morningseagulls

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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>That he's also a dewy-eyed Trekkie who rationalizes his greed with dreams of space colonization makes it even sillier. Space colonization is a form of greed: it's basically saying this world is not enough. So I don't see
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Blood=violence, LOOK OUT! Not necessarily violence, as yorwba pointed out, but the presence of some disruption or injury in the body that's producing the blood.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
I like this detour into economics: > Bezos’s enterprise upends long-held precepts about the fundamental nature of capitalism—especially an idea enshrined by the great Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek[, who] argued that no bureaucracy c
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
Thanks for posting this.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Mainstream exists in a form it is not because Mainstream translates the Truth™, but because there are no better theories yet. Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, the string wars in theoretical physics. >Newton's mechanics i
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
It's rare to see a CS paper, let alone a CS paper with category theory, with 7 authors! It's fairly mathematical, so I'm going to quote the abstract for some context as to why you might care about this: The reverse derivativ
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Reverse Derivative Categories(arxiv.org)
2 points by morningseagulls 7y ago|1 comments
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>My brother interviews for McKinsey and he says the number one thing they look for in new hires is a sense of understanding of someone else's mental state. He had a good technical term for it, but I forget what he called it. >It&
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>I'm pretty sure in Australia if you drove 90 seconds from the capital you'd (still) be in the middle of nowhere. Lol. The capital is in the middle of nowhere, that's why. You need to drive a few hours northeast of the c
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>> One time I spent a year where I didn't say anything out loud to anyone. > How did you get food? Not the parent, but this isn't hard: self-checkouts are common these days, and even if you take food deliveries, you don&#
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Curious what particular eschatology drove them to do this, the article doesn't mention any. Now I'm imagining that it wasn't tied to any specific religion or prophecy, but just the concept of time somehow coming to a stop
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>The father and six kids hadn't been allowed out for nine years. If this isn't a cult, it's a huge abduction story. It's now been reported[0] that the father was an ex-member of the Unification Church[1]: > Local t
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Let's take electrical engineering as an example. I'd usually say you're shifting the goal posts, perhaps muse about how dehumanising and simplistic it is to think of humans as components in an electrical circuit, and move
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Maybe the simpler model is enough to understand what is going on. Maybe a more complex model suffers from over-fitting and performs worse than the simpler model. It really depends. If only physics departments everywhere would adopt this
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Mainstream science can't have one, only marginal branches can. This is like native speakers of a language (say, English) asserting that only non-native speakers of their language have accents. You do, you just speak with an accent
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Watch out for moving the goalposts. Says the one who's been moving the goalposts in the first place. The point of this thread was about whether or not the Nobel prize in economics was anti-intellectual and ideologically biased. You
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>I think its still fair to say that economics is not a science the way medicine is. Which is very unfortunate, because like medicine, the practice of economics has the power to influence decisions and affect lives.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Protectionism in economic sense are measures that inhibit international trade. Tariffs, selective subsidies and too restrictive immigration policies are good examples. Maybe in Australia they use the word differently I'm not sure w
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>When I hosted meetups, paying $20/mo wasn’t the end of the world. >So just give the $2 back to each attendee in that case, solved. Under the new model, organizers will be paying $2/mo for every attendee that RSVPs. For me
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Wait, but unions are not necessarily protectionist. Please define what you mean by "protectionist". In what sense are unions not protectionist? Their sole function is to protect the labour market. I'd view unions in Austr
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>I’m SUPER interested how protectionist capitalism has helped the working class. Australia is an example of a protectionist capitalist society: in fact, its first federal government was formed by a party called the Protectionist Party, w
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>In physics, there is even the metaphor of the spherical cow[1] to make fun of the need to simplify things in order to understand them. It's a joke to remind us of a sobering fact: that unreal assumptions lead to unreal results. &gt
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>The D in SMD was actually awarded the nobel prize in economics. Debreu's work on general equilibrium, which was the basis of the award, had to skirt around the SMD theorem: >Prize motivation: "for having incorporated new an
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>To be fair, the main thing you learn doing the cryptopals challenge is to not write your own crypto. D'oh! Good point though lol.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Since you have no contact information for any of your attendees, you can't reach out to them to move them to another platform. >It would be nice if Meetup could give you the contact information of all your members Meetup has a s
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>How would I "discover" events on meetup.com or another event service? Meetup has a search engine that allows you to find events by date, location, or subject matter. So I could - look up events near me for this coming week. -
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>However, I feel the discoverability isn't there. The local UX meetup will likely choose one platform. The local frontend developers meetup will choose another. I think discoverability can be had via Google events search, Facebook,
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Don’t have $2? Really? Even meetups for spiritual teachers who operate as a non profit suggest a $20 donation per event for instance. One could counter that these people are the ones who've spoilt the market for the rest of us. And
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>If a meetup is not even worth $2 to attend, is it really worth an hour+ of your personal time? Considering it's mostly organizers who've been the most vocal about it, this is a pretty strange question.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Cannot relate to the people here who are screaming bloody murder over this. You have to give to get. Perhaps you can't relate because "the people here who are screaming bloody murder" are mostly not attendees: they'r

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