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by lisper 2y ago
> I didn't want to cash the stock out immediately because I couldn't get info on the basis and what the capital gains taxes would be. You'd need to figure that out eventually anyway. Better sooner than later. But in any c
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by lisper 2y ago
> there's a sign that says "don't hold your breath underwater." What exactly do they expect you to do instead?
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Spiders Use Captured Fireflies as Flashing Lures to Snare More Prey(smithsonianmag.com)
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The Trouble with Big Numbers(blog.rongarret.info)
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How to nuke $9B in wrapped Bitcoin(twitter.com)
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by lisper 2y ago
> why is the developer trying to create a table which already exists Maybe idempotency was a design goal.
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by lisper 2y ago
I have no problem working towards improved quality of life, but I think we should start with the low-lying fruit of improving the quality of life of poor young people rather than old rich people. But either way that's very different f
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by lisper 2y ago
A.K.A.Chatin's constant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant
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by lisper 2y ago
> I'm curious to learn how you define clickbait. Pretty much like this: > I clicked because I wanted to know what ... they were talking about.
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by lisper 2y ago
> it's unexpected/good That depends on your interests. If you care about the finer points of sound editing embedded in a rather extensive personal narrative then yeah, it's good. Otherwise not so much.
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by lisper 2y ago
This is a great example of why HN's policy of not changing headlines from the originals doesn't work well sometimes. This headline is almost necessarily clickbait. There is nothihng this article could possibly be about that is a
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I lost trust in scientists [video](youtube.com)
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by lisper 2y ago
I've seen situations in the past where the same flight number referred to multiple flights between endpoints that had no apparent relationship to each other. I've also seen a single flight number refer to a flight from A to B to
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by lisper 2y ago
> I think there's a hyperbolic discount to unwritten futures. And yet you value the unwritten futures of existing people. BTW, it's not just about the actual unborn, it's all the existing people who want the experience of
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by lisper 2y ago
Those poor honey badgers. That may sound like a punch line, but it is actually a serious point: our existence has externalities that need to be taken into account. If you're going to argue for the value of potential experiences that w
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by lisper 2y ago
> Being old is not limited to how you look. This is really important. Being young is cool not just because your body works better but because you still have a lot to discover. Discovery is fun. Experiencing something for the first tim
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Munafo's Laws of Mathematics(mrob.com)
1 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
Here is a working reproduction in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKqU_sXyvUg And another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJtuNF20q8w
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by lisper 2y ago
Not many, no. Not enough to matter. Natural disasters just don't kill that many people [1]. But now that you mention it I do think that anyone living in a world without death will be constantly looking over their shoulder and sleepin
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by lisper 2y ago
> I am so incredibly envious of the future humans that will live in a world without death. A world without death is also necessarily a world without birth once the whole biosphere has been converted to immortals. I'm not sure livin
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Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video](youtube.com)
122 points by lisper 2y ago|132 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
> Flight 1555 from ORD to BWI departs at 4PM today, and flight 1555 from ORD to BWI departs at 4:20PM tomorrow. Why do you find that remarkable? That's just the same flight departing at slightly different times on two different da
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by lisper 2y ago
Yes, I think you have it exactly right.
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Computable numbers, with an application to the Druckproblem – ScienceDirect(sciencedirect.com)
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by lisper 2y ago
> It's not surprising that a complex limit-based process like taking a derivative would be also be non-computable. The reason it was surprising to me is that it would naively imply that an analog computer could compute something th
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by lisper 2y ago
It's my fault for not being more explicit. I just didn't think it all the way through.
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by lisper 2y ago
Thanks! I think you don't even need arctan for this. Just put one of Myhill's "bumps" at x=0 and shrink it down. That function approaches f(x)=0 for all x but its derivative at x=0 remains 1.
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by lisper 2y ago
Yes, you're right. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41154273 for my post-mortem.
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by lisper 2y ago
Tracing back through this thread, the term "deciable" was introduced in a very unfortunate way: ekez: why is it impossible to decide whether x<0, x=0, or x>0 as in Example 1? lisper: Only x=0 is undecidable. It's becaus
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by lisper 2y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!

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