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by pdonis 1y ago
To me the point where the law needs to intervene is the bank or the school. You need a bank to function--that means the bank should be prohibited by law from tying you to an app from a particular company, whether it's Google or Apple o
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by pdonis 1y ago
Banks and Fannie and Freddie only "create money" to the extent the Fed allows them to. They all have accounts at the Fed, and those accounts govern how much money they can issue as loans. So ultimately the money printer only belon
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Aside from remodeling, the only thing that increases the value of a home over time is increased demand for homes relative to supply And it's important to note that a highly significant factor on the demand side is the availabili
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by pdonis 1y ago
> How can you determine whether it makes accurate predictions? See the example I gave of GPS upthread. Does your smartphone tell you where you are accurately? That's the kind of test I'm talking about. If you're talking
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by pdonis 1y ago
> I would say at least the hard sciences are characterized by their extremely accurate predictive models. Parts of them are. General relativity and quantum mechanics have been extensively tested within the domains we are able to test
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by pdonis 1y ago
Evidently we don't live on the same planet, so we can't have a useful discussion.
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> it's experts who speak the language well enough to understand what is being said. What's so hard to understand about "does your smartphone show you where you are accurately"? > What society do you live in wher
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by pdonis 1y ago
> It's quite obvious from your position on this matter that you're not a practicing scientist You're correct, I'm not. But I'm also not scientifically ignorant. For example, I actually do understand how GPS wor
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by pdonis 1y ago
> While we try to make things accessible to the public, the determination of what is "good" is ultimately made by experts. No, it isn't. It's determined by whether the models make accurate predictions. The fact that
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Scientific disagreements are intricate matters that require the attention of highly trained experts. Actually this isn't true, at least as far as anything the public needs to care about is concerned. There is a simple test the p
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by pdonis 1y ago
Yes, but in classical wave optics you're no longer talking about "paths" as they appear in path integrals. Classical wave optics is basically quantum wave optics without the discreteness of detections, i.e., interpreting the
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Classical optics is just the limiting case of quantum optics when the path length is much longer than the wavelength. In such a case quantum optics predicts basically zero probability to detect light on any path other than the classical pat
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by pdonis 1y ago
I hadn't known about this. Priceless!
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> he chats a little between songs His comments between songs are at least as funny as the songs themselves. For many years I thought that recordings only existed of those comments for An Evening Wasted and That Was The Year That Was. T
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by pdonis 1y ago
Exactly. The Puritans didn't leave England because the church there was too intolerant. They left because it wasn't intolerant enough .
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by pdonis 1y ago
> you'd be utterly insane, as an individual developer without a full-time security team, to expose a self-hosted application to the Internet. You don't have to. The article mentions Tailscale--the whole point of which is to
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by pdonis 1y ago
> I'm not sure when it started It's been that way for many years. I canceled my subscription in the 1990s because the quality had deteriorated so much.
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by pdonis 1y ago
The title is clickbait (as is unfortunately common now with Scientific American). This is not "mysterious"--CP violation is expected according to the Standard Model, it just hasn't been observed in baryons before, only in mes
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by pdonis 1y ago
> you can use the energy from the swimmer in front of you to 'spring' yourself forward When I swam competitively in the early 1980s, we did this during workouts; we'd all swim in a line with very close spacing, and switc
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by pdonis 1y ago
> The solution here shouldn't be technical Why not? Just run your own router instead of the one your ISP tries to give you.
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by pdonis 1y ago
> using the provided WiFi AP Which you can simply not do if you don't trust your ISP not to misuse it. Which is why I never run my ISP's router, I run my own instead.
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Required for showing the right resolution images. How many websites is this actually an issue for? I know web developers get all impressed with themselves about putting fancy images on their web pages, but the vast majority of them a
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by pdonis 1y ago
> Lots of websites started breaking when Apple did something as simple as updating the OS version from 10 to 11 in the user agent. Of course I know that in practice websites have been modifying their behavior based on the user agent st
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by pdonis 1y ago
> momost of it is useful or even needed From the article, "your screen resolution, time zone, device model and more" are shared. Why? Why does a website need to know these things? I don't get it. My own device of cours
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by pdonis 1y ago
My question is, why do browsers share all that information with websites in the first place?
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by pdonis 1y ago
> PG has seemed to have a fixation on youth Or more precisely, young (in their 20s) founders. Possibly because he was already 32 when he founded Viaweb, and 41 when he founded YC.
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> we are talking ground combat I'm not familiar with the books, but I have a very hard time believing that the simple presence of lightspeed weapons would make all forms of combat other than ground combat obsolete.
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> Nation states naturally emerged as the technology that allowed nation states (printing press, railroads, etc) emerged. Nation states were around long before railroads or the printing press; they were around before the pyramids were b
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> They are lightspeed weapons, no leading your target or the like. The speed of light is still finite, so a lightspeed weapon still has to lead its target by some amount.
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> Less likely than what? Think of it this way: some percentage of writing that sounds bad is wrong, and some percentage of writing that does not sound bad is wrong. I am simply pointing out that it is perfectly possible for both percen

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