dunkelheit

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by dunkelheit 6y ago
I acknowledge the difference, but it is quantitative, not qualitative. > We dont apply similar standards to blogs nor videos nor art - them being crappy is not "taking away our attention resource". That's because the atten
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
> American Voters barely understand the difference between the popular vote and the electoral college -- to ask them to view the results of QV votes as fair and legitimate would be a bridge too far. It is not like simpler voting methods
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Most of the time yes, but it is not so simple. There is a common resource that can be described as "attention of people who are looking for a library for X" and every time you publish a library for X you use up a bit of this resou
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Agreed. People who demand free labor from open-source maintainers get a lot of deserved flak lately, but it is not that project authors are always blameless. Everyone who publishes some code for others to use faces a dilemma: they want thei
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
On what grounds should they remove it? The app is bad and quite invasive, but it should be noted that it is supposed to be installed only in a specific context (covid patients who have chosen to quarantine at home) so it is not much differe
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Great question! I know of the standard simplistic answer, but still curious about how it works in detail. In theory a share represents your claim on the future profits of the firm and grants you some control over its decisions. So when the
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
> It's not clear what technical content this post has. Indeed. The post is a big exercise in strawmanning (and of course ad hominem but I am willing to forgive it because it adds entertainment value). Andrew Gelman (a well-known sta
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
To begin, if the curve doesn't extend into the future, it can't forecast anything.
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
When I visited Dublin last year (as a tourist, exacerbating the problem, hehe; although I stayed in a hotel), the housing problems were obvious - lots of homeless in the streets, they also were in the process of banning short-term rentals.
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Git almost qualifies, but it has no automatic conflict resolution mechanism. Imagine how you would program a bank using git as a database. You would put each account balance in its own file and install a hook that checks that no money is cr
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Well, the pathogen is not the reason but one of the reasons. The message is clear - if not one thing then another will get you. Again, I feel that this is a metaphor for expansionism in general, not necessary galactic expansionism in part
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Yeah, ethics of generation ships is interesting. But I'd say the problem is present in attenuated form even today. Is it ethical to give birth to beings (our children) who haven't asked to be born? Indeed the negative answer to th
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
I have weird feelings towards KSR. His Mars trilogy is awesome in imagining a realistic kind of future that wouldn't be so awful to live in. He is interested in alternative forms of social organization and does a good job of depicting
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
I disable javascript, it works against this kind of shit for now.
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Sure, not going to quibble about word choice. The point is that many comments are like "so what, everybody knew this", but there is a material difference between "everybody knows" and "everybody knows that everybo
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by dunkelheit 6y ago
Wow, lots of comments stating that it was common knowledge, but some fact doesn't become common knowledge simply because everyone knows it. Everyone should also know that everyone knows it and know that everyone knows that etc. which o
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
I don't get why everybody is raving about "Why Nations Fail". Their definitions of inclusive/extractive institutions seem hopelessly muddled. It is almost as if they've collected all the stuff they liked in prospero
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
I guess this explanation is flattering to US citizens but actually the reverse is happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma . Due to reserve currency status of the US dollar, there is additional external
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
> I might be wrong but for C++ for example every C++ fan seems to happy about every new release (at least happy with new features, not lack of desired new features). I believe you are mistaken. C++ community has a lot of diverse opinions
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
I’ve always assumed it was a reference to Anton LaVey (seemed appropriate for Gilfoyle to name his server after the founder of the church of satan). It would be interesting to know which theory is correct.
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
I'd say that for widely used library code it makes sense to implement an efficient algorithm. By its very nature the context in which a library routine will be called is unknown and so it must be prepared for everything. Also for widel
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
Reminds me of this essay: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
Thanks. Although the author is not an expert and he kind of lost me when he used normal distribution to model the curve, it still looks like the right ballpark. That's a lot.
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
> I believe that nobody really expects to meet the gap between actual capacity and "required" capacity Well, that's exactly my problem - I don't really know what kind of gap to expect. It is all very qualitative at th
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
I've upvoted because the article encourages proactive thinking so that we don't just sit in our homes congratulating ourselves how well we socially distanced from each other. What is sadly missing is some back-of-the-napkin math e
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Universe (not coincidentally, this name is also reminiscent of the sun) One thing to bear in mind is that the series begins with stories that are very optimistic (some would say naive
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
Sure, wireheading is just part of the story, but I'd argue that the 'evil corporation' trope perfectly fits the same narrative. What is particularly evil about these corporations? It is precisely the fact that they don't
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
For me cyberpunk is defined not simply by its aesthetic, but by its exploration of the thesis "anything that can be done to a rat can also be done to a human being". A cyberpunk novel is a (usually cautionary, of course) tale of w
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
I enjoy reading about Dyson and reading his writings. Among the greats he seems the most human. Von Neumann was always this martian with an IQ of 500, Einstein the quintessential absent-minded professor, Feynman the trickster genius, Landau
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by dunkelheit 7y ago
Probably you are right about vertica and snowflake (where can I browse the source code to be sure?) but with these clickhouse competes on price.

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