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by pashamur 6y ago
Either decision (release or not release) would be seen as political; my preference would be to adopt something like France's system of complete media blackout within a couple days to a week before the election - otherwise we'll be
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by pashamur 6y ago
Looking better than ever, according to predictit; the senate, however, is a different matter.
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by pashamur 6y ago
It's not accidental, that is actually the result of a well-known propaganda technique known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
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by pashamur 6y ago
Noone was taking the 3-5% mortality rate seriously - if you look at the cruise ship studies (the only truly random / fully tested environments), it was fairly obvious early on that the true CFR rate was closer to 0.5% or even lower, or
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by pashamur 6y ago
AlphaZero / LeelaChess - neural net / genetic learning based ones; although they're not really commercially available, technically anyone can download the code to LeelaChess and train it if given enough CPU power. They learn
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by pashamur 6y ago
That is true of traditional chess engines, but no longer true for neural net (self-taught) engines that learn the rules of chess by simulating millions of games against itself. I've played an early version of one of those (its playing
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by pashamur 6y ago
There was also the little fact that Kasparov was not playing his top chess in the 1997 match - the loss in the sixth game was considered very bizarre at the time (him going for the Caro-Kann, while not having much experience in that opening
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by pashamur 6y ago
https://www.inc.com/ryan-feit/the-secret-angel-investment-ta...
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by pashamur 6y ago
They've also heavily pivoted into tech in the past several years I think: https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/10/technology/overstock-blockc...
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by pashamur 6y ago
Up compared to what? That's the key. The money printing is roughly synced between central banks (Europe is actually printing more), so the dollar is up relative to other currencies (since other countries have external debts in dollars
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by pashamur 6y ago
The real reason America has such high military expenditure is more about ensuring the hegemony of the U.S. dollar by backing Saudi interests in the Middle East (and thereby ensuring that the dollar is the main currency denominating oil tran
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by pashamur 6y ago
You're forgetting benefit cliffs which are a large chunk of the discontinuity problems. Any benefit that does not have a gradual phase-out (like subsidized health care plans) will lead to these discontinuity problems. https:/&#x2
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by pashamur 6y ago
Look at Steve Kaufmann as a counterexample - he's learned most of his languages after 40 (he was multilingual from a young age, but there is certainly a process that lets even older adults pick up languages quite straightforwardly)
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by pashamur 6y ago
Canada is only ~10% of the U.S. population. I'm not sure in terms of developer numbers, but if percentages are comparable, that's a pretty small effect on the overall market.
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by pashamur 6y ago
That might be true for someone that spends most of their income, but if you're attempting to save (to FIRE or something else), you'd be much better off in SF, since your post COL-adjusted take home is still significantly better. 1
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by pashamur 6y ago
From two seconds of Googling: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978044453... https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/19/4/318/2749842 https:/&#x
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by pashamur 6y ago
The problem is that the concept of free speech cannot be independent of the concept of power. Rules and Laws are only as good as the people in power choose; we've been lucky in many ways that most of the time, the people in power choos
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by pashamur 6y ago
We had 3k reported cases, not 3k cases. That's a large difference. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual number of cases from 3/14 was hundreds of thousands. There were 58 deaths reported by 3/14. If you assume that mort
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by pashamur 6y ago
I know this is going to ruffle a lot of feathers, but raise the top marginal tax rates. Not a nominal raise, but something significant, like 20%. And the cap gains rate as well. Basically move to a more redistributive system like Europe, wh
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by pashamur 6y ago
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a really good book to that effect. And has some practical tips on how to learn to enjoy doing things you might not otherwise.
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by pashamur 6y ago
You shouldn't think of it as one underlying exponential process though. It could be many overlapping and time-delayed S-curve type graphs which are additively causing a constant rate of infections. Although it's also most certainl
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by pashamur 7y ago
There's very much a threat of terrorism. If 8chan was an ISIS forum with the same content as now I'm sure people would be singing a very different tune. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019&#
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by pashamur 8y ago
If you look at the progress graph of AlphaZero / LeelaChess (open source clone), and look at how it plays in its weaker iterations, it actually pretty closely correlates to how a weaker human chess player would play at those levels of
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by pashamur 8y ago
As someone mentioned below, look into the Paradox of Tolerance (and as practical example, although a bit overboard, the De-nazification of Germany post World War II, where all Nazi media/propaganda was forcibly suppressed and anyone as
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by pashamur 8y ago
Not just lulz, he actually makes a sizable chunk of money from the things he promotes on the show.
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Businessman Paints Terrifying and Complex Picture of Putin's Russia(npr.org)
22 points by pashamur 9y ago|1 comments
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by pashamur 14y ago
I tend to prefer http://hckrnews.com just because of the more intuitive browsing interface and filtering options (top 10, top 20, etc). I have it as a shortcut on my main phone screen and bookmarked in all browsers.
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by pashamur 14y ago
Wow, this is totally awesome! I'm going to give it a whirl tomorrow. I just switched from Django to Ruby on Rails and fell in love with the framework, so maybe I'll try porting Syte to Rails someday.
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by pashamur 14y ago
You can also hold Ctrl and click to get another cursor
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by pashamur 14y ago
As a chess-playing collegiate rower who likes engage in random debates with people, I think I've done all of the above :) Variety is definitely important to keep things interesting - I think getting stuck in one "niche" circle is fairly ali

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