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by lsc 8y ago
When I hear "X is broken" I translate it to "We haven't really figured out X, it must be hard" And usually then things make more sense. We haven't fully figured out interviewing. Interviewing is hard. We ha
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by lsc 8y ago
So, I know a whole bunch of ML types who make this argument. Is this something that neurologists think? I mean, obviously, being neither an expert on statistics, ML, or the brain, I'm unqualified to comment, but I really doubt that M
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by lsc 8y ago
Yeah, it's a business that could work. I was just trying to point out that at that level, the shipping fee dominates, so if the platform encouraged the user to pick multiple books from the same vendor, that would vastly increase eithe
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by lsc 8y ago
>Even discussing with people in their 30ies, they'll often throw "a good fitted suit should be as comfortable as pyjamas" without questionning why we don't live in what would be outdoor pyjamas. I don't know anyo
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by lsc 8y ago
I think that it is fairly well acknowledged that obesity, both in the US and globally, has gotten a lot worse fairly recently. There's a lot of different theories, and a lot of controversy as to why but the idea that wide scale obes
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by lsc 8y ago
>However, an appeal to popularity, "Everyone uses the wifi at starbucks" is strange to see from someone who is advocating better security practices. I would call it an "appeal to practicality" I mean, sure, you and I
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by lsc 8y ago
Why do you suggest that? I sold used books back in the day (not FBA; at one point I had 10000+ books kicking around my house, gotten mostly from estate sales and craigslist "a science fiction fan has died, and I don't want the boo
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by lsc 8y ago
>Note that I enjoy my busted 15" CRT quality fine. I... think you are not in the majority if you think NTSC is "fine" (Unless you mean a 15" computer monitor, a 15" computer monitors could go rather high resoluti
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by lsc 8y ago
Pretty much. I think this is also why self-driving cars are still not mainstream, while we all carry little cameras in our pocket that can literally translate text in real time. Like... the things we have that work? they work 95% of the t
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by lsc 8y ago
It is... really weird. I think it might be related to how the boss will be more respectful to you after you successfully negotiate a raise. Like normal people are somehow wired to treat more expensive people better than less expensive peop
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by lsc 8y ago
I agree completely. But my impression was that actual blockchain transactions were cumbersome and slow to verify, and that most people, especially most investors, have some other party holding their coins or otherwise invest indirectly.
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by lsc 8y ago
>What about energy efficiency? if that isn't covered in cost, then there are externalities that need to be rolled into the cost of fuel or the like.
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by lsc 8y ago
That actually sounds pretty interesting to me. Like, could I take a month off and go study Christ at some catholic monastery even though I'm not a believer?
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by lsc 8y ago
So, I have a theory: "the sharing economy" no, seriously. I have family that ran busineses. I have run businesses. Most successful small business don't pay much better than driving for uber, and driving for uber is a lot
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by lsc 8y ago
The real problem is that so far, open source has been mostly more responsible than closed source. mostly. So many companies and people just go 'eh' and accept the defaults rather than really digging in. Which, in a real way,
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by lsc 8y ago
> Dominic is wrong. If there's no authority, then there's nobody taking responsibility. This is a perfect example of how lack of organizational structure simply does not work in the real world. Maybe, but the sort of people who
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by lsc 8y ago
> You do realise that Bitcoin is experiencing much more inflation in its supply than the USD or the EUR, don't you? So, I argue that it seems likely this would happen; someone will figure out how to fractional reserve the stuff, the
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by lsc 8y ago
>The problems that crypto-currencies attempt to solve are more to do with monetary policy. E.g. - you can't have things like quantitative easing / manufactured inflation if your money supply is dictated by a tightly controlled
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by lsc 8y ago
I respect and support your decision to have a child. Someone needs to do it, and I'm glad that some people want to. (and I'm certainly willing to contribute to things like education to make that easier.) But you need to understa
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by lsc 8y ago
instead of the lanes, you could get in/out on the ends.
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by lsc 8y ago
consider the alternative around here; a shared room. I think a 12x12 retreat where I could lock the door and not be bothered would be dramatically better for introvert time than a shared room or even a private room in a shared house (th
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by lsc 8y ago
I think that the prestigious college model of only letting in people who they know have a 90+% chance of making it is damaging to socioeconomic mobility; there's a lot of us who have, maybe, closer to a 50% chance, who know this and w
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by lsc 8y ago
> we shouldn't privilege the word "evil" by associating it with some kind of deep instrospection leading to immoral action -- lots, if not most, of the evil in the world stems from mundane small-mindedness. (Arendt's
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by lsc 8y ago
To be clear, I am claiming that germans in world war one had better equipment (relative to the time) and training than Germans in World War Two. I'm not saying that the allied equipment was in general superior to the German equipment i
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by lsc 8y ago
Thank you. I've got to get up early tomorrow for a flight, so I don't have time to properly respond at the moment, but this was by far the most thoughtful and useful response I've heard to this question, and I've read ma
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by lsc 8y ago
>I can't find the exact quote but there is one that pretty much says when a peasant goes to war the best he can hope for is to come back to the same life whereas for the king it's a huge win. The thing is, 'peasant armies&
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by lsc 8y ago
>Historically in the US, it has been those in power pitting group against group like poor whites against slaves in this case (or one ethnic group versus another in other struggles with labor in the North during the same time period and a
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by lsc 8y ago
>Do you really think anyone on the street really had anything to gain or lose from World War I, a war that cost between 8 and 21 million lives, all because of some piece of paper after some idiot born into a “special” family took a wrong
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by lsc 8y ago
Sure, that explains why the elites fought; what I still don't get was why the average white southern enlisted man fought. I mean, sure, it's clear why the elites wanted the war. But for the average white southern laborer, slave
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by lsc 8y ago
>So I can't see the idea that AI will be safe by default other than wishful thinking. I... don't think anyone is arguing that AI is safe in any way? I mean, the pattern matching tools we call AI now are already deployed in v

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