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by mcguire 5y ago
As Graham says, the difference between fierce and bitter is success. And given that, in a very competitive environment, the difference between success and failure is largely luck...
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by mcguire 5y ago
If one were suitably cynical (and independent-minded, another of his bugaboos) one might suggest that it's always been "the kind Paul appeals to" and "the bad people".
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by mcguire 5y ago
Perhaps you are overly sensitive to this issue? I've more often heard the phrase from the BBC in regard to Singapore or Hong Kong.
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by mcguire 5y ago
" Another man was seriously injured when the electric vehicle hit him as he was helping the truck driver out of the wreck. "
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by mcguire 5y ago
The total life expectancy of a white male infant in 1850 in the US was 38; at age 10, 58; at age 20, 60. White female, 40, 57, and 60. In 2011, the male expectancies were 76, 77, and 77; female, 81, 82, and 82. ( https://www.infop
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by mcguire 5y ago
Not entirely on point here, but you should look at that the other way around: mutations are retained unless they cause adverse consequences that result in them being selected out.
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by mcguire 5y ago
"A lower level engineering role" doesn't sound like a good description of a position for Facebook's "former director of Ad Exchange." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Garc%C3%ADa_Mart
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by mcguire 5y ago
If that's biased in his favor....
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by mcguire 6y ago
Wasn't $270M Tesla's quarterly profit in January?
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by mcguire 6y ago
The rest of that paragraph: " I think what’s really important for emotional well-being is to know that your future is secure, to achieve the luxury of not worrying about your future. When you’re younger, there’s a lot to worry about. I
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by mcguire 6y ago
True story: E. Allen Emerson, later Turing Award recipient, comes knocking at the door of the Unix cave[1] and demands to know why we changed all the fonts and made his papers look different. No one had changed the fonts---the department ha
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by mcguire 6y ago
" Quality adjustments are based on costs provided by manufacturers in categories such as reliability, durability, safety, fuel economy, maneuverability, speed, acceleration/deceleration, carrying capacity, and comfort or convenien
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by mcguire 6y ago
How well does that work with the boss?
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by mcguire 6y ago
Absolutely. Human behavior-wise, 10% = "some chance", 1% = "no chance", and .1% = "physically impossible".
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by mcguire 6y ago
By "N95 mask", do you mean this https://www.amazon.com/3M-8511HB1-C-PS-Sanding-Fiberglass-Re... or this? https://www.amazon.com/AccuMed-Respirator-Filtration-Disposa... I've had a box of the
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by mcguire 6y ago
Nope, just pointing out the commonality.
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by mcguire 6y ago
That's the argument usually presented for intelligence testing.
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by mcguire 6y ago
...which is why these sorts of attacks almost never occur and are always so resource intensive that no criminal would ever think of doing so for ransom?
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by mcguire 6y ago
That's one reason to look at excess mortality. The number of people who would have "died anyway" this year would be pretty similar to the number who died last year.
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by mcguire 6y ago
This is one of the major problems with PG's essays---he frequently assigns the worst possible motives to the people he disagrees with.
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by mcguire 6y ago
Likewise, one of the best, most valuable, things that Albert Einstein did was to attack quantum mechanics in every way he could.
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by mcguire 6y ago
" I'm not claiming this principle extends much beyond math, engineering, and the hard sciences. In politics, for example, crazy-sounding ideas generally are as bad as they sound. Though arguably this is not an exception, because t
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by mcguire 6y ago
First, what does "willing to pay more than they're worth" mean? (If something can be sold for $X, then it's worth $X.) Stimulus checks is one option. Another is the end of pandemic-related uncertainty. A third is increas
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by mcguire 6y ago
A general question: what evidence is there that airbag vests help?
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by mcguire 6y ago
Honestly, the only specific thing I can think of is basic formal logic (predicate calculus, sets, functions, formal proofs, and so forth). (For ex: https://www.logicmatters.net/ifl/ ) The specific technique may have som
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by mcguire 6y ago
Since everyone else is being optimistic, I'll jump in as the bitter, cynical, devil's advocate: - To a first-order of approximation: nowhere. People mention an Amazon (research?) group using TLA+, there's AdaCore with GNAT, I
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by mcguire 6y ago
I can't recall any names at the moment, but you might check out some of the Unikernel research. I seem to recall results of combining a unikernel and a safe language to be exactly what you describe.
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by mcguire 6y ago
" The Linux CVE database was recently analyzed and it was determined that 96% of the vulnerabilities would be mitigated to at least non-critical status, if not completely eliminated, if linux were a microkernel architecture. " If
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by mcguire 6y ago
As whimsicalism says, it's like Anki. You get the question and then the answer; if you remember the answer, the question won't be re-asked for a longer time, if you don't, the question will be re-asked sooner. It appears (?)
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by mcguire 6y ago
In my experience, you're wrong.

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