medstrom

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by medstrom 5y ago
Yes, by simple count the social net may have been smaller in the past, but I was talking about complexity. Just imagine living with one tribe for the rest of your life, having to partake in everyone managing each other's friendships an
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by medstrom 5y ago
Yup, I'm in the same boat. I have no "past logins" because VPN, so haven't been able to access my Google accounts for years.
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by medstrom 5y ago
Please specify, what do you mean by "less advanced"? I doubt a randomly picked person has a more complex net of social interactions today than 50,000 years ago - probably the personal level is a lot simpler today, since we can ou
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by medstrom 5y ago
True, edited.
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by medstrom 5y ago
A simple Bash loop could suffice, if it's enough to ping the site: while : do ping speedcheck.org ; sleep 10 ; done Fast internet forever!
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by medstrom 5y ago
> When you state an opinion, you don't need to provide a link. It's an opinion. Yours is different. There we go. If we try to be charitable and assume your interlocutor knows this perfectly well, what could he/she possibly
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by medstrom 5y ago
Aside from foot switches, you could mount "knee switches" which are just more foot switches glued to the underside of your desk.
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by medstrom 5y ago
Electrons always existed.
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by medstrom 5y ago
You can also create several browser tabs visiting the same page. Of course, no one thinks to do that.
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by medstrom 5y ago
Y'all need to know the background of past efforts [1], people keep making the same observations over and over again as if they're new. In the area of computer-generated layouts, there's been lots of rich discussion on the AdN
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by medstrom 5y ago
...2 hours? Not like... 2 decades?
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by medstrom 5y ago
A numpad is one thing as it's visually obvious, but the End key? Lots of people don't even know about ctrl+w to close window or ctrl+t to create new tab in browser. The End key is advanced black magic.
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by medstrom 5y ago
Why would it be inefficient? This claim needs backup, because I experience the opposite.
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by medstrom 5y ago
Arabic numerals you mean. Curious: what alternative numerals do they have in your country?
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by medstrom 5y ago
Yes! I don't lock my hands on the home keys, so roaming around the keyboard isn't a carpal tunnel nightmare as some make out. I just move my whole arm a bit. I rest my hands on the laptop's left and right edges, not on the ho
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by medstrom 5y ago
In this case calling the embassy looks reliable (if you can stand the probably long queues), because the middlemen on the way will recognize that this matters. But most of the time, I'm skeptical the famous person you're trying to
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by medstrom 5y ago
But why?
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by medstrom 5y ago
That's great to see, someone changing their behavior after a mis-prediction. (For context, he thought Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine)
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by medstrom 5y ago
To take it a step further, what if the Euro style ethnic tribalism could be also decentralized, detached from any one place, to end its effect on geopolitics altogether? Unfortunately I think that'd lead directly to US style political
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by medstrom 5y ago
You sound like you'd be interested in Max Tegmark's "Our Mathematical Universe". There are probably multiple levels of multiverses, and in our local "stack" we have 4, where the Many Worlds mechanism is sitting
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by medstrom 5y ago
Greg Egan writes true sci-fi. Exploring what-ifs further than anyone has explored them, and putting them up in story format so you don't have to be Einstein.
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by medstrom 5y ago
To the people that say the idea is false, indeed that it is fictional: why do you think so? Genuine question.
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by medstrom 5y ago
But you have to use it to counteract the intuition that only one universe is simpler. Occam's razor is a formal way to tell you, "hey your intuition is wrong, the other theory is the simpler one!" And for it to be useful to y
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by medstrom 5y ago
1. It's not all about eyes. The skin also reacts to light. 2. Even though your pupil shrinks, you get a larger total number of light rays into the eye. Your visual cortex adjusts the image so you don't realize that a sunlit scene
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by medstrom 5y ago
Can you link me to when anyone on LessWrong has behaved like your "A"?
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by medstrom 5y ago
It's like someone said: Occam's Razor only likes two numbers: zero and infinity. Any other number on anything needs evidence for why it's this number.
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by medstrom 5y ago
For this to work, your hypothetical man has to see that country as "his tribe" in the first place. I think a lot of people don't, and basically just see their own family as their tribe.
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by medstrom 5y ago
It'd make very little difference for anyone else if you get yourself arrested just because. Besides, he's done his part. Why require your heroes to continue working for you after their first act of heroism? That seems unfair.
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by medstrom 5y ago
I've so often wanted to replace LaTeX snippets in my org-mode documents with machine-readable `eqn` snippets (or maybe SageMath snippets). I'm sure someone out there must be sitting on an unpublished groundbreaking setup that pull
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by medstrom 5y ago
He/she also says "most" content is phishing for info. This person is deep in their... let's call it world view.

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