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by gbhn 9y ago
Is there a reason arxiv doesn't directly manage what would be an analog to paper reputation? My impression is that journal selection is doing some work of signaling how awesome scientists think a particular paper is, either actually or
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by gbhn 9y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-campaign-use-tactics...
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by gbhn 9y ago
It's an agency issue. If I use an attributed channel it's like meeting you and saying "hey remember your friend the CS guy? Our company is looking for someone like that. Could you pass the word along?" vs pretending to b
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by gbhn 9y ago
What are the reasons this has been so difficult? It seems like this must have been desirable for decades. Is the config of internal and external just tricky? Does some legitimate traffic use this so it's difficult to get everyone to sw
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by gbhn 9y ago
This makes sense to me. Even with managing orbits you are still having a huge part of the fleet over empty areas. If the idea is to manage high bandwidth needs of autonomous ships, trucks, trains, planes, etc maybe it makes sense...
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by gbhn 9y ago
I visited Japan a few years ago. There are regular extremely fast trains going between large cities and smaller ones. I estimated that the passenger capacity of trains stopping at one smallish city was equivalent to like 3x the passenger ca
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by gbhn 9y ago
We play a variant without the robber where a 7 means you just draw a resource of your choice. Much preferred if you aren't looking for a competitively enhanced game. :-)
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by gbhn 9y ago
While some important records are public, many are not. It isn't obvious that all debtors want the details of their debt made world-readable, for instance.
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by gbhn 9y ago
Patreon should use a prepaid wallet for this group. It should continue aggregating for the first. I'm happy to foot a 50c or so service fee per month. I'm not up for paying 35% service fees! That's outrageous and I'm con
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by gbhn 9y ago
This is what I told them in the survey. I'm a newbie to the platform, and I understand the value proposition better than the owner?! That's really screwed up, and it will take quite a while before I trust them. I still kind of thi
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by gbhn 9y ago
Ah. JS crashed on my mobile at about 30M clips...
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by gbhn 9y ago
To me this looked like it could be the key to the whole thing... That is, the idea is that you build a high-speed airline with spaceports all over the world, refueled by huge solar arrays refining Ox and CH4 out of the air. Then it turns ou
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by gbhn 9y ago
It just did a few years ago. So, yes. It's easy to see why poor decisions repeat cyclically.
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by gbhn 9y ago
I think this is a special case of Gresham's law that bad currency drives out good. The problem is information asymmetry. You may be trying to buy SEC securities, but if they are swamped with fakes, it causes huge friction costs to figu
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by gbhn 9y ago
I've known people who have left groups not as intensely controlling as this, but very controlling. There is typically a very long period where they aren't directly controlled by the group, but are very much still "engaged&quo
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by gbhn 10y ago
I think many of us on this site have jobs where presence and productivity are pretty elastic. Many workers have jobs where human presence is a key part of the job function. Being a cashier, or a nurse, or driving -- it isn't as though
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by gbhn 10y ago
True, true, but somehow that's never been much of an obstacle to totalitarian governments. Somehow there's always a soldier who will push the button. In Nuremberg we developed a way to think about this: people outside the central
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by gbhn 10y ago
That's happened before (look at articles on the "era of good feelings"). What happens is that factions develop along a new politically-important axis which have different answers for a new pressing problem, and the moderate p
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by gbhn 10y ago
Same here. It was a bit baffling that the scenario is apparently a self-drive car with a poison gas capsule attached such that contact with any obstacle kills all occupants. Sheesh.
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by gbhn 10y ago
Thanks, that's a useful phrase!
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by gbhn 10y ago
I think you are right, and I've at times struggled to explain why I enjoy his books as much as I do. I think ultimately he leans regularly on a facet of SF that in that genre, ideas and abstractions can be the equal subjects of charact
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by gbhn 10y ago
This is likely a case of an infamous RFI problem. The spectrum is allocated to DoD, and garage door openers were allowed to use it provided they followed particular guidelines. Some follow them less faithfully and issues like this are the r
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by gbhn 10y ago
plug: check out the 3.5GHz band in the United States. (CBRS)
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by gbhn 10y ago
Can you write more about "sped up time"? I'm reminded of something like this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mnp/travel_through_time_to_increase_...
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by gbhn 10y ago
The EU is chock full of exceptions and asterisks and different arrangements for different territories. It is completely possible that in the withdrawal negotiations Gibraltar, for instance, could end up with some kind of unique status.
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by gbhn 10y ago
I'd suggest this is more of an endorsement of free trade. (That is, no external party forced you to trade goats for seeds.) Lots of societies have free trade that I don't think would be usefully described as "capitalist.&quot
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by gbhn 10y ago
My recollection is that it was included, but then traded to the relevant industries for their acceptance of the plan we have now. Whether it was always intended as a chip or was a serious part of the plan is open for debate I suppose, but t
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by gbhn 10y ago
Another book you'll enjoy if you liked this post: "The Art of Readable Code" ( http://www.amazon.com/Art-Readable-Code-Theory-Practice/dp/0... )
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by gbhn 10y ago
Blindsight is a very compelling exploration of the idea that there may be different roles of consciousness in advanced intelligence. We know that a conscious decision on say the visual processing loop ends up costing 120ms or so. Why is thi
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by gbhn 10y ago
Probably not. Training for 3-pointers gets you 50% more points for (from what the outside seems like) a basically equivalent training perspective.

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