mrow84

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by mrow84 9y ago
> If humans aren't exceptional, do we acknowledge some sort of responsibility to provide for ants? Acknowledging human responsibility for non-human parts of reality is surely a legitimate moral position, whether or not it is one th
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by mrow84 9y ago
Ok no worries - thanks for helping me to understand what's going on.
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by mrow84 9y ago
Ah yes, of course, I see what you mean. Presumably there is some minimal number of pixels required to stand any chance of resolving the orientation of a particular bundle of light rays (I would imagine 3)? Also, would it be true to say that
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by mrow84 9y ago
Ok, thank you. As I understand what you have written, the diffuser does as its name suggests, and spreads light rays over more pixels than they would otherwise have struck, making it easier to construct the pixel -> ray function. As a ma
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by mrow84 9y ago
Can someone explain why they can't apply the same reconstruction technique to the data that would be captured without a diffuser; i.e. why the diffuser is required?
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by mrow84 9y ago
Fred Hirsch's book "Social Limits to Growth" contains a very interesting exploration of the nature of positional goods, including personal time. One relevant aspect is that as material productivity increases, the relative pri
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by mrow84 9y ago
> The value landlords provide is the assumption of risk. The premium you pay to rent is in exchange for vastly limiting your exposure to said risk. Are there any risks that affect only the landlord, and not the renter, other than the pos
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by mrow84 9y ago
None of those things ("social security net, health care system, education, low corruption etc.") are necessary conditions for the USA though, and if Americans were willing to consider rational arguments for prison reform then they
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by mrow84 9y ago
> Norwegian and USA societies are vastly different. There is absolutely no reason that something that works in one country will work in the other. Can you elaborate on which social differences you think might make it difficult or impossi
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by mrow84 9y ago
There is some very nice imagery in the "Loop of the Day" here [0]. It used to be from Himawari-8, but returning to it to post it here, I see they are now primarily showing data from GOES-16. von Karmann vortices (e.g. [1]) are par
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by mrow84 9y ago
> You're not just supposed to blindly reprint things people say. They did not reproduce what he said as though the content of his statement was factual - they reproduced it to report what he had said. To illustrate the point furth
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by mrow84 9y ago
That is factually a quote from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, as reported in the article. It is not the journalist's job to provide specifics on the behalf of others.
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by mrow84 9y ago
Is one person offering their opinion a hundred times the same as a hundred people offering their opinions once each? The two scenarios have the same "quantity" of speech, but we might differ on the degree to which we believe that
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by mrow84 9y ago
You are doubtless correct, but to aim only to have worse alternatives seems to lack ambition.
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by mrow84 9y ago
I suppose I must not have been sufficiently clear - I wasn't offering the phrase "one dollar one vote" as a description of reality, but as a point of provocation. Those who find nothing objectionable in the idea of "on
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by mrow84 9y ago
I think you'd be unlikely to do that if you cling tightly to the idea of "one person one vote", and, by extension, have a negative reaction to "one dollar one vote".
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by mrow84 9y ago
> The former is certainly not a result of language, and that is what is referred to as consciousness in Buddhist/Hindu philosophy. I recommend reading Jaynes' book (assuming you haven't already) before you draw any firm co
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by mrow84 9y ago
> Jaynes' "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" is perhaps the most egregious offender. Can you expand on this? I am reading this book at the moment, but I don't quite follow your criti
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by mrow84 9y ago
All sounds very reasonable - thanks for the insight!
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by mrow84 9y ago
Don't you have to be concerned about differences between the structure of individual variability as opposed to population variability? Perhaps for the distinctions you are trying to draw it is not an issue?
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by mrow84 9y ago
"In some branches the boxes of cash being deposited were so big the tellers' windows had to be enlarged." From the article reference here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14857385
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by mrow84 9y ago
Probably because there are lots of situations where getting an answer that is probabilistically correct in bounded time is useful, because the world is such a noisy place anyway. Conversely, there are not so many situations where getting th
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by mrow84 9y ago
> capital competes with capital to lowers its rates of return. We need more capital. Wouldn't lowering rates of return on capital disincentivise investment in new capital? If that was the most important dynamic then presumably the g
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by mrow84 9y ago
> it's not on a per user basis because that would make no sense Unless I have misunderstood, you are suggesting that fixed pricing provides higher expected returns than tailored pricing, which I think is incorrect. Imagine people&#x
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by mrow84 9y ago
As we're all comfortable with numbers plucked out of the ether, let's use yours: 1. The group of low-wage workers produce on average $9/hr. 2. A minimum wage of $15/hr is introduced. 3. The income of 10% of the group fal
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by mrow84 9y ago
This idea is formalised in the concept of "positional goods" [0]. Fred Hirsch coined the name in his book The Social Limits to Growth, which I definitely recommend - it contains a lot of interesting discussion about the place of p
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by mrow84 9y ago
There are some issues with the arguments contained in that post, which I discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12630980 Bias correction is possible, but, tautologically, a model whose structure cannot capture
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by mrow84 10y ago
The idea that market transactions are inherently impersonal was nicely outlined in David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5000 Years". In summary, market transactions are final, in that you once a the goods exchange is complete you
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by mrow84 10y ago
Here's an article about this issue from a couple of months ago, for anyone looking for additional information: http://therideshareguy.com/how-to-beat-ubers-upfront-pricing...
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by mrow84 10y ago
>> So you make a dubious and suspect, wrong, claim, and you refuse to retract it. So now we know. So I guess this is not a mistake, you have a conclusion and you're ok with misdirecting people to show you're right. Got it. I

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