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by manholio 4y ago
> two of them could have held down the Space Shuttle when it was trying to launch. To keep the reactor from flying apart, they needed 38 And all that for a reactor that was unable to break even in energy terms, let alone ignite and break
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by manholio 4y ago
It would seem he got it exactly in reverse: the vacancies are up because wages are too low compared to the demands of the labor force which is still available, those people prefer to retire/have a baby/a sabbatical etc. etc. inste
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by manholio 4y ago
Just like in the fiat case, the attacker of a currency peg has enormous upside if the attack succeeds and essentially zero risk if it fails: the peg can only go down, not up. So shorters pile on to the diseased currency like lions biting a
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A Bored Ape Lawsuit Won’t Set the NFT Precedent Seth Green Wants(wired.com)
5 points by manholio 4y ago|0 comments
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by manholio 4y ago
Sounds like you are an overachiever. The big implicit assumption of GTD is that, while it makes you more productive, there is still a limit on how much you can take on. Workload is not specifically addressed, but implicitly the overflow wil
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by manholio 4y ago
> It is not known whether proportional representation can compete with the best single winner voting methods. I don't know the metric you are using here, but it is surely purely academic, as the rest of your comment. The idea that a
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by manholio 4y ago
The point is to have fair representation. If a 30% fanatical minority can get a 100% clean slate for its candidates by voting strategically, AV fails. In a single winner election AV makes coordination among moderates somewhat easier, so it&
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by manholio 4y ago
I can't be bothered to search for academic papers, but I've seen it use in real elections to designate party candidates. Voters were absolutely rabid, marking exclusively for candidates from their group. The largest group gets a c
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by manholio 4y ago
The two party system is a direct result of the voting methods that are being used.
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by manholio 4y ago
Approval voting is very sensitive to strategic voting. Outside of toy elections where people are altruistically trying to find the best candidate, it reverts to similar dynamics as First-Past-the-Post.
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by manholio 4y ago
That's an overly simplistic perspective that ignores how the political process itself shapes the choices and opinions of people. For an extreme example, in the democratic part of his rise to power, Hitler never called for war with Euro
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Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less(americanpurpose.com)
234 points by manholio 4y ago|385 comments
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by manholio 4y ago
This is pretty cool, definitely would have come handy 15 - 20 years ago when people like Cohen and Nakamoto were inventing Bittorrent and Bitcoin, rolling their own binary serialization atrocities and unleashing them on humanity.
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by manholio 4y ago
I'm not convinced it's an assembly language advantage per se. Most of these very low power MCUs now come in variants with ridiculous amounts of flash that negate the space advantage of hand tuned assembly. The binary a C compiler
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by manholio 4y ago
I would go for the same idea, but with cats in a shelter. Every time an email arrives, a treat is delivered to the cat horde and the resulting commotion is filmed and a linked delivered to the sender, with a caption like: "We want MOAR
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by manholio 4y ago
Of course it's bad science, I won't argue against that. What I call into question is the enormous selection bias at work here: modern methodological inquiries will be performed only on famous and controversial pieces that are like
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by manholio 4y ago
It was more or less on par with the bad science of the age. Most science was done in a similar fashion, people experimented on themselves with X rays, radioactive materials and lead additives until it literally killed them. Nonetheless, sci
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by manholio 4y ago
Reminds me of Loise Wains' series of cat paintings, which some say is illustrating his descent into schizophrenia: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_psychedelic_madness_...
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by manholio 4y ago
> Lending creates "virtual money" that contributes to inflation, so one of the ways central banks control inflation is by increasing or decreasing interest rates. One way to understand how this works is by visualizing the circu
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by manholio 4y ago
He did the math, what a legend.
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by manholio 4y ago
This story is elliptical to the point of unintelligibility. Nobody knows what happened next. We can guess a page was deleted from the context of this thread, but we have no idea why.
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by manholio 4y ago
There is a fundamental misunderstanding in this piece about what the real problem is. Productivity and automation are great, fundamental things that fully transformed the human condition for the better. The office and factory automation men
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by manholio 4y ago
> And you can’t put a camera on the target to look back at the mirrors, because it would get melted. So just put it behind a heavy metalized filter that reflects over 99% of the incoming energy? And suspend the whole assembly about 1 met
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by manholio 4y ago
Another maddening thing are tiny fonts on mobile devices and pinch zoom does not reflow text. So you can't read without zooming in, and you can't see the whole page when you do, so you need to put your phone in landscape mode and
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by manholio 4y ago
I lived my teen years in a collapsing post-communist economy, with hyperinflation (the kind that can add 4 zeros to prices in a span of a few years), massive unemployment and deep real-wage reduction. My mother struggled with a minimum wage
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by manholio 4y ago
I have an idea: let's body-shame them into believing they were born in the wrong body for their actual gender, and suggest that removing their reproductive organs and a devastating, life-long hormonal treatment will make it all alright
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by manholio 5y ago
That contains so much jargon that it has to be 100% legit. The rectal sphincter tone though.
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by manholio 5y ago
The Balrog are decent people.
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by manholio 5y ago
There is no "tech" bubble. Some technologies are transformative and we have only begun to understand their implications. Other are ridiculous scams. The investors that are able to separate the chaff will always do well on the long
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by manholio 5y ago
> Jack Dorsey sold it So what? If Jack Dorsey took a dump, preserved in resin and sold it as an abstract representation of his first tweet, how would that be different, more genuine or less genuine than this NFT?

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