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by larksimian 5y ago
Inflation is not just about measuring prices. It is a really complicated number synthesized from both price signals(arguably the most objective data), surveys and ... educated opinions. For instance, economists just kinda have to put a numb
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by larksimian 5y ago
This was a vastly better critique of EA as it exists than the article, which I just found infuriating. Paraphrasing 'EA perpetuates factory farming' ... well, at least EA wasn't around when factory farming got introduced to t
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by larksimian 5y ago
Possible causality inversion? People have more money because they chose to not have kids, all else being equal.
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by larksimian 5y ago
I guess you got downvoted for both-sidesing it(Upvoted, btw :D)? I mean both parties do quite suck, even though I still think the GOP is actively harmful, while the Democratic party has good ideas that it fails to build on. The actual party
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by larksimian 5y ago
> That might suggest bias, but I'd like to give you the benefit of doubt. No need to doubt: I have a more nuanced view of left politics because I'm left biased and spend more time consuming left content and commentary. This is
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by larksimian 5y ago
'Liberal' and 'conservative' are just labels that no longer describe the same ideologies as in the past. 19th C liberals were sort of like modern day libertarians, but in the context of the European monarchies at the tim
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by larksimian 5y ago
You're 1000% correct about build quality. Ironically, re my prior post, I've been missing soviet style flats ever since I moved to the UK many years ago. Affordable, better soundproofing, no mold, way better plumbing, no personal
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by larksimian 5y ago
(post script at the start, this is meant to be a bit faux outrage/tongue in cheek, I didn't realize my childhood dislike of brutalism was still so strong :D everyone has different tastes, it's not that big a deal etc) I feel
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by larksimian 5y ago
Putting a monetary value on an activity that otherwise doesn't have it fundamentally alters how people think about that activity whether they want to or not. The best example is selling items in MMOs versus achieving them in game. If y
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by larksimian 5y ago
Speaking strictly to the parent post's case, their car is worth like $4000, so it sounds like they could easily repair or buy a new one.
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by larksimian 5y ago
In a cynical telling this is how you start a government or any organization with a monopoly on violence, ala mafia. First you make it clear that you can cause damage, then you make it clear that tax payers are safe. The next step for ransom
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by larksimian 5y ago
Our animal brain doesn't perceive this situation as what it was due to the layers of obfuscation: a gang of vicious criminals kidnapped innocent people for months or years at a time, repeatedly, for decades, covered it up, robbed those
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by larksimian 6y ago
Yeah, but if they suspend you for a certain bundle of reasons then that makes you an employee. An employee is just a contractor with additional rules.
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by larksimian 6y ago
People make the civil engineering comparison all the time, but is software development really that much less standardized? What's standard in building a bridge? You have some physical constraints(length, what's the bridge crossing
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by larksimian 6y ago
Related lesswrong thread: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kjQXzkTGuixoJtQnq/we-ve-buil...
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by larksimian 6y ago
This is trivial to do right now: Build a software program that recognizes the problem it is being set(limited list of problems it can handle at first, ie. extract text from an image, tell me if an image is a cat or a dog, play a chess game,
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How to monitor employee computer activity remotely(interguardsoftware.com)
2 points by larksimian 6y ago|0 comments
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by larksimian 7y ago
Not an Electron-related problem, just a general issue: What made me give up on VSCode after trying to make it work again(this March) was the fuzzy search just not being very good in my Rails projects. I can ctrl-shift-r in sublime and get t
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by larksimian 7y ago
Link to the actual study: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxmu2rwsnhi9j9c/Draft-COVID-19-Mod... The title is massive clickbait. The study models various possible parameters for the disease and fits them to UK and Italia
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Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic, Taiwan's Case(foreignaffairs.com)
1 points by larksimian 7y ago|0 comments
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by larksimian 7y ago
And the answer is yes, they are less safe than human driven cars( https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/in-2017-the-feds-said-t... ) "activating auto steer increased crash rate by 50%" Tesla safety sta
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A beginner’s guide to modern classical music(lukemuehlhauser.com)
3 points by larksimian 7y ago|0 comments
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by larksimian 7y ago
My point was that the adversarial regulator for Airbus is the American FAA, not whatever EU institution is their equivalent.
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by larksimian 7y ago
My suspicion: the whole world lets the FAA validate airplanes and then sort of rubber stamps. Boeing was able to capture the FAA, but Airbus wasn't(since it's a foreign company). As such Airbus is still working with a proper adver
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The One Man MMO Project(onemanmmo.com)
274 points by larksimian 7y ago|117 comments
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by larksimian 8y ago
The only application for smart contracts I can think of involves trusted public data sources. For instance government published satellite imagery, public stock market indicators, government published socio-economic data. For instance you mi
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by larksimian 8y ago
Science as a system of producing knowledge (and rules for what to do and how to live) differs from religion in key ways: 1. It places empirical observation as the ultimate form of evidence, as opposed to scripture/existing knowledge. I
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by larksimian 8y ago
> Who decides who pays? In the short term elected representatives. In the long-term their voters as they re-elect them, or not, to office.
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Serious Games Institute(seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk)
1 points by larksimian 9y ago|0 comments
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by larksimian 9y ago
I like and agree with his posts, but the last one does feel like a bit of a bait and switch: The first post talks about the difficulty of getting compile time errors for Wizard wielding a Sword The last post completely abandons the notion o

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