bweitzman

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by bweitzman 11y ago
Sounds like somebody figured out the single responsibility principle
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by bweitzman 11y ago
If you have an opportunity to increase profitability and you don't take it you _are_ losing money, at least so long as the opportunity is sustainable.
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Rational? It's not a job I'd want to do but it makes sense.
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by bweitzman 11y ago
I remember reading something a few years ago that criticized the use of the term psychopath because it wasn't defined in a rigid way and the definition basically tracked the general populations general fears. And because we as a societ
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by bweitzman 11y ago
You can upload FLAC to google music. Not sure if it stores in that format though, and I think streaming is max 320
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by bweitzman 11y ago
in the google music app, not play, go to the hamburger menu -> settings. Should be at the top under the account section, you may need to hit the refresh button under the same the section.
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Wouldn't an infinite number of things imply an infinite amount of energy which would render the conservation of energy laws meaningless?
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by bweitzman 11y ago
I don't think Prince is even that good at marketing. I think what makes his work appealing as an investment is that a near infinite amount can be generated whenever requested. He's just a money printing machine
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by bweitzman 11y ago
> I don't think you should dismiss somebody because they provoked you with their work. Your statement, your imagery of blasting him into space, is ultimately the execution of his piece. He built a frame and your comment filled it in
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Meh it's been done. Not that interesting anymore IMO
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by bweitzman 11y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Bluetooth is tolerably good but a headphone jack works so much better if you're listening on headphones IMO Not to mention that most companies making medium-to-high end headphones are not even dealing with bluetooth.
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Sure, but there is a difference on the order of magnitudes between the probability that a fair coin will come up heads 100 times in a row and the probability that a microsingularity will come along and bias your results. But yeah truth is t
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Of course. If you flip the coin 100 times and get all heads than you are safe to call the coin unfair, even though you would expect to see that result (1/2)^100 and thus would be wrong once in a while. I think that's sort of the p
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Truth is just a sufficiently correct predictive model
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by bweitzman 11y ago
I think the coin example makes sense but is not a good example in this case. You will never be able to determine the validity of a coin just by flipping it. Any sequence of flips is technically valid but possibly just very rare for a fair c
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by bweitzman 11y ago
The author touches upon creativity being related to making educated guesses about how to proceed with a proof.
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Replace `find [] s = nothing` with `find [] s = left ("variable " ++ s ++ " not defined")` (assuming types/functions similar to Haskell, I don't actually know Agda)
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by bweitzman 11y ago
I know a few people who've been home schooled. You would never be able to tell unless they told you (which is how I found out in every case)
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by bweitzman 11y ago
1 hour a day, every day, of each of the subjects you listed should be plenty. Anyways, anything longer than that is difficult for adults to pay attention to, let alone children. If you had an hour per day of instruction/guided practice
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Are you going to continue using the MIT license in the future? Or will you use a more restrictive license to encourage people to give you more explicit attribution in the future? Just following the minimum requirements of a license may not
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by bweitzman 11y ago
You make it sound like living off the land with a small farm is a particularly easy thing to do, and I don't think that's true, especially for someone with no experience with that lifestyle. I can't imagine that a person who
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by bweitzman 11y ago
It's kind of the opposite actually, if you have a state lottery, there's not really any incentive to make the payout rates favorable. Whereas if you have multiple competing lottery companies then hopefully they would be forced to
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Yeah I agree, I think the issue is that "really value" is ambiguous and implies that there's only one thing which we can optimize for at a time. I don't think that's true, but I don't think it's a logical
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Well I suppose the issue is muddled because having a pool is a binary thing where as commute time is not. That makes them hard to rank. Suppose instead of just saying that you're choosing between a house with no pool but a short commut
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by bweitzman 11y ago
It does mean that the pool isn't the thing you value most though, since you value your commute more than the pool.
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Not a thing where I grew up in the US
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by bweitzman 11y ago
yes and no. When a person buys perfume, they don't care about the actual chemical makeup of whatever liquid is in the bottle, they care about the scent (and possibly brand associations). I would call that paying for the smell. The smel
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by bweitzman 11y ago
I never said "X is illegal/legal therefore it is immoral/moral", and I don't agree with that sentiment. consider: x ∈ X x ∈ I X ⊆ L Y ⊆ L therefore ∀ y ∈ Y, y ∈ I or even just ∃ y ∈ Y, y ∈ I that doesn't make a
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Yeah, that's sort of the point, isn't it?

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