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by karpierz 4y ago
Any engine is fine; the hard part is getting familiar enough with the framework to execute you vision on it. And developing the ancillary skills (broadly artistic talent/vision, and familiarity with art tooling) to do so. Or having som
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by karpierz 4y ago
Ironically, you might be increasing Google's profitability if the searches you're taking off their platform aren't really monetizable. Ex: "what is the tallest mountain" isn't really monetizable whereas "b
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by karpierz 4y ago
To be clear: bail is not for criminals, it's for people accused of a crime. Which is not to say if you commit murder, you go to jail without bail. It's if you're accused of murder and made to stand trial, then you go to jail
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by karpierz 4y ago
You take a lighter and light gasoline on fire, using X energy. Then once the gasoline catches on fire, it'll burn on its own, releasing Y energy. Same principle, different means.
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by karpierz 4y ago
I think these are all good points, but they don't really apply to people categorically; but rather to some people in some situations. For example, if half of the group wants pizza, and the other half wants BBQ, a compromise might make
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by karpierz 4y ago
> How does one magically snap their fingers and change their hard-to-control brain? There is no magic solution. But recognizing that there is a problem, it can be solved, and deciding to put effort into solving it are what it takes to fi
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by karpierz 4y ago
Why do people suck to be around?
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by karpierz 4y ago
But we're not talking about long lived, historic institutions; we're talking about South Korea, a republic formed out of the ashes of Japan's colonial project, and Ghana, a new country formed from the rapid retreat of Britain
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by karpierz 4y ago
As for South Korea, did you look into the impact of US economic aid as well as industrial advisors, and compare it to the economic drag that the US induced via the collection of loan payments on Ghana? https://www.kdevelopedia.or
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by karpierz 4y ago
Would RK4 work for something like this, or does it lack some stability properties?
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by karpierz 4y ago
"Why Nations Fail" comes from the Jared Diamond school of "My Model Fits My Data So It's Causal". It's a series of just-so stories, which discounts outliers (ex: Singapore, India, China). They take the scientif
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by karpierz 4y ago
Your implication is that Ghana failed where South Korea succeeded because they didn't work hard enough. Of course people in South Korea worked hard to get where they are. So did people in Ghana. But in South Korea, the US protected the
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by karpierz 4y ago
South Korea had a propped up dictatorship that the United States strengthened and funded because they were scared of commies. Meanwhile Ghana had a dictator which was saddled with US loans who was overthrown. But the country still had to pa
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by karpierz 4y ago
Of course. But we aren't talking about the States, we're talking about countries that are forced into return as a condition of loan forgiveness. Some of those conditions involves avoiding any sort of export tariffs and using the d
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by karpierz 4y ago
They have their debts forgiven on the basis of adopting certain policies (free market reform) that allows corporations from wealthy countries to set up shop and extract raw materials from the counter while avoiding giving back to the countr
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by karpierz 4y ago
> Setting aside this article, where's all the hate for giving to charity coming from? People don't hate when people give to charity. People hate when people earn money in ways that have negative side-effects and justifying it b
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by karpierz 4y ago
I guess I didn't think 'use' meant 'use facts to make arguments to advance your interests'? Like, I wouldn't say that I 'use' 'asymptotic complexity' to promote engineering priorities over p
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by karpierz 4y ago
> Intersectionality is still used primarily, in practice, to promote the interests of higher classes against lower ones. I don't follow what this means? How does one 'use' intersectionality to promote interests? I thought
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by karpierz 4y ago
It is nonsense, but I don't think this is the right critique. EA is very focused on answering "where should money go". EA is notably less interested in answering "where should money come from" and "what impact
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by karpierz 4y ago
What does it mean to earn money honestly? If I'm an investment banker, is that honest? Car salesman? International arms dealer? Like it or not, the execution of EA is to make as much as possible without regard for the consequences of h
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by karpierz 4y ago
If they're max deboosted, you won't see their posts even if you follow them; you'll only be able to see their posts by going to their page.
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by karpierz 4y ago
> You're right, there is no way to cryptographically prove that there are no contracts external to the blockchain. But there is a very easy way to prove that there are not contracts external to the blockchain. That's the whole
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by karpierz 4y ago
As with every other skill, practice. Judo and skiing taught me how to fall. It's easier if you start young because you have less distance to fall.
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by karpierz 4y ago
That's measuring how much they owe clients (IE, deposits) against how much crypto they hold (IE, the crypto in wallets they hold). That doesn't at all capture the kinds of liabilities I'm asking about, which is debt external
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by karpierz 4y ago
> All liabilities were verified by the auditors and included in the merkle tree, and as mentioned, all users can independently verify that their specific liabilities are present. What more would you expect? Where in the report do they ve
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by karpierz 4y ago
I think the analogy is: - you can have a gun, such that you'd be able to form a militia and fight government tyranny. - you can advocate for collective bargaining, such that you'd be able to form a union and fight corporate tyrann
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by karpierz 4y ago
Mergesort and binary search have a contract which defines: - Which inputs are valid. - For a valid input, what the constraints on the return value are. You'd have a point if the implementations had as an input constraint: "array m
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by karpierz 4y ago
The implication is that the statistics are what they are under the condition that women take the precautions that they do. In other words, the 1/X statistic is conditioned on the average person's precautions (like not walking outs
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by karpierz 4y ago
You could apply the same logic to any long term purchase. Dealerships only sell lemons because they want you to come back and buy more cars. Recruiters only match you with companies that you'll definitely want to leave because they wan
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by karpierz 4y ago
I agree that a human can use the PV to get insight into why a move might be good. I also agree that non-interactive explanations provided by a chess engine will often be inferior. I think one way to break it down might be that the PV (or se

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