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by inimino 5y ago
What is encouraged by Github is not always exactly the same as what is encouraged by the maintainers of git.
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by inimino 5y ago
Plans for physical objects that are commonly sold at high prices are often valuable trade secrets.
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by inimino 5y ago
How do you not ? You're living this life anyway, might as well try to learn from and compare your various diets. Unless you eat the same meal every day for your whole life, I don't see how you could not learn something from it.
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by inimino 5y ago
112 million in 2020. So... not that far off?
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by inimino 5y ago
Most software projects aren't successful after spending ten minutes on them. Don't get hung up on the analogy.
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by inimino 5y ago
> Cute analogy, but It's like you're dismissing the article but then everything you go on to mention as your alternative view is something the article directly mentions. Maybe try reading it again with an open mind? Optionality
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by inimino 5y ago
He's 70 years old. Nothing said his sheep were the only source of income he ever had over his entire life.
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by inimino 6y ago
> without much rational sense just to beat the other side Assumes that just beating the other side was not a sufficient rational motive. Which, given that the threat both sides faced was "you and your way of life will be utterly obl
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by inimino 6y ago
Quite odd to see this downvoted, as it just seems to be an interesting fact.
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by inimino 6y ago
"genre" > I've never read it, but If you've never read it, maybe just leave it at that. > manipulating people You mean "influencing people", like it says right in the title? It's a book that has help
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by inimino 6y ago
> I guarantee you the vast majority of all hiring managers everywhere You're qualified to speak for a majority of hiring managers everywhere? Maybe you meant in a relatively small geographic area, in a relatively small number of com
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by inimino 6y ago
Even older -- both come from Latin formica , which also just means "ant." On the other hand, the plastic called formica, familiar as a countertop surface, has nothing to do with ants but comes from "for mica", for which
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by inimino 6y ago
You can approximate this by dragging the scrubber on the youtube video back and forth while the object is being rotated. When it's about half-way rotated, then it all makes sense.
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by inimino 6y ago
> A lot of understanding in psychology/health from a few decades ago seem to be deemed nonsensical nowadays, and in many of the cases I agree with the newer conclusions. This is why the Lindy heuristic mentioned by a sibling comment
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by inimino 6y ago
Update: the first paragraph above was not quite right for the system described here. It's more about the EV calculation involving ever growing outcomes multiplied by ever shrinking probabilites, with the mean still growing without boun
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by inimino 6y ago
Read the history of the field. Read textbooks, oldest ones first. Don't try to understand a field by looking at the new research. Ignore anything you see in the popular press, newspapers, TED talks, or the internet generally. Read opin
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by inimino 6y ago
There could also be attractor states that reduce the risk. For example in this case (if the numbers are taken to be such that the EV is positive) then you can also end up with a lucky player getting rich. The chance of that player going bus
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by inimino 6y ago
This sounds like a just-so story about incentives and open-source software, and seems to ignore some of the significant motivations actually at play, as well as some fairly glaringly obvious historical examples. What are the specific exampl
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by inimino 6y ago
It's a viable business only where there is plenty of traffic. (Assuming constant occupancy is not conservative!) In such places in the US there are already retail businesses meeting the need, as well as selling snacks, etc. The problem
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by inimino 6y ago
Nobody is doing free work for Linus . People including Linus are doing work on Linux which everyone is allowed to use for free. And which most people on Earth have benefitted from, directly or indirectly, to at least some extent. Not
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by inimino 6y ago
The internet isn't the corporate dystopia net either: you can also still have fun with running a server for an obscure game or setting up a blog without having your attention tracked and exploited for profit.
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by inimino 6y ago
China is a country, not only an ethnicity. Maybe you could have chosen to read "I don't trust a vaccine made in China" without reading racism into it that was never there?
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by inimino 6y ago
It's also easy to forget that C was competing mainly with assembly, while C++ competed with managed languages. The early C programmer ethos, especially among library authors, was much more along the lines of "look at the generated
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by inimino 6y ago
What's not funny about a teenager on a rant?
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by inimino 6y ago
Yes, with microwave RF and a magnetic strip in a static field you can make one, but just keep in mind you'll need an X-ray synchrotron and a 40 billion fps camera to see it.
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by inimino 6y ago
Conpletely agreed. There was just this: > But [Shannon's] choice of the label "information" in his publications seems to have confused many highly intelligent people. But there was nothing further about who was confused or
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by inimino 6y ago
Rocket is slow because of its design, not because it is insufficiently asynchronous.
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by inimino 6y ago
The article continues: > The prisoner survived the first test and asked for the dose to be doubled on the second attempt, on the assumption that he would go free if he survived, which he did not.
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by inimino 6y ago
They have that trust because all the software installed by homebrew is open source.
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by inimino 6y ago
Yes. Package management is most of what a distro does.

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