jbay808

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by jbay808 5y ago
> For example, Many Worlds theory (from my admittedly limited understanding) says that the wave function's eigenstates each become the new reality in different universes That's perhaps the Narcissistic Many Worlds interpretatio
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by jbay808 5y ago
I wish every company had this motto! It's so often that when I need some material, nobody will sell me less than a mile of it.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Fair enough. But in review, they were indeed talking about the capacity: > Or using the word "bandwidth" to refer to "capacity"[...]
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by jbay808 5y ago
Can you explain the difference? They seem to me like virtually the same concept, but you seem to see an important distinction.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Not the GP, but it's an easily defended view along several avenues. First, I could point out that the marginal utility of money must decline at least logarithmically with quantity*, which means that egalitarian resource distributions t
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by jbay808 5y ago
This is why I love showing tourists around my home city. They notice so many special things that have long since faded into the background for me. For example I was taking four Japanese grad students to a local park famous for its hikes and
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by jbay808 5y ago
Shannon's channel theorem states that the information capacity of a channel is directly related to the bandwidth and the signal-to-noise ratio, even if you use the best possible modulation scheme: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by jbay808 5y ago
This sounds great on paper but I really don't think that feedback channel is effective in practice. First of all, when a game or a platform does poorly, the reason for that can be very hard to discern (unless there's some kind of
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by jbay808 5y ago
Perhaps! I think some of us are nonetheless born with a lot more wealth than others, and that compounds a heck of a lot.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Price signals are an important part of ensuring that resources go where they're needed, but this also sort of assumes that everyone has an equal capacity to pay. There's an extent to which, yes, in a gas shortage I'll pay 4x
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by jbay808 5y ago
I mean, you can truthfully say "even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you".
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by jbay808 5y ago
That excerpt sounds too brief for me to know whether he was really making a point in favour or in opposition to bombing the USSR.
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by jbay808 5y ago
The Book of Genesis is from the Torah though, isn't it?
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1997 Asian Financial Crisis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jbay808 5y ago
Yeah, I tried this approach and got as far as authentication. At that point Google would only tell me what not to do.
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by jbay808 5y ago
> Lending at 14% when [...] inflation is 18% In the US, inflation is nearly at 7%, while savings accounts yield around 0.05%. Doesn't that mean Americans are discouraged from keeping money in savings accounts about the same amount a
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by jbay808 5y ago
> why you should expect anyone at Google (or, well, any sub-group with a filter process) would be meaningfully predictable by or representative of their biology's bimodal distribution, in the first place? I don't think you woul
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by jbay808 5y ago
I bet that the pagans did do a tree and gifts, probably did snowmen too (which is more of a winter thing than a Christmas thing anyway), and they probably did have an associated folk character of some sort, even though it probably wasn&#x
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by jbay808 5y ago
An advantage of assembling it in ISS orbit is that you have DEXTRE and a team of spacewalking astronauts available to do the unpacking and assembly!
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by jbay808 5y ago
It seems like this suggestion is unpopular, so I'd better not upvote it.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Presumably they pay those gas taxes too. They're just very rich, so they don't care. Maybe your issue is with wealth inequality rather than with carbon taxes per se?
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by jbay808 5y ago
I wouldn't, if it were just Toyota. But it's not. A lot of businesses are transitioning away from one-time sales to recurring revenue / subscription models.
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by jbay808 5y ago
I wonder if this, too, is a symptom of near-zero interest rates. With an interest rate of zero, future cash flows are valued equal to present cash flows. That increases the net present value of recurring payments (approaching infinity, actu
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by jbay808 5y ago
I don't understand the reasoning here. Isn't that like saying "normally when my office gets hot the AC turns on to try and curb it. This hasn't happened, which implies that the increase in temperature is not going to las
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by jbay808 5y ago
So does shelter though; at least anything produced by human hands or human minds has a shelter cost baked in somewhere. Every factory has to pay for the land it occupies and the land their workers sleep on. Bay area salaries could probably
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by jbay808 5y ago
Is that penalty going to hit the people who were steering the ship at the time, who got big bonuses? Or is it only going to impact the bonuses of the people who are steering the ship today?
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by jbay808 5y ago
As I understand it, the market cap of an asset is the marginal price times the quantity. But the total value is the integral of the marginal price * d(quantity). These can differ greatly. If I buy one Bitcoin on the market for $1, and then
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by jbay808 5y ago
They have about 270,000 members. Between both Diet houses they have 23 seats in total, which is 3.2%, not 0.5%. Their share of the popular vote was over 13% in 2014. By any measures that's massively more successful than, say, the Canad
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by jbay808 5y ago
Worth mentioning that the JCP is much more of a major mainstream party in Japan than communist parties are in most, or perhaps any, other western developed country. Miyazaki himself also became somewhat more moderate in the early 90s while
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by jbay808 5y ago
I sometimes wonder if it was an effect of the war. Seeing all the normal rules and power structures of society suddenly vanish, to the point that you can blow a hole in a 1000-year-old cathedral just by saying to your specialist "I nee

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