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by karpierz 5y ago
The human body also isn't designed for vaccines, going to space, or doing math. Somehow, when we need the human body to do something, we find a way to make it happen.
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> Of course, we can't stop eating every animal Why? There are plenty of people who do.
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The logical conclusion of this is the "first strike" doctrine of MAD ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-emptive_nuclear_strike ). Every major power has had 50 years to prepare for it, and it won't work. Y
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by karpierz 5y ago
Because it kills without consulting the people who put it there. AI is also programmed; it attacks when the score returned by the threat function exceeds a threshold. Unless we're talking about AGI, in which case I misunderstood and as
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by karpierz 5y ago
> The EU still has to consider how other nations will react to their policies. To be clear, their policy is "we will not ban nations from joining on the basis that a non-EU nation objects". I think they're aware that this
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by karpierz 5y ago
It's a little more nuanced than "they weren't able to defend their Eastern border". They had to balance between: - Too little force, which would allow the separatists to de-facto control the territories and lead to a Cri
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by karpierz 5y ago
I don't think NATO particularly wanted to include Ukraine, but they definitely don't want Russia to be able to dictate who is allowed to be included. Russia is aware of this, which is why in order to set the grounds for an invasio
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by karpierz 5y ago
Anyone have thoughts on how this all pans out? I think that the only way out is that Ukraine cuts off its arm to save the head. It acknowledges the territories as lost, and consolidates what it has left. But I'm not sure how they do th
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by karpierz 5y ago
This paper presents a hypothetical model for opinion changing, but doesn't actually try and validate that the model applies to the real world. The empirical datasets that they use are only to inform what the graphs look like, not wheth
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by karpierz 5y ago
The parent's point is that you don't make money by casting arbitrary spells, you make money by solving problems for people. You happen to solve them by casting spells, but they're not paying you for the spell, they're pa
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by karpierz 5y ago
Shay's rebellion consisted of veterans, still armed with their weapons from the rebellion they'd fought a few years ago, at a time where the US government didn't have a standing army. I don't think those lessons quite tr
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Correct, but the protestors aren't being charged with protesting.
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Pierre Trudeau did far worse with the War Measures Act, which gave the government sweeping powers of arrest and detention without trial. Whether this will be a bad look on the government's part (from the public's perspective) depe
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by karpierz 5y ago
Under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act. Which specific regulatory laws would you expect them to be handled under?
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by karpierz 5y ago
Depends on how you define peaceful; if you consider it peaceful to make enough noise in a neighbourhood such that thousands cannot sleep there for weeks, then yes.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Unrelated, but I did want to thank you for Game Programming Patterns ; it's made game development much much less stressful for me.
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by karpierz 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow. If I define a date MM/DD/YYYY as equal to the time MM/DD/YYYY 00:00 GMT, which of the equality properties am I lacking? Similarly, if I use that definition of equality to convert the date into
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by karpierz 5y ago
The issue isn't the first part; it's what happens when they cash in their green pieces of paper.
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A landmine is programmed to attack a target of a specific weight when it enters a specific area. The targeting model was programmed by engineers to try and target soldiers (or armoured vehicles), and the locations they were placed were also
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by karpierz 5y ago
Autonomous weapons have existed for decades, we just call them landmines.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Personally, I have a hard time with moderation, and doing things gradually. I'm very much all or nothing, so it's easier for me to say "no caffeine in any circumstance!" than "okay just a little caffeine each day&qu
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by karpierz 5y ago
I think this is generally true, but it's a matter of magnitude. For example, a public transit program helps everyone in the neighbourhood, but especially helps those who can't afford to drive. So when someone says "hey, we sh
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by karpierz 5y ago
For me, it feels similar to when I'd go cold turkey from 2-3 daily cups of coffee (before I started taking medication). 2-5 days of shitty mood, then back to baseline pre-coffee. It sucks, and it will sour your mood when your ability t
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by karpierz 5y ago
Useful for what?
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The first author left the Federal Reserve right after this paper to lead research at a crypto exchange: https://twitter.com/gordonliao/status/1484605701435523072
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by karpierz 5y ago
Sure, though if your back-end has multiple services this becomes harder. If your back-end uses more than one server, then you can run into issues. Feature flags also let you do partial rollouts, where you release to 0.1% of users and see if
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Unless self-driving cars are more convenient and despite prioritizing pedestrians, are still safer than a human driver.
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I suspect that the crypto markets absorb excess investment money that the stock market cannot, because its saturated. Essentially, there are no other high potential yield investments to speculate on. So when the stock market goes down by a
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Issues: Study 1 is across college-aged kids who are willing to participate in a psych study (in exchange for partial course credit or a lottery entry for a $40 gift card, IE they're psych students). Unclear why you'd generalize a
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The census exists to inform policy. If there is discrimination based on race, then we're better off measuring it so we can address it than burying our heads in the sand. Of course, this may lead to targeted policies, just as insulin is

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