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by enkid 6y ago
Imagine a world where being able to not have access to healthcare is a good thing.
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by enkid 6y ago
Let's separate discussion of the Soviet system from the individuals caught up in that system. I am not ( nor do I think most people) saying that this was a problem purely with Lysenko overstating scientific claims (which he certainly
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by enkid 6y ago
Here you go: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky...
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by enkid 6y ago
Sorry, the Soviet Union explicitly advocated for science based on ideology instead of the other way around under Stalin. Wikipedia has numerous examples of this [0]. And no, one person getting applause at one conference in the US does not
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by enkid 6y ago
What he's saying is that there is at least one set where they all know each other or they all don't know each other, not that any set of three will be that way.
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by enkid 6y ago
From what I have read, monetary incentives are only effective in specific circumstances. If used the wrong, it can even decrease performance.
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by enkid 6y ago
40 Square Miles is only 6.3 miles to a side. That's not that far to travel for mating.
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by enkid 6y ago
Which one is more complicated, Newton's equations or Einstein's?
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by enkid 6y ago
HSBC knew what they were doing.... Because of their records.
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by enkid 6y ago
I'm pretty sure there's no bank in the world that would be willing to make a transaction in the billions and not keep a record of it.
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by enkid 6y ago
Its not like we get rid of the old equations. We still have the Newtonian equations, in addition to special/general relativity. We still have Maxwell's equations in addition to quantum mechanics. They are useful in different sit
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by enkid 6y ago
I totally disagree that we are predicting more stuff with fewer equations. The list of equations we have have exponentially grown since the start of the 20th Century.
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by enkid 6y ago
Why are you skeptical? Having the resources prominent immediately after someone is thinking about suicide based on external stimulus seems like it could help someone, and even if it only helps one person, that seems like it would be worth
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by enkid 6y ago
How does having extra bankers stop someone from assassinating an archduke, Austria from sending an ultimatum, or Russia from supporting Serbia? I don't see it.
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by enkid 6y ago
First, the Titanic sunk in 1912. Second, these are two events that happened around the same time. That does not mean they are at all related. Titanic primarily carried American and British passengers. The start of World War I primarily
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by enkid 6y ago
Yes it is...
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by enkid 6y ago
We're only talking about money that is being generated by crime. That is the purpose of money laundering. If the produce they were selling was procured legally, they wouldn't need to launder the money.
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by enkid 6y ago
Computer Science and Computer Engineering are two different things. Is there any reason that quantum computing wouldn't be defined to include both the physical and theoretical computing?
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by enkid 6y ago
That's what I was thinking. The Romans would use lead bowls to make their water taste better.
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by enkid 6y ago
They certainly are tied to a certain mode of thinking rooted in Mathematical reasoning originating in the West, but certainly influenced by other cultures. The thing is that the underlying computer architecture uses this reasoning, so it&#
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by enkid 6y ago
China has a huge workforce to exploit, and its a lot easier to catch up then to lead the way. That's the main reason their doing well economically
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by enkid 6y ago
Blaming the security researcher is a bad idea. Without the security researcher, the tool would still be created and used by somebody. The security researcher highlights the problem and makes people understand the danger in it. Without th
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by enkid 6y ago
He calls it dopey philosophy. That's pretty disparaging of the deeper questions needed to answer how to we know what is real.
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by enkid 6y ago
This is assume there isn't some sort of "lossy compression" going on with the simulation. I don't know how that would work, but none of us know how a simulation would happen anyway.
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by enkid 6y ago
I totally disagree that people intuitively understand Plato's cave (which is what Feynman is referring to). Simply listen to the arguments in support of things like the flat Earth and you will hear people explicitly referring to what
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by enkid 6y ago
The interesting thing is when machines will write something that feels more human than anything humanity could write. I believe that will happen sooner than people think.
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by enkid 6y ago
Do you have any personal experience or data to back this up, or is this just based on your perceptions?
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by enkid 6y ago
First, 2.4 years on average is significant. Second, the scholarly average is for people who were on average 54 when appointed to their position. That means there is no childhood mortality or deaths below that age to bring the average down.
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by enkid 6y ago
"We" also believed that cholera was caused by miasma, not dirty water. It was science that got everyone on the page that clean water was important to prevent disease.
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by enkid 6y ago
Am I totally misunderstanding the study? Wouldn't this figures be only people who were scholars appointed on adulthood? That would exclude children.

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