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by dqpb 5y ago
It sounds to me like they didn’t want the climate lecture to be hijacked by people angry about something unrelated to climate.
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by dqpb 5y ago
In theory as you earn bitcoin, you can exchange it in a marketplace for other currencies if various risk levels, including stablecoins for low risk, or even for a few fiat currencies. In practice, I assume most El Salvadorians aren't o
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by dqpb 5y ago
We don't need a new thought leader. We need a platform for decentralized decision making.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Is it just me or do attacks on Facebook come in waves?
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by dqpb 5y ago
condescending: having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority. In this case he also demonstrated his superiority with working code. Better to learn from it than to pout about it.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Apart from the specific issue at hand, I'm just happy to see a groups "shared" philosophy being version controlled.
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by dqpb 5y ago
The problem with political-correctness isn't that it's trying to be sensitive to people who have been harmed, it's that it's yet another form of centralized decision making, and thus bound to be wrong about many things.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Except it turns out the anti-racists are racist and the anti-sexists are sexist.
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by dqpb 5y ago
It’s great until you realize everything has lead in it.
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by dqpb 5y ago
The claim that masks don’t help was absolutely an early claim spread widely throughout US media. The motivation may have been to prevent stockpiling, but the messaging was that masks don’t help. I remember it clearly.
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by dqpb 5y ago
So, this happens almost daily: I’ll be reading news in an amp page hosted by Google, which I navigated to via Google news, within Google chrome, and half way through the article the page suddenly breaks and I see “Aw, Snap! Something when w
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by dqpb 5y ago
As others have mentioned, they actually do have a cancel button, for Californians. The fact that they have the feature, but disable it when they aren't legally required to provide it, is for me an unforgivable offence.
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by dqpb 5y ago
It would be interesting to give the hamster some level of observation of the market and reward based on performance.
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by dqpb 5y ago
This would be much more useful if it generated a model.
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by dqpb 5y ago
So therefore the argument is basically that it’s illegal to not buy marijuana, because that affects interstate commerce?
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by dqpb 5y ago
> An economically optimal price is one that maximizes total profit. The economically optimal price is the one that maximizes total value in the long run.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I can hear the squawking now… “Flat white! Flat white!”
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by dqpb 5y ago
Exactly. Communication isn’t about the idea. It’s about the state transitions that have to occur in the listener for them to become a carrier of the idea.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Really? You just take the set of stories across N news outlets and then compare to the set of stories in each one outlet.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Be careful going to this website. It doesn’t let you go back out.
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by dqpb 5y ago
So you’re arguing the decrease in average lifespan effects fecundity of the younger population. That might be true, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I didn’t say it would be a good thing. I’m just questioning the math.
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by dqpb 5y ago
This seems like a poor model of population dynamics. Isn’t it possible that earlier deaths in the elderly population might act as an economic stimulus that increases birth rate in the younger population? (So the net change in life years wou
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by dqpb 5y ago
It’s common sense that inhaling smoke is bad for you. If you defy common sense, you’re unlikely to suddenly embrace the logic of a scientific study.
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by dqpb 5y ago
Is your experience positive or negative?
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by dqpb 5y ago
There is a small window of opportunity here to replace these institutes with something better before our society goes into full auto-immune disorder.
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by dqpb 5y ago
I'm curious what the data requirement will be. Is it just the segmented map? Is it the actual model plus all inputs for n-seconds leading up to the crash? Is it all training data that meets some threshold of similarity to the incident?
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by dqpb 5y ago
It more likely seems you don't understand how to think abstractly.
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by dqpb 5y ago
If you work for a company, then you spend the majority of your time operating under an authoritarian government.
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by dqpb 5y ago
They’re getting their tech stack in order so they can prepare for acquisition.

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