mycologos

13 ms·

61.
by mycologos 3y ago
TFA addresses all of these questions. Briefly, the author's beliefs appear to be: > If the elections are rigged how did he “win” The election is partially manipulated by gerrymandering but won in the sense that Bukele's overwhe
62.
by mycologos 3y ago
> But that doesn't reduce the gangs in people's lives. TFA says that before the crackdown gangs directly extorted money from civilians, and frequently threatened and murdered them. As far as anybody seems to be able to tell, th
63.
by mycologos 3y ago
Any comments section would require moderation, and internet moderation is a huge pain in the butt. It's not an unsolvable problem, as the examples you give demonstrate, but it does require a lot of effort, and I think you'd be pre
64.
by mycologos 3y ago
Yup. I don't mean "here's how you can use my theorem to build a bridge", I mean "here's an instantiation used to prove a more tangible result". Bonus points if multiple such results fall out of the general
65.
by mycologos 3y ago
The target audience point is fair. There are basic concepts that I don't bother defining in any paper I write, and I'm sure there are people who would make the same argument about them that I'm making here. But I'm not s
66.
by mycologos 3y ago
As somebody who works in a mathy subarea of computer science, oh man, I agree. My heart always falls when I need a result and it turns out the original paper is some terse typewritten notice from the 70s whose first sentence is a definition
67.
by mycologos 3y ago
I think the economic returns to "decent understanding of X plus decent communication skills" are much higher when X is math than when X is art or language or history, so you need a greater passion for teaching to select it in spit
68.
by mycologos 3y ago
> I want nobody to have more than two children. > It is ok for the population to shrink a little. The first idea is way more extreme than the second idea.
69.
by mycologos 3y ago
A high school education doesn't go as far as it used to, women have more life paths that don't involve being a stay-at-home mom, houses are harder to come by, average age at first marriage is almost a decade higher than it was in
70.
by mycologos 3y ago
Looking at their SEC filing [1], the CEO compensation breaks down into ~$1mil of cash and ~$192mil roughly split between stock and options. Both the stock and options appear to have further conditions attached to them that reduce that numbe
71.
by mycologos 3y ago
The insistence in both of your comments that the people at Boinc are not only taking advantage of people but "laugh[ing] at them" is odd. Why must your boogeyman be as unlikeable as possible?
72.
by mycologos 3y ago
Ah, anonymous was the wrong word. I meant instead that the shared data tries to restrict itself to information that doesn't obviously fall under a right to privacy. For example, trip times are shared, but locations are not.
73.
by mycologos 3y ago
My parents got one 15 years ago and it's still in great condition with no real effort on their part. I have no idea what has changed at Ekornes in that timespan though, for all I know they got acquired by private equity and turned to c
74.
by mycologos 3y ago
I read a book about chairs a few months ago, and one bit from it is > Eighteenth-century furniture was expensive. At a time when a journeyman joiner earned three livres a day, a good-quality armchair might cost as much as a hundred livr
75.
by mycologos 3y ago
I think there are a few reasons to be mad about this, but some are better than others: 1) People don't understand they're being monitored. I think this is a good reason to be mad. People should have some understanding of the agree
76.
by mycologos 3y ago
If it's so telling then tell us, enough with the dark innuendos!
77.
by mycologos 3y ago
I think this is an underrated point in these discussions. There are three components to every job: how much value other people get out of you doing it, how much value you get out of doing it, and how many other people want to do it. Whether
78.
by mycologos 3y ago
Where are people getting all the confidence they place in Sam Altman as a leader of a science/engineering effort? From my understanding, he has been a successful fundraiser and investor and that's kind of it. Those are real and va
79.
by mycologos 3y ago
At first I wasn't sure about your claim, but then you said it's obvious, and my doubts went away!
80.
by mycologos 3y ago
> and I'm skeptical that you're a moral human being Hm, surely we don't need to go that far. This is an internet discussion, we're supposed to be nice to each other! > Apparently poor people with families don'
81.
by mycologos 3y ago
It seems like he's talked a lot about the T in LGBTQ, not so much the G? Evidence that he would be especially incensed at getting beat by a gay guy seems thin on the ground unless we insist on treating LGBTQ as a bloc. (I don't ex
82.
by mycologos 3y ago
There's an implicit claim here that it's easier to buy a cheap big used vehicle than a cheap small used one. That doesn't seem true, as even now at the height of SUV popularity, most new cars are not SUVs. A significant major
83.
by mycologos 3y ago
That's why I'm suggesting that we target very large vehicles first. I am skeptical that poor people absolutely need very large vehicles, which are more expensive to run anyway.
84.
by mycologos 3y ago
That's disappointing. I saw it was sold recently, but I was hoping it was one of those sales where things mostly continue as usual.
85.
by mycologos 3y ago
The Economist had an interesting recent article suggesting that, at least in America, part of the problem is that car insurance is way too cheap, so owning a car and driving like a moron is too easy: https://www.economist.com&#x2
86.
by mycologos 3y ago
Tangential, but Serious Eats is one of my favorite food websites on the internet. In an ocean of crappy SEO recipe blogs overstuffed with generic photos and unnecessary backstories, Serious Eats has a deep collection of well-explained and h
87.
by mycologos 3y ago
How useful is reducing to a semidefinite program in reality? A fair amount of stuff seems to conclude with "now that we've reduced to an SDP, it's all polytime from here baby, so we're done modulo boring implementation d
88.
by mycologos 3y ago
Prison labor is indeed a multi-billion dollar industry, but I question the idea that it drives "a lot of incarceration". For better or for worse, Americans seem to be pretty OK with how incarceration currently works: across almost
89.
by mycologos 3y ago
I sometimes wonder whether sentencing people to time in prison is the right equilibrium. My understanding is that doing the stuff associated with long prison terms is also associated with not having the longest or most carefully considered
90.
by mycologos 3y ago
Diaspora is my favorite Egan book. Permutation City seems to get talked about more, but the dust theory stuff just felt implausible, and it has one of the worst sex scenes I've ever read. Maybe it's because Diaspora is less

More ›