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541.
by phreeza 5y ago
In addition to loudness and latency differences, there is even a frequency-specific effect due to the shape of the head and in particular your ear (your pinna to be precise). This is actually probably the reason why our ears have the weird
542.
by phreeza 5y ago
> If you build a robot that only handles the main workflow and can't handle any of the exceptions, you're not automating anything. Sounds to me like this criticism could have been made of the dishwasher and washing machine, too
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The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”(currentaffairs.org)
85 points by phreeza 5y ago|104 comments
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by phreeza 5y ago
I think we are pretty much in agreement then that conspiracy nuts spread a higher level of lies, but that institutions should be held to a higher standard? The reason I object to the false equivalence between the two is that it helps legiti
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by phreeza 5y ago
My point stands that what covid deniers put out is worse by orders of magnitude. One could argue that sci/govt should be held to a higher standard than randos on Twitter, and the criticism you put forward is probably valid, but still i
546.
by phreeza 5y ago
I agree with most of your points, but "both sides lie" really creates a false equivalence. Conspiracy peddlers are radically further removed from reality than the government/science communicators. Of course they are not perf
547.
by phreeza 5y ago
In Germany they are called Unverpackt (unpackaged).
548.
by phreeza 5y ago
> For example, it's impossible to buy yogurt not in one-time plastic package and we didn't find a "mass market" solution to that problem. Same goes for any other ONE-TIME package Actually there are completely package-
549.
by phreeza 5y ago
Wasn't basically everyone an employee of one "company" in communist countries?
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The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”(currentaffairs.org)
5 points by phreeza 5y ago|1 comments
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by phreeza 5y ago
I actually agree, I just think libertarian right wing is a mischaracterization, and I think it matters because the stereotype of the tech nerd is the atlas shrugged-toting libertarian, but HN doesn't really match that stereotype most o
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by phreeza 5y ago
Dunno, I'm pretty sure I've seen calls to break up or even nationalize Google and similar sentiments at the top quite a lot. That doesn't strike me as particularly right-wing?
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by phreeza 5y ago
There is also some other work from deepmind in this direction: https://deepmind.com/research/publications/machine-theory-mi...
554.
by phreeza 5y ago
I think the gamma gets absorbed when the next pair appears. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bhabha_S_channel.svg
555.
by phreeza 5y ago
Sure, but it seems like "poses as independent and is funded by a billionaire" describes a huge number of publications that are not going to get shut down. It feels like there must be some other criterion. In this case most likely
556.
by phreeza 5y ago
The article talks about students getting extra time on exams by falsely claiming disability accomodations. This seems somewhat equivalent to asking for accomodations on a job interview to me.
557.
by phreeza 5y ago
I am not an expert on the American legal system, but it seems like that would be fraud and thus a criminal matter. Companies could report suspected cases to the authorities. This here seems to be a case from the educational system where sim
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by phreeza 5y ago
If it's funded by a non-governmental source, isn't it kind of an independent media outlet by definition?
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by phreeza 5y ago
Just to counter your nitpick with another nitpick, geothermal is also not solar with extra steps :-) Edit: tidal power would also seem to fall into that bucket because it comes from the gravitational forces of the solar system.
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by phreeza 5y ago
https://youtu.be/cNxadbrN_aI here are neural networks in the 50s. Something having been tried before doesn't mean it isn't worth ever trying again in a context of much improved technology.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Maybe I am a bit naive, but I don't understand how this is a big problem. Sure it would have been a problem in the past where long exposures were captured to film, where one satellite streak may overexpose the entire frame. But in the
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All aboard for European night trains?(smartercommunities.media)
3 points by phreeza 5y ago|0 comments
563.
by phreeza 5y ago
So is the argument that personalized ads are inherently bad? Arguments against tracking/personalization I have heard in the past, which make sense to me, are that having all the data stored remotely gives a lot of power to an evil engi
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by phreeza 5y ago
How is it different from your browser history being stored locally?
565.
by phreeza 5y ago
At least theoretically, you could have the whole logic deciding which ad to show you running locally on your device, without the need to send any private data to Facebook?
566.
by phreeza 5y ago
It's obvious to scientifically literate folks, but not to everyone. Much weight loss advice is equivalent to saying "spending money in cash is fine, credit cards are what make you poor", which actually may contain a grain of
567.
by phreeza 5y ago
My completely amateur understanding of chip manufacturing progress is that it is not bound by routing problems or similar (which I am guessing you are referring to), but by lithography physics, chemistry, etc. I might be wrong though, are y
568.
by phreeza 5y ago
Even with the refund it caused mental load I didn't like.
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by phreeza 5y ago
> Moore's law happens when the output of the system can be used to improve the system that produced the original output. This is a thing that possibly facilitates exponential progress, but it is by no means a prerequisite. I have a
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by phreeza 5y ago
One day init7 is going to poach you :)

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