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by javajosh 3y ago
>sewing machine-like device Unless my brain has a bobbin in it, it probably doesn't work like a modern sewing machine.
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by javajosh 3y ago
We need more catch-up mechanics and fewer win-more mechanics. But the rules-making strongly favors wealthy, old incumbents, and disfavors poor, young newcomers such that the rules themselves are immune to such a reversal. I fear that nothin
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by javajosh 3y ago
If the end-goal is to convince the reader of the veracity of your claim that the BeLaU spherules are of alien manufacture, this piece does not help, and harms a little. It does not help because you spend no time refuting the refutation. You
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by javajosh 3y ago
The observations of the Amaterasu particle increased over the years, coming from an apparently empty region of space. A minor science mystery. Then one day, the feint glow of a body was seen, just outside the solar system. It's traject
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by javajosh 3y ago
"There's nothing like a few decades of {X} failure to stamp out the pesky flame of exuberance and enable some really great {Y}" would seem to hold for many, many (X,Y) pairs.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I agree with this. I think that current Kindle users have a valid class action lawsuit against Amazon. It's fraud. And if that lawsuit fails, then it only adds fuel to the antitrust fire.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Hate to break it to you, but all definitions are made up. The question is whether or not the distinction is useful or not. In my opinion, it seems useful to distinguish between understanding oriented tasks and goal oriented tasks.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Disturbingly myopic. As if the problem were simple! It's not. People will self censure if they fear retribution. This is particularly true when that retribution takes the form of ostracism, personal or professional. This used to be ver
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by javajosh 3y ago
Disengenuous in the extreme. If AI is just matrix multiplication, than a nuke is just lots of light emitted at once.
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by javajosh 3y ago
What is the go to URL that people like that summarizes the debate around censhorship vs speech rights? Like so many other things, it seems to me that both sides have a very strong case, but that ultimately, in all matters, practicality wins
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by javajosh 3y ago
Productivity takes two forms: building new things and optimizing old ones. The former is not sustainable, but the latter is. Nature will not permit unbounded growth, but she will permit the pursuit of arbitrarily tight tolerances. To me, th
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by javajosh 3y ago
The iRobot Roofba!
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by javajosh 3y ago
>You have to sweat through six months of weird error messages and missing semicolons before you get to the point where it feels like you're actually building things and making progress. Computers are rude and honest and humans pre
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by javajosh 3y ago
Wow! The last time I looked was more than 2 years ago, so this video was uploaded since then. Thanks for posting. I don't recall the vocal being a choral group, but rather a very masculine solo voice, but it's definitely the same
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by javajosh 3y ago
There's a jingle completely missing from the Internet or any record I can find. It's the "Sport Chalet" jingle common on Southern California radios in the late 80's and early 90's. It goes "Sport Chalet!&q
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by javajosh 3y ago
I personally think life is better when we admire people for doing amazing things. Such people are inspiring and are the characters in a pleasant and arguably constructive narrative. I don't advocate hero worship or putting people on pe
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by javajosh 3y ago
If we require that every historical person adhere to present sensibilities to be considered "great" then no-one will be considered "great". Societies routinely vacillate between permitting and punishing incest, rape, bea
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by javajosh 3y ago
Scaling up search and inventing the ad business was surely an incredible time at Google. But then they got spoiled by infinite money.
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's paywalled, but yeah I just do what I learned growing up: 15% is a solid tip, with more, e.g. up to 25% for excellent service or less - down to 0 - for bad service. $1 per drink at a bar. Or if I'm broke, I don't tip at a
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by javajosh 3y ago
>innate distrust in their government, something most EU citizens don't have Was that a joke?
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by javajosh 3y ago
We have progressive income tax, why not progressive anti-encryption law? E.g. the more money and power you have the less you get to use encryption.
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by javajosh 3y ago
How about ELI precocious 10 year old? Cosmic rays and thermal effects cause random bit flips in memory very infrequently. If you sit on a network and listen to TLS handshakes for long enough, you'll find that any given server will issu
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think you ably demonstrate the all or nothing fallacy that powers this type of bully advocacy. My way or the highway is used to get people on the same page at first. Then it's used to make more and more tenuous assertions about moral
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by javajosh 3y ago
One of the most useful things you can do in debate is reveal yourself to be immune to evidence of anything you don't like. It is useful because it allows rational participants to stop wasting time with you.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Building a disc to shadow venus is possible today. I don't think we currently have the ability to create the organisms you describe.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I'd personally be more interested in colonizing Venus. What would happen if we construct a large disc and put Venus in the shadow of it? It would cool over time and we could assess what to do then. Perhaps it still has a dyanmo in its
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by javajosh 3y ago
The solution is obvious, though: wealthy individuals, or collectives of such, should pay folks to live an authentic, poor, impoverished life, protect it as an island of authenticity, for some set period of time, and that person is forbidden
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by javajosh 3y ago
Or perhaps AmazonGoogleKleinerPerkinsKlaxoGoldmanSachs GmbH
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by javajosh 3y ago
"Googazon" has a better ring to it, IMHO.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>It actually is very hard to design a responsive UX that can handle anything from the smallest smartphone up to ultrawide monitors. Maybe the real solution is to treat a wide monitor as multiple mobile screens side-by-side. That is you

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