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by javajosh 3y ago
>he hardly mentions the epic failure of string theory I'd argue that implies you don't know where string theory fits in the "pantheon" of physics. It applies to the realm well below the radius of the proton, require
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by javajosh 3y ago
Well, I don't mean it pejoratively. It harnesses the ideas of mutation + selection which has been proven to be successful for 5 billion years. "Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler," describes the limi
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by javajosh 3y ago
It presents an interesting problem for those "left behind" who value shame, self-restraint, and other unpopular virtues. The neoliberal view is that you can prove your point by forming subcultures that do better than the surroundi
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by javajosh 3y ago
Good idea! They wouldn't have been able to do any applications without a voltaic cell, and it would have been a novelty. Like gunpowder in ancient China.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I was just thinking that it would be funny if, having actually discovered a high-temp ambient pressure superconductor, rather than announce it, go around to other labs and replace their samples with yours.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I like this, but I don't see an easy way to use it as a library. For example, I'd like to add it to showdown as a plugin, but the API seems too low level for that, at first glance.
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by javajosh 3y ago
What we need is motivation to learn civics. The culture has largely abandoned them, and in many cases has demonized those that know them. Consider the concerted and successful attacks on state-level organizations that administer voting in t
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by javajosh 3y ago
Note that the individual license for Matlab is $149/year [0], which isn't crazy IMHO. 0 - https://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html?prodcode=ML...
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by javajosh 3y ago
That's great but isn't the real question about what goes in /path/to/my/failure_alert ?
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by javajosh 3y ago
There has to be room in the conversation between extremes. He's saying "everything" and accusing me of saying "nothing" when I'm saying "everything is impossible; something is possible."
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think this is a great question. Consider https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/how-i-run-my-servers . His unit files do not mention monitoring.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Don't forget being pregnant or having to lug around a baby after it's born! Which is not an error mode. I'm well aware that "disability" is something we all go through; but my central point stands. It's not pos
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by javajosh 3y ago
The error modes to which I refer are not people, but bodily injury and disease. Your words are the empty product of a mind addicted to the sensation of outrage. Judgemental idealists have caused more damage to the world in the name of compa
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Accessibility seems to be a blind spot for most in tech because we don’t think disability will happen to us, or if it does, it will be a long time from now. I strongly disagree, and I worry that people are now trained to think the wor
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by javajosh 3y ago
How many engineers or surgeons make it to $10M of wealth AT ALL, let alone in a period of time short enough to make expertise itself in short supply? The answer is approximately zero.
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by javajosh 3y ago
You're arguing in favor of unbounded personal greed. You're arguing in favor of cancer, which is any cell that ceases to regulate it's own growth to the detriment of the organism. The unreasonable effectiveness of tools means
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by javajosh 3y ago
That's a strawman and you know it.
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by javajosh 3y ago
That's great! It sounds like we're on the same wavelength.
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's better than nothing and you can't please everyone. Read this thread; people are coming out of the woodwork to protest this limit as Marxism. Besides, the actual number isn't really important - acknowledging an upper boun
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think you need to re-read Marx, then. I'm not a Marxist, at all, mainly because of the empirical evidence that hardcore redistribution of wealth goes very, very poorly. Frankly it annoys me and worries me that some people associate l
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by javajosh 3y ago
Why this rather than a tax Taxes are unpopular. The policy of Enough can be done voluntarily. In fact, I've toyed with the idea of starting a company who's employment agreement requires agreeing to the conditions of Enough. I th
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by javajosh 3y ago
>It doesn't work You don't know that. It hasn't been tried, and I daresay you don't even understand what I'm proposing. One neoliberal capitalist way to implement the Enough system is to make agreement to it a
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by javajosh 3y ago
Stop working. Stop earning income. Make due with what you have in the bank.
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by javajosh 3y ago
IMHO we need a cure that isn't worse than the disease. I think we need to embrace capitalism, up to a point. That is, maximize profit until you hit a certain point, then stop. I call it the policy of "Enough". Make the thresh
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by javajosh 3y ago
Oh shit, you got me. Yeah, Korea sucks - it's basically just a peninsula with a nasty DMZ running through the middle, temperate rain-forests and mountains that are so 90's and lame. Did I mention the geology ? Jesus, don't g
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by javajosh 3y ago
This looks absolutely fantastic and I want to go over it in more detail later. You'll go over most of this in a typical physics degree. But like a good movie or book, the concepts are interesting enough to go over more than once. I wil
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by javajosh 3y ago
10 million gives a person a nice home or two in most places people want to live, plus a six figure income for the rest of their life. 200 million is private jet money.
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by javajosh 3y ago
We got K-pop, K-drama, and now K-sci--with K-drama pan-chan. It's a little sad that people act this way, but hey, the public has made it VERY clear that they do NOT value dignity, they only value winning. I think this kind of back-biti
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by javajosh 3y ago
>It was going fairly well, until Dr Steven Giavant stepped into a classroom and wanted to teach the students the frontiers and history of math. The way you wrote this it feels like you're about to say that Giavant tanked the progr
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by javajosh 3y ago
>In the event of global catastrophe we won't even know what we need to learn. It's worse than that since even if we had books the real knowledge about how to rebuild is stored in past generations of doers. Even if you had a p

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