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by emtel 5y ago
Eliminating DST would mean that. But this bill makes DST permanent, which means that nominal noon will forever be "real" 1pm, which means sunrise will always be one hour later than it otherwise would be.
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by emtel 5y ago
> Everyone I know wakes up whatever time that their work tells them to. Uh, yes, that's the point - and many businesses and schools will stick to a consistent nominal time (like 8am) which will now be one hour earlier in real terms.
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by emtel 5y ago
I skimmed this paper and it seems to be exceptionally bad. The proof sketch offered is that a winning strategy can be verified quickly, but finding a winning strategy requires searching over 3^n possible strategies. But this assumes that br
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by emtel 5y ago
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t think Dan even attempts to answer the titular question! The article, while quite good, is just a very long list of things that suck, and anecdotes about people who tried to make things suck less. I’ve thought
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by emtel 5y ago
I've read one of Searle's popular books (Rediscovery of the Mind) and many other shorter writings. I'm aware he rejects dualism - my point is that the Chinese Room argument wouldn't even make sense to someone who had nev
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by emtel 5y ago
Yes, which is why I say that the argument is circular. It assumes its conclusion. Either a computer program can "understand" Chinese or it can't. If it can't, we're done. If it can, then having a non-chinese-speakin
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by emtel 5y ago
The conscious human is not a necessary part of the system, as he is just blindly following rules. Therefore, his lack of comprehension tells us nothing about the system in question. I am sorry to mostly repeat myself. I am trying to think o
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by emtel 5y ago
The Chinese Room is a really, really bad thought experiment. It's just an attempt at misdirection. It asks you to imagine a computer (one that operates on slips of paper according to rules that are written down in a big book), puts a h
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by emtel 5y ago
WebGL was my first exposure to gpu programming - when I eventually wrote a D3D11 renderer I simply could not believe how much better the tools were. My advice to anyone wanting to learn graphics programming is to start with D3D, the debuggi
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by emtel 5y ago
It’s not surprising to me that people underestimate the complexity of fields not their own - I do it all the time myself. What I think would be more interesting is the question: when are outsider critiques or suggestions likely to be valid?
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by emtel 5y ago
I dislike this kind of consensus-building rhetoric and I don't like seeing it on the front page of HN. By all means present critiques of crypto/web3, but don't make false claims along the lines of "all right-thinking peo
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by emtel 5y ago
I 100% agree that if you have proof of efficacy against severe disease, its reasonable to assume efficacy against death. In fact I think it would be absurd not to. But, the usual rules of the game (and certainly the rules the FDA plays by a
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by emtel 5y ago
You're confusing efficacy against severe disease, which this study proved, and efficacy against death, which this study did not prove.
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by emtel 5y ago
Unfortunately in this case the original post is mostly correct. It claims that this vaccine study did not establish that the vaccines were protective against death. This is both true at a glance (the number of deaths are clearly too small t
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by emtel 5y ago
Please consult literally any intro guide to home brewing. They all call for boiling all of the water. I have brewed dozens of batches of beer at home and always boil all of it. I don't know as much about commercial brewing but I'v
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by emtel 5y ago
Did you read the last two lines of the transcript?
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by emtel 5y ago
This is false - boiling the wort is used in probably 99% of commercial and home brewing.
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by emtel 5y ago
Read the last two lines again. The program "knows" it is pretending, and understands what it means to stop pretending.
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by emtel 5y ago
For most people, Facebook is the only place where they can stay in touch with their family and friends. My friends and family are not and never will be on mastodon or diaspora or anything like that. Also, private special interest groups on
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by emtel 5y ago
I think this is false for < 13. Everything I’ve seen shows flu to be worse in that age group. Edit: after looking at sources again I’m no longer quite as confident that flu is significantly worse, but covid is definitely not 10x worse fo
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by emtel 5y ago
This is apples to oranges. A Bitcoin transaction is a settlement, much more akin to fed wire than visa. Visa transactions are not settlements.
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by emtel 5y ago
V8 compiles all JavaScript it executes to machine code. There is no interpreter included in v8.
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by emtel 5y ago
Wow, is there some other Russ Roberts with a podcast? I can't believe you'd say this. He's the most thoughtful, humble, and introspective interviewer I'm aware of. What in the world do you mean by "shit takes"?
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by emtel 5y ago
A sanguine take from Casey Handmer of the JPL: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/space-debris-p...
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by emtel 5y ago
It’s not just mammals. I’ve always been astounded that spiders know how to spin webs. Their mothers don’t teach them how!
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by emtel 5y ago
I don't think that's what causes surface tension in water. However, it turns out that surface tension is more mysterious than I thought. I thought surface tension was caused by inter-molecular attraction due to water being a polar
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by emtel 5y ago
Why do neutron stars have "crusts", as opposed to behaving more like a liquid?
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by emtel 5y ago
I don’t have proof, but we were told that every access of sensitive data was actively audited. It’s very rare to need to do this for your job, so I don’t imagine it’s a huge volume of events to be audited.
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by emtel 5y ago
I worked at Facebook for most of 2017 and 2018. In the first week, they made it clear that you would be fired instantly for any improper access of user data. They further said that if you need to access any sensitive personal data, or if yo
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by emtel 5y ago
Yes, but carbon costs come from burning fossil fuels. If you don't burn fossil fuels to drill wells or build PV panels, then those don't have an embodied life-cycle carbon cost. I'm being a bit pedantic, but I think its an im

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