c1ccccc1

13 ms·

91.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
1% per what? 1% per GWh? Coal power kills a huge number of people through air pollution, and that's during regular operation. So for me personally, coal power is much more scary than nuclear power.
92.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
If a box of gas (or a bar of iron, or a meteor shower) is capable to doing arbitrary computations, then go ahead and use a box of gas to factor some big numbers. The gas has 10^23 atoms that are all colliding with other atoms extremely ofte
93.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Yes, self replicating machines would probably be required. But self replicators are definitely physically possible.
94.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
This is your friendly physics reminder that perpetual motion machines have nothing to do with this. It's hard to turn the whole planet into paperclips because paperclips are mostly made of iron, while the planet contains many other ele
95.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
There's two things that can have symmetry here: The laws of physics themselves, and the system under investigation. The symmetries of the laws of physics don't get broken, but those of the system do. Compare a crystal to a gas: In
96.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
The phrase "AGI owner" implies a person who can issue instructions and have the AGI do their bidding. Most likely there will never be any AGI owners, since no one knows how to program an AGI to follow instructions even given infi
97.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
As the "end of sarcasm" marker, it means both: "{sarcasm here} /s {seriousness here}"
98.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Not many people know this, but similar to image alt text, the <s></s> tag was originally introduced for accessibility reasons, so that people with autism and similar conditions can experience the web in the same way as more
99.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Giving actual problems during an interview is fine, and I'd actually prefer getting an interview problem that the company is really working on. I think people are just pattern-matching this to the kind of scam where the company farms o
100.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Makes sense. Once we're talking about liquidity, though, there's a wide variety of rich country behaviour that raises food prices: Eating large amounts of grain-fed meat, turning food (or crops grown on land that could have been u
101.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Uranium 235 can decay by splitting into two smaller nuclei and releasing some free neutrons. Frequently those smaller nuclei are themselves radioactive. Uranium has a very long half life, on the order of billions of years, so the natural ra
102.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
These are good points, I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. That said, I think it still makes sense for western countries to sanction Russia. Yes, sanctions are wasteful of resources, which could lead to food shortages and peo
103.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
It still seems to me like "The DK Effect is Autocorrelation" is basically correct. The important thing isn't whether or not independence should be the null hypothesis, because calling something a "null hypothesis" i
104.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
That's an important thing to keep in mind, but it also seems like the replication crisis is being fuelled by a kind of risk averse attitude. Something like "if you want to get funding and have your career go well, you need to make
105.
by c1ccccc1 4y ago
Obviously we shouldn't just "turn on" a LVT for land that previously didn't have the tax until now. The idea would be that whenever the government is selling land to private individuals / corporations, instead of se
106.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
It depends on what would happen to the biowaste otherwise. Probably if the waste isn't turned into fuel, it will just rot and release the carbon anyways. In that case, it wouldn't make sense to tax the fuel. It only makes sense if
107.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Are you familiar with the notion of Turing completeness? The basic idea is that lots of different systems can all be capable of computing the same function. A computer with memory and a CPU is capable of computing the same things as a state
108.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
I googled as well. Ukraine exports were ~ 20 million tonnes. The tweet says the expected shortfall is ~ 7 million tonnes, probably because Ukraine is not expected to lose all of their production. If they did lose all 20 million, then the fr
109.
The greatest song ever went nowhere [video](youtube.com)
4 points by c1ccccc1 5y ago|0 comments
110.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
It would only take one example to disprove the theory, but finding that example is probably going to be somewhat difficult, since you'd need to establish that the increase in minimum wage caused the increase in employment. In the exa
111.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
In general: Suppose the fallback positions are x slices for Alice, and y slices for Bob, and they get n slices total if they reach a deal. Then we can figure out the split by defining the gain, g, as the additional pieces they get if they r
112.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Based on the text of the post, it seems like OP stopped "probing the API" as soon as they had enough information to know that there was a security hole. So is your proposal that any kind of probing of APIs in general should be con
113.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
The act says that a commission will be formed, and describes how members of the commission should be chosen. The commission chooses what the exact best practices will be. Full bill here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/11
114.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
It's possible that the commission will require ISPs to block non-backdoored TLS. But I'd consider that to be more of a worst-case scenario, rather than something that's particularly likely to happen. More likely outcome is co
115.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
True, and definitely a good thing.
116.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Even if most people don't have the technical chops spy on traffic themselves, I can imagine a world where there are companies that provide such things as products / services. (Probably there are already a few companies like this,
117.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Actually, the estimates for when the region will be habitable range from 3 centuries to 20 000 years. [1] "Millions" is off by several orders of magnitude. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#
118.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Probably a big part of it is that the high-resolution area of the retina is quite small. So in that small area, the perspective is close to perfect, and then we mentally stitch together a larger image by moving our eyes around. But the larg
119.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Unless you yourself have a good and detailed understanding of quantum mechanics, and have solved the Schrodinger equation for many different systems, I'd recommend not assuming that the physicists who proposed many worlds did so out of
120.
by c1ccccc1 5y ago
Thanks for the correction, seems I was confused. And thanks for the pointer to post-quantum cryptography, widipedia has a nice list of algorithms.

More ›