mcmoor

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by mcmoor 1y ago
Thanks! I didn't think about that dimension. The information resolution still feels a bit too low for my liking (I thought it'd help a ship zigzag with precision), but I guess it's much much better than none. I just realized
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by mcmoor 1y ago
It's only a 1 bit signal that says "don't come here" isn't it? I've seen claims that lighthouse helps ships somehow navigate difficult waves and I'm always curious how exactly one high lamp do that. Saying
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by mcmoor 1y ago
By this point, I suspect that PE is simply a sophisticated liquidation service. Where an owner doesn't want to deal with a company anymore and want to cash out, but can't just easily sell everything. By this perspective, any fault
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by mcmoor 1y ago
I tried some no-guess variants but somehow there's a kind of sterile feeling to it. For some reason it makes it more boring compared to vanilla variant. It of course excels when I'm getting frustrated at guesses and 50/50, bu
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by mcmoor 1y ago
This is why I tap out of serious machine learning study some years ago. Everything seems... less exact than I hope it'd be. I keep checking it out every now and then but it got even weirder (and importantly, more obscure/locked in
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by mcmoor 1y ago
I don't know how good that book actually is, but I read acoup blog and it criticizes that book very often. Instead it recommends readers to Azar Gat's War in Human Civilization instead https://www.amazon.com/War-Hu
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by mcmoor 1y ago
I've heard that it's even worse (better?) the more you go to the past. Bret Deveraux [argues] ( https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they... ) that this is one reason why lots of fa
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by mcmoor 1y ago
The opposite is also true. We can descend slowly into dystopia and we forget how good it can actually be.
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by mcmoor 1y ago
Current electric motorcycles can already be pretty silent, to the detriment of pedestrians. Some have added artificial noises because of this, like ones already used in cars.
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by mcmoor 1y ago
History isn't only WW2. There's a lot of situations with high tension that doesn't explode into war. One big proof is Cold War not ending in human annihilation. Also 19th century Concert of Europe is entirely built on diploma
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by mcmoor 1y ago
I don't think a command to start firing is that complicated. A simple flag wave suffices especially for <100 archers that's standing still. There are more complicated commands that a centurion had been able to do.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Yeah I never liked this one. There's that one other that replaces Garfield with a slightly realistic cat (without thought bubble of course) and I prefer that.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Yeah if someone force me with gun to say it, I'd say even reading braille doesn't count as reading either. But it doesn't matter anyway since it's just different modes of absorbing information.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Wasn't Ballmer Microsoft infamous for this?
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by mcmoor 2y ago
It's precisely the utopic part that's an issue. All other punks before it like dieselpunk, cyberpunk, atompunk etc are dystopia. To make solarpunk actually interesting, we have to be willing to discard the escapism and consider ho
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Yeah one problem I still haven't seen solved is that when you build improvements on both neighbouring land, taxes on both of those lands will increase. It seems unfair for big developers who essentially built their own cities. I'v
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by mcmoor 2y ago
I've seen some calculations that claim that LVT makes most people's property tax lowers .
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Short the shorters?
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Yeah also given that I don't know any further attempts to do this, looks like it remains just an intellectual curiosity.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
It also sucks that all the Paradox competitors seemed to have failed so far. The genre really needs some innovation.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
And there's claim that lead is maybe overrated after all https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/who-gets-exposed-to-lead
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Kinda sounds like Parallel Construction
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Seems like there's only bandwidth of 4bit that can be reserved for this, and variance couldn't make the cut. It's actually already generous since sometimes only 1 bit can barely make it through, whether something is "goo
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by mcmoor 2y ago
> The "X person/people talking taking 2 hours to discuss something that could be discussed succinctly in 5 minutes" isn't a format I'm interested in. Yeah same for me too. The only podcasts I can bear are monolo
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Funnily there are some Japanese and Chinese companies forcing employees to do aerobic in the morning
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by mcmoor 2y ago
I've seen people leaving a game when it's locked in a shitty meta. An unsatisfying world championship is one of the indication for that
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Funnily one of the two times world champion is a doctor who only plays competitively whenever there's world championship (And not the regional tournaments)
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by mcmoor 2y ago
There's a certain Iran enemy that has a much much bigger incentive to prop lots of instability in the region
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Communists will say this is still rent seeking and the tractor should be seized and given to the farmer.
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by mcmoor 2y ago
Yeah I always see it as the minimum thing to get if you have limited money. For poor people, most of your money is better utilized to get grains instead of meat. When I saw it in my local village's clinic it makes sense because it actu

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