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by davesque 8y ago
I think it would be the aleph naught revolution, no? :)
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by davesque 8y ago
Anyone got a link to the paper referenced? I followed the link in the article but got hit with a login wall.
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by davesque 8y ago
If that sentiment is the main obstacle standing in the way of economic justice, then perhaps it should be done away with?
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by davesque 8y ago
It's interesting that I had to scroll all the way to the bottom to find the skeptical comments.
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by davesque 8y ago
I'm really not. Anyone who's been paying attention lately has seen his behavior become more erratic. It doesn't matter if you're familiar with the vagueries of securities law.
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by davesque 8y ago
So doesn't this mean supervised learning sort? In other words, restricted domain sort? In that case, I don't think O(n) should be surprising. Radix sort, for example, is also O(n) for restricted input.
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by davesque 8y ago
It's surreal to watch Musk throw away his reputation and success so quickly and casually. Then again, a lot of things have seemed pretty surreal lately. Welcome to the brave new world of post-reality.
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by davesque 8y ago
I bet he thinks he is sick of it. But that doesn't excuse his behavior. Call me old fashioned, but someone with so much power and privilege should not be acting the way that Musk has been lately. These are just the basics we're
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by davesque 8y ago
I expect to see that demand shrink. If I find his behavior lately to be weird, I think that other people will as well. I'm also perfectly happy to vote with my dollars.
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by davesque 8y ago
The problem, at this point, is that I think the average person must find all this very tiresome. Let's set aside all the theories about whether or not Musk is actually a stable genius for doing everything he's done lately (includ
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by davesque 8y ago
I know there could be a lot of causes for this but one thing I've noticed, which is specific to my location, is that too much cultural homogeneity can lead to loneliness. I remember clearly a time in my life when I was very lonely and
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by davesque 8y ago
I think your personal experience might be more specific to your location. For example, I live in a town where neither one of those things (marketing or homelessness) is a problem and, yet, it's still hard to meet people.
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by davesque 8y ago
It's almost impossible to pay attention to the article's content when it's constantly distracting you with huge animated gifs.
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by davesque 8y ago
> Never in this history of humanity have interest rates been held this low for so long. You mean like in the "long" history of modern banking? This is a weak statement. The time during which governments have wielded this much
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by davesque 8y ago
Where? I mostly skimmed it but didn't see anything like that.
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by davesque 8y ago
> Facebook said the label was intended to only identify historical treason. “Treason was included as a category, given its historical significance. Given it’s an illegal activity, we’ve removed it as an interest category,” a spokesperson
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by davesque 8y ago
Why do you assume I don't feel the same way about the things you mention? In general, I think the economic incentives for medical tech are fucked up.
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by davesque 8y ago
I'm sorry to say it, but I always feel incredibly cynical about longevity tech. If we had a treatment that could extend people's lives indefinitely, what would that do? It would essentially put a price tag on life in a more dire
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by davesque 8y ago
It's actually really encouraging to hear that Scott has many of the same vices as me.
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by davesque 8y ago
Excellent point.
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by davesque 8y ago
I feel like a state sponsored attack would coincide with some major event in the US. Is anyone aware of anything going on right now that fits that description?
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by davesque 8y ago
Doesn't better garbage sorting seem within reach of current machine learning tech and robotics?
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by davesque 8y ago
How to efficiently simulate a quantum circuit? Badum ching I'll be here every night, ladies and gents.
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by davesque 8y ago
My reading of that was that they had 731 pages of texts, which were supposed to have been encrypted by WhatsApp or Signal, that were stored in plain text. That's what this article appears to suggest: https://www.bloomberg.co
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by davesque 8y ago
> immutable data store that allows either the user or an administrator to manually correct the wrong input. Blockchains are this. What's to prevent a user or administrator from committing a "deletion" of some piece of data
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by davesque 8y ago
> I feel however that the whole "Blockchain Startup Universe" always comes up with the same bullshit claims. It usually goes like this: "Here is a difficult problem. To solve that problem we use Blockchain. The End."
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by davesque 8y ago
> By proving that without a central authority (centralization) verifying everything going into the blockchain, it is actually useless? So then I guess there's no use for cryptographic signing, hash chains, and graph-theoretic consen
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by davesque 8y ago
That's a very crafty over-simplification. You can choose to interpret "trustless" literally like it's magic, or you can actual work to understand what blockchain advocates mean when they say that. It's "trust
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by davesque 8y ago
> I don't understand the blockchain hype. > A startup has certified my artwork & placed their verification on the bitcoin blockchain. > Now art dealers & auctioneers can feel secure that I am the original artist. >
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by davesque 8y ago
Keep in mind that debit cards can still be used to purchase crypto. I see a lot of potential for blockchain tech in the long term but I think people should not be looking at crypto holdings as an investment strategy. This seems like a rea

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