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by grondilu 10y ago
That's negligible, imho.
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by grondilu 10y ago
> But then it's not a one time-fee. I meant one time per line, not per portfolio. > it doesn't scale down. It scales down just fine if you're willing to accept that you're going to pay a lot in broker fees, wit
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by grondilu 10y ago
I don't get what you mean. You can buy and hold, and keep buying.
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by grondilu 10y ago
> I think it's much cheaper to buy ETFs compared to buying single stocks. You will pay a lot more but it'll be a one time cost. Whereas ETF fees are a yearly one. > Also easier to rebalance in a diversified portfolio. The
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by grondilu 10y ago
Me, I don't even believe in funds. If managers are not better than blindfolded monkeys, why should we even pay them? Just buy diversified stocks, and never sell unless you need cash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by grondilu 10y ago
I think the most impressive part is the end, when the car looks for a parking spot.
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by grondilu 10y ago
> why do you think you could predict what this supposedly superior brain would think, or conclude? I don't know if I can, but I can try. Also, I was merely questioning whether it would chose to keep functioning as we do (that is wh
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by grondilu 10y ago
> If we created a program with the intention of it mimicing a human mind It seems to me that people underestimate the desire we have of creating a machine that would be just like us. Once it's done, and I believe it will, "nor
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by grondilu 10y ago
I was precisely thinking of non-natural things they created. OP did not specify a reason why natural things should be more valuable than others. So if we consider all things humans did, regarding nature or not, it's not clear to me t
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by grondilu 10y ago
> if AI becomes intelligent in absolute sense then it would see sense in not continuing on the path of destruction. Although it's clear that humans have caused a lot of extinctions, it's not clear to me that overall they did n
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Can we build AI without losing control over it?(ted.com)
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Why not send as few humans as you can possibly get away with and as much semi-autonomous & remote operated machinery as possible. This sounds like the "proving ground" stage described in the text. > Get some of the 7 b
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by grondilu 10y ago
> And we can all name a lot of things that are broken: healthcare, education, homelessness and poverty, food waste, climate change... Successful people in Silicon Valley are not concerned by these issues. They can afford to pay physician
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by grondilu 10y ago
A web server is not that hard to set up. I personally have one on my local network. I'm sure many people do. It seems to me that a more difficult part is to make this server public, that is with a fixed IP or domain name. I'v
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by grondilu 10y ago
A gaz is not a solid. Think about a what you could build with a solid that is lighter than air. That would make the expression "the sky is the limit" pretty much literal.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Question: will it ever be possible to wrap a thin impermeable film around a structure like that, suck out the air inside and end up with a lighter-than-air solid in order to build vacuum airships?
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by grondilu 10y ago
> If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like. You forget that Musk envision a public-private partnership for his insane project. That means public money will be involved. I don't mind Musk
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by grondilu 10y ago
> If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like. Well, maybe they like to shout "the King is naked". Or maybe they want the interest in space exploration to go towards what they think wou
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Show HN: WebGL visualization of DNA sequences(grondilu.github.io)
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by grondilu 10y ago
What about we let the prices fell slowly towards zero as automation makes things cheaper and cheaper to produce? What's the point of distributing money if things are free?
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by grondilu 10y ago
> "All these were ideas that could possibly make sense. It showed some originality and some familiarity with the jargon. That's all I ask." Wow. Talk about low standards.
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by grondilu 10y ago
SI prefixes FTW. 1kWh = 3.6 MJ
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by grondilu 10y ago
Perhaps, but it makes conversion to and from an other domain than electricity a pain.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Not related, but I hate this unit. Can't we just talk about Joules?
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by grondilu 10y ago
Fair enough. Edited.
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by grondilu 10y ago
You make it sound like we've been destroying environment only lately and with current political systems. Humans have been wrecking havoc various environments ever since Neolithic. Although there's no definitive proof, there are s
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by grondilu 10y ago
Thought about that as well. There's a nice PBS Space Time episode where they invented a word about it : "surfacism". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5KV3rzuag
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by grondilu 10y ago
> If we can't terraform Earth's deserts, do we really stand a chance with Mars? To be fair, it can be done and it is slowly being done in some countries. It's still very difficult and expensive, though. That being said,
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by grondilu 10y ago
You can apply it for any system with only conservative forces. And gravitation is conservative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_force
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by grondilu 10y ago
The use of the rational numbers I was referring to was more in the equations than in the running code. In fact, part of the appeal I find in rational trigonometry is that it should be easier to adapt for computing, since as you pointed out,

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