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by mehwoot 8y ago
Some people really like baguettes. Life is just about priorities
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by mehwoot 8y ago
He should not have accepted the honor if he didn’t call a winner in any of the states! And he didn't, as far as I recall. I remember him saying something to the effect of "that isn't that impressive, even a simple method l
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Actually, this has changed since the price of lithium increased 300% since 2014. Australia now has operating lithium mines, and there are mines in construction in portugal too. http://www.lithiummine.com/lithium-mining-in-a
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Because engine chess is not human chess. Defending a position with a ~3300 ELO computer is not the same as doing it as a human down on the clock. Look up some of Mikhail Tal's games to see how you can become the best in the world whi
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Neither would the U.S. if they had hyper inflation.
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by mehwoot 8y ago
If they're travelling 7 km a second, maybe??
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Its the reason I use snapchat to the exclusion of almost every other form of social media. Not sure how many other people think this way though, whether it actually makes a difference.
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Alphabet is making $8 billion a quarter in profit currently. They'd probably love to have some worthwhile investment to sink that money into.
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Why doesn't Netflix just show some pre-roll video add? It's easy money. They will, eventually. Or they'll get replaced by a service that does.
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Why does this matter? Does anybody seriously question whether the basic math can work? So somebody found a nice parallel between pilot wave theory and another physical phenomenon, but then the parallel wasn't as strong as thought. T
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by mehwoot 8y ago
The country was still adjusting to the soon-to-be presidency of Donald Trump. “It felt really wrong and go out and disappear into the wilderness for five or six months,” Ostrem says. Seems like a good response to me
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by mehwoot 8y ago
The reason goodharts law exists is because its hard to measure things like user satisfaction, so we're left with poor proxies like user engagement.
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by mehwoot 8y ago
moderate != calorie counting. I said we have a failure to moderate what we eat, not we have a failure to calorie count. Nor did I say it's the only way to lose weight. You can too. Since I'm at 12% body fat, no, I probably cou
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by mehwoot 8y ago
people can lose weight without calorie counting I didn't say people can't lose weight without calorie counting, just that some of us do use it. Like I said, If you can do that without tracking it, cool
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Calorie counting empirically doesn't work. Read the article and study you posted. It doesn't show that, it just shows that you can lose weight without using the calorie counting technique. Objective: To determine the effect of
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by mehwoot 8y ago
You really think those are a) as widespread as obesity b) caused by ways that tracking the number of times you go to the bathroom, have sex or breathe would fix? Obesity is directly caused by a failure to moderate how much we eat, so yes, s
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by mehwoot 8y ago
like when you go to the bathroom, how much sex you have, and perhaps how many breaths a day you take. If roughly two thirds of the population were at risk of serious health complications from doing any of those things too much, then we wo
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Counting everything you eat is pretty arduous, but at least being aware of how it works and how many calories are in the most common foods you eat can be immensely useful. It's a huge step up from most people's vague notions of f
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by mehwoot 8y ago
How do you know that? Just because you think we are fine in general, doesn't mean it worked out fine for those people who were protesting.
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Not that it's necessarily the case here, but people might not want to correct errors before someone publishes their piece- if the errors stay in, you can write a rebuttal that focuses on those errors and ignores other points which are
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Just that they need to have a visible warning. If you go to Zen Magnet's website there are big warnings telling you that if you eat these you could die and that you definitely don't want to give them to children. I think that&#x
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by mehwoot 8y ago
100% completely ignores... why didn't China dominate? Have you even read the book? It's mentioned and he gives possible reasons for it, even though it isn't the focus of the book.
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Dexus, a company that manages real estate only in Australia has $26 billion of property under management, split about 50% owned by them and 50% managing for other people. Their total portfolio is under 150 properties. That's all in a
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by mehwoot 8y ago
ideals that have ultimately no reason but your belief in them It's a pretty big claim that ethics has "no reason but your belief in it". There are plenty of logical reasons why one would want to behave ethically, even self
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Humans on the other hand are unpredictable. So if you run an experiment that says X, it may or may not replicate later humans can be studied and exhibit very predictable patterns. Seems somewhat contradictory. If humans can be studied
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by mehwoot 8y ago
Would a biologist dismiss the evidence of having looked at say 100 cells in a human body because there are 10^13 of them in total? The latter number has no relevance in computing significance.
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On the other hand with reproducing you get to participate in the only thing unifying every organism to ever live on this planet, so there's that.
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If you think that solely the physical properties of the stone are what matters then you dont understand the point of an engagement ring.
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by mehwoot 9y ago
For the use-case of optional pointers that don't have any ownership (and can possibly be updated mid-lifetime) and have a guaranteed external lifetime Those three things seem like a pretty rare co-occurrence, if something has no owne
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by mehwoot 9y ago
I did this once. A client wanted a website that mimicked the functionality of a complicated spreadsheet that he had created to calculate quotes for customers and didn't have enough money to pay to have all the logic rewritten in a web

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