mcmoor

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by mcmoor 4mo ago
There are a lot of ocean, but limited shores. I guess that's the only economical place to build it, but of course it blocks scenery. If people truly built it in open ocean, less people will complain.
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
> I wish people would stop using the word “child” in an effort to minimize criminal behavior by young adults. A 16 or 17 year old isn’t a “child.” This reminds me of a horrific study (that keeps getting repeated over and over!) that clai
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
The theory is that people commit most of their crimes in their prime age of ~15-30. If you lock someone until out of that age, their crime rate will go down on their own. Whether or not this is cruel is another discussion. This is actually
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
Yeah but then each of those websites would only have 1 audience, which would be economically ruinous. Even HN has >1M daily view which is quite a lot of eyes to cater. I guess there can be a sweet spot in a certain amount of MAU. And thi
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
Seems like his work now is just keep changing thumbnails of his old videos to bait me into rewatching it.
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
I think it can be argued that, because human interests are so different and fractal, there's only so much damage that can be done with non-personalized algorithm. Ads for a certain demographic will just alienate the other demographic.
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
I've been forced to do it once for reddit, with the API fiasco, and I don't really notice improvement but I do notice reduced quality of life. Almost no other websites have easily accessible niche memes. YouTube recommendation is
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
Yeah there is argument that reddit wasn't social media, but currently is trying to be
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
Well there's kind of motte-bailey going around where the law effort is of course focusing on the thing they might win, while common commenters demand vastly more unrealistic things.
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
What interesting is that unlike other nations in that list, Indonesians already love soccer to death, literally. But they're still very underrepresented in the world stage.
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
I thought the concrete ground is much more important for basketball, otherwise the ball would bounce all over the place. In comparison, muddy ground for soccer is part of the fun.
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
There's so many variants of prisoner's dilemma at this point which have their own winner I give up tracking. I've heard the most "realistic" one have titfortat as winner, but I've also heard that in certain pop
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
Elon Musk seems like an ultimate counterexample of a person that "deserves" his dozens of billions of dollars. Because his name alone for some reason raises the percepted value of a company by that much amount. No amount of one pe
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
It's exactly the opposite. With languages/standards, both parties has incentives to have mutual understanding so they don't need anyone else to enforce symbol equality. But with these weights, or money in general, there'
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by mcmoor 4mo ago
When the reddit API fiasco happened, I'm forcibly stopped from using it. What I found out is that my life quality just decreases without appreciable compensation. Finally after one year, I found out a way to still use those API so I ju
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by mcmoor 5mo ago
I thought orbital mechanics would still create those "shipping lanes" as the most efficient way to go from A to B. Of course with enough fuel you can go anywhere, but shipping specifically will love those reduced costs.
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by mcmoor 5mo ago
I mean there's a reason why USSR got to develop nuclear bomb so quickly.
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by mcmoor 5mo ago
Yeah I mean whoever hosts the server can add some (tiny?) expenses to host a "static" version of their server. Though I'm not sure why spectator mode isn't sufficient.
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by mcmoor 5mo ago
Whoever host the server? The difference is instead of only serving 50 people before lowering fps, instead now it can serve much more.
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The Explore-Exploit Dilemma in Media Consumption (2016)(gwern.net)
2 points by mcmoor 5mo ago|0 comments
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by mcmoor 5mo ago
Well earth moon distance is 384k.
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by mcmoor 5mo ago
I've heard that dictator's military is usually weaker than democracy's, mostly because dictator don't want their troops to be too smart lest they rebel. But modern military tactics is too sophisticated for dumb people so
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by mcmoor 5mo ago
Yeah I'm also always confused whenever I heard that a company issues new stocks. Why would existing shareholders agree for that? If there's more comprehensive resources about this I'd love to read it.
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
Feels like the harm of "at last resort" lie is more harmful than the benefit of "is being honest" for him.
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
I thought it's also mostly to preserve feeling, to obscure the connection between performance and layoff to ease employee transition to another job. That's why sometimes it's a branch all at once from the middle to bottom.
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
Lmao the character used is so cute
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
I feel like Turing completeness has always been set as the boundary of programming language if there's any boundary at all. That's what people has been using to not include HTML as programming language for example. Or to include M
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
I don't know if I read this right, but I thought it's proven that "elementary functions" can't solve 5th degree or higher polynomial, so I'm confused how it's interpreted if elementary functions also inclu
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
Yeah, I've a friend that'll react the same way. This reminds me of a question, why are a lot of early stories a fable? It's because it's the easiest way to discuss an abstract thing, to become something still concrete en
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
I've played it, but what's impressive about this game (technically)? I don't remember its implementation being anything special as opposed its plot.

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