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by buvanshak 8y ago
This is not always possible. For example, take the claim that a certain thing X in some eatables is harmful/not harmful for human beings. Such a thing might not be possible without long term study. Or the claim that smoking will kill y
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by buvanshak 8y ago
>None of these associations are actually true, Have you done research on any of these yourself? Also, I don't think you can put all those things in the same basket. For example, the last two. Doing the research on those might requi
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by buvanshak 8y ago
I think that the common people have no way of knowing the real truth about something. And all our decisions should be based on this simple fact of modern life...
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by buvanshak 8y ago
And also, Any amount of study does not say much if all of them uses flawed methodologies ("but that is the best we have" does not make it any better), which has been a serious issue lately..
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by buvanshak 8y ago
Yes. but the first step is to acknowledge it. That is the point the parent is talking about..
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by buvanshak 8y ago
>because doctors, who generally consider vaccines to be very effective and mostly harmless, are not particularly financially vested... Interested does not always have to be financial. It is hard for a community to go back on its beliefs.
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by buvanshak 8y ago
Glad to know that a vaccine was pulled out of market due to safety concerns...Another one that followed the same was the Rotavirus Vaccine [1], even after it was found "safe" during trials. 1. https://www.cdc.gov/m
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by buvanshak 8y ago
There is something so wrong with this comment that all the problems with today's tech culture can be extrapolated from it...
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by buvanshak 8y ago
>As opposed to the hundreds a day dying from conventional drivers? That does not justify putting half baked tech in a position where it could kill people.
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by buvanshak 8y ago
Glad to know that a vaccine was pulled out of market due to safety concerns...Another one that followed the same was the Rotavirus Vaccine [1], even after it was found "safe" during trials. 1. https://www.cdc.gov/m
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by buvanshak 8y ago
I think these articles are the work of their PR. Because they want to paint what they are trying to do to be Impossible. Even though this might be common knowledge, Elon Musk wants to inspire blind belief aka create a reality distortion fie
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by buvanshak 8y ago
Even if you agree with that how is "treating raising capital as one element that he needs to solve" work any better that the, you know, the other, non-engineer like methods others use to raise capital?
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by buvanshak 8y ago
Yes. sadly, I think this is spot on. I started noticing this trend with PEP 498 (Php like string interpolation). One can only hope it won't ever become so bad...
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by buvanshak 8y ago
> This has been possible in functional and "expression" languages since forever, and it's considered a very good practice. Really? Can you show an example?
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by buvanshak 8y ago
>It feels like accepted PEPs are slowly coming under less scrutiny and disregarding the idea of feature orthogonality and low overhead. I have been noticing this long before. For me it was with the pep that dealt with automatic string in
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by buvanshak 8y ago
> But I don't feel anything from poetry. > ones where I do feel something is more because of the story Just curious. Do you find some combination of words more "beautiful" then other combination of words that says more
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by buvanshak 8y ago
I gave up on Mysql long time ago when I found out that it cannot refer to temporary tables multiple times in the same query. Not sure if it has been fixed now... EDIT: Does not seem fixed https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refma
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by buvanshak 8y ago
Seriously. I sometimes thing if these articles are doing for Elon Musk. So Mr Musk is attempting something, let us call this X. If he simply do it, no one else notices, and the future potential investors might fail to notice...Same if he fa
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by buvanshak 8y ago
>It's thanks to this try-and-fail that this man was able to build things that nobody thought to be feasible. Can you list a couple of things that this man built, that everyone thought not possible?
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by buvanshak 8y ago
> reliable Is it really time to say this?
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by buvanshak 8y ago
Yes. But two things. 1. We don't know all the mechanisms that a brain employs to achieve intelligence. We see billions of interconnected neurons and we assumes "Yea, this might be generating intelligence". 2. We don't kn
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by buvanshak 8y ago
A bike is standing straight, completely still, with the front wheels completely straight. According to you, if I lean this stationary bike, to left, you are saying the front wheel will turn to right, right?
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by buvanshak 8y ago
That is bullshit. If I just lean to the left, the bike does not "react" by leaning to the right. If I lean to the left without touching the handle bars, the cycle ll start turning to the left. With counter steering, it can be made
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by buvanshak 8y ago
> Bike leans right, front wheel turns right Agree. But this is not what the other person is saying.
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by buvanshak 8y ago
Suppose you see an object A, moving straight line getting caught in the gravity of object B, ending up in a orbit around it. Deriving an underlying theory would be deducing the force of gravity from it. Axiomizing the very specific behavior
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by buvanshak 8y ago
> When you lean to (your) left, the center of mass of you+bike goes left of the plane of the wheels, this causes the front wheel to rotate away This does not seem correct. Why does it cause the front wheel to rotate away (right) ? If you
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by buvanshak 8y ago
>If you lean left, front wheel will "do" countersteering itself (same as noted). I am not sure. If you lean left, then the handle bar ll slightly turn left automatically. In actual countersteering, it greatly helps only because
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by buvanshak 8y ago
> What does that have to do with reproducibility? That is exactly what I wanted to ask you originally when you cited the celestial mechanics example. It is not relevant in cases we are deriving a theory underlying the behavior , rather
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by buvanshak 8y ago
> If they can't even get the basics right how can Musk be sure that his strategy is the right one? The strategy is right one as long as it sells cars. Musk is a salesman in engineer's clothing.
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by buvanshak 8y ago
> But nonetheless, the experimental data that went into this discovery was largely non-reproducible. I am finding a hard time to grasp what you are telling here. If you deduce a set of laws A from an event X, you don't need X to rep

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