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by feoren 2y ago
My hot take: currency is not meant to be held , it's meant to be spent . I know, I know: "store of value" is one of its definitions, but it's OK to have short-term and long-term stores of value. Money velocity is a hea
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by feoren 2y ago
There's no real problem here. Infinity - Infinity is not 0; it's probably best to simply call it Infinity as well. [ok] 1. Infinity + 1 == Infinity + 2 [ok] 2. Infinity + 1 - Infinity == Infinity + 2 - Infinity [wrong] 3a. 1 == 2
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by feoren 2y ago
If opting out of security updates for your dishwasher is bad, then your dishwasher is shit.
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by feoren 2y ago
That is a really excellent point and in fact gets at the difficulty of arguing any rational point about religion. I'd guess that every rational argument that appeals to religion at all can be made to work or not work depending on thi
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by feoren 2y ago
This game theory problem, where consumers are buying unhealthier options because they're cheaper, and companies are producing unhealthier options because they're more profitable, is exactly what regulation is for. I don't u
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by feoren 2y ago
One thing I would stress is that there is not one "true" system of units that is correct in some absolute sense. Unit systems are to arithmetic as type systems are to code. It's OK to have different systems of units that are
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by feoren 2y ago
It doesn't sound like you really do disagree with the author at all. I never had the sense that he was trying to shame anyone. In fact he almost exactly echoes your 2nd paragraph: > I’m not here to be the humor police, or to say th
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by feoren 2y ago
Keep reading. The Barning-Hall tree is ternary, but this article is mostly devoted to the Stern-Brocot tree, which is binary.
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by feoren 2y ago
> an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines This is the singularity as far as I'm concerned: when AI is smart enough to design a better AI, which will be even smarter and therefore able to design an even better A
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by feoren 2y ago
> Indie developers have shown that the cost to make a game is much lower than large game publishers are spending ... Then, over-budgeting leads to under-performing. I think this is a great insight. Rather than taking a big gamble on a $1
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by feoren 2y ago
Right, and that's most titles referred to as "AAA" nowadays.
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by feoren 2y ago
That would be wonderful news, because his claim is extremely depressing. I'm finding a bit of chatter on it on reddit, but do you happen to have a link to anything substantial? Particularly him walking it back?
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by feoren 2y ago
> the game still ended up boring as hell There are two problems here. One is when people haven't played the game enough during development. Everyone on the dev floor should know whether the game is fun or not, and which parts are th
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by feoren 2y ago
> see if your particle is in a superposition state or no. You shoot the entangled photon through a double slit and see if a wave-like pattern occurs ... "measured or not" thus is our "bit" that has been communicated
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by feoren 2y ago
> I'm under the impression an executable binary shouldn't be easily read to find such credentials If the computer can read it, and you have full control of the computer, then you can read it. Physical access is game over. Even
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by feoren 2y ago
I'd like to live in the world you imagine we live in.
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by feoren 2y ago
As someone who works in a company with 10,000+ professional engineers*: yes, yes they do make mistakes. Despite what you seem to think, they are actually human beings. Good processes understand this and have multiple layers to catch and cor
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by feoren 2y ago
This article is one professor's mix of opinion and elementary introduction to the concept of conjecture, and IMO is quite rambling and inconsistent. Why are you generalizing this one random person's thoughts into a conclusion abo
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by feoren 2y ago
What about if on Friday morning you're wishing it was Monday? Like, two Mondays ago? So you weren't quite as late on everything?
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by feoren 2y ago
I told you what the line is: would a "reasonable person" be fooled or not? It has nothing to do with companies vs. politicians. You are using the word "fabricate" to cover a huge range of different things. Like "oh,
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by feoren 2y ago
Building the wrong thing is exactly what happens when you listen to management too much. Talk to the client yourself. Learn the subject. Get the textbook. Read the materials. That's how you build the right thing.
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by feoren 2y ago
"Management" is generally a bunch of morons bikeshedding to try to distract everyone from the fact that their jobs are utterly worthless. The fewer decisions management makes, the better. If management feels like they need to make
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by feoren 2y ago
No. Poking the hornet's nest is an effective and sometimes necessary part of activism. The whole reason we've heard of these guys is because they poked those companies. That's why they used their real logos. Using fake logos
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by feoren 2y ago
I'm not 100% sure, but it's something like this: If you try raising one eyebrow or wiggling one ear (assuming you can't already do that), you might find that you're briefly activating lots of little muscles around the ta
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by feoren 2y ago
I'm not quite sure exactly what I'm doing; it feels a bit like tensing a muscle, but that muscle feels like it's in the middle of my head, a bit toward the back. Obviously there are no actual muscles there, so I'm not su
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by feoren 2y ago
Staring at the v0.3 produces an effect similar to something I'm able to do trigger manually on command. I've always had the feeling that I'm somehow triggering a "flow" in my brain, but I have no way to confirm what
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by feoren 2y ago
This is exactly why I like all of this being handled in the return type. Return a Promise<T> or a Task<T> or a Stream<T> or an IEnumerable<T> as appropriate. Every function always returns immediately, but it might no
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by feoren 2y ago
Data brokers do not seem to care if their data is poisoned. That's their customers' problem! Their customers don't have any way of validating it, so there's no incentive to care. Haven't you ever received spam that
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by feoren 2y ago
> it's hard to imagine a space solar solution ever being competitive given that you need to build a constellation of the things, launch them into space Someone has to do that, once. Yes, that company will need to sell their offeri
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by feoren 2y ago
It's actually super easy to form a "brand new branch of mathematics". Just start with some definitions and run with them. Although you'll almost certainly end up with something inconsistent. And if you don't, it&#x2

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