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by bumbada 6y ago
Most of the old Persian Empire was unsuitable for Chariots in the words of ancient writers, because of things like sand and irregular terrain. Darius III fought against Alexander in Gaugamela clearing and preparing the ground so he could us
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>if it becomes permanent they are taking a hit to their retirement savings. This would be amazing. Imagine all the talent that would be freed into real problems. BTW: I remember while working in the financial sector, in the financial bub
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As someone who jailbroke his DS in order to program and run homebrew on it, it was far from ideal. You needed so many tricks in order to run those fast enough, like removing floating point code and replacing it with integer replacement for
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by bumbada 6y ago
What usually happens when you are good at something is that you start being the best in your environment and that encourages you, for example you are the best in Math or playing football in your school. Then you go to compete with the best
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The reason Biontech did not do that earlier was because the tests to analyze the effect of temperature take months to do, 2 to 3 months. So they started vaccinating people without delaying it 3 months because it was an emergency. But after
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>whereas some people will think -20°C is lower than -65°C I believe this can happen in the US, but hardly in any place where people are used to Celsius. I have experienced -30C in Germany and Norway, and -40C in Russia. Even in the mount
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For me programming is all of those but also boring and frustrating and gets on my way to get things done. Creating things nobody ever have done before is one of the deepest feelings you can feel in this life when you have done that, but als
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This is a normal thing in any negotiation in the real world. The first price you get is high, specially if the thing in question has never been done before. When things have never been done before, real prices at the end tend to be higher t
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Crawford is not a genius, he is a visionary. He has some idea in his mind and for him this idea is as real as reality. But it does not. The early successes he had made him overconfident. I don't see the formulas he displays as anything
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The moment you put more than three people in a room you have politics. You have envies, jealousy , corruption,treason, sex, desires , power and complex social dynamics. You also have loyalty,interest and admiration , mutual support, play an
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Agreed. People love socialism so much until they live inside a socialist country. They believe the mantra you will be able to receive without giving, everybody doing what they love, how better it will be spending time doing music or whateve
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The gobertment does not need to use advanced stuff when they can just use coercion. https://xkcd.com/538/ When the Roman Empire wanted something like water engineering or gold mining they found out who did it best, and
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It is not really "not thinking", but not using your conscious mind, which can only focus on a single thing. You think with your subconscious mind too. But this can do multiple things at the same time, way faster than the logical m
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I would say AI roots and research are lisp, as 99% of all early research work was done on lisp. Lisp was the language people like Richard Stallman or John McCarthy(the inventor of Lisp) used at MIT AI laboratory: https://en.wikip
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I agree that people on HN downvote reasonable opinions and questions that do not go against HN guidelines. It is the reddit effect. At first Reddit was like HN populated with highly educated people. As it got more and more users it democrat
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Because he does not want to send Facebook every comment he makes on the internet? Specially your political ideas and opinions. I don't have a FB either. For me it is like the Stasi, tracking everything you do, only way more detailed. W
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You probably already know enough of machine learning and can study other topics in order to make ML more useful, for example: - Real marketing(people misunderstand marketing as sales and advertising) that is the study of people's needs
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Something must be said: It is too late. The New Zealand or Taiwan model works because you don't let the virus enter in the first place. Also New Zealand and Australia are in Summer right now. Just 30 seconds of Australia sun radiation
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I believe the mistake the author is doing is trying to simplify the world so much into a binary mindset, zeros and ones, all or nothing, pure qualitative. That mindset is wrong, because the world is much more complex than simple axioms, and
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Mmmm, Reading the title I was expecting they were developing some system that made a super strong exo skeleton with a porous interior just like lobsters, or bones. They have done nothing like that. Criss cross printed lines? Adding reinforc
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I am not the OP either but I also take notes. >How can I so meticulously keep notes about everything I learn? Very easy, because I know if I don't take notes I won't really learn it. I know I will forget that over time because
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That works as intended. What is called AI, or "Artificial Intelligence" should in reality be called "Artificial Intuition". It is similar to the subconscious mind that is able to get approaches to a solution very fast, b
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Not to talk about Europe's precedents too. For example, Phoenicians and Greek commerce in the Mediterranean sea, or Celtic with Tartessos trade or Persian markets on its Empire. You can not talk about theories(Adam Smith) about ideal t
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This is like having a spy on the street 24/7, but instead of cameras above like in London, cameras everywhere sending data from all the world to the USA for being analyzed and recorded forever. For me this is dystopia. You can't g
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No, js is not powerful enough for getting the same features that Emacs have, because emacs is almost an operating system. With js you could create a very simplified version, if you remove 95% of the emacs codebase. Most people just use 1-2%
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The value is enormous because women's hormones depend basically on the menstrual cycle and the modifications of that with things like the pill. People's behavior (women and men) depend a lot on hormones. Big big data you can ident
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Centralization works for a reason: It makes prices go down. For a company like Google, Twitter or Facebook it matters very little if they have 100, 1.000 million users or 2.000, or 3.000. Most of the cost is in salaries and the salaries are
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Humans invented the Law, and it is the most objective thing that we have in order to know if someone does good or wrong. Humans are not objective, but in a big part subjective. First, humans belongs to groups. And it is a completely differe
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China has some advantages(and disadvantages too) over the rest of the world in general: - It is huge, with lots of resources inside China. China also controls Tibet, non populated and with lots of natural resources. - Population density is
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The problem is that absolute power means people in power can become the terrorist. Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Polpot or Stalin took so much power that they became the terrorist themselves. They killed hundreds of millions of people. You could

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