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by murbard2 11y ago
Anarchy isn't utopia, but on the balance, I consider that real governments (not the platonic disinterested central coordinator) introduce more problems than they solve. Not every problem is caused by the government, but that doesn&#x27
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by murbard2 11y ago
(Not quite as naive as (thinking that (is anything more than (the belief that (every problem works itself out as long as the government goes away)) (a strawman for the li
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by murbard2 11y ago
Not quite as naive as thinking that the belief that every problem works itself out as long as the government goes away is anything more than a strawman for the libertarian position.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Maybe it isn't, but I have found the literature on the topic to be very clear in general. I do not find section 1.5 and 2.3 explicit at all. Section 2.3 reads like a redefinition of the exponential family and its link to the maximum en
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by murbard2 11y ago
What insight do quantum mechanics bring into this paper? What exactly do you gain by calling a normal distribution: the equilibrium distribution of the imaginary time Schroedinger equation? It's quite possible that I'm a fool, una
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by murbard2 11y ago
Like I said, there are false positives, but when I hear "quantum mechanics" in a non quantum mechanical context, I remove the safety from my gun...
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by murbard2 11y ago
It's not clear that's the case. My own intuition would be that demand for lotteries is inelastic because of scope insensitivity. There's essentially no difference between a $7 ticket for a chance at winning a $400M prize, and
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by murbard2 11y ago
Replace which Gaussian density from which model exactly?
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by murbard2 11y ago
Are you the original author? Could you detail a little more clearly the structure of the network and the training procedure?
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If tomorrow the government decides only it can sell gasoline, and it does so with a 35% margin, that's strictly more restrictive than an excise tax.
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The article precisely argues that this viewpoint is wrong and damaging. The problem isn't the fact that lotteries are "irrational", the problem is that the state monopoly works de facto as an excise tax on a product which is
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by murbard2 11y ago
I'm glad the article makes the very important distinction that: "The lottery is not a tax. The inflated price of lottery tickets is." I thought the article was going to be yet another claim that "a tax on people who ar
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by murbard2 11y ago
False positives do happen, but the style of the article raises some "crank" red flags. - Doesn't get to the point until about halfway through - Repeatedly mentions Einstein - Appeals to quantum mechanics out of nowhere The st
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by murbard2 11y ago
Or they just have length bounds on every string input that they have (as they should) but the person in charge of deciding the bound for the passwords did a bad job and picked too low of a limit.
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by murbard2 11y ago
I picked contraception and melatonin on purpose because they illustrate two ways to get around Algernon's argument, which is the justification behind the "no free lunch" heuristic in nootropics. http://www.gwern.ne
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by murbard2 11y ago
> There's no such thing as a free lunch What about contraception? > least of all when it comes to the brain What about melatonin?
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by murbard2 11y ago
August is France's month off.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Programming analogy: There are several ways to implement the laws of physics. Virtual particles are an implementation detail, you can factor them out of the code, but it makes it a bit more readable.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Yes but that's still using the past. All we have to work with, in order to formulate scientific theories, are correlations and patterns detected at some point in the past. Of course, some correlations and patterns are much stronger tha
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by murbard2 11y ago
That title is literally the dumbest sentence in the entire article, which is an outlier in an otherwise interesting piece.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Exact same feeling, but I don't know how representative that is of the general population. I don't use tripadvisor because I can't afford to talk interactively to a travel agent, I prefer to use tripadvisor.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Because they would sell you pineapple extract for ten times the price, and you'd buy it because it'd be covered by insurance. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/15/fish-now-by-prescriptio...
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by murbard2 11y ago
The fact that they are hedged doesn't change much unless they are all hedged. If some of them aren't hedged, they will drive the price down, forcing the other stations to sell their inventory at a loss.
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Designing better transistors, discovering new drugs...
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by murbard2 11y ago
The statement is also a common fallacy that Scott Aaronson has addressed many times. While some exponential speedups are possible, there are no indications that they are possible in general for problems in NP, and even if they were, we know
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by murbard2 11y ago
Seconds are not repeated AFAIK. Leap seconds are only added and the "seconds" field goes 58, 59, 60, 00, 01... I also completely second your point. Naive datetime objects should only ever be used to describe UTC. Anything else sho
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No, it's typically not. I was thinking more along the lines of the comment mentioning the periodic slapping.
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I always believed that, in many instances, the combination of an experienced software developer and a minimum wage worker who reminds them to focus throughout the day can have a really high ROI.
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by murbard2 11y ago
So aside from what's been said, I can get this for $200 http://www.batteryspace.com/Powerizer-LiFePO4-Battery-12V-15... and it has 50% more storage than what is being advertised. What's the difference? The superca
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by murbard2 11y ago
> Bitcoin's only real-world use case is illicit goods. That's ridiculous, what about illicit services?

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