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by edna314 7y ago
Doesn’t it make more sense if google buys this gpu and shares it among, say, 50 users who have maximum an hour of gaming every week? It almost certainly has to be cheaper sharing hardware among users instead of having each single user ownin
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by edna314 7y ago
This. Stadia is about convenience and price not about bringing a 'new' gaming experience with exclusive titles and what not. This will be the first time in over 10 years I will be able to play up to date games as it just doesn&#x2
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by edna314 7y ago
I think this example is not fair, because it doesn’t compare the entropy of two states in thermodynamic equilibrium. The emulsion state is clearly not an equilibrium state.
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by edna314 7y ago
I guess we already made the experiment what would happen if white supremacists would lead a country, so we can already tell that it's likely that "sending them back" isn't going to cut it, if "they" refuse to l
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by edna314 7y ago
> Army is all about how to kill other people. Not necessarily. The purpose of armies is to win wars. If it was possible to win wars without killing people they wouldn't kill people. In fact they are trying to minimize collateral dam
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by edna314 7y ago
Since there are no army related sites which encourage people to kill other people I'm not in favor of that and you are free to convince me otherwise by providing a link. But, if they were doing this I would be in favor of shutting them
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by edna314 7y ago
I don’t consider deleting calls for violence towards minorities censorship. And I do think that history has shown too many times that propaganda is a powerful tool, that needs to be restricted. I mean you are free to doubt common sense, but
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by edna314 7y ago
Do we really need to talk about closing down a site where people encourage each other to kill other people (no matter who does it)? Why is it so important that there are no exceptions to freedom of speech? Seriously, I just don’t get how t
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by edna314 7y ago
I know exactly what kind of frustration you mean. I think this frustration often comes about, because writing code up is a first quality control and it might seem unnecessary for straight forward stuff to be quality controlled. While spend
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by edna314 7y ago
> There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success. Might be semantics, but there is a lot of logical reason why mathematics sho
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by edna314 7y ago
I think there are pro's and con's when it comes to democracy. All I tried to point out that we theoretically have a solution to the problem that people have personal biases which potentially makes them abuse their power. And this
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by edna314 7y ago
I would say it fixes the abuses of power which come from individual biases in theory, as these biases (hopefully) average out in a majority vote.
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by edna314 7y ago
Does that mean you would prefer an autocratic system with codes of conduct and laws where authorities might get fired or even criminally charged if they cross a line over a democratic system? I could imagine that in terms of efficiency it w
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by edna314 7y ago
Sorry, I should have added 'in theory'. Of course there are still hierarchical power structures in practice, but we know how we could get rid of them in theory.
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by edna314 7y ago
I think bullying and gender issues are just a symptoms of a deeper problem nobody of the responsible likes to admit: academia has a strong hierarchical structure of power which necessarily leads to abuses of this power. We already solved th
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by edna314 7y ago
Naively I would have thought that there is another definition which goes along the lines that a process is ergodic if it looses memory of its starting conditions. But, maybe I’m mixing up things here.
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by edna314 7y ago
Yes, the difference is that you can synthesize numbers which are not (yet) in the look up table. It would be super amazing if one could show that bees are capable of doing that.
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by edna314 7y ago
Wow, I didn’t even know I had a thing for scissors, but seems like I totally fell in love with the one that looks like a pen.
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by edna314 7y ago
If you have 2 memory less processes with positive outcomes which depend on each other. For example: An exponential decay where decay rates are exponentially distributed. In this process decay times will be power law distributed.
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by edna314 8y ago
I can recommend taskwarrior.
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by edna314 8y ago
I can recommend Taskwarrior.
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by edna314 8y ago
It's interesting that visual perception seems to code better than sound perception, but our main way of communicating, even across cultures, is via sound. Is it because talking is faster than miming?
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by edna314 8y ago
I know how functions can be scale invariant, but I don't know how behavior can be scale invariant.
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by edna314 8y ago
> My point is that there are some firm beliefs and some absolute truths that do not lead to atrocity. I agree, but I have some concerns. First of all I would claim that the cruelty of your response to my wrong proof will depend on how mu
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by edna314 8y ago
I think if history taught us anything then that the firm belief in absolute truths leads to such atrocities.
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by edna314 8y ago
> Because human behavior is not scale invariant I’m not exactly sure what you mean by scale invariant, but there are many ways in which history repeats itself. Other than that I can recommend talks of Hans Rosling, who gives an entirely
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by edna314 8y ago
Improvement is always a matter of judgement. Of course, if you are super humble everything will seem like an improvement. But isn’t that kind of cheating ?
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by edna314 8y ago
I think, I would disagree in the sense that he was not only completely discounting on metaphysics, but also on ontology. Because one cannot write up a definition without using the word 'is' he must have been somewhat also complete
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by edna314 8y ago
For example take this quote from Nietzsche on the sentence "I think" from Beyond Good and Evil: >"When I analyze the process that is expressed in this sentence, 'I think,' I find a whole series of daring assertio
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by edna314 8y ago
That might have been true until the end of the 19th century. Everything afterwards contains a lot of different things. Sociology, psychology, economics, linguistics and what not.

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