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by gpsx 5y ago
Are there any plans for a Mountain View trial? I live there.
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by gpsx 5y ago
I should have been more clear. 20/20 refers to vision and is used in the traditional form of the expression and is supposed to mean "very good". 50/50 refers to percentages, meaning 50% chance of being correct and 50% ch
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by gpsx 5y ago
Yes, that is the point. The original saying is Hindsight is 20/20, implying it is very accurate. This version of the statement contradicts that, implying you can't really say what would have happened if things were different.
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by gpsx 5y ago
Your comment about counterfactuals reminds of a saying, or what I would call a more accurate version of a common saying - "Hindsight is 50/50". (Note, that doesn't make hindsight necessarily wrong, just difficult to have
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by gpsx 5y ago
Thanks for those links! I will check that out. I will say one problem I have is in refactoring the interfaces of my modules, which is what I seem to spend a lot of time one, at least in this stage of the project. When I am updating the bott
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by gpsx 5y ago
For some background, I have a web version and two electron versions of the programming environment. Then there is a web runtime and a web server which run on the output of the programming environment. Originally the main repo contained code
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by gpsx 5y ago
I don't think anyone likes advertising, but that does bankroll the internet. There are some great content providers on youtube who do that full time and make a living from it. Even many basic sites owe their existence to advertising be
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by gpsx 5y ago
I have a project, a programming environment/runtime, that contains a number of overlapping applications. I started with a small number of repos, including one main one. I had a number of frustrations with that. One of them is I didn&#x
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by gpsx 5y ago
I remember hearing a talk by Bill Gates a long time ago where he said the biggest competitor for Word was previous versions of the program. That is no longer true with forced updates. Granted, there are many reasons why it is not practical
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by gpsx 5y ago
Should big internet companies by plumbing and not exert control over content on their system? As much as it annoys me some of the things Google, for example, does exercising the power they have, it does have the right to control what is on
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by gpsx 5y ago
Some of the funny effects seen here come not from relativity but from the finite time of propogation. In fact, relativity _reduces_ the effect of you see from time of propogation. An example is that objects seem to be curved, because it tak
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by gpsx 5y ago
I think stagnation, or at least a change through successively smaller exponential regimes, should be the base case. I'm bullish on our future tech prospects and I know we have the entire universe from which to draw resources. But for a
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by gpsx 5y ago
That's kind of unfair, in a way. They aren't that bad. It's just that you are used to seeing people who are very good. Try making a video of yourself dancing. It doesn't look like you think. (This is a painful fact learn
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by gpsx 5y ago
What would someone do if their to do list was finished? Presumably a person always has more to do. And presumably people think of doing a lot more than they actually can do. Your reach should always exceed your grasp. (Or, less politely, wh
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by gpsx 5y ago
Redwood City and other mid Bay Area mid-peninsula cities have very nice weather. They have the same effect that makes San Diego so nice, the interface between warm sun and cool ocean. If the criteria was slightly different, biased cooler, R
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by gpsx 5y ago
I want to add to my above comment. Non-entanglement is a special mathematical case, but it happens quite often. If the two particles never interact in any way, then the special condition will be true and they will not be entangled. There is
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by gpsx 5y ago
I think your analogy works for both many worlds and Copenhagen. You can view each universe in your analogy as states in the wave function. The two interpretations diverge only when the "observation" occurs. In the Copanhagen inter
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by gpsx 5y ago
I think people get confused when they think that each object has a wave function. This is not correct. The universe has one wave function. The wave function consists of a bunch of possible states along with the coefficient for each state. Y
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by gpsx 5y ago
In the paper, Carrol goes through great pains to try reject people changing the laws of physics because they don't understand consciousness. This is exactly how I view people taking up the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
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by gpsx 5y ago
If you want to get technical, this isn't a continuous surface but weave of strings. And something that makes this more complex is the location of the string intersections has a static/dynamic friction component that is difficult t
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by gpsx 5y ago
I think that is good intuition. The transverse force is the second derivative of the transverse position, to first order. But then there are higher order effects in it. I think that is where that math breaks down.
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by gpsx 5y ago
There is so much emphasis on fake news but I think any story can be shaped by _which_ facts are discussed. Face it, you can't put a complete nuanced view in the sound bite world of social media. At the same time, I think people enjoy b
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by gpsx 5y ago
A central authority means not only trust but responsibility, and in turn risk. Why require so much responsibility when it is not necessary? The possible problems are not only malicious actions from the central authority but accidental actio
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by gpsx 5y ago
I agree it will take something dramatic to fix the divisive political environment in the US. I would add one possible mechanism to your list which I am sure we all hope is not the solution - the country uniting against a common enemy in a w
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by gpsx 5y ago
I agree with you. I'll put it another way. Usually if the price of something goes up and becomes too high, fewer people buy and the price drops. That is a stable system. An unstable system is when the price of something goes up, so tha
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by gpsx 5y ago
Mortgage rates have been falling for the past 40 years. Now they might start rising (emphasis on might). If they do, could that reverse the continuous rise of housing prices? That is how the bond market works, which has also seen rate drops
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by gpsx 5y ago
I'd like to add that being a bubble doesn't mean the object of the bubble is bad. Take the dot com bubble - some of those dot coms are doing pretty well now, like amazon.com, google.com, facebook.com and news.ycombinator.com.
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by gpsx 5y ago
Wow, it's funny reading the comments (and the article). Everyone is saying "The world is like X now", with a different value of X.
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by gpsx 5y ago
Ford is supposedly coming out with a smaller pickup, the Ford Maverick, that I think is similar in size to the old Ranger.
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by gpsx 5y ago
Wouldn’t it be nice if energy were free, and caused no environmental damage? Well, how about cheaper and cleaner. Whether you think spending energy on coin mining is worthwhile or not, energy is required to do any work (by definition), so t

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