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by maxander 7y ago
Shareholders aren’t incentivized to act in the company’s long-term interest; only to maximize apparent growth for as long as they hold the company’s shares. This leads to companies making shortsighted moves that aren’t in their long-term i
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by maxander 7y ago
That’s the other thing- they still would get done. All the jobs we really need would stick around under UBI and we would have people working them. We would just have to pay them more, since their other option wouldn’t be starvation.
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by maxander 7y ago
This argument works only if you consider those of us lucky enough to have interesting jobs, which we had some hand in choosing. Do you honestly believe that the person who cleans the toilets at your work thinks that this labor gives his lif
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by maxander 7y ago
[2006] Also, checking out the abstract of the paper ( https://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5800/787.long , paywalled, but it must be on scihub if someone has a moment) doesn’t mention extinction of anyth
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by maxander 7y ago
Soon they’ll be A/B testing stealth designs. “Model AST—12-7 flying over NYC generated 23 reports of UFO sightings, whereas model TYR-X3 generated 5 along the same route; moving forward, we should adopt TYR-X3 for all chemtrail operati
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by maxander 7y ago
From the description: > Matter is confined energy, bound within fields, frozen in a quantum of time. > Polarization of the local vacuum is analogous to manipulation/modification of the local space tie topological lattice energy d
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by maxander 7y ago
Childless? AFAIK, the politicians holding back educational spending and maternity leave reform are mostly parents (mostly fathers.) The word you’re looking for is “rich.” :)
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by maxander 7y ago
I get what you’re trying to say, but I’m not sure there’s such a thing as the “syntactic definition” of a word.
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by maxander 7y ago
Symbolic AI and ML/DL AI are two entirely different technologies with different capabilities and applications, that both happen to be called "AI" for mostly cultural reasons. The success of one is probably unrelated to the s
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by maxander 7y ago
For reference, there’s about 500 trillion square meters of land area on the planet; so even if trees are crowded together one per square meter, this is talking about a 500th of that. But perhaps we can find a way to make the Sahara into a f
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by maxander 7y ago
A very abstract idea of its relevance, insofar as I understand it; engineering generally boils down to putting together available things to create some whole, and category theory gives a vocabulary for describing how things (considered very
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by maxander 7y ago
Well, if prices don't drop, those 100k people will be paying something like a billion a year in rent (and/or condo mortgages,) making it probably one of the most high-return investments possible. There's not really a downs
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by maxander 7y ago
Ack! >_<. Thinking about an “European country with a coffee habit,” I guess my brain was predisposed to think about Sweden.
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by maxander 7y ago
If Sweden were cut off from the world and forced to defend itself, I would hope its defenders wouldn’t simultaneously be fighting caffeine withdrawal. There’s your strategic justification. Of course, if Sweden were under serious attack, it
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by maxander 8y ago
I belatedly realize that almost everything I said in this thread was wrong, but it’s too late to delete it! The HN edit rules are cruel.
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by maxander 8y ago
The “Hyper Suprime-cam” instrument came online in 2012, so it’s not new, and was presumably calibrated against well-understood targets; so its light-detection capabilities have been well tested. The physics of gravitational lensing is also
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by maxander 8y ago
Well, maybe we're using different terms- as the article notes, there's technically no such thing as a "such-and-such speed impact." I was speaking in terms of how much kinetic energy is liable to go towards damaging the
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by maxander 8y ago
No, I don't think so- two cars impacting head-on at 70mph would have a "140mph impact," insofar as that it would be essentially equivalent to one car traveling at 140mph hitting a stationary car.
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by maxander 8y ago
Certainly, I concur- the tofu is definitely better. :) Sadly, we live in a world where everyone knows how to skillfully prepare beef, but no one knows how to do the same thing with tofu. I think that accounts for the difference. (Useful e
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by maxander 8y ago
A bunch of the projects described, and the (technical) difficulties encountered, make me wonder if GPT-2-style systems would have better odds. Is anyone looking into applying that to medical/scientific text NLP problems? I mean, GPT-2
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by maxander 8y ago
Noodles and fried tofu takes no longer to cook than a steak, and is just as good. A big pot of curried lentils can be set up in ten minutes, let simmer for about an hour, and lasts all week. Tacos with refried beans instead of hamburger i
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by maxander 8y ago
> Computer scientists should be involved in the R&D process from its very beginning, not just as sophisticated data analysts. Starting from the design of the wet-lab experiments — where the data is being generated. This is because we
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by maxander 8y ago
The “trick” was to add fake lane markings; did they test to see how many human drivers are susceptible to the same attack?
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by maxander 8y ago
Remember that temperature does not indicate energy. A graphene layer is a tiny amount of mass per surface area, so a absorbing single (small-c) calorie of energy would be enough to raise a patch of graphene to outrageous temperatures- but
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by maxander 8y ago
The classic demonstration of superposition is the double-slit experiment [0], where an experimenter shines a (coherent) light through a pair of slits at a screen (or fires a stream of electrons through a pair of slits, or small particles- i
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by maxander 8y ago
Blockchain to CSV, realistically.
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by maxander 8y ago
Perhaps blockchains’ lasting impact will be as an overused plot device in future period pieces set in the early 21st century.
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by maxander 8y ago
Well, yes, NIMBYism is a thing. But most oil and gas operations, while they take up less space, are more than toxic and smelly enough to make up the difference- and pipelines are regularly routed through public lands, skirting highly popul
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by maxander 8y ago
We're already sending out a signal into the cosmos (and one more powerful than the radar signals others have mentioned)- the recent sharp upswing in CO2 over the last hundred or so years [0] would look markedly artificial, which combin
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by maxander 8y ago
There is a way to avoid this kind of problem; have sufficiently complicated syntax that most random permutations caused by "fat-fingering" are incorrect. Python's problem is that the syntax is so minimalist, and the semantic

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