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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> They spend insane amounts of attention and manpower on the fine details. no, they do not. they do on a very focused subset of what they feel the details should be, but they do not broadly apply this attention to fine detail across the
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i have a lot of complaints about nintendo, but nintendo's only console to be well ahead of their competitors' offerings in terms of hardware was one of their worst competing consoles, in terms of sales. and that's the gamecub
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Unfortunately, it’s hard to explain without some exposure to pure mathematics. you are right, but i suspect that is still a massive understatement. thanks for the links.
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i don't think that analogy holds up because it seems to ignore that there are other methods of obtaining energy. and your last statement isn't getting to why. it's just what happens.
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one of my greatest confusions of "life" is why there is this need to consume or feed off of or battle against other life. what is the purpose of this drive? why is it like this? i suspect the answer lies in thermodybamics and&#x2F
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> Efficient capital markets are an extremely important part of a market economy. i was under the understanding that the entire point of the medallion fund is that markets are not efficient and can be taken advantage of, which is exactly
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that is quite the leap from a single corporation's actions.
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> Lisp shepherds you into building your own language. the feeling of the racket community is that you build a DSL or DSLs in your code all the time, in any language, so why not take it seriously and codify your DSLs?
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yea, and they are missing the point. those ships are being deployed because shit is hitting the fan. it isn't a positive thing.
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> I think you're paying too much attention to Trump and politics not at all. there are plenty of things wrong beyond him, and i have personally been dealing with the outbreak for months. i don't think you or most understand how
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-p...
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> This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that's given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done. would you mind elaborating? because i find it extremely difficult how o
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
maybe it's time for you to realize that an authoritarian capitalist state is no better.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
and the u.s. is not intentionally misleading the people right now when it's clearly in front of us? the u.s. government is blatantly lying and even profiting off of the virus. and your comment about china continuing to manipulate numbe
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
that's a poor argument. for one, the u.s. has concentration camps as well, just not to that scale. secondly, if one just focuses on these types of arguments, then you ignore all the ways that china is positively surpassing the u.s. the
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
you have to give explicit permissions for those things. google assistant doesn't work on my phone because i never gave it permission to enable that feature.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
you don't buy what? they didn't say what you imply. they didn't say the drivers didn't need skill and only need money. they only said money was an additional and the larger barrier to entry. of course they need skill, bu
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i have always wondered if society could get something useful out of gaming other than entertainment (not saying entertainment isn't good or not useful). gamers seem to have this uncanny ability to focus in on a game for hundreds, if no
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Pretty sure the iPad will have zero of these problems when it ships, and that makes all the difference, even if it's two years "late". i personally find that a bold statement. my iPad lasted a whole year as an apartment-
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
regardless of experience, i recommend the little schemer , land of lisp , realm of racket , structure and interpretation of computer programs , and the courses how to code: simple data and how to code: complex data (don't be di
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i feel like you're beating around the bush with a definition of reproducible that fits your preferences. and i have no idea what you mean by "artifacts". here's a quote from the NSF: "reproducibility refers to the
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
it's just a thing that is low-hanging fruit for people to complain about. i've never seen a coherent argument outside of "but it's not open source".
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
you mistake how arguments work. i recommend just googling "burden of proof" and understanding how it works. you claim that musk is the chief designer beyond just title. specifically, you said: > He made every important choice o
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Open source software first and foremost means reproducibility. With open software, anybody on earth with the right equipment can easily and trivially reproduce a result at no additional cost or hindering contractual terms. why? why is
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
what is the alternative? using some open source project that has no clear steward and nearly zero incentive (financial or otherwise) for tracking down esoteric bugs? mathematica is built by a company that seems to take a lot of pride in qua
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
right. everyone is using the term, but nobody is abiding by it. i see tons of people still within close physical distances of each other. or people walking up on you in the supermarket. there is literally nothing confusing about physical di
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
that's not how burden of proof works. you're the one making claims and assertions, not me. titles are not sufficient proof, and marketing is a thing.
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you didn't specify that you meant technical in aerospace. even then, many technical people have the skills to understand other fields just fine, especially to manage. and just to note, bezos also studied physics.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
would you mind pointing out some resources that back up your claims? they read like fiction.
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> He's [Musk] got a physics degree and has the raw intelligence and passion to understand aerospace engineering. musk was nearly laughed out of early meetings because he basically knew nothing about aerospace engineering and was vie

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