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by fasterik 9mo ago
Prediction markets perform the valuable function of information aggregation, at least in theory. When there is a financial incentive to make a correct prediction, the market should converge on the probability an ideal observer would assign
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by fasterik 9mo ago
You're right, I shouldn't have used the word "illegal". But banning something from the charts is basically saying "people are wrong to listen to this". Why can't people make up their own minds about what t
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by fasterik 9mo ago
The example you linked is about push notifications in general, nothing specific to the Signal app. If the concern is that your OS is compromised or spying on you, that's not something E2E encryption can protect against, whether it&#x27
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by fasterik 9mo ago
I listened to the song in question. It's truly awful. Simplistic and cliche in every way musically possible, and it sounds like it was written about 15 years ago at the height of the indie folk craze. That said, it shouldn't be il
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by fasterik 9mo ago
>Moxie Marlinspike sounds like some 90s intelligence guy’s understanding of what an appealing name to hacker groups would sound like. Put a guy like that as so-called creator of some encryption protocol for messaging and promote the app
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by fasterik 9mo ago
According to the article: >Data and conversations originating from users and the resulting responses from the LLMs are encrypted in a trusted execution environment (TEE) that prevents even server administrators from peeking at or tamper
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by fasterik 9mo ago
Most people don't care about Google knowing whether they're using a particular app. If they do, they have the option not to use it. The main concern is that the chats themselves are E2E encrypted, which we have every reason to bel
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by fasterik 9mo ago
Nielsen and Chuang has the clearest exposition of quantum mechanics I've seen anywhere. Last year I was trying to learn quantum mechanics, not necessarily quantum computation, just out of a general interest in theoretical physics. I st
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by fasterik 9mo ago
Well, there are two factors that go into the recommendations. As you mentioned, one is adequate micronutrients. The other is chronic disease risk reduction. The 5-10% of total calories from saturated fat recommendation falls into the latter
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by fasterik 9mo ago
Nutrition science has come up with acceptable macronutrient distribution ranges (AMDR). The recommendation for adults is 45-65% of total calories from carbohydrates, 20-35% from fat, and 10-35% from protein. That is definitely not low carb.
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by fasterik 9mo ago
It's hard, because when an issue becomes politicized everyone has their own preferred "consensus". I would say it should come from the scientific community, not government agencies. Sometimes government agencies agree with th
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by fasterik 9mo ago
That has nothing to do with whether excesses of those nutrients cause cardiovascular disease, though. The general consensus is that the healthiest diet is one with 5-10% of total calories from saturated fat. For most people, it's neces
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by fasterik 10mo ago
Obligatory "A Pixel Is Not A Little Square" https://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
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by fasterik 10mo ago
This article made me think of Shane Carruth. He's best known for his debut film Primer, but his follow-up Upstream Color is very Malickean.
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by fasterik 10mo ago
I may have misinterpreted your original post as saying we should be going full renewables. I think we're basically in agreement about prices. We might just disagree about the percent of energy that should come from nuclear. I don'
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by fasterik 10mo ago
I didn't disagree that there is price parity for the levelized cost. There is still not price parity for levelized full system cost. If we used wind and solar for 95-100% of generation, the price would be much higher. My point is not t
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by fasterik 10mo ago
This comment is also misleading. First, $/watt is not how levelized cost of electricity is measured, you need to use $/watt-hour (or more commonly, $/MWh) over the lifetime of the project. By definition, levelized cost of ele
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by fasterik 10mo ago
This is one of the major political problems of the 21st century, convincing people that many of the problems they see in society are in fact free choices made by individuals, and not necessarily something that needs to be fixed from the top
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by fasterik 10mo ago
I tend to think that banning things is almost never the right answer. Who gets to decide what counts as an ad? What's stopping governments from designating speech they don't like as an ad?
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by fasterik 10mo ago
The mistake is thinking of Google as a library. Google is a commercial product. The equivalent of the Library of Congress would be something more like Wikipedia, or the Internet Archive, or Library Genesis. I certainly think that we should
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by fasterik 11mo ago
There is also Naive Lie Theory by Stillwell, which is targeted at an undergraduate level. I haven't read it yet, but it's been on my radar for a while. https://www.amazon.com/Naive-Theory-Undergraduate-Texts-Math..
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by fasterik 11mo ago
I don't think any of that is an argument against the use of procedural generation, it's just an argument for the tasteful use of it. Partly it also depends on what works in your own workflow. I find that it's an essential com
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by fasterik 11mo ago
Procedural generation can be useful for finding new musical ideas. It's also essential in specific genres like ambient and experimental music, where the whole point is to break out of the traditional structures of rhythm and melody. Im
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by fasterik 1y ago
Social media isn't defined by the business model. Straight from Wikipedia: "Social media are new media technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of exp
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by fasterik 1y ago
I don't think it's crazy to talk about plateaus, it just depends on what domain we're talking about. Performance on olympiad-style problems doesn't necessarily translate into success in research, or industry, or creati
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by fasterik 1y ago
I think there are some organizations doing good in the world. The trend is not as bad as you would imagine. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-livin... https://www.givewell.org/
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by fasterik 1y ago
"Local communities" existed for millennia and didn't manage to reduce the child mortality rate and extreme poverty rate to effectively zero. I know neoliberalism is a dirty word, and there are plenty of problems with the mode
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by fasterik 1y ago
Carlin was a true philosopher. I find myself disagreeing with him more these days than when I was younger and angrier, but I still find him endlessly entertaining.
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by fasterik 1y ago
Amazon.com has 12% market share in global e-commerce and 38% in the United States. I think they have plenty of competition.
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by fasterik 1y ago
Where does the article mention barriers to entry? My reading is that that the consolidation is due to venture capital moving investment to other areas. Anyone who wants to start a new food delivery app is still free to do so, as long as the

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