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by hawkice 12y ago
I shut down my facebook account about two years ago. I did it because I can't figure out why I should spend time reading something that no one cares whether I read or not. Since I left, I noticed something. I think the word 'poser
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I just recently signed up for dropbox, and when I did, Chromium asked me if it was cool for them to auto-gen a password and put it in my browser keyring. Whatever method they are using, I would imagine that'll be the new standard. My p
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by hawkice 12y ago
Not sure if you're still in the edit window, but there is a triple negative thing going on that makes this statement both confusing and less interesting (if there were no irrational valuations, no one would call it a bubble).
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If your goal is to reason about correctness, recursion can be a useful tool. Assembly... is not the hammer I'd bust out for that particular reasoning task.
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> Right to work and its ilk have a very expressed intention of neutering unionization efforts. So, I know very little about Right to Work legislation (essentially I know what the topic being discussed is from the first paragraph of Wikip
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Okay, at some point this counts as improvised. We're talking about lyrics, percussion, bass guitar and other instruments (at least in the case of Blurred Lines, where the writing of the lyrics and instrumental tracks were what was in q
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I think it's fair to say that it's "obvious" when optimizing for the same things Yudkowsky does. For instance, any issue having something to say about the Born rule seems to be his dump stat, if you will. This makes sens
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Let's step back a little. The story is clearly written to trigger outrage -- really, meant to trigger your precise response. So, let's spend a google seeing if there are elements of this story that were left out due to not fitting
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by hawkice 12y ago
As someone who has purchased bags of xylitol and added them to lemonade, tea, etc.: It's because it tastes bad. Odd that any sugar could taste bad, but it's true. It's not _that_ expensive, but normal sugar is so cheap (not t
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> Hence, the government's chickenshit false statement trap works — even though the government agents set it up from the start. If you don't read Popehat, this might be the moment you realize it's a good idea to start. Very
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Couldn't disagree more. His story about building BH into a powerhouse centered on valuing things at more than just book value (notably, See's Candy, which was one of their first amazing investments, which he was worried about purc
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by hawkice 12y ago
Getting rid of CJK unification would better model actual language change in the future (France, for instance, has a group that keeps a rigorous definition of the French language up to date -- I would enjoy giving them a subset of the codes
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by hawkice 12y ago
It's not unusual for upper management to have discretion and a budget. Forget side projects -- work with him to find an important and interesting thing you won't micromanage at all. Perhaps importantly: maybe "lead" role
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> Can't you frame every social organization in this kind of light? This reminds me of the comment I recall from 'patio11's podcast, someone was talking about how their sales pitch uses a lot of spam-associated techniques l
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There is something to be said about how, if the patterns of discrimination were a more straight-forward story, it would be better for Pao. The issues around that one partner post-relationship seem to be only one part of much larger problem
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I consider it the best science fiction book for people who are interested in historical fiction and speculative historical fiction. Longest list of citations for a fiction book I've ever seen. And as you say, excellent premise.
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After I recently went through an in-depth review of the unit economics of connecting physical lines to houses in rural Washington (which it turns out is prohibitively expensive to do), I actually have started to appreciate the value of a br
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by hawkice 12y ago
To rephrase/expand your tl'dr slightly: you can express turing complete programs using Morte. But it only does a certain number of well defined things (like inlining) to reduce an expression and compare it, so some programs that a
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by hawkice 12y ago
3 miles of fuel for a drone is the expensive part. The latency isn't great but I suppose that's a matter of taste.
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Same problem, but worse: marginal costs would kill you with the drone delivered SD cards. Blimps... might be interesting. I feel like the blimps I've seen are so close to the ground they'd just be harder-to-maintain cell/WiMa
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by hawkice 12y ago
WiMax is generally promising, as is the idea that cell networks speed up way past 4G bandwidth. Lasers / line of sight is somewhat cheaper but still has a not-great marginal cost. Radio spectrum for last mile seems like an essential st
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by hawkice 12y ago
A lot of the difference in economics between Europe and rural Washington state has to do with the extremely high fixed cost of "last mile" internet connection in rural areas, which are, for a number of reasons, substantially more
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A rural Washington state regulatory and infrastructure organization, KPUD, is attempting to encourage access to the fiber they've added to the Kitsap county area. They have implemented this rule in a fairly watered down sense. The resu
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To provide context: Neil Patrick Harris made a joke that Edward Snowden "couldn't be there for some treason". I firmly believe all puns are uncalled for in America (except by dads, who call for as many puns as possible). But
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It's tricky. Being 2x better means 1/2 time to delivery, 1/2 maintenance burden, 2x more flexible software, and 1/2 the management burden, and very often all at the same time. It's also much harder to find cream of
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I feel like you wanted to reductio ad absurdum with a conclusion I feel is not absurd... um. It is staggeringly dangerous for anyone to have the tools to end civilization, because sometimes we lose track of things, and unless you're a
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I'm going to be a little pedantic, but since this is an article about security (and your point is also about security, of a marginally different type): > You already have trustworthy people, and people with the relevant skills and c
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It's also worth pointing out that >1x liquidation preferences make a similar type of sense: if the VC invests $1MM for a post-money valuation of $5MM, and is handed the $1MM back two days later while the owner pockets $2MM, that&#x2
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I have always gotten the impression there was a failure of communication when (without lose of generality) Haskell programmers would tell (also, without loss of generality) Python programmers that Python only has one type, 'object&#x27
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My 5th grade teacher (a sort of benign philosopher) once related to me that when he was young he strove to take advice, and that meant spending time thinking about the beauty of youth, as his mentors urged him. He seemed to realize how much

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