nyan_sandwich

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by nyan_sandwich 11y ago
America. Far right is monarchism/fascism.
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by nyan_sandwich 12y ago
Last year I stayed at a nearby airbnb and took the bus and hitched rides.
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by nyan_sandwich 12y ago
The flaw in this is that our mobility and density is unprecedented, so things that were not feasible for a startup plague in the past may now be feasible.
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by nyan_sandwich 12y ago
The reason given was leeching. Neutral is not good enough for that sometimes; you need slightly basic. Some things will corrode at pH 7, but not higher. Good call though; distilled water is neutral.
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by nyan_sandwich 12y ago
I don't get it. The author rails through the whole essay that there are no A players and B players, but the conclusion concedes that some people are stronger and smarter, and some people are going to fit into your company better, which
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by nyan_sandwich 12y ago
That shouldn't happen if you do the motion transform uniformly on all axes. It should just be equivalent to changing the speed of time, rather than actually changing the trajectories.
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by nyan_sandwich 12y ago
Excellent. It looks like it uses linear interpolation between the different glyphs, which makes it look a bit jerky. The author might want to try a sinusoidal interpolation so that velocity reaches zero at the key frames and the whole thing
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by nyan_sandwich 12y ago
>What do you do when you realize you are not a programmer? You could start calling yourself a "recovering programmer": http://prog21.dadgum.com/56.html
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by nyan_sandwich 12y ago
I would also add that YC investment boosts nuclear stuff as a legitimate thing. Could lead to copycat investment (which we dearly need in the nuclear field).
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by nyan_sandwich 12y ago
Quit my productive engineering job to chase women, work on personal projects and political agitation. Getting paid to go Galt? Yes please. I may not be representative, But that's honestly what I'd do.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
This is true but the english expression of it is prone to misunderstanding. See the no free lunch theorem for the technical version of the problem of induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Free_Lunch_theorem http
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
You know, it's probable that someone will invent an automatically diversified wallet that tracks the market cap of cryptocurrencies overall. Rise and fall of new cryptocurrencies would be of interest only to speculators.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>so just force yourself. >just ADHD doesn't work like that. "just" supposes willpower, ADHDers have low willpower. The whole problem is how to "just" do something, so reiterating that is a non-solution.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
I have real bad ADHD, and everything you say rings true. There are (only) two things that seem to help me: (social) commitment that would be unthinkable to back out of, and random fluctuations in neurochemistry. I have a job, and find that
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>avoid perpetuating that state Why? Surely a state that allows some people a comfortable base on which to build wealth that benefits everyone is a good thing rather than a bad thing. Don't forget that everything as an opportunity co
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>quantum >vibrations >consciousness Reverend Bayes says 99% probability of quackery.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
I've heard that in most professions, experience is most relevant in the first two years, then stops being valuable after that, with intelligence and conscientiousness being more important.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
It's not quite like that; there are experiments that show that there's no hidden variable, but yeah, entanglement isn't magic. (unfortunately)
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Vancouver HN Meetup
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>How is this is any better than some Russians' generalization that smiling Westerners are duplicitous? It might be more accurate
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
MCMC isn't strictly serial; you can run multiple chains in parallel and get decent results (provided your break in period isn't too big), and this is commonly done for multicore. The "all the data" problem is interesting
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
Some has scripted it to alternate between "Seriously though..." and "NIGGER" How nice.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
My understanding is that patent trolls persist with bogus patents because it's not in any one firms interest to challenge them. When it's a central insurance company taking the risk, they have much more incentive to do damage to t
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
Less Voice, more Exit. The solution is not more democracy; everyone'e been pretty consistently complaining about Washington's power for years and it's only gotten worse. The solution is "Google Republic".
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
Those things are harder to control, so generally less worth thinking about.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
On the cause and mitigation of collapses, my humble opinion is that a culture of technical ambition and inquiry is likely to be as important as specific knowledge. You might want to look at what kinds of people (culturally and ethnically) a
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>if we can't have this conversation, who can? lesswrong.com is typically able to discuss difficult topics much more rationally than the rest of the internet.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
We have some, and will create more. There is no "deserve". The author seemed to teeter between inspiration and self destructive guilt. I liked the inspirational part.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
Disappointed. I thought it was going to be the scoop from someone who steals ideas for a living, but it's just another lecture that ideas are cheap.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
It's all about expenses. I live in Vancouver, which is widely considered to be unaffordable. I spend $10k/yr. Step one is to develop a condescending attitude towards people who need to spend money. This will make it unthinkable fo

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