the Alaska object. “Here is the approximate size. It didn’t appear maneuverable. We do not know what it was, who it came from, or what it was doing.” I agree that being open about what we don’t
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by bryananderson 4y ago
> The end result is that in the US high-speed rail is impossible to build, and it would operate on average at far less than the maximum speed. > Acela on the Northeast Corridor is about as fast as it will get. None of this is true—you
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by bryananderson 4y ago
This only became true after the loss of the shuttle Columbia on the STS-107 mission in 2003. After Columbia, a rigorous process was put in place for checking the heat tiles on the underside of the orbiter for damage. If damage was discovere
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Why do human grandmasters still bother playing chess, and why do people still watch them play instead of watching far-superior AIs play? For that matter, why do I bother cooking when I could get a better version from a restaurant for just a
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Well, we’re kind of getting into word-games that I’m not sure are that meaningful, but I was thinking of the statement “the best flavor of ice cream is chocolate” where “best” means something like “the one that brings the most joy/util
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Are you sure this needs to be fixed? Of course this is Hacker News, so our bias will be towards finding a way to stay in software (I hate calling it tech when it’s a small subset of technologies that exist) and be happy. But really, do you
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Some truths are objective, others are subjective. “The atomic number of helium is 2” is an objective truth. “The best flavor of ice cream is chocolate” is a subjective truth. It might be my truth, but not yours. Maybe your truth is that str
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Except when a poll gets a lot of votes that he doesn’t like, in which case he says “looks like the bots are out in force today!”
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by bryananderson 4y ago
It wasn’t “repaid”, the FTT was posted as collateral for the loans (customer deposits). But still, should be fine at that point, right? The loans are nice and overcollateralized, what could go wrong? Problem is that FTT is itself a bet on F
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by bryananderson 4y ago
This makes sense, but only in a world where we can trust that almost everyone is operating in good faith. Does that sound like contemporary American political discourse to you? Those from “our side” on the committee can just unite to block
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by bryananderson 4y ago
Sure, but there’s no way for the delayed settlement mechanism to handle fuzzy real-world judgment calls (such as a dispute about whether a service was rendered or not) without resorting to a centralized oracle of some sort—and then you’ve b
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by bryananderson 4y ago
At least with fiat currency you have a chance of getting the transaction reversed! Most people will not trust a currency where this is not possible, or at least they will hold it with a centralized trusted custodian who can offer transactio
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by bryananderson 4y ago
That’s the previous commenter’s point, isn’t it? The crypto advocates claim that crypto has intrinsic value simply because of its scarcity (supply-side only). The commenter’s rebuttal is that if this were true, their kid’s doodles would be

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