maxander

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by maxander 9y ago
Its worth pointing out that when you spend Bitcoin (or other currency), that is the same as selling it. I don't know what you mean by "use it for life"- yes, you can hold onto Bitcoin (or gold or whatever) and not get tax
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by maxander 9y ago
Indeed you would- trading on the foreign exchange market, as it's called, works much the same way as trading on the stock market. How taxes work for it are apparently specialized and complicated (see https://www.investopedi
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by maxander 9y ago
Is that how it works? Then I'll just ask to be paid in pounds rather than dollars and therefore avoid all U.S. taxes. Brilliant! That's not how it works, with Bitcoin or any other asset .
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by maxander 9y ago
Happily, these kinds of studies aren't attempting to create a comprehensive statistical model of the human body, in any reasonable sense- they're just asking, "if we change X in modern human lifestyle, and leave every other f
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by maxander 9y ago
It’s entirely possible (even probsble) that one or more countries involved have tech that they could be using to find the sub much more easily, but which they’re holding back for strategic-secrets reasons. Many stealth/antistealth tec
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by maxander 9y ago
I predict that when the Semi Unveil happens, they’ll only unveil half of the actual vehicle.
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by maxander 9y ago
There's no story from the parents as to what happened. The closest the paper gives to explaining the situation directly is at the end of the Case Report: "Additional history disclosed an unstable motel-living situation and parent
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by maxander 9y ago
In defense of the absent-minded, labeling it a "dominance" behavior requires several value judgements. One could readily read his examples to demonstrate, for instance, that once people attain to a certain level of status and res
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by maxander 9y ago
I suspect that’s in large part because of the headline’s officious use of the term “US government” as the actor, not to mention the completely sensational description of the bugs as “killer.” Does “EPA approves release of infertile mosquito
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by maxander 9y ago
Except that the same logic works the other way- what do they have that we would want to mess with them over? The universe is a big place. Looking around, it seems that the endless-exponential-expansion route hasn’t proven popular with anyo
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by maxander 9y ago
If you take the Bostromian existential-risk-from-super-GAIs argument seriously, this sort of thing must sound horrifying. Imagine if in the 40s you read in the newspaper that a bunch of Manhattan project scientists had left to start their
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by maxander 9y ago
So either he was "asked to leave" (fired) for somehow being responsible for the battery issue that was the rate-limiting factor for Model 3 production, OR he was being leaned on so hard by management to fix the problem that he lef
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by maxander 9y ago
So someday, Hypothetical Nation#1 captures one of Hypothetical Nation#2’s optically-guided missiles that uses a neural network to distinguish friend from foe. N#1 technicians download the network weights and use this to generate perturbato
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by maxander 9y ago
> Deep-learning applications are seriously energy-hungry and they're going to need exponentially more in the future. So instead of eradicating humanity by erupting, Yellowstone will eradicate humanity by powering Skynet.
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by maxander 9y ago
I’m sure doctors are looking forward to ultrasound scanners being common household devices, and getting 50 emails a day from panicked people convinced that their gallbladder is a tumor.
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by maxander 9y ago
Is it because they’re hideous? Going by the article header pic alone. More seriously, it’s a niche product and Google Glass made everyone wary about wearing cameras in their face everywhere (or showed that people were inherently wary.) Of
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by maxander 9y ago
I would speculate that their eventual end goal is to be bought out by either SpaceX or Blue Origin. A small space launch startup focusing on one technology isn’t going very far on its own, and few other companies would have an interest in
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by maxander 9y ago
I don’t see where you get that implication. Perhaps they’re spending a month in France rather than taking three one-week trips. Perhaps they’re living closer to town so that they don’t drive as much to get to work and their local hacker c
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by maxander 9y ago
Peace and war aren't intrinsically balanced; it's stupidly easy to make headlines as a bloodthirsty murderer, but it's hard to stand out as a builder or negotiator. There are millions of brilliant people who have devoted the
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by maxander 9y ago
I’ve become convinced that American craft beer culture is converging onto a sort of carbonated tea. A typical IPA tastes more like cold maté than it does “proper” beer.
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by maxander 9y ago
Somewhat disappointed, since I don't like wine either and I was hoping this could help explain why, but my tastes seem to be diametrically opposed to the author's. I even like strong alcohol of other sorts- I've recently gro
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by maxander 9y ago
This sounds a lot like the supertasters I've known. Certainly not as sensitive to salt as other things- whether this is because saltiness works differently than other taste, or whether it's just impossible even for supertasters n
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by maxander 9y ago
Those plots, though. When has data ever been more clear-cut, or incriminating to the human condition. I don't think the anti-aging research push is driven by fear of oblivion- we've found so many outlets for that already. It&#x2
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by maxander 9y ago
My (admittedly fuzzy) understanding is that while running a DNN is a very parallel problem, training it (back-propagation, in particular) is not and is thought to be susceptible to quantum speedup. Google's work in quantum computing i
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by maxander 9y ago
There are a few organizations that try to quantitatively evaluate charitable organizations and similar- notably (and off the top of my head), CharityWatch [1]. Donating based on their metrics (although not the irrefutable truth of the matt
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by maxander 9y ago
Your 10-ISS-doughnut habitat would be a nice objet d'art , but what happens next? It can't pull more stations up after it. Thinking for long-term space habitation requires projects that make human space presence self sustaining
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by maxander 9y ago
I had to look pretty closely at that "asteroid miner" concept image to assure myself it wasn't just a ship from Kerbal Space Program. :)
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by maxander 9y ago
You're somewhat missing the point. Yes, everyone knows it was a joke. It was a joke that could have gotten someone assaulted . People aren't just following the letter of the law, here. This is a thing that happens for good re
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by maxander 9y ago
A line I particularly liked (from the second segment): > "I think it is this new atmosphere of fear and that it won't change until we, as a public, learn to perform a new kind of alchemy and recognize fear when it is being pres
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by maxander 9y ago
I have a moderately powerful gaming GPU in my bedroom and my apartment has electric heat (in Boston! Its downright criminal), so I've been considering mining some kind of *coin just to get back a bit of the money that I'm spendin

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