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by janto 5y ago
Well, it's kind of a problem then that, as a human, all that you value as "good" has been determined by what has been advantageous to persistence of your genetic lineage. You may find joy and fulfillment in pursuing the proxi
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by janto 5y ago
That falls either under "those I love" or "as determined by the State".
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The alternative is to intervene and prevent you from gifting your success to those you love and your future generations. One (of the many) problems with that approach is that it takes away a meaningful incentive for an individual to sacrifi
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https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace "This entry presents an empirical perspective on the history of war and peace. We also published a data visualization history of human violence here on OurWorldInData.org which
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"the most"
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by janto 5y ago
I really like this statue of Sobek, the crocodile diety: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sobek_Oxford.jpg
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by janto 5y ago
Maybe: as opposed to companies that exclusively rely on income from happy users of their software. As long as users are locked into Google's platform it doesn't matter to their bottom line if an individual product is at best &quot
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by janto 5y ago
I wonder if the planner can look at stats of full query execution in addition to the table stats. That way it can fall back to a previous plan (or previous table stats) if things get crazy.
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by janto 5y ago
When I write "to myself" I try to be clear and concise. It actually helps me more to encapsulate my experience than free association writing does.
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by janto 5y ago
My issue was with the original comment's ambiguous use of artificial , not really value . He was drawing a connection between crypto as "artificially scarce" and an "artificial bubble". I agree that people can val
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by janto 5y ago
This is also part of the "artificial" value of the dollar in the sense that it requires enforcement by the US gov and banking systems to remain useful. In-game currency is also useful, but that does not give it inherent value, in
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by janto 5y ago
You're using the word "artificial" in at least two different ways here. The US dollar is artificially scarce. What inherent value does it have?
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by janto 5y ago
Fortunately we are farmers as well. We do need to find a way to jump beyond the next Great Filter, but it won't help to bunker down and not grow.
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Are you suggesting that not replicating has been a better survival strategy for organisms?
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i'd say that humanity is the least tightly coupled organism when it comes to survivability. when our ecosystem changes we are able to adapt better than any other organism.
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That there is any life left at all is because it has kept on reproducing. The only other viable strategy to persist is to be a rock. Re-growth (from what starting point?) is insufficient. You either expand in number or you run the risk of c
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by janto 5y ago
I think even the broad outline of the article is flawed. The vast majority of life at all scales persist through primarily maximizing "growth" (replication), implying that the associated risks (cancer, resource exhaustion) have be
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by janto 5y ago
They can go through the dev process and take on those risks themselves. Don't copy homework and present yourself as the expert.
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by janto 5y ago
Indeed. The biggest immediate risk to a newly developed product is that it won't even have any users, much less a sufficiently interested attacker. So why add initial obstacles for yourself, right? So yeah, if effort to increase securi
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by janto 5y ago
Strange definition of prediction. It sounds like you are using the word fact like it could somehow still be false. There are no facts in science^. There are observations and falsifiable models. Also these models don't try to explain
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by janto 5y ago
Removing doubt about what? That people on this platform do not agree with his politics? (article is paywalled so I can only comment on the first few sentences)
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by janto 5y ago
Looks to me like a view/click difference might indicate that Facebook shows users Left content but they click on Right content instead.
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by janto 5y ago
but isn't views also what you want when you're showing ads? I mean clicking on the ad would be preferable I guess, but I'm not sure how tightly correlated that is to users clicking on user generated content. I can see Fac
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by janto 5y ago
To some degree you could use a GC only language to create a large pool (eg a numpy array) and "allocate" items in there with indices as pointers. Would cover some of the use cases for manual memory management. edit: scooped by a s
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by janto 5y ago
uhm, this one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome because it doesn't look absurd at all.
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by janto 5y ago
meh, if you're going to publish something then I'd rather just have people get their papers hosted on arxiv asap and then get feedback from everyone. I have not seen significant value added by journals and the review process, in m
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by janto 5y ago
This looks more like a mess that would happen if S3 buckets by default were accessible to anyone with an Amazon account. Which would clearly be a colossal mistake made by the platform.
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A sprinkling of type annotations to help with ambiguity is nice. However, I don't recall the last time I spent ages figuring out what type I need to pass to a function if it simply wants a builtin type. It's usually the semantic
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People in the data science world with dubious coding practices should keep their data in commonly used types such as Pandas tables. The last thing we should want from them is encoding their data with ill-conceived class/type systems. N
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The problem with creating excessive types in production systems (which is what I want people to avoid and can happen if you go too far with Pydantic models + type annotations into pseudo-"static typing") is that you move outside t

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