khafra

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by khafra 16y ago
I don't think your true objection is based on quantum mechanics. Based especially on one comment[1], I think you're making a hidden assertion that subjective experiences carry moral weight only if they cannot be explained in terms of other
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by khafra 16y ago
I suggest a study program in social signaling, but I'll summarize the relevant part: People of unknown status must provide a signal that their status is appropriate enough to warrant respect and attention: if you're taking your Valentine's
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by khafra 16y ago
Yeah, us being the substrate rather than the software is a bit of an unusual take on it, even now.
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by khafra 16y ago
Do you worry that you've died and a new, unrelated consciousness born every time a cosmic ray pops a single electron in your brain up to a higher orbit? It seems obvious from the amount of mechanical or chemical intervention that's required
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by khafra 16y ago
That's astounding--the UE page says they provide up to 32db of sound reduction; and that wasn't enough to reduce the ambient sound from the speakers and other monitors to non-hearing-damaging levels? I feel sorry for the patrons of the venu
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by khafra 16y ago
I think with the number of people Reddit currently employs, it's silly to expect them to have a good HR department.
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by khafra 16y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/ Politics is a perfect storm of signaling where real-world consequences are almost completely divorced from argumentation. It's the opposite of hacking and startups, where assumptions
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by khafra 16y ago
Depends on your values and your expectations. If you do time discounting, you can save more lives sooner by donating to VillageReach or the Stop TB Partnership. If you think human civilization might have some trouble negotiation the next
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by khafra 16y ago
Basic R&D is a cost that successful businesses--especially small ones--tend to externalize. Microsoft does a bit, Bell Labs used to do more; but you just don't start a FTL spaceship company before basic research has established a coher
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by khafra 16y ago
Same here; that's why I forwarded the oldest email in my account to another address, took note of the date on it, and saved it to my hard drive; headers intact.
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by khafra 16y ago
Interesting, thanks. If I move to a state with income tax, or enter a tax bracket that warrants it, I'll definitely take a closer look at municipal bonds.
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by khafra 16y ago
Gives one pause to think about the attractiveness of the career "witch-hunter" when the witches actually do have magic powers.
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by khafra 16y ago
I don't know what the chances are that Barr's actually that stupid/crazy, but Citricsquid is saying there's a reasonable chance the IRC admin Barr "tracked down the real identity of" was actually a bot.
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by khafra 16y ago
The same rules of probability apply, so it depends on the number of villages making predictions divided by the improbability of successfully matching that village's predictions. If there were only 10 or 20 people buying lottery tickets, an
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by khafra 16y ago
Aren't municipal bonds paying better these days because of fear (justified or otherwise) that lots of them--especially in California--are going to start defaulting?
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by khafra 16y ago
Plentyoffish claims to get 500M pageviews per month, and is run by just the one guy. I can't speak for the taste and discernment of the people who visited that site 500M times, though.
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by khafra 16y ago
But the pitcher plant does not draw the line. If there are mice in your house (or outside, if it's tropical enough that the pitcher plant can survive outside) a large enough pitcher plant will eat them. If you maintain that a pitcher plant
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by khafra 16y ago
I guess the secret is to be the "X guy who isn't afraid to do the dishes," where X is something other than doing dishes.
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by khafra 16y ago
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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by khafra 16y ago
Strangely, I couldn't find a place in the book where he directly cites the dozens of studies he says he read; but he does quote from this one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19578660
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by khafra 16y ago
What do you think of people who keep pitcher plants in their homes? The larger ones trap cockroaches, small lizards, and even mice in a slippery sap, slowly digesting them over the course of days.
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by khafra 16y ago
The Four-Hour Body, by Tim Ferriss. There's a chapter on gaining progeny, for those who want that; he observes that when you put a cellphone next to rats for an hour a day their sperm count and free testosterone are lowered.
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by khafra 16y ago
I think Locale is supposed to do that, but I don't have an android device.
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by khafra 16y ago
I make exactly the mistake your friends do--I still have the first smartphone I ever bought, from, I believe, 2000. I also have a 3g I should've sold shortly after getting the iPhone 4.
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by khafra 16y ago
Isn't server-side javascript the Next Big Thing for utility scripts? I still use python, because of the difficulties of getting new runtimes approved in $bigco, but I got the impression that's where things were going.
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by khafra 16y ago
Washington State has had a program for decades where you can go to a community college for the last two years of high school, for free. I earned an associate's degree instead of a high school diploma.
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by khafra 16y ago
Gwern meant the slowest timeframe experience by any of the relevant actors over the period of the loan/investment. Distant stars would be an arbitrary decision easily arbitraged.
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by khafra 16y ago
Thanks for saying what I wanted to. Everybody who knows nothing about physics always brings up the "humans can't possibly travel faster than 25mph" thing when someone who does know talks about violating causality, but as far as I've seen it
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by khafra 16y ago
After 5 or 10 steps, does that end in "/b/ is turning into hacker news"?
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by khafra 16y ago
Is this ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176038 ) the guy who wouldn't let you put up the new site? I'm fascinated to hear a dialogue on it, if so.

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