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by jpfed 8y ago
>We should really be pushing But when pushing, it's worth it to be mindful of where you exert your force. The causal flow (from not tipping to wages being raised to the point where tipping is not necessary) is indirect enough tha
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by jpfed 8y ago
Pico-8 was my son's very first introduction to programming. He does much more with the integrated sprite editor and sfx/music editors than he does with actual coding. I would like to get him interested in TIC-80 as a replacement.
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by jpfed 8y ago
Kevlin Henney gave a talk ( https://vimeo.com/97329157 ) that included an interesting idea for style: Imagine every non-whitespace character in your code were replaced with garbage. Indent so that the reader could still und
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I think one reason may be that people are used to the "completeness" of physics; it's the science that people seem historically most ready to declare "done", and it does explain a lot very well. This may make it par
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>For example: following verbal or gestured instructions from a police officer or construction worker. We don't even have _theories_ on how to build intelligence like that, yet. The main problem with having humans take over control i
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>Someone who is publicly altruistic, is likely to gain compliments and plaudits from others. I suspect this is also the basis of the behavior of criticizing "virtue-signaling". In both cases, the punisher wants to be sure that
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by jpfed 8y ago
"Why do you have to make us look bad?"
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And then it wants to finish those updates after you restart. This cost my wife so much stress when she'd fire up her laptop right before delivering a lecture, only to find it busy for minutes completing the update.
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So basically it's separation of concerns, but for people.
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Corollary: if someone posts "my first X" to a big public site like reddit or HN, it is almost certainly not literally their first X; it's just the first one they felt comfortable enough to exhibit publicly. (At least, that&#x
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by jpfed 8y ago
I did something very similar to this for my wedding seating assignments.
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>No one really likes killing your heroes but sometimes it must be done. It's true. You've got to get your hands dirty. I'm confident I learned as much about the Dark Triad from repeatedly stabbing Delroy Paulhus as I did
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by jpfed 8y ago
Of course, that's not all they have in common. Being difficult to automate, they are vulnerable to Baumol's cost disease.
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I suspect that enough differences may exist between liberal and conservative subpopulations that there may be differences in the media they prefer to produce and consume. For example, talk radio is much more popular for the right wing tha
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by jpfed 8y ago
She's not going to need quite as much attention when she's in elementary school, and much less attention when she's in high school. When she is in high school, starting to pull away from you, I hope you can look back withou
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by jpfed 8y ago
I worked at Epic years ago, but even then it was able to warn about drug interactions. But those warnings were configured on a site-to-site basis; your normal doctor's hospital (or practice) may not have configured drug interaction che
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by jpfed 8y ago
Due to its negative curvature, "Blazing Saddles" may be more appropriate.
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This paper ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29141112 ) simulates schwartzite with a macroscopic 3d-printed model and finds that "these structures hold great promise as high load bearing and impact‐resistant m
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by jpfed 8y ago
>Each of these dimensions was predicted by unique abnormalities of brain networks,” Satterthwaire explained. “However, all dimensions were marked by abnormally high levels of connectivity between the default mode network and fronto-parie
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by jpfed 8y ago
Interesting! I'd never heard the idea that the lack of electronic voting suppresses the youth vote. Do you have a link for someone arguing that position?
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This sentence was certainly not emitted by an alien. Its provenance could only be the humanoid cortex.
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>Studies on patients with localised brain damage are helping to answer part of this question. When people have lesions in the prefrontal cortex – the outermost layer of the front part the brain – they appear to be much more prone to foll
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by jpfed 8y ago
The underlying point is that technology facilitates changing the state of social problems (whether those changes count as solutions obviously depends on one's subjective viewpoint on what those problems are). Now, it may be that you me
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by jpfed 8y ago
I hadn't considered the problem to be solved one of trust (which I agree can't be solved with technology), but rather one of coordination/ social choice. Technology again is a valuable assist in this sphere (e.g. evaluating t
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by jpfed 8y ago
Wasn't it nice that you could reply to this comment over the web rather than physically going to the commenter and telling them what you thought? Boy, this technology sure gave a helpful assist to the social problem of communication.
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by jpfed 8y ago
Would you mind elaborating on how centralized plants are better from a national security perspective? Wouldn't it be easier for an attacker to disrupt a coal or nuclear plant than it would be to disrupt a more distributed scheme like w
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Not caring shows toughness, in their minds. “Welzer further describes that Nazism even managed to incorporate an individual’s struggle with deeds into their frame of reference. They knew that what they were doing was immoral on some level b
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by jpfed 8y ago
Eh, it's not that hard to be polite enough. If you focus on the facts without puffing them up with extraneous value judgments, there's no occasion for "really worrying". Instead of saying "X sucks" or "Wh
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This is a common sentiment, but I disagree. In technical discussions, rudeness and informativeness are orthogonal. There is some information that is not polite to convey (such as information about someone else's personal/physical
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by jpfed 8y ago
>Likewise, if the SPE is invalid, it doesn't imply that average people aren't capable of horrific behavior - it simply means we have less evidence to determine that than we thought we did. Agreed; SPE just doesn't constitu

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