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by gbrown 7y ago
I get the impression that you’re playing pretty fast and loose with the word “innate”, to basically refer to the rights you think are most important. Shelter is definitely pretty important in, for example, Maslow's hierarchy. Obviously
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by gbrown 7y ago
Neal Stephenson? I haven't read it, but I remember really liking Cryptonomicon.
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by gbrown 7y ago
This is 100% me. I kind of think of language like an operating system for the brain - a really chaotic operating system.
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by gbrown 7y ago
I suppose they could be trimming and composting/bio-charring excess plant material, but given the lack of information I kind of doubt that a serious CO2 life-cycle and residence analysis has been done.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Not if we bankrupt ourselves cutting taxes for the rich first!
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by gbrown 7y ago
Maybe your reward function is just wonky.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Interesting, I’ve never seen one like that in the states. Yeah, that should be functionally equivalent.
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by gbrown 7y ago
I'd like to see how that's measured, and how it compares to real life usage. Our house came with a high efficiency top loader, but it constantly goes unbalanced if not really carefully loaded (and sometimes even then). Its solutio
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by gbrown 7y ago
Hey, at least it might alert people who've been buying counterfeits on Amazon. /s
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by gbrown 7y ago
> I for one would feel disgusted with myself if I were to discover that I'm nothing more than the output of a reward function. YMMV. Well we use different words for it, but I’m not sure I understand the alternative? The brain is a p
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by gbrown 7y ago
Wow, that is steeeep.
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by gbrown 7y ago
That sounds like a good compromise.
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by gbrown 7y ago
I require a numpad - any time I need to enter more than a few numbers, the speed difference is unbelievable. I’d say most analytics focused people will need to do something like this at some point - that, and people who are forced to intera
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by gbrown 7y ago
> "is almost impossible to block people on the internet" That doesn't actually mean anything though; the modern internet isn't some homogeneous medium people choose how to interact with, it's a federation of p
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by gbrown 7y ago
I reject that entirely - we're talking about giving people access to a selling platform, not a social website which depends on maximum user growth and minimal barrier to participation. Amazon has prioritized growing the number of selle
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by gbrown 7y ago
It seems like permanently freezing counterfeiters out of the marketplace would be the obvious thing to do, and if Amazon lacks the technical capacity to do so or to prevent their return I’d say that’s a pretty fundamental problem.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Fair enough
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by gbrown 7y ago
Judging by what happens most times gender in tech comes up on HN, I’m sure this thread will be buckets of fun.
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by gbrown 7y ago
I like how simple their API is. I have infrequent cloud needs, so it's nice being able to set up a simple docker-machine script once in a while to spin up a ton of compute nodes for some scientific task.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Fair enough I guess, that just seems... like a convoluted way of going about it.
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by gbrown 7y ago
If by spirituality you mean newspaper horoscopes... I mean I’d like to think so, but you’re probably right. Science (or even just common sense) CAN show that horoscopes are bullshit though.
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by gbrown 7y ago
“I’m really bummed about the way it makes my arm look” said the stage 4 terminal skin cancer patient. Hint: it’s not actually about the skiing.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Well, it doesn’t always, but I’d prefer not to live during the equivalent of a self imposed asteroid impact kthxbye. Like, sure, mass extinctions happen... but this one is totally optional.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Forever? Nah, but I’d prefer if things changed at the usual pace - slow enough for species to adapt and evolve without catastrophic extinctions.
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by gbrown 7y ago
And?
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by gbrown 7y ago
You can thank the dairy lobby for schools pushing milk.
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by gbrown 7y ago
"Almond Milk Is Even More Evil Than You Thought" This title is garbage, saves me a click. Let me guess though: -water use -pesticides -land use I'd be willing to bet it still wins over cow milk.
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by gbrown 7y ago
I feel like comparing dark energy and dark matter is really disingenuous. Dark energy is a placeholder to explain a really bizarre phenomenon (which is now being questioned). Dark matter is something we can map the distribution of throughou
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by gbrown 7y ago
Exactly.
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by gbrown 7y ago
The big rip would imply that eventually, all points in space are accelerating away from one another faster than the speed of light, which would tear apart atoms, subatomic particles, and everything down to the smallest divisible units of ma

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