douglaswlance

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by douglaswlance 5y ago
What is the solution?
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>I can't think of a single benefit of a function over a comment for a piece of code that's only used once. The call stack becomes very organized and readable when debugging.
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You could load a ship up with frozen embryos and have an automated system that raises the first generation. Though, honestly, humans are terrible galactic conquerors. The artificial life that we create will be the ones taking over the galax
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If your goal is to better understand your reality, you would learn more about the world by reading books than by watching the news.
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by douglaswlance 5y ago
Life itself is a renewable, exponentially growing form of negative entropy. We can't predict what life will be doing in 100 years. What will it look like in 100,000,000 years of exponential growth?
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This study is very flawed. They claim there is a direct link, but they didn't control for alcohol and tobacco consumption. If you look at a map of tobacco consumption vs. their map of deaths by overwork, they're very similar. L
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The heat death theory assumes life has zero impact on the universe.
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Using purple for link decorations is a non-optimal choice.
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The author uses VSCode: https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/04/my-programming-setup/
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The smart contract would establish earnings split based on contribution.
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It’s sad that so many detractors lack vision. They look to the past to attack the future. It could be that the aspect of publishing that will be disrupted is the sense authorship itself. Perhaps blockchain will facilitate the ability for a
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by douglaswlance 6y ago
I've tried getting into Category Theory many times over the past few years and the only thing that actually worked is Category theory for Programmers by Bartosz Milewski (lectures[1], book[2]) 1. https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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The problem is that algorithms were discovered by mathematicians/computer scientists doing proofs for 40 hrs / week. It isn't something that can be reasoned about. It must be learned and memorized. This forces people to study
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>Not paying into social security would very likely lead to better outcomes for me, but not for society as a whole. You should get some of that money back. Also, by not paying, you would be fined by the government. It's ultimately no
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I can't think of any situations in which that would be the case.
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Objectivism means putting your own oxygen mask on before helping anyone else when you're on a crashing plane. People have a gut reaction to it as if it means putting on your own mask and letting others die. If prosocial behavior is the
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by douglaswlance 6y ago
[Disagree and commit]( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Disagree_and_commit ) is a common management methodology and one that the most effective teams utilize successfully. What is the issue?
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The problem with the other way around is that there is no definitive measure of "convincingness."
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>Your voucher system would simply exacerbate the problem. That cannot be proven without testing. >You know what happens when you allow people to be selective about their schools? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whit
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Won't there always be a better dataset for deep-fake detectors than there will be for generators?
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The USA spends more per capita than anyone else and we get worse results. More money isn't going to fix it. We need to break up the teacher's unions and put competition into the education marketplace by supporting students not s
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If we don't use energy that is produced, then it is wasted. We don't have a reliable method of mass energy storage.
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Not all usage of energy is equivalent. It requires energy to run carbon scrubbers, yet we would probably agree that carbon scrubbers are worth the energy costs for environmental benefits. Can you prove that the energy bitcoin miners use wou
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All of humanity uses the energy equivalent of ~50 lbs of matter each day. There's way more energy available to us than biological humans will ever use.
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Why are there so many articles attacking crypto across the web as of late?
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Contributing to society is more fun than lounging.
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Anything a computer can do can be assigned to a shortcut.
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That's true of physical goods as well.
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Just open a text file and write down the books you've read and want to read. All this complication gains for you essentially nothing.
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The problem with Quora, as I see it, is the question-answer format lends itself to a restricted form of dialogue which can't really serve the "sense-making" function for society. Imagine if in the past, journalists could only

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