danharaj

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by danharaj 7y ago
Enormous farms do not optimize yield per hectare, they optimize total amount of land being utilized. Maximizing yields over land is very labor intensive and you would be surprised how productive you can get a garden to be.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Sure, and those people I'm more confident would be conscientious neighbors. But people who have second houses in tourist destinations, well, (X) doubt.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Have you met rich people?
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by danharaj 7y ago
Really remarkable that somebody could completely miss the fact that most people consider the opinion "I'm skeptical these people have any value whatsoever" execrable.
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by danharaj 7y ago
We live in a society poindexter.
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by danharaj 7y ago
This is what I use as well, I have a hotkey to invoke it and lock my screen reflexively when I leave my computer.
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by danharaj 7y ago
If China is understating the damage from the virus they are only doing it by a constant factor at best. You cannot hide an exponentially growing epidemic, no matter how hard you try. That's just how it is on this bitch of a function. W
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by danharaj 7y ago
It's not a tragedy of the commons if there's a specific class of people who control the resources who dictate what is politically possible.
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by danharaj 7y ago
If nobody has a fucking clue then anyone who is certain that the economy will recover in 2 months is either deluded or bullshitting themselves. But we do know certainly that we will only be hitting the peak of infections sometime in April i
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by danharaj 7y ago
Surely people can tell you the Earth is flat without being delusional or a liar. At some point, when the stakes are so high, willful ignorance is harmful and should be called out.
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by danharaj 7y ago
"efficiency" and "innovation" are neoliberal buzzwords. They are the very same buzzwords that were used to justify the cuts to our supplies and offshoring of our supply chains that led in part to this crisis. It is absur
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by danharaj 7y ago
You could have only thought that was a scathing retort if your political ideas are entirely based on the formal manipulation of words and aesthetics.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Landlords are bigger parasites than any NEET.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Haskell isn't in the ML family. It is a descendant of Miranda and some other lazy functional languages.
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by danharaj 7y ago
If you understand exponentials log plots are the way to go. But most people need a lesson in what they mean before nature gives them a catastrophic one.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Ohio had a very good response too! https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/03/compare-coronavirus-c... When dealing with exponential functions, linear increases in effort early on lead to extremely large differen
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by danharaj 7y ago
Look at hospitalizations, not confirmed cases. NY state is projecting a peak in 2 weeks with rather effective social distancing and lockdown measures and the peak will still overwhelm ICU's and # of hospital beds. States that aren&#x27
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by danharaj 7y ago
What do you think politics is about?
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by danharaj 7y ago
Neoliberalism is a death cult. Look at its high priests demanding sacrifice to Moloch! The vast majority of economic activity is absolutely useless to maintain essential supplies, infrastructure and services. Very few people have to work to
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by danharaj 7y ago
Even on this site where people are somewhat more technically oriented than the general public, you see people who haven't a fucking clue what an exponential function looks like. NYS is expecting the peak 2 weeks from now. The numbers a
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by danharaj 7y ago
I did not say eliminate the shock. I said reduce the shock. Epidemiological reports support the hypothesis that this level of social distancing is effective to reduce r. When exponential functions are involved, even small improvements pay o
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by danharaj 7y ago
You literally cannot imagine an alternative to capitalism.
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by danharaj 7y ago
The exponential function is a terrifying beast. Any alternatives we don't know now are irrelevant. There is a reason why NYC is bracing for impact: a tsunami of new cases are about to slam into the healthcare system. Usually Hacker New
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by danharaj 7y ago
The alternative is systemic failure of the healthcare infrastructure and millions of deaths.
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by danharaj 7y ago
I think one thing that this pandemic is teaching us is that most people's jobs do jack shit to maintain the basic needs of society, and the ones with important jobs are often paid the least.
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by danharaj 7y ago
You cannot imagine an economic system where the default state of a human being is to become destitute?
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by danharaj 7y ago
Fear now is better than horror when the healthcare system collapses.
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by danharaj 7y ago
I'm more sanguine. I live on a busy Brooklyn street which is normally packed with people shoulder to shoulder during the day, and I will see maybe 5-10 people on the block at what should be the busiest time. I think it's like a 90
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by danharaj 7y ago
Every use of conduit in production that I have witnessed has been a mistake.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Maybe, but foldr (:) [] ~ id is an illuminating fact in its own right that is worth pausing to understand.

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