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by ericb 6y ago
Can you provide peer reviewed sources for your claims? I'm interested, if so. > Lockdowns in particular are not clearly effective. > Traditional epidemiology says quarantine is not useful for fast spreading contagions. > Honin
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by ericb 6y ago
> slandered by the mainstream media as racist evil orange man He tweeted a video of a man yelling "White Power." Now, you can say that was "an accident", but it was up for four hours ! Our president is always reachab
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by ericb 6y ago
> Even countries that were praised for keeping out the virus are now suffering new outbreaks. New Zealand? South Korea? There's no comparison to the US.
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by ericb 6y ago
I mean, on the face of it, Trump's taxes leaking seems likely, almost inevitable, and surprising it hadn't happened sooner. He has no shortage of people who have seen his taxes, and no shortage of disgruntled folks. Whereas a conv
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by ericb 6y ago
> By contrast, the NYP actually did explain how they got the emails: from a laptop dropped off and signed for by Hunter Biden himself at a PC repair shop. Yes, from a man who happens to be legally blind and can't verify who dropped
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by ericb 6y ago
The book "The Mythical Man-Month" has some of those laws built in.
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> Well, "we" in the Open Source movement decided that it means not restricting what users do with their code. The "GPL" is way more onerous. You see, one can only be truly unrestricted by being restricted into taking
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by ericb 6y ago
OpenAI is even more out of control than Elon! Elon was accidentally working against his stated goals. OpenAI is deliberately working against its own stated goals.
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by ericb 6y ago
Dry ice is -78°C so perhaps that could work?
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by ericb 6y ago
The paradox only exists if you assume that location and path through space-time is not a property. Since this property cannot be copied, no "identical copy" is possible. This isn't a divergence--this is an uncopyable property
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by ericb 6y ago
It isn't a matter of thinking less of the clones--they'd probably be my best buds, probably closer than family. They'd understand that we are not the same person also. My clones would understand the example is rhetorical to p
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by ericb 6y ago
> Particles do not come tagged with UUIDs. They do though. Particles have a unique path through time and space that cannot be replicated. I don't care who "thinks" they are me--that has no effect on their me-ness. > Per
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by ericb 6y ago
From an outsider perspective, sure. But don't you have an inner mental world? I don't understand if you are conscious why you think a copy of your consciousness that you have no access to would offer you anything, or in any way be
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by ericb 6y ago
> I wouldn't mind much one of them getting burned What if it was the "copy" you owned? I only have my own set of conscious experiences. My set is not the same as the clones. When people seriously argue this, I start to won
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by ericb 6y ago
> just because you can label one particular branch “master” doesn’t make it genuinely special, and any special treatment you give to one branch is merely your convention. If you can have the Mona Lisa, and a copy of the Mona Lisa simult
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by ericb 6y ago
I have mixed feelings on this. Nikola has a Theranos vibe to it. On the other hand, "Citron Research" has created stock crashes on shaky ground in both Shopify and Tesla using hit pieces with claims that didn't pan out. I&#x2
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by ericb 6y ago
I love ruby, but this is awful. Hope it goes away.
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by ericb 6y ago
The definition for saturation isn't "is there are lots of strong competitors and other options?" or even "a given percentage of the market is our customer." Instead, the rule is more like: is CaC sufficiently lower
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by ericb 6y ago
Typically in a SaaS business you would avoid profitability until the last possible minute and plow back every bit of cash into customer acquisition (sales and marketing) until you reach a point of market saturation. So long as retention is
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by ericb 6y ago
Commuting sucks is enough! Commuting wastes 52 minutes a day, not counting gas station and maintenance trips. It is expensive, dangerous, and uses around 6-7% of your waking hours while polluting the environment. Past that: -If you have kid
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by ericb 6y ago
> I'm not sure i've ever read an HN comment i find as distasteful as this . I see rude, snarky comments on HN without a good motivation, so that's surprising. Health and safety is probably the best motivation for callin
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by ericb 6y ago
What you're saying makes sense. Looking at some tables of it, it seems like if we imagine it in a naive population having a 50% higher reproduction number, it seems like it only bumps the herd immunity number by about 10% because it is
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by ericb 6y ago
So, I think the proposed math is something like: 1/3rd of infected don't show antibodies so that 20% means 30% were infected. Another study showed pre-existing T cell reactivity (maybe immunity?) in 40% of people, so if you combin
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by ericb 6y ago
While I agree with your point, there were also anti-maskers during the Spanish Flu, so these anti maskers aren't entirely the fault of the deception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Franci...
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by ericb 6y ago
Just because it doesn't cure one thing, we shouldn't consider it for others? Should we toss our antidepressants because they don't cure respiratory infections? I believe there's a plausible mechanism in this case, and re
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by ericb 6y ago
If I subscribe, is it easy to find the custom prompt? Can I get it to generate non dungeon and dragon related content? I'm thinking of giving it a whirl.
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by ericb 6y ago
Is there some way I can actually interact with GPT-3? I keep looking for these articles to link to it, but I end up mystified.
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by ericb 6y ago
There are false negatives and positives in the tests. In Macaques they could not reinfect them, so this doesn't seem that likely.
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Ask HN: Minimum Viable Sales Docs?
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by ericb 6y ago
What about evening classes? For other cooler areas of the country, perhaps winters off, but not summers?

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