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by mLuby 6y ago
Are the bottles sanitary? Are they washing their hands before returning to public contact work? Do they carry the bottles around or leave them somewhere? What if they don't have a bottle or suddenly need another? What about the #2 issu
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by mLuby 6y ago
Good point. It should both make future experiments more accurate and also debunk similar claims more easily. Science isn't a bunch of scientists saying "we doubt it'll work"—science is a bunch of scientists experimentall
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by mLuby 6y ago
Church encoding is mind-bending. ZERO = (f, x) => x ONE = (f, x) => f(x) TWO = (f, x) => f(f(x)) THREE = (f, x) => f(f(f(x))) TRUE = (a, b) => a FALSE = (a, b) => b IF = (p, a, b) =&g
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by mLuby 6y ago
However ineffectual it may feel at times, I and many others are grateful for the nuanced work you do here encouraging us all to maintain constructive, good-faith discourse. Thank you dang!
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by mLuby 6y ago
Companies are like functions, and the input is labor. Some are hyper-optimized functions that multiply the labor a million-fold. Others are bloated functions with hideous time complexity, barely producing enough value to justify their exist
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by mLuby 6y ago
Exactly right. I wish more companies were talking about the "we all work from the same place for a week or two" per quarter. It gives almost all of the flexibility of working remote along with much of the benefit of being in perso
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by mLuby 6y ago
According to this, most vaccines are as you describe: "There are two main types of immunity you can achieve with vaccines. One is so-called 'effective' immunity, which can prevent a pathogen from causing serious disease
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by mLuby 6y ago
In romance languages, these monarchy carriers aren't particles, but reyes.
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by mLuby 6y ago
> Virtue signalling is a pejorative neologism for when one expresses a morally disingenuous viewpoint with the intent of communicating good character. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling Accusing someo
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by mLuby 6y ago
It's common sense that a school with more money can hire more and better teachers as well as remove barriers to learning like food insecurity and lack of textbooks/computers. The burden of proof falls on the counterintuitive claim
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by mLuby 6y ago
Like with the prisoners' dilemma, what's "logical" in a one-time two-player game isn't true for a multi-round multi-player game. If the Meanie Republic uses Agony Clouds against the citizens of Goodistan, the rest o
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by mLuby 6y ago
Better now? HN's need for extra newlines between bullets always gets me.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Forget for a minute who won't get through the "broken tech interviews" and instead consider the types of bad hires that could get through these filters: - Take-home LeetCode: poor communication skills, bad at workflows, u
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by mLuby 6y ago
> “Facial coverings are contrary to our value system,” Wobmann told Swiss public television, SRF. He said there were now clear rules in place so that “people know that in our country, you show your face in public”. I wonder if this reaso
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How the Cruel Moraliser uses a Halo to Disguise his Horns(aeon.co)
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by mLuby 6y ago
Whether something is "legal" is a fuzzy computation that runs in the minds of average citizens on a jury, though it's more commonly simulated by judges and lawyers. The text is not absolute. So what if an accept-only contract
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by mLuby 6y ago
(I don't understand the downvotes; you're asking the same reasonable questions that I'm sure Elon asked too.) From what I've read, passive landing solutions like parachutes, wings, rotors, air bags, etc. are feasible onl
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by mLuby 6y ago
Speaking of influencers… > To pre-register, select MZ's Social media accounts that you follow: > ( ) Twitter <link> ( ) Instagram <link> ( ) Facebook <link> ( ) YouTube <link> ( ) LINE <link> > MZ
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by mLuby 6y ago
Back in the 60's, people thought everything would be nuclear-powered; atomic cars, planes, trains, houses, etc. But like with building-sized computers, we've chosen a different path through the tech tree. There were terrestrial ex
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by mLuby 6y ago
"One person's trash is another's treasure." The other solution is make it more profitable to collect and sell your garbage than to dispose of it. Which means it has to be worth it for a business to collect your trash f
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by mLuby 6y ago
Forget railguns; an automated burger flipper could launch chunks of rock at escape velocity.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Culture has done the same to humans, generally selecting for pro-social traits. (Yes, there are outliers.)
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by mLuby 6y ago
Animals are liable for their actions. The punishment is usually death by lethal injection or firing squad. The stronger argument is that animals aren't as aware as humans which actions will have consequences. Animals do have custom
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by mLuby 6y ago
We still have court jesters, they've just moved to TikTok.
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by mLuby 6y ago
> and/or forcing the enemy to waste their delta-v, which the game definitely stresses Totally agree, and this is another case where controls at a slightly higher abstraction would be nice. In the game, sometimes the enemy jukes your
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by mLuby 6y ago
I'm a huge fan of The Expanse, Atomic Rockets, and Kerbal Space Program, so I felt like I should have loved Children of a Dead Earth too. But try as I might, I just couldn't find it fun. I have a feeling that if the game controls
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by mLuby 6y ago
We already have (bad) ML-generated screenplays and (very short) deep fakes. I'm willing to bet in 50 years, software will be able to fully generate new episodes of TV shows, incorporating reviews of the previous episodes. Maybe everyon
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by mLuby 6y ago
> if the fine for the action is less than it grosses, it is just a tax. And not just the actions regulators catch, but the others too. do { new Crimes() } while ( fine(Crimes.detected) < profit(Crimes.all) )
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by mLuby 6y ago
Derivatives provide useful abstractions over primitive financial data types. Instead of saying "give me the {id: int, name: string, birthday: date}" we can just say "give me the User" and that's helpful. But as in s
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by mLuby 6y ago
Some passages that stood out to me: > Isolation and loneliness are not the same. I can be isolated – that is in a situation in which I cannot act, because there is nobody who will act with me – without being lonely; and I can be lonely –

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