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by jzl 9y ago
Thank you for the correction. I read the book about 10 years ago and completely forgot that he wasn't talking about himself. Finally had a chance to look at the chapter again now and indeed he is discussing Axelrod's competitions
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by jzl 9y ago
I copied those bullet points from the wikipedia article but yeah the wording is a little inexact. I think "quick to forgive" just means "retaliation only has a memory of one move".
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by jzl 9y ago
See my other comment. In the competitions discussed in The Selfish Gene, PD strategies are allowed to have memory and the simulation is run thousands of times per round. However it is pretty consistently the case that long-term memory is no
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by jzl 9y ago
I've seen a couple of oblique references to this in other comments, but I'll go a little deeper: if you want to truly understand the prisoner's dilemma scenario and how it relates to human, or more generally, animal behavior,
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by jzl 9y ago
This article takes a deep dive on the controllers: https://www.roadtovr.com/microsoft-mixed-reality-vr-motion-c...
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by jzl 9y ago
Link?
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by jzl 9y ago
aka the "CADT" model. :) https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html But, not saying that characterization applies here specifically. The article was quite well-reasoned in explaining the proposed changes, as far as I
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by jzl 9y ago
TL;DR: The article offers no evidence that this has started to happen but raises the sensible point that Uber, Snap, and Blue Apron are all poster children for "founder-friendly" terms run amok.
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by jzl 9y ago
There are many wonderful passages in the book "Genius" by James Gleick that describe Richard Feynman's deep intuitive understanding of calculus. He also talks about it a bit in his own works such as Surely You're Joking
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by jzl 9y ago
Showing my age here, but I was a huge fan of Will Shortz long before the NYT crossword due his involvement with Games magazine in the 80s. I expect there are other Games fans here. In the age before the internet it was a huge part of my ent
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by jzl 9y ago
The common stock isn't "worthless", it's the stock options to later-stage employees that are possibly worthless, or at least worth less than imagined. The lesson here is to never rush to judgement about the value of your
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by jzl 9y ago
Replying to myself here. I followed up on footnote 31. Paper here: "TOWARD ESTIMATING DISPLACED PRIMARY PRODUCTION FROM RECYCLING: A CASE STUDY OF U.S. ALUMINUM" http://econ.ucsb.edu/~startz/Aluminum.pdf Abso
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by jzl 9y ago
Skimmed it for information on recycling: "There are essentially three different fates for plastic waste. First, it can be recycled or reprocessed into a secondary material (22, 26). Recycling delays, rather than avoids, final disposal
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by jzl 9y ago
Wow! I was expecting to see something much smaller in the picture. I guess it makes sense if you have very minimal/no breakfast.
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by jzl 9y ago
I wasn't sure what to expect, but wow this was really really cool. I have a reasonable understanding of optics but I'm still trying to understand how this works. I'm looking at this explanation but still trying to break it do
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by jzl 9y ago
tl;dr version: There are versions of this quote going back to the 70's, starting with one by artists Richard Serra & Carlota Fay Schoolman. But the modern incarnation seems to have sprung from a comment on metafilter that became po
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by jzl 9y ago
But even assuming cooperation how does a decentralized system settle on agreement about the next block with so many miners potentially in contention? What is the average time interval between block discovery? LET ME GOOGLE THAT FOR ME: Ok,
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by jzl 9y ago
Thanks, this was great! I've been meaning to search for a good technical explanation like this for a while. This fit the bill perfectly. I didn't realize that the mining process had a lottery-like nature to it. I always assumed th
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by jzl 9y ago
Subtle way of saying "Your argument is moot."
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by jzl 9y ago
I'm going to quietly leave this obligatory Arrested Development reference right here ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwQW3KW3DCc
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by jzl 9y ago
Barcelona has had a huge market for apartment sharing since long before Airbnb. I travelled there in 2000 and remember stepping off the train into the train station and being bombarded with people offering a room to stay in their place for
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by jzl 9y ago
But are you concerned with border agents searching your phone? If you are then any time spent on this is time well spent. Although protecting your password manager is obviously of vital importance, there's a lot more to be concerned ab
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by jzl 9y ago
I got a kick out of discovering recently that there are still significant new releases of ed. For example: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2017-01/msg00002.ht...
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by jzl 9y ago
This is a nice feature, but ultimately if you are concerned with border agents requiring a phone search then you should just backup and install a fresh OS before traveling, then restore when you get back. Log into the minimal number of apps
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by jzl 10y ago
My gut feeling is that anyone with copies of the documents would be smart enough to have them only on their non-work drives and/or computers, and probably would have deleted them by now, too. It probably would have taken an FBI-style r
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by jzl 10y ago
"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight
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by jzl 10y ago
I would guess that the only people buying Mac Pros at this point are people who need to for infrastructure compatibility reasons, and/or who need something more powerful than a MBP but absolutely can't go with an iMac for whatever
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by jzl 10y ago
If you aren't already using a non-logging vpn for all traffic, all the more reason to switch now. Probably preaching to the choir here. But it's so simple to setup and use one, much less intimidating than most people realize who h
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by jzl 10y ago
But the part about a book author calling the professor who gave the C and getting her to change the grade just happened. Look at the date on her form to amend the grade: March 1, 2017: https://i1.wp.com/loweringthebar.net&#x
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by jzl 10y ago
> And if he took a Lyft, a private limo, or drove himself, that would be even worse publicity. Right now no matter what he does he'll get people sniping at him, just like on this board. It's a herd mentality where you pick on

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