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by lolcraft 13y ago
Minor detail someone might not know: a part of the Inception soundtrack (which is also great ambient) was made with that technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkQ0C4qDvM Those who have seen the movie and its plot devi
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by lolcraft 13y ago
Where you are wrong: bonds do not create purchasing power out of the air. They are effectively debt, no different than going to the bank and asking for a loan; that debt, by the way, has been more than repaid by every president since the
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by lolcraft 13y ago
> I don't have nothing to hide from the government. Imagine some crazy, hard-line politicians get elected and make a law that retroactively throws to jail women who get abortions. Or homosexuals. Or maybe it's a party that deci
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by lolcraft 13y ago
You haven't read him. Those aren't his conclusions. Those are his personal actions , as a single person without any political power. If you're a judge in an international human rights court, you bring Coca-Cola forth to resp
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by lolcraft 13y ago
The CIA doesn't ask for judicial warrants, and doesn't have to. Extrajudicial murder is legal. Al-Awlaki was murdered on suspicion that there was an imminent threat to US persons. No warrant obtained. Al-Awlaki's son was murdered, again w
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by lolcraft 13y ago
Not really. It's just goofy old Kant. Not the goofiest thing he wrote -- that would be his three principles of morality, or his rampant misogyny -- but still, pretty silly. If a human life is an end in itself, then euthanasia is the worst c
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by lolcraft 13y ago
... we already do. It's called radio :)
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by lolcraft 13y ago
Well, to be fair, there's a fair amount of goofy Biblical quoting at the beginning. Really, that article is hilarious, you should read it. Complete with pseudo-information theory bullshit -- it's INCREDIBLY COMPLEX, says the title of one se
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by lolcraft 13y ago
> From the left: One big concern with cash transfers is that some goods are complicated for consumers to understand (healthcare, for example). Not really. The problem with health care is that it works if it's socialized, and it doesn't
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by lolcraft 13y ago
What? No. > There is not a single exception. [of lack of economic freedom and economic prosperity] Except China -- Mostly Unfree. And Brazil -- Mostly Unfree. And Argentina -- don't you know it's Repressed, of all things, according to H
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by lolcraft 13y ago
> A central banker could easily achieve a perfectly accurate prediction of the amount of currency available Not really. Banks and corporations hold reserves, lend "money" that's actually debt between banks not backed by hard currency, p
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by lolcraft 13y ago
> When you think of this system at scale, running unchecked, you can see how 9/11 style acts of terrorism happen. 9/11 hijackers were mostly well educated, middle-class Saudi Arabians. Not Taliban, as you seem to imply. If anything, wha
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by lolcraft 13y ago
You're comparing Sun's Java 7, a mature mainstream, enterprisey language which has probably the compiler, virtual machine and GC most advanced in all of Computer Science's history , with a niche language that some Googlers hacked together.
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by lolcraft 13y ago
First, Scott Aaronson never said D-Wave sucked, to my knowledge. I downvoted you for that exhibition of rhetoric, it was pretty immature even for my standards. Second, compare quantum computing with fussion, which is of about the same level
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by lolcraft 13y ago
Iosif, I appreciate your strong opinions about inflation. I'm sure Lenin would be proud [1]. However, you're too into the politics of it. We in HN should try to do some rational armchair economics, try to see the inflation/deflation debate
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by lolcraft 13y ago
So this is the reasoning behind Ted Nelson's claim that Mochizuki is Nakamoto: 1. Both are Japanese. Or say they are. 2. Well, that's got to count for something , right? 3. Also, they're both smart. What more do you want? LOL. Also, his
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by lolcraft 13y ago
I guess the GP understood special relativity, but not general ;) Well, to be really pedant, if you were spinning around yourself, you'd feel an acceleration.
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by lolcraft 13y ago
I've read some of it, and it's not even in the same sport, much less league. SIQM has no code and uses all the handwavy notation you could read in better books (Landau, probably; or Feynmann, for an intro). It struck me as the Ford Fiesta
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by lolcraft 13y ago
Cool book. That's from where I learnt the Euler-Lagrange equations first. Sussman also wrote a book, in his characteristic style, on Differential Geometry, that doubles as a possible introduction to special relativity, and bridge to the gen
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by lolcraft 13y ago
> Peaceable assembly's overrated anyway. (RNC '04) You mean the assembly whose Wikipedia page has... ? "Expected security expenditures reached $70 million, $50 million of which was funded by the federal government." "The NYPD infiltrate
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by lolcraft 13y ago
Eeeh, either you cited the wrong article, or I'm very confused. That paper, and what's written in your comment, actually supports what the original article says. It's the same thesis, actually. The paper that you link to is even written b
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by lolcraft 13y ago
IDK, from what I've just read NT looks like someone took Minix (released in 1992) and worked on it to make it useful. Plus adding a subsystem layer. Frankly, I'm still more impressed by a monolithic kernel that did it better, before: Plan 9
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by lolcraft 13y ago
I'll admit that the WSJ here is not as laughably bad as some quotations from their infamous op-eds had led me to believe. Maybe I was too harsh with them. They seem to do the balance thing, or more correctly here, the common sense and econo
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by lolcraft 13y ago
You know, there's a possibility that it would suck if investors got itchy and pulled out of TSLA after these news. I mean, it would be very understandable, but from a game-theoretical point of view, there's the question of what you want t
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by lolcraft 13y ago
I agree completely.
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by lolcraft 13y ago
If the US and Europe pretend, as we should, to be shining lighthouses for the cause of freedom and democracy, then for the sake of congruence and principle we should hold ourselves to higher standards than more oppressive regimes. As for th
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by lolcraft 13y ago
Whomever wrote that headline missed a much more significant, and painfully biting, point: "Jiang, a former contractor at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, had recently been let go by his employer because of pressure from
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by lolcraft 13y ago
Frankly, it's clear you have very much a microeconomics-based of the macroeconomy, all accounting identities and no feedback. To begin with, there has been made the case that progressive taxation does, mostly, not mean a significant negativ
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by lolcraft 13y ago
I don't know why journalists, when writing about economics, invariably pick the least adequate people to be interviewed. Some time ago, there was a feature about unemployment for college graduates in the US... which talked about a woman wit
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by lolcraft 13y ago
A great part of the success of Skunk Works, or at least what I took it to be from Rich's book, was how coupled manufacture and design was done in the division. About a cardboard wall as separation, with design ideas and manufacturing troubl

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