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by pavelrub 8y ago
Seems like a very complicated and expensive way of administering poison. The real question here isn't the delivery mechanism, but the properties of this magical compound - whether it leaves any traces in the body, and what symptoms it
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Ludwig Wittgenstein - mainly Philosophical Investigations, Blue and Brown Books, and On Certainty. It gradually changed how I view the entire world around me, and dissolved my interest in philosophy, as well as in many other "sciency&q
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by pavelrub 8y ago
This is called survivorship bias, not selection bias.
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It's not a "car" - it's a flying car, and therefore doesn't need neither wheels nor roads. It can indeed also be type of an airplane or a helicopter - those descriptions aren't conflicting. I don't reall
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Not at all. The only observation I'm making is that {ways without layoffs} ⊆ {ways without layoffs} U {ways with layoffs}. Everything you can do in a universe where layoffs are outlawed you can also do in a universe where they aren&#x2
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Because it removes degrees of freedom. If there are N ways to achieve goal X, and some of those ways include layoffs, then removing those ways from the space of possible strategies will reduce the probability of companies achieving X.
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What would be the rationale behind that? This clearly places limitations on a company's ability to optimize for achieving its goals, and ultimately stifles innovation. At the very least the long term impact of those downsides needs to
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by pavelrub 8y ago
When people say that doing X has "negative value", they usually mean that it has negative value compared to not doing X, not compared to some imaginary solution that doesn't exist in reality.
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by pavelrub 8y ago
If the choice is between cheaper housing with a longer commute, or expensive housing with shorter commute, it's completely unclear that the latter is more beneficial to humanity than the former, even if we only consider the number of d
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Spending less on housing has tremendous value for the people who benefit from it, including the ability to pay for better medical treatment, and lead an overall happier life. It's unclear what evidence you have that the net effect woul
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I tested the ones with circles and squares, and Google definitely doesn't understand them.
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by pavelrub 8y ago
I find in interesting that, to the question of "can someone explain in plain English what is Design Thinking?", your answer is a link to a Stanford crash course, and some story about a company that produces vapes, with a link to a
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Sure, but that's simply a single point in favour of Dynamo in what should have been a comprehensive analysis of strengths and weaknesses with respect to the required use case. If they chose DynamoDB simply due to this strength (ignorin
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Connection pools always worked quite well with Lambdas, as long as the connection pool was initiated in the global scope of the running code, and not within the handler function. See [1] and [2] [1] - https://docs.aws.amazon.com&
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Not sure I understand this. Why did they choose Dynamo? And what does serverless has to do with this? This seems like a simple case of people choosing the wrong tool for the job, without really understanding its limitations or capabilities.
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Is every collection of negative or positive stories about X, in close proximity to each other, is always a "media campaign" governed by some hidden interests? This is the same kind of logic as thinking that everything some CEO doe
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by pavelrub 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand. What brand change? Wyamo is the name of the company. Waymo One is the name of the service they are launching.
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by pavelrub 8y ago
This is factually incorrect. I suggest you read Pinker's "Enlightenment Now" to understand that the world, even outside of the West, has been getting significantly better in pretty much every metric since WW2, including scale
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by pavelrub 8y ago
> Eventually the US needs to come to terms with the massively destructive impact it has had on the world since WW2 Is this a joke? The world since WW2 is the most peaceful it has ever been in human history. The economic and military supe
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Not at all. His viewpoint makes sense simply by understanding that US military superiority over countries like Russia and China is significantly better, to the entire western world, than any realistic alternative.
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by pavelrub 8y ago
> Does a user benefit if Google facilitates government spying? Yes. Chinese users will most definitely greatly benefit from having a censored Google in China instead of having just a censored Baido. The only people who won't benef
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by pavelrub 8y ago
I find it far more hilarious that you think the US, or any other country, should strive for a balanced playing field between it and its enemies, or that the world would actually be a better place because of that.
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Those approaches aren't mutually exclusive. You can easily learn theorems and math concepts using Anki and then apply them in practice. You can learn words in foreign language using SRS and then use those words in conversations, when r
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by pavelrub 8y ago
The "challenge" to Huawei are legal steps those countries are taking to block Huawei from spying on them, not some argument about the universal morality of espionage. Interpreting this as hypocricity is a result of a conceptual co
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by pavelrub 8y ago
What's hilarious about that? It's obvious and natural that countries would seek to protect themselves from being spied upon, while at the same time attempt to spy on others. Do you expect the US to say "we are spying on some
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Now you are simply posting incorrect or misleading information. There is no existing implementation of Grover's algorithm on quantum hardware that demonstrated any speedup over classical computers. In fact the largest implementation of
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It’s not particularly important how you define the term “quantum computer”, nor have I presented any definition of a "quantum computer" that you can disagree with. The point is that, as I wrote before, regardless of your definitio
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They are classical computers in the sense they are are no stronger than classical computers - they provide a different physical implementation, but computationally can't achieve anything that a classical computer can't. Everything
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The "quantum computers" we have are classical computers with very weird hardware. The thing everybody is trying to achieve is quantum supremacy - this hasn't been achieved or demonstrated yet, and might never will be.
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by pavelrub 8y ago
> "we should maximize utility because that's better than less utility Depending on how you define "utility" - this is either a meaningless tautology that doesn't say anything at all, or a subjective belief that c

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