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by enugu 9y ago
We are not even at a place where we have seriously tried the low hanging options, like a major serious worldwide effort at building better energy technologies(there has been a lot of great work, but not great relative to what we can do),
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by enugu 9y ago
That analogy is too generic - it will apply to any action which has two distinct kinds of benefits. Pascal's wager has many issues which wont apply here. A:'This approach to programming improves memory safety', B:'Not in
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by enugu 9y ago
A 2% growth rate means that income doubles in 35 years, so one has an option of getting basic income of say 20,000 current dollars for the next generation, if one were to exercise this option. (Doubling would actually generate more than 20k
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by enugu 9y ago
Is there scope for a more open distributed app or service(which wont make much money for itself, but more broadly available like craigslist) to coordinate local sellers, rating services, insurance, delivery companies which any one can opt i
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by enugu 9y ago
Even if it was hoarded as cash, this shouldnt matter. Less meal tickets floating around means that the each ticket gets more food. If Bill Gates is using the money for consuming resources(say making a huge building), this affects the econom
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by enugu 10y ago
I remember reading a book by British energy person on renewables who talked about importance of 'order of magnitude' calculations and how switching off cell phone chargers is not the way to campaign for energy savings. So, yes get
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by enugu 10y ago
The value of keeping a paper trail has got lost in mutual political accusations. Appearance of correctness is important just like being correct.
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by enugu 10y ago
The way this problem will get solved is some service running on top of aws which will allow users to install and run any app, packaged in a standardized format. This will be free in exchange for a column beside the app which serves ads or
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by enugu 10y ago
Yes, but as this article shows, there are much higher costs coming up for us. If we came to a consensus that this technology is important and devoted resources to this, we would see a lot of improvements in these parameters. The problem is
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by enugu 10y ago
The point is straightforward - the fact that you have defined a country on a map, doesnt mean you have defined all its cities and towns. Especially if the number of markers you have are less than the number of towns. Also, we can talk about
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by enugu 10y ago
Defining the set of real numbers is very different from defining all real numbers. Yes, Chaitin's constant is defined(with a computable system as a parameter). But that's the point - we cant produce such a definition for almost
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by enugu 10y ago
We have the holographic principle from physics which says that the amount of information in a finite volume of space is discrete. If true, then we can think of the continuity just as a convenient interface. All experimental questions can be
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by enugu 10y ago
> In my view, every real number is well-defined... How so? The set of definable numbers in any formal langauage might not be clear concept. But you are making a stronger statement. For any given language, like for instance ZFC, we can sa
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by enugu 10y ago
Yes, when you restrict to computable numbers, then there are countably many reals. Countable in classical sense. You wont have an computable enumeration, again of because of diagonalization.
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by enugu 10y ago
As Lang used to say the Axiom Of Choice is obvious, 'I just pick the elements'. Just kidding, thanks for this interesting logical point.
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by enugu 10y ago
I think you (and some other commenters) are responding to something different - potential vs actual infinity - not being able to write down all natural numbers, but we can potentially write any number(with some assumptions like an infinite
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by enugu 10y ago
Isnt Redux about using components to dispatch actions, and all the logic happens in the reducers for the store? So, the Model part is not inside the react view components which are just used for display. If you have uncontrolled components(
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by enugu 10y ago
Thanks. I was unaware of this particular term which was also a good keyword for google. There is an alpha polyfill effort here. https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill Regarding speed, here's the author&
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by enugu 10y ago
There is no dichotomy here. Mathematicians also use heuristics to figure out what is probably true. This is a very important part of mathematical activity - generating good, not yet worked out ideas based on rough insights. What the physici
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by enugu 10y ago
Is there a library or babel like transform on server side which can enable this feature in older browsers? Most clients wont have this enabled for some time now.
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by enugu 10y ago
Apart from cognitive skills, an important factor is the capacity of suffering. So even dumb animals might be able to feel intense pain. In humans, while forms of suffering like loneliness, depression can be bad, pure physical pain can itse
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by enugu 10y ago
Ok, this is another argument for inflation depending on the reduction of work incentives after basic income. So lower amount of output is distributed among same number of people causing inflation. But for making this argument, you will hav
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by enugu 10y ago
Every basic income story has an inflation comment. Think in terms of proportion of wealth helps. If a company issues new shares and gives it X(analogy to govt printing money), the overall dilution in value of share doesn't prevent that
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by enugu 10y ago
Motivation for seemingly arbitrary concepts is something that mathematicians struggle with quite often, it's not just lay public. Also, yes, introducing the simplest version of a concept using examples before the most general version i
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by enugu 10y ago
What is actually found to be true can play an important role in understand past attempts. Imagine one sends a group of ships on exploration with each ship given a partial and inaccurate map. One can use an accurate map (along with the ship
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by enugu 10y ago
Some context - knowing if a number can be written as a sum of squares can be reduced to determining whether its factors can be written as a sum of squares (proof of this involves the fact that norm of complex numbers respects multiplication
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by enugu 10y ago
Racket has classes as first-class values. So a mixin is a function from one class to another. This seems similar to higher order components solution. https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/classes.html?q=mixin#%28t...
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by enugu 10y ago
Looks like a visual version for an alias list. Here are somethings which might be more substantial improvements. A status bar which helps in understanding what a command does. So you type 'command -xva a b' and the status bar give
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by enugu 10y ago
The point is that the existing speakers would like to preserve the language, but might not have resources for doing so. One good thing is that technology allows us right now to do archiving in an easier way. Recording speech, stories, and s
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by enugu 10y ago
Here's a good counterargument against reserve currency status as a positive thing and listing the negative effects. http://blog.mpettis.com/2016/05/the-titillating-and-terrifyi... . It's a long article, s

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