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by ekelsen 4y ago
Can't you use a modern compound bow and make this very easy?
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by ekelsen 4y ago
The numbers are relative speedups, not absolute numbers that can be compared with any prior results, so I don't really see how this matters.
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by ekelsen 4y ago
Nice results! But why are people still reporting benchmark results on VGG? Does anybody actually use this network anymore? Better would be mobilenets or efficientNets or NFNets or vision transformers or almost anything that's come ou
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by ekelsen 5y ago
That would have very slow inference latency if you had to read the model off disk for every token.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
Let's say we agree to cooperate because it's win-win. Then I go into the voting booth, do I have any incentive _at all_ to not vote for my preferences as opposed to yours? No. Why would I not defect and gain more votes for my p
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by ekelsen 5y ago
Collusion is prevented in the same way that vote buying is prevented now -- you can't verify how other people have voted. This means that you could tell your friend you'll vote for B, but actually still vote for A and A will get
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by ekelsen 5y ago
If we can fix "that" (government seizing your cash), why can't we fix a similar with cashless? Maybe the government hasn't technically seized it if they just make it inaccessible, but the effect is the same.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
They compared against mice. Human cells were better.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
I would test whether a longer sub window actually helps before worrying too much about this. I doubt it matters in practice. Whether it's how people experience music or not is rather immaterial.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
This article talks about infection rates not mortality. There's a big difference.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
Circle compiler ftw!
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by ekelsen 5y ago
It feels like I'm hearing hints of past symphonies, but nothing new and it lacks overall coherence.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
ExpressVPN works for me. Can get netflix US in the UK and vice versa. Also Disney+, BBC and Amazon Prime. Works for all the streaming services I've tried tbh.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
You also won't have a nice coastline view. Money buys lack of other people in locations where lots of other people want to be.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
Improved transportation won't get you the choicest pieces of real estate because you still won't be allowed there. It will make the public places even more crowded perhaps. Some of what expensive real estate buys you is the _lack
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by ekelsen 5y ago
No matter how big the economy gets not everyone can have the best real estate. There will be always be locations that are preferable to others and no amount of growth will change this.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
That comment was meant to be taken in theoretical sense not that I had the text of a law ready to go into effect tomorrow. I'm well aware there's plenty more thinking to be done. You however, seem to think that because you can fi
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by ekelsen 5y ago
If we have different goals that are both achieved by the same means, I don't see the problem. I think raising money through the tax is important, but I think a more important long-term function of a wealth tax is to ensure that large f
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by ekelsen 5y ago
The purpose of a wealth tax is (mostly) not to raise revenue, it is to provide a downward pressure on the wealth of the wealthiest individuals. I also think you're making a poor estimate of what the distribution of wealth looks like.
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by ekelsen 5y ago
We're designing the system, so I think we can choose what makes the most sense. I think regardless of whether or not you have taken out a loan (collateralized or not), you would still need to declare a value right away. In a case wher
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by ekelsen 5y ago
There are already laws that would make such abuse illegal. Abuse of charities is not a new problem. I'm not a lawyer - but it seems like one obvious factor would take into account where the artwork purchased by the charity resides. I
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by ekelsen 5y ago
A decent intro is the first chapter of Radical Markets, available here: http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s11222.pdf but it also isn't short. Also a video here: https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by ekelsen 5y ago
When you come up with a problem (in seconds) with a policy (especially one described in essentially one line), ask yourself, what reasonable change could I make to the original idea to make it more reasonable. For example, you could easily
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by ekelsen 5y ago
Your replies so far don't seem to indicate you gave much thought to how such a system would reasonably work -- as evidenced by the assumption that art owned by charities or governments (institutions which don't pay tax) would also
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by ekelsen 5y ago
Imagine a reasonable policy rather than simplistic worst possible policy strawman. There are already many many laws that prevent abusive transactions in the current system, there's no reason that there wouldn't need to be similar
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by ekelsen 5y ago
Try to imagine a reasonable policy rather than assume the worst possible policy and then the outcomes that follow. One can imagine that public charities or government assets for example are exempt from such a scheme (since they don't p
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by ekelsen 5y ago
Your reply could have been written to be a lot less insulting and assume I'm aware of policy implications of this proposal but did not choose delve into 150 years of research in a two line reply on HN. I wasn't proposing that this
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by ekelsen 5y ago
One can imagine reasonable policies around things like housing, my original two line reply was not meant to detail all the ways this would for all types of assets. I don't think anyone would have much of a problem with the simplistic s
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by ekelsen 5y ago
It's not that hard to find a price for a rare art piece, or almost any other asset. Make the owner declare its value, tax it at the value. But anyone can buy it at that price. If they want to keep it, they'll need to value it co
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by ekelsen 5y ago
"Natural Uranium" in solid form isn't really what I would call "highly reactive and dangerous to human life", so I don't find this statement to be that definitive. "While the CDC has published one study th

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