btcindivist

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by btcindivist 8y ago
p-values that are not in the physics ranges are ridiculous. It's a shame everyone started copying physics but decided for higher acceptance/rejection values. I was a little bit disappointed when I realized that a bunch of valid mo
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by btcindivist 8y ago
What is not the case? 1-2% of total CO2 footprint? That flying a full plane is equivalent to months if not a year of driving a nontrivial distance every day? I'm not saying cars are more efficient. It's just that the distance trav
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Depends on how many. Flying airplanes is around 1-2% of our total CO2 footprint. Of course, for an individual, doing 1 intercontinental flight with a full plane is equivalent to months if not a year of driving a car to work every day, but i
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by btcindivist 8y ago
But there's only 3-4 DOM elements. I'm pretty sure doing this in canvas is not as trivial as this.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Given there's only a single svg element changing I'm not exactly sure you could have done it better. It might just be that the ease-out transitions for the stroke are not efficiently implemented in whatever browser you're usi
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Holocaust is a word that has its origin long before The Holocaust happened. [0] I did not call the non-human animal holocaust as The Holocaust (committed by the nazis). Here's a Jewish Holocaust survivor https://www.reddit.c
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by btcindivist 8y ago
I'm pretty sure SpaceX hired the old experts that are stuck in the past. There's nothing stopping you from iterating after the experts gave you a perfect start.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
About a billion cows or so annually.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Cage free is still factory farming, there's just no cages, but a huge big closed dark cage. I'm in no denial when I'm buying those eggs.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
The thing is, people don't really care about animals. Especially not the kind, calm and docile ones. A holocaust is happening currently, 60 billion most docile and mostly female cows and fowls are eliminated every year. No one gives a
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by btcindivist 8y ago
I'm confused that Tesla did not hire these experts. I see Munro & Associates dropping criticism, and am baffled, given so much expert knowledge available that no one hired these guys or their competition.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
I think C++ compiles down to a pure functional language that is then optimized into an efficient beast. So I'm not sure that pure code is hard to optimize.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
The rest of my comment explains that worrying about BTC CO2 impact is useless. People do a bunch of stuff that has magnitudes bigger CO2 footprint. Are we profiling CO2 usage? If so, what, we want to optimize the tiny footprints instead of
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by btcindivist 8y ago
I'm not sure. Given that he was in a relationship with a professor there, he might have got an easy pass.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Ton of CO2 is generated by christmas lights. It trumps BTC or is very close. Yes, producing a lot of cheap energy is an opportunity to use more of it. There's a bunch of stupid things people do with energy and increase their CO2 impact
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Weird, no Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, one of the best applications of utilitarianism.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
When profiling are we optimizing the fastest functions?
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Heating and cooling trumps the transport sector with 30%+. Globally, stuff does skew a lot from our first worldly habits. If you do the calculations similar to those done in http://withouthotair.com/ you'd see your fir
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by btcindivist 8y ago
The CO2 impact of your car driving is much less than impact from heating-cooling, and probably also from your diet. Cars are efficient machines. Houses are rarely built well, especially in the US, and the production of common US diet ingred
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by btcindivist 8y ago
There is deactivate and delete option for years now. Zuckerberg stated that they delete all of the data after user deletes their account (not deactivate).
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Thing is, I do less than 1 lesson per day. Probably 3 lessons per two weeks. Meaning that I press Practice button about 100 times in that two week period. After about 40 days, I went back to go through some of the previous lessons, given th
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by btcindivist 8y ago
I still find their spaced repetition lacking. I never see some of the words again after seeing them for the first time.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
I'm pretty sure taxing by calorie density would make things better. There's no cost in doing that, it would just shift people to eat less calorie dense food like fruits, vegetables and leafy greens. The main problem is that the cu
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by btcindivist 8y ago
For a country that is so weighed down by the health issues around obesity, it's quite weird taxes/incentives based on calorie per gram isn't anywhere in sight. The savings from not having to take care of so much sick people w
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by btcindivist 8y ago
You can use the same trick to make your models sparse. Less parameters means less flexibility to interpret output "correctly".
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by btcindivist 8y ago
It is a common mistake to characterize communism as collectivist. Marxist notion of communism is brutally individualistic.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Antibiotics for human use are nothing. There's around 70 billion domesticated land animals being born and dying every year. That's 700 billion Petri dishes with varying antibiotic power in just 10 years, and that number is more th
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Well, spinach E Coli is there because we use cattle poop all over it. Nothing better than fertilising our vegetables with manure rich in antibiotics resistant E Coli.
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by btcindivist 8y ago
Are discoveries about black holes legit? Isn't it still the case that they have not been experimentally confirmed to exist, and all talk of discoveries is just conceptual?
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by btcindivist 8y ago
If only we didn't waste all of the antibiotics on non-human animals. Such a bad use of brilliant biotechnology.

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