kazagistar

12 ms·

61.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Its unfortunate to use an accelerating reference (earth rotating sun, sun rotating galaxy, galaxy intermixing with andromeda) because it requires you to awkwardly keep track of the astronomy of earth for timekeeping. Instead, you would want
62.
by kazagistar 6y ago
For me it works the other way around: learning history tends to get me in the mood to play a civ game (rather then a better designed and more interesting game in the genre like Endless Legend or Stellaris). Basically, the aesthic of histori
63.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Humans innately have object persistence too, but you wouldn't be able to tell from interacting with a baby as it takes them a few years to get there. Saying kids don't behave as nice as adults doesn't really mean anything in
64.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Yes, you have noticed that authoritarians sometimes use the veneer of freedom and cooperation to force obedience. Sometimes they just use strongman tactics. It doesn't change the fact that voluntary consensus and tolerance are, in fact
65.
by kazagistar 6y ago
I'm still not even sure what Russian values even means.
66.
by kazagistar 6y ago
The economist is a very dubious source for defining "democracy", given their hyperliberal free market ideology that, for example, believes that vast corruption of media for the interests of the wealthy is good and normal. Its a me
67.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Venezuela? Iran? All you have seen is a change towards friendliness to Russia. Its not a change in the policy of using sieges without declaring war to starve and kill populations to somehow punish leaders (I refuse the word sanctions becaus
68.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Sure, but according to linguistic research still wrong. The ancestor seems so far back you might as well include english in your language family.
69.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Hangul is a syllibary where each character is formed from a consonant and a vowel symbol being merged in a consistent way. Even if a few of those symbol fragments are similar to chineese, the structural differences are stark enough that cal
70.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Right now we habe regressive privacy, where people with more power have more privacy. We should have progressive privacy. Power over others is power to hurt others, and for a democracy to work, such power must be tempered by transparency an
71.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Federalism was about ensuring a very specific type of majority minority balance was kept, and is weak in most cases, and checks and balances in the USA broke down the moment ideologically coherent parties became a thing, exactly as had alwa
72.
by kazagistar 6y ago
It's even worse then that. The parties aren't even majority rule: everyone compromises on some issues, and is forced to select based on availability (which is determined by financials not democracy) and fear of the other side rath
73.
by kazagistar 6y ago
I suggest Endless Space 2 or Stellaris.
74.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Given incompleteness and like the difficulty of the busy beaver problem, its pretty clear why brute forcing isn't really effective for much of math. Plus, the results it gives are maybe a bit less interesting because they don't pr
75.
by kazagistar 6y ago
That sounds like an indictment of the commercial industry and deep corruption of US regulatory bodies. Its not an indictment of nuclear itself. The new designs are fundamentally safer, but i can see the value in the aegument that its not wo
76.
by kazagistar 6y ago
I think its poor practice, but undefined behavior shouldn't instantly invalidate results. In fact, this mindset is what keeps people from publishing the code in the first place. Let the scientists publish UB code, and even the artifact
77.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Mathematicians are expected to publish their proofs. Not so that people can do the proof again independently, but so that other mathematicians can find and point out if they have a tangible error in their proof that tangibly invalidates the
78.
by kazagistar 6y ago
The problems listed aren't the oop, they are the memory and thread safety rules of rust, that prevent all the null pointer dereferencing and leaky memory that a "dumb" C++ wrapper allows.
79.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Mine craft industry required a lot of manual mining and not nearly as much automation. Factorio refined the loop.
80.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Ah, but i waited 8.5 years to play factory, no way I'm going to play prerelease satisfactory.
81.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Thats mighty optimistic, given that most of the world already lives in terrible poverty and the wealthy already often use millitary robots to quell malcontents with sufficient success.
82.
by kazagistar 6y ago
I dont think that the point was that adults value exploration less, just that the amount of exploration already done reduces the density of novelty in new exploration. Im interested in foreign travel, but not nearly as interested in traveli
83.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Its gradually typed, and compiles down to typed code with LLVM on first run. So after a warmup (which can be cached) its effectively static for purposes of performance.
84.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Julia is positioned well to be a powerful high performance language in a niche market, that of scientific simulation, due to is reliance on long running. It also doesn't consistently match C benchmarks last I checked, "only"
85.
by kazagistar 6y ago
I don't see that even a little bit, your cause effect isn't explained. I should phrase it differently. Why is an absolute freedom of association more important then the freedom from being harmed by large associations with amoral m
86.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Antitrust doesn't violate the first amendment, so clearly limits on corporate scale aren't unconstitutional, so the legal defense is insufficient and the moral question stands.
87.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Why is that a good freedom?
88.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Agreed. Let's look at it from a simple emperical standpoint: where does the problem mostly arise, and who has the power to fix it? Organizations that went through true iterative process to reduce failure rate like NASA figured out that
89.
by kazagistar 6y ago
Talk about nominative determinism.
90.
by kazagistar 6y ago
> SpaceX is a private company (regardless of how many gov $ it receives) and can’t simply be restructured like a government agency could if it got into serious enough trouble. (Legal, financial, managerial, market, etc.) Technically it c

More ›