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Watches of a Jihadist-Turned World Leader(watchesofespionage.com)
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by jstanley 2y ago
> I think it's important for a state to declare it's intent with a technology. The alternative is arguing the idea that technology advances autonomously, independent of human interactions, values, or ideas The sleight of hand h
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by jstanley 2y ago
You can totally load a JS file from the same directory, I do it all the time. I recall you can't use web workers, but just loading a JS file with <script> tags is fine.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Objecting on the grounds that it appears every time you stop will just lead to the "fix" of only displaying it when parked. If you still don't want that, target your objection more precisely.
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by jstanley 2y ago
In other words, "Suits make a corporate comeback" ? https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by jstanley 2y ago
The risk of giving yourself "split personalities" should not be underestimated. I recently had a mild panic attack in which I became convinced that my subconscious was secretly working against me. It was terrifying, and I couldn&#
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by jstanley 2y ago
There's a wide spectrum of possible bugs. I would hazard that every car ever sold was sold with known bugs. As long as you're reasonably confident that the bugs don't pose a safety issue I don't see the problem.
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The Gentle Romance(lesswrong.com)
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by jstanley 2y ago
> it was one of the strongest causal signals in the team's GWAS analysis (2,801 microbial taxa and 7,967,866 human genetic variants from 5,959 individuals), and it was the only one that validated (M. morganii levels versus major dep
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by jstanley 2y ago
You can go and see a Concorde at Bristol Aerospace Museum[0], and walk inside it. There is an absolutely bewildering array of dials and switches exposed to the pilots[1]. And they have lots of other aviation stuff at the museum, it's n
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by jstanley 2y ago
That won't measure semantic similarity, at least with typical compression algorithms.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Because you could encounter absolutely any organism and make the same argument. There is no configuration of organism that would cause you to say "huh, I guess Survival doesn't depend on Fitness after all!" Because it takes
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by jstanley 2y ago
I think this is a perfect example of what your parent comment is talking about, being: > unprovable, unfalsifiable, and have the same circular logic as bad religion. You said: > There is no contradiction here. They evolved as the fitt
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by jstanley 2y ago
But if they're the ones that want the building insured, it seems like it would be better for everyone if they're the ones that source the insurance.
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by jstanley 2y ago
> just a visual metaphor It's not really a metaphor . An n-sphere is the set of all points that are the same distance away from the same centre, in (n+1)-dimensional space. That generalises perfectly well to any number of dimension
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by jstanley 2y ago
In the UK you're lucky if the train has even arrived 30 seconds before the advertised departure time.
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by jstanley 2y ago
But there are lots of images throughout the day.
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I built a Mechanical Calculator [video](youtube.com)
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by jstanley 2y ago
If two people have conflicting principles and both choose to stand by their principles then they'll be in conflict, but you're not obliged to pick a winner.
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by jstanley 2y ago
And you can create a new address for every spam message you send and never get blocked?
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by jstanley 2y ago
Beware of generalising from fictional evidence. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rHBdcHGLJ7KvLJQPk/the-logica...
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by jstanley 2y ago
Just because a country has a social safety net for its citizens doesn't mean it has to provide one to any random person who comes to live there.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Country yes, city yes, backyard no. People within a country can freely move between cities but can't freely use private backyards. We're just saying it should be the same between countries as it is between cities.
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by jstanley 2y ago
What kind of leverage creates risk on the downside without benefit on the upside?
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by jstanley 2y ago
The best way to predict the next word is to accurately model the underlying system that is being described.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Tech "debt" is paid back in the form of later refactors and having to go back and fix the things you did badly in the interest of expedience. It's just a metaphor. And it's a better metaphor than the one about eating jun
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It's a very serious idea! It's actually the only idea that explains how the universe came to exist with nothing outside it and no creator.
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by jstanley 2y ago
OK, if drinking too much booze, eating too much pizza, and not working out are instrumental in rapidly getting the service in the hands of paying users, then it's like those things. It's called "tech debt" rather than &q
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But why do you need smart meters at the level of individual houses? Wouldn't putting them on substations get the same benefit with much less cost?
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How can it stop? If you keep asking it to reply it will keep replying.

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