kerbalspacepro

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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Do we have an estimated cost of switching away from DST? Programmer friend and I were talking today (re: Europe) and he said it'd cost a lot of money for everybody to upgrade their libraries. I said that its a one-time cost versus thos
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
The Three Body Problem and ASI are two songs on the same instrument: value misalignment in cases of massive power differentials. In an indifferent universe, two optimizers optimizing different things will be in conflict. Can we build machin
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
If you saw a sharp change in the atmospheric composition of a planet in our solar system would you think "volcanoes" or "life"?
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
This is the wrong way to look at it. You're not thirsty for resources. You're protective of them. Imagine if you were aware of giant, angry Americans who were flying to Japan to steal all of your coke and convert all your land a
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
You're right, there's a bit of fuzz there, especially when it comes to foreign policy. I would argue that social conservatives, when pressed on it, only want the government to enforce their point of view because they are otherwise
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Definitely, agree that it is an oversimplification. Political science lends itself to that failure mode pretty easily.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Libertarians are considered right-wing because the left-right axis is simply, "How much do you think the government should be involved in the issues?" When it comes to economics, the answer "more" is left and the answer
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
If we want to just play with words to make them meaningless: humans have never left the bonds of Earth's gravity.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Imagine that a person was trying to explain to you how we knew that galaxies and so on were a certain distance away. They show that we know how to figure out Standard Candles and luminosity etc etc etc. They also claim, at the very end, to
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Saying "the world is fallen" implies that the world fell from something. It didn't. The same rules of physics, as far as we can tell, have been plugging away since the very beginning. If you mean "The world sucks" t
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Why on earth would you pee in the pool to begin with?
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
>this world is fallen Makes the entire article essentially meaningless. How can I trust somebody with such a bizarre and unconnected worldview?
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
New York becoming like California? Isn't the problem that California is becoming like New York???
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
It's well known that the best teams are the ones that eschew using the kit of parts and have their NASA/SpaceX/Autocorp sponsors laser cut their robot chassis for them.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
>The right education is: vimtutor (type it in your CLI). Well I just discovered a new thing to do over the next 25-30 minutes
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Manufacturing things is a commodity, creating things is where the value is.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
The article this is from is here: https://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/http://www.redher...
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
>European potters like Wedgwood were desperately trying to re-create the purity and beauty of the Chinese product. Oh, how the pottery turntable turns. >Chinese manufacturers like Huawei were desperately trying to re-create the purity
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
AlphaCiv would be interesting as hell, but I fear that there isn't historical data for Alpha to consume. I would expect it would have a similar result to AlphaStar though-- it beats the human player before the end game.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Cults don't write about how to avoid being a cult, while the LW crowd has reams of texts and blog posts about how they are purposefully avoiding trying to become a cult.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
If you're going to be staring at a screen for 8 hours a day, you should expect it to look good.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Yeah, that's what I meant. Increase the speed limits and increase the punishments.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
>Not a police priority so few will get pulled. The American reticence to road cameras is a sign that we all think we're doing something that's illegal (we are). The laws need to be fixed.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Interesting finds: * /r/askscience is nested at the center of defaults (I think a lot of older, famous subs will end up highly connected) * /r/relationship_advice is kind of a loner. The graph generates six distinct subr
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Imagine you run a start-up. You need to expand rapidly and hire all sorts of salespeople. In 10 years you have cornered the market so well that there is no (good) alternative product and growth in the market de facto goes to you. You are th
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
>If you create a company, you take care of it and all of its members. No. A company doesn't have members, it has employees. Americans should know by now that a company has no loyalty to them and they should have no loyalty to th
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
There is one common theme that exists throughout all sorts of media: we like hearing about competence. Why do we like sports? Player competence. Why do we like antihero stories? The antiheroes tend to be super-competent. What makes Ironman
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
This is interesting because the least toxic places on Reddit are highly moderated (askscience, and askhistorians are the two biggest examples). Indeed, Hacker News is just essentially a highly moderated subreddit, which is its attraction.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Florida is still yellow, bud
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
And battery capacity/storage is being brought up as we speak.

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