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by jrpt 4y ago
Why do you think it is impossible, besides the Fermi Paradox? It seems much more likely to be possible than impossible. There are a lot of other solutions to the Fermi Paradox you should consider possible too.
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People with children already have gotten lots of benefits over the years: child tax credits, public education paid for by the rest of society (including people who never had children), etc. It’s pretty entitled to now ask for extra social s
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Per capita CO2 emissions of most European countries (like the UK and France) are lower than China at this point. The US might be lower than China by the end of this decade too.
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An iPhone every few years is a very insignificant cost compared to a house.
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It actually doesn’t need to be exactly on the equator but just approximately, so it can move around a little bit to dodge things. That last paragraph doesn’t make sense though.
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What would a board game made with these cost, $100?
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I saw examples of people using it to generate scientific-sounding fake studies like: the benefits of eating glass, or promoting antisemitism. That being said, I am very partial to the AI researchers here who feel like their cool demo has to
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by jrpt 4y ago
That's why I tried it twice. I've been hearing people say they liked it. But I haven't found it very helpful, and often distracting, so I ended up turning it off. I'll probably try again next year when the models are imp
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"Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools. Their manager might, but engineering managers only want to pay for discrete new capabilities, i.e. making their developers 18% faster when writing code did not resonate
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Even if it wasn’t massively popular as a gaming platform, I thought it could be pretty profitable as marketing for games, where you can actually demo the game from a web browser and try it before buying it. This could be either directly on
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by jrpt 4y ago
Facebook and Google don't sell user data. They sell ad impressions, leveraging user data to decide which ads to show, but it's not like you can just buy a user's data from them. In fact, they've gotten much stingier with
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by jrpt 4y ago
That sounds nice in theory, but how would you write a test for, say, basic physics, when every type of question can be Googled? Even if you make brand new questions, it's still just generally available categories of problems, like incl
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by jrpt 4y ago
This theory is wrong in many ways, but just one point should suffice: engineers at these companies don’t set the product and business strategy.
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Seems like someone forgot to tell the designers they needed a machine shop. Stanford's physics building has a machine shop. I did an undergraduate in physics at Stanford and used it once or twice. They have full time machinists working
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by jrpt 4y ago
The police are negligent too if they held him for 17 days with just a name from American Airlines. The video evidence would've shown that wasn't him. When they didn't review the evidence until was already free and pleaded for
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Working notes on the role of vision papers in basic science(scienceplusplus.org)
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by jrpt 5y ago
Quantum physics is a separate (but related) branch from particle physics so using the slash "quantum/particle" is mixing up two different things - which one do you really want? Theoretical Concepts in Physics by Malcolm Longa
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by jrpt 5y ago
Does your opinion change if they weren't really audible except for at the ports? There's actually been a lot of research into making them quieter. It could end up quieter than street traffic, except for at the ports where they&#x2
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by jrpt 5y ago
Who defines what the truth is? The mainstream? That didn't work out too well for Galileo.
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Have you read Beckstead's dissertation? https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/40469/PDF/1...
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Sounds like you don't have a good manager, if this wasn't being communicated to you and she had her boss deliver this feedback to you alone. You should talk with your manager about it and if you don't feel the relationship im
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by jrpt 5y ago
Stuff like that already exists. Companies barely donate. In my opinion, more packages should require licensing fees from companies.
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by jrpt 6y ago
I feel like the majority of the time you just have arrays or slices of a manageable size, say <= 25 elements, and you just want to delete an element from it. You don't care about performance because it'll be fast regardless and
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by jrpt 6y ago
How's it better than Paperback Swap?
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by jrpt 6y ago
Super Source (supso.org) Open source software is used by practically all businesses, yet maintainers are overwhelmed and under-appreciated. Donations barely make any money. The solution? Don't give it away for free! Fork your own proje
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by jrpt 6y ago
Most companies either use a neutral third party attribution product or build their own system. They're not simply trusting the attribution stated by the companies along the line. I agree that those are all biased. I also believe many o
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by jrpt 6y ago
Somewhat related paper you may find interesting: Does Aging Stop? https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6dff/ee493ddc2e294f32413186...
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Ok, but one of his main complaints was that he was completely bored by the story and that it was short and meaningless. Sounds like he wanted more and better story.
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by jrpt 6y ago
I haven't tried Doom Eternal but it sounds like he's looking for a story-rich, choices-matter game, like The Wolf Among Us, or Life is Strange, or these tags on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?ta
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I mean, Doordash just IPOed this week, and that come out of Stanford GSB. If you want something with an arguably more innovative product, Stitch Fix also came out of Stanford GSB, and it was a pretty unique business model at the time. Some

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