marris

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by marris 10y ago
> None of these great minds existed in an apolitical, unbiased vacuum, where they could devote themselves to nothing but free thought. If that is the claim, then I agree that it is wrong. The most common criticism of Marx that I have hea
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by marris 10y ago
What are the politics of Kant and Plato?
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by marris 11y ago
Of the examples that you list above, I agree that communication (what would have previously happened with letters) has mainly moved to the net. To the extent that receipts have moved, the government has access (either directly or through a
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by marris 11y ago
You are correct that the original statement was not accurate. Please see the more precise restatement above.
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by marris 11y ago
You are correct. I should have been more accurate and stated that the new power that the government is demanding is demanding in the Apple court case is the power to decrypt our records and communications with a warrant. There are also go
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by marris 11y ago
It needs to be pointed out more often that law enforcement still has all of the physical access methods that they've had for the past 200 years. If the government wants to break into your home or office, they can and will do so. No &
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by marris 12y ago
The author is not including the machine size. From wikipedia: "We could, alternatively, choose an encoding for Turing machines, where an encoding is a function which associates to each Turing Machine M a bitstring <M>. If M is a
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by marris 13y ago
I don't think your opponent believes that the US system is a "representative democracy" or a "democracy" or whatever it is that lets N-1 people take arbitrary stuff from 1 person. Your "rally support" solu
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by marris 13y ago
Not what Musk does, but thanks for playing.
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by marris 13y ago
There a typo in the HN title.
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by marris 13y ago
Two issues: - Many people don't spend every penny they have. They spend every penny they can get out of their health plan. That's not a "market failure" by any means agreed? - If they must pay out of pocket, and they h
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by marris 13y ago
Why did you use such a dangerous product? Unless the kit includes a self-mastectomy tool, I don't think the FDA should get hysterical.
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by marris 13y ago
not obvious
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by marris 13y ago
MusicBee is awesome!
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by marris 13y ago
"Disease is socialist" but most cures come out of commercial drug companies cure them. Weird. I think the reader has a healthy aversion to Rand, but there is certainly a difference between great acts and mediocre ones.
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Production of Robots by Means of Robots(worthwhile.typepad.com)
1 points by marris 14y ago|0 comments
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by marris 14y ago
OK, I see where you're coming from. I don't think he's saying 1). But then again, I've been reading him for a while, so I had a bit of context. If this had been a random one-time post on some guy's blog, then sure, I'd probably think 1).
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by marris 14y ago
Huh? Yes, "thermostat" is used as an analogy (by both Friedman and Rowe). But the article is not claiming that there is a "general thermostat theory." He's talking about one idea (there may be no measured correlation under targeting) and
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by marris 14y ago
Let's get the obvious out of the way: The thermostat concept is an analogy. In Friedman's original article, it's being used to describe money supply targeting [not real thermostats]. Nick Rowe is abstracting away some of the specifics of
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by marris 14y ago
No, that's not the point. The point is that when velocity is constant, there's no indicator that your pedal manipulation is good as opposed to bad . For that to happen, you would need a period of time where you messed up with the pedal
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by marris 14y ago
Sorry, what do you mean "OP is misinterpreting Friedman's paper"? I don't think there's much "interpretation" here. He's basically saying: here is a paper about X. It is titled "X". And I'm also confused by what you mean by "the OP has made
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by marris 14y ago
Does anyone know what the speculative execution notes in processor.h are talking about? The code seems to be trying to set up spec execution "barriers." What does that mean? I thought speculative execution was a micro-architecture optimizat
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by marris 14y ago
Game... maybe HFT... maybe High performance server... sure OS... most are not (C++ != C, C++ != assembly) Implementing a language... maybe Database... sure Numerical library... most are not Crypto library... most are not VM... maybe Browser
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by marris 14y ago
I think not. The language is too big [it's always odd to see some people say things like "the language is still too big", as if some recent effort has succeeded in making the language somewhat smaller, but not small enough... every recent
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by marris 15y ago
Why are we accepting this guy's premise that "equality of wealth" should be a target at all? We could get equality tomorrow if we took most of the stuff that the rich owned and just destroyed it. Does any sane person think that would be a g