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by hnfong 2y ago
I agree, and I think there might be an argument to be made that people with higher IQ are more prone to believing in (gramatically) well-written texts from authoritative-looking sources. After all, people with higher IQ are used to readin
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by hnfong 2y ago
Would acidifying work though? It's not like the oils would mix with the acids (i.e. the ones that actually lower the pH, not the "fatty acids").
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by hnfong 2y ago
FWIW, the iPod Touch was released after the first iPhone.
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by hnfong 2y ago
I wonder whether some large asteroid hit the earth and blasted some poor animal into space some millions of years ago...
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by hnfong 2y ago
> It's not clear to me that landing on the moon and discovering quantum mechanics require a different kind of mental process than building a beaver dam or discovering a use for medicinal herbs. To the contrary, I do think landing
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by hnfong 2y ago
> Where do you think the shape and form that I'm speaking of exist? I'm referring to our subjective experience of reality. Do you think people who never learned languages (eg. due to child abuse) have subjective experiences?
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by hnfong 2y ago
It seems like the problem with modern capitalism is too much money and too few real jobs.
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by hnfong 2y ago
Arguably the issue with "quicksort in Haskell" is not that it's "hard" to implement, but rather it defeats the whole purpose of using a "purely functional" language. The pragmatic way to look at Haskell is
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by hnfong 2y ago
Exactly. Given this, I'm amazed it took a roundabout detour into Chinese mobile phone regulations to arrive at the conclusion that apparently GSMA mandated RCS for 5G...
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by hnfong 2y ago
Looks like the issue is that Goodhart's Law is at play here, and there's no infallible algorithm for determining scientific merit.
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by hnfong 2y ago
That's interesting, because that's not exactly what the Chinese text says. It just says vendors need to implement 5G standards. The reddit translation interprets "relevant industry standards for 5G messages" as including
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by hnfong 2y ago
I agree the vast majority of people aren't going to invent A* on the spot. But I don't understand your emphasis on "formal" education. I'm pretty sure a sufficiently smart high school kid interested in the subject c
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by hnfong 2y ago
It's true that an individual isn't going to invent A* on the spot. They learn how to use it. An individual isn't going to invent a VCS either. They learn how to use it. I'm not seeing the difference here. If somebody nee
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by hnfong 2y ago
One could flip your argument on its head and argue that, in countries with free (or subsidized) university tuition, because taxpayers are paying for the tuition, universities should teach things that are demonstrably valuable to provide gr
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by hnfong 2y ago
No he showed either there are true statements that cannot be proved, OR the system is inconsistent...
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by hnfong 2y ago
I maintain that "blame" is the right word. He doesn't establish any real casual connections of poor Chinese writing to European linguistic influence, so it seems to me that he is just pointing fingers at some convenient villa
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by hnfong 2y ago
This is a common claim. But... I haven't seen any credible claims of how Chinese was actually "westernized" aside of Chinese writers seemingly randomly pointing fingers and blaming European influence for a change of style ini
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by hnfong 2y ago
Yes, and everyone knows what those options are, and can expect the same flow for each package because... ... autoconf is popular.
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by hnfong 2y ago
There's probably also a cultural perspective, where people are generally more ready to defer to authority. Say for example the boss of a company is an old man who's been with the company for 50 years... and he doesn't want to
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by hnfong 2y ago
There's a difference between the Board of Directors accusing their CEO of wrongdoing, and a ex-Director doing the same thing on a personal capacity. Obviously the Board has access to legal advice (and probably would risk trouble if the
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by hnfong 2y ago
You're in a forum full of nerds and the accusation towards Altman is "he totally looks like a nerd".....
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by hnfong 2y ago
I'm pretty convinced that the majority of these people actually "know" that they are asserting claims that they wish are true instead of actually true. The evidence is that if you challenge them with the actual facts, they
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by hnfong 2y ago
The "free market" literally means free of government interference and regulation... So it actually implies allowing capitalists to wield extreme power, skirt laws and regulations. I understand the term has gone through some kind o
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by hnfong 2y ago
I haven't been using spinning disks for perf critical tasks for a looong time... but if I recall correctly, using multiple processes to access the data is usually counter-productive since the disk has to keep repositioning its read hea
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by hnfong 2y ago
I see it more like "it's 11pm and a family member suddenly wants to eat a steak at home, what would you do?" The person who says "I'm going drive back to the restaurant and take my professional equipment home to coo
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by hnfong 2y ago
The Gettier problem is an indication that the definition has (at least) a bug. There are other formulations of "knowledge" which does not involve justification, see eg. Gnosticism. Of course, for a publicly available frequently us
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by hnfong 2y ago
This may be true but it doesn't have to be so cynical. Most people don't have experience on how to squeeze the last drop of value from a struggling company. And many don't know how to quantify the value either. So if the aver
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by hnfong 2y ago
There could be a bubble in terms of stock valuation, but the tools are definitely going to stay. This could be kinda like the dot com bubble -- the Internet went on to become BIG, but the companies just went bust... (and the ones that str
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by hnfong 2y ago
There are things that are legal between parties of (presumed) equal footing, that aren't legal between employers and employees. That's why you can pay $1 to buy a gadget made in some third world country, but you can't pay you
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by hnfong 2y ago
"Freedom" has historically always been mostly about the freedom to make (and lose) money.

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