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by ecdavis 9y ago
Watching this interview was largely a waste of time. I think it was best encapsulated by Peterson's comment on heirarchical social structures among lobsters being followed by the question, "So you're saying we should organize
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by ecdavis 9y ago
Somewhere I saw Jordan Peterson saying that he spends a lot of time examining his arguments from all angles and trying to find fault with them. Many arguments we see in modern discourse are little more than a train of thought that sounds go
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by ecdavis 9y ago
I found the talk "Advanced Testing With Go" to be illuminating. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yszygk1cpEc Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/mitchellh/advanced-testing-with-go
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by ecdavis 9y ago
I read an interesting article earlier today about IT spending in Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-28/federal-governments-$1... > It found public servants were too afraid to make major changes to IT
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by ecdavis 9y ago
Humans can't feel pain if anaesthetized.
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by ecdavis 9y ago
If the premise of the question is invalid then my answer is irrelevant.
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by ecdavis 9y ago
> Why do people wish for apocalypses? To validate ideology.
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by ecdavis 10y ago
It's a claim made by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel . Wikipedia has a pretty well cited section on "Behavioural preadaptation"[0] however I can't speak to its accuracy as I haven't read any of the literatu
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by ecdavis 10y ago
"The only difference between $10 million and $50 million is an astounding $40 million." - Dave Chappelle
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by ecdavis 10y ago
There's a great book about this called "Life Beyond Earth" by Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro. It discusses possibilities ranging from silicon-based life to plasma-based and even radiation-based life. It's not specula
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by ecdavis 10y ago
That article is using the word "Australia" to mean "a small political party in Australia." The party in question did not gain any seats in the recent Federal election. Given the AEC's reticence to adopt electronic v
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by ecdavis 10y ago
https://cs.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
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by ecdavis 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznRGS9f-jI
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by ecdavis 10y ago
The main reason is probably that Australians qualify for the E3 visa, which makes it substantially easier for US companies to hire us over other foreign workers. That said, there are plenty of other reasons Australians make great recruiting
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by ecdavis 10y ago
"Which Belgians?" is a similarly important question to ask. I was somewhat surprised by the immediate inference that people searching "what is the EU?" were people who voted to leave, rather than people who voted to stay
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by ecdavis 10y ago
> There was also no partisanship as each senator made the moves that benefitted them or their people the most. How would you describe the populares and the optimates?
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by ecdavis 10y ago
What you've described sounds like a significantly worse implementation of the fundamental idea behind Plato's philosopher-kings. Put simply, systems like this deny the population the right of self-determination.
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by ecdavis 10y ago
'seed' is explicitly imported on line 18, then overwritten on line 736, and yet it's used as a function on line 526. As far as I can tell, that is an error. >>> from random import seed >>> def f():
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by ecdavis 10y ago
There is significantly more planning behind video than most still photography. Scenes are story-boarded, shots are carefully set up, lighting is adjusted, etc. When you look at video that was not carefully planned the ratio of hours shot to
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by ecdavis 10y ago
Perception is an odd thing. Microsoft under Ballmer more than doubled revenue and profits while building some successful new businesses. Still, the 00s are referred to as a "lost decade" for the company. The stock price started cl
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by ecdavis 10y ago
Related to this essay is the appendix from 1984, containing a discussion on the principles of Newspeak. http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app
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by ecdavis 10y ago
I disagree. The article states: > There is no political bias that I know of and we were never told to suppress conservative news. But then later goes on to say: > “Facebook relies heavily on just 10 news sources to determine whether a
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by ecdavis 10y ago
I'm certainly not a constitutional lawyer, so I ask out of curiosity: has the 13th amendment been interpreted this way? I feel that there's a difference between slavery as punishment (i.e. being explicitly sentenced to slavery) vs
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by ecdavis 10y ago
I don't know when you lived in those cities, but things have evidently changed. I've lived in Sydney and Seattle. Median home price in Sydney is currently ~AUD$1 million and median home price in the Seattle area has reached ~USD$0
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Infinite scrolling is broken. https://itsosticky.com/1srfcne Scroll down, scroll back up, scroll down again.
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by ecdavis 11y ago
> insuring child care What do you mean by this?
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Alternatively: a double or nothing scheme. Crowdsource ~$146 million and only buy half the lotto tickets. For each of the ~11 million combinations of regular numbers, buy 13 tickets covering half the possible powerball numbers. Assume you w
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by ecdavis 11y ago
It's true that the title is somewhat overstated, however the statement that really motivated my comment was the one from the head of the NYPD. > We have a huge operation in New York City working closely with the Joint Terrorism Task
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Is it really worth leaving a thoughtful comment about such an ignorant statement? It's clear to me that these people have no idea what encryption actually is and only have a cursory understanding of what it does. They're aware tha
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I think you're partly right, but I think another aspect of it is how new all this technology is. We completely dropped the "old" way of doing things (carefully take photo, get it developed, store it in an album) and replaced

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