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by khafra 16y ago
Except that would take three times as many judges; and if you had that many they could just take a break after every case.
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by khafra 16y ago
I've never seen anyone downvoted for an otherwise substantive comment that included humor. However, if a short, pithy comment offers nothing besides humor: 1. It doesn't gratify one's intellectual curiousity. 2. It's probably not original a
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by khafra 16y ago
Not having it there feels like the hole left by a tooth that just fell out; vaguely unsettling. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing. Note that if you consider HN users as nodes in a bayesian network classifying comments as "g
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by khafra 16y ago
At $5k per unit (first froogle result) that's only $35k for a petabyte; less than 1/3 the price of assembling your own backblaze-type storage. Not bad.
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by khafra 16y ago
I didn't see any requirement there for consent or remaining uninjured and un-jailed. Of course, the thing about actual human values is that we satisfice instead of optimizing. That's a good thing.
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by khafra 16y ago
If there's a word for "deriving effective practice from insane theory," it's probably something like "to rudstein." Biodynamic farming uses esoteric geomancy techniques like burying a cow's horn filled with powdered quartz, and when used in
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by khafra 16y ago
How can you tell if the market clears, with ebooks?
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by khafra 16y ago
I'd focus more on very carefully designed incentives for building cool stuff during 20% time--bonuses and standard recognition/awards certainly wouldn't work; I'm not sure what would.
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by khafra 16y ago
I'm unclear what solutions you're proposing. Don't build? Consider only safety, not utility, when building? Don't use electricity? Use electricity generation methods which kill far more people on average than nuclear?
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by khafra 16y ago
Once upon a time I tried to tell my mother about the problem of expert calibration, saying: "So when an expert says they're 99% confident, it only happens about 70% of the time." Then there was a pause as, suddenly, I realized I was talk
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by khafra 16y ago
Is there a solution to this multiplayer prisoner's dilemma/coordination problem besides government-run research labs? I've never heard one.
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by khafra 16y ago
ISTM you're thinking of merging duplicate content as a punitive measure. I think of it as a mostly positive thing: I wouldn't mind seeing a discussion on SICM once a quarter--but it'd be nice to have all the older insightful comments on it
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by khafra 16y ago
Subtracting "reputation" as a requirement in that equation has to have at least a small positive value, doesn't it? I don't know how many independent researchers there are who have a chicken-and-egg problem with reputation because they don
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by khafra 16y ago
I do think Clarkson is a bit over the top anti-conservation; but suing him for that seems like the worst possible response. Something along the lines of a clever rebuttal in the form of a short video could've scored them some goodwill poin
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by khafra 16y ago
Bear in mind that investment in space was also pretty important for the development of GPS.
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by khafra 16y ago
You started me thinking about ways to normalize average karma, but I haven't come up with one that makes me happy yet: - adjusting to other comments on the same post doesn't account for timing - adjusting for time after the post is gameable
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by khafra 16y ago
Have you tried asking for a written addition to the contract saying work you do on your own time, unrelated in subject to what you do for the company, belongs to you? Contracts aren't always necessarily one-size-fits-all, and if that's the
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by khafra 16y ago
It does, but jasonmkey is a new account, presumably with no reputation to protect and no new startup to promote on a website dedicated to startups. Therefore, the most useful advice is that given to someone with something to lose. Whoever
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by khafra 16y ago
Hard to argue with. I don't have a Clojure environment running, but I'd like to see a comparison of Norvig's spell-checker, and Rich Hickey's Clojure translation: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
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by khafra 16y ago
Tarsnap doesn't do that, but other cloud storage providers seem to--like, say, Dropbox: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3vyon6umixkxu02/Dropbox%20Terms%20o...
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by khafra 16y ago
> Also, to keep an eye out of double entendres... Back in his day, people didn't have such dirty minds. And if you believe that, I recommend listening to the 1958 John and Jackie song, "Little Girl."
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by khafra 16y ago
Man, if there were some way to get Marks and Spencer cereals affordably in the US, I'd be a weekly subscriber.
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by khafra 16y ago
If they're an order of magnitude cheaper than the competition, as is claimed elsewhere, couldn't you just buy two or three and switch when they're rebooting?
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by khafra 16y ago
In such a situation, my understanding is that the more you say, the better. But talk with your wallet.
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by khafra 16y ago
> You didn't understand how luck works. That's a pretty bold statement to make to somebody who built a simulator. Can you point to any specific coding or algorithmic errors? I think you misunderstood his point, which is that it's easy t
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by khafra 16y ago
The jerkiness of your friends is transitive in many other contexts as well, so I don't think this is a problem with this technique in particular.
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by khafra 16y ago
The Kelly Criterion is for making repeated bets on similar offered odds and probability of winning. Admittedly, it's harder to calculate your probability of winning in a stock market bubble than it is at the roulette wheel; but you can sti
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by khafra 16y ago
Anybody ever tried applying the Kelly Criterion to investing in a bubble? That is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion with the "fraction of bankroll" being the amount of your portfolio invested in the bubble? That way, you cou
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by khafra 16y ago
That's getting dangerously close to xkcd's gold standard of spambots that actually make well-written, useful contributions to the discussion.
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by khafra 16y ago
Upvoted for hard data. Strange, though, that out of the most valuable 10 domain names, I don't recognize any as being at the top of their industry. I wonder if they got their money's worth. At least it's a fungible asset unlikely to depre

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