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by pontus 5y ago
They specifically refer to the increased rate of hospitalization in the article. Their refutation is that about half of the hospitalizations are actually due to other reasons like broken bones and that mandatory Covid tests uncover an other
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by pontus 5y ago
I've thought similar things: why am I paying rent / mortgage / student loans if it's all going to be forgiven? What kind of sucker am I? I do it because I know it's the right thing to do, but together with a sort of
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by pontus 5y ago
Really interesting article! I just read the first few pages but it seems like a really interesting approach. Thanks for sharing. I'll be reading it more carefully over the next few days.
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Ask HN: Chess Variant for Toddlers?
1 points by pontus 5y ago|1 comments
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by pontus 5y ago
Seems like the incentive is opposite of what I would want. It says that you only pay if you get a response. Doesn't that mean that you should just spam as many people as possible since it's free unless you get a lead?
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by pontus 5y ago
One of the more convincing argument I've heard is the "bullet cluster". Basically it's composed of two clusters of galaxies that recently collided. Since dark matter and normal matter interact differently (dark matter in
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by pontus 5y ago
Reminds me of a tweet from Yann LeCun a while back where he bragged that they take down more reported content than other social sites. While at the face of it, this seems good, what it really means is that their system is worse at proactive
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by pontus 5y ago
Well, there are a lot of ways of investing your money in ways that track or exceed inflation, so it's not like people without savings are doing well with inflation whereas all those people with savings are getting screwed. Further thou
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by pontus 5y ago
Beep beep boop boop. I regular person, like your comment!
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by pontus 5y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I was under the impression that each update had to be signed. Why then would you have to be connected 24/7 to protect yourself from fraud?
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by pontus 5y ago
My bad, sorry! I could have sworn it wasn't there but you're obviously correct.
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by pontus 5y ago
When I first wrote my comment, this part of your comment was not there. You must have added it after the fact (hence my comment)
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by pontus 5y ago
Turns out that while the no cloning theorem does prohibit cloning, it does not prohibit perfect replication as long as the original is destroyed. This is the premise of quantum teleportation. Using some clever applications of entanglement i
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by pontus 5y ago
It's also worth noting that sunk cost is often strongly correlated with remaining cost. If you've spent 4 years in a 5 year PhD program and start questioning your reasons for being there, you could frame it in terms of the sunk co
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by pontus 5y ago
I think a similar thing can be said about time. There were a lot of novel things to share in the early days, but these days it seems like his essays have taken a turn toward trite elitism. To be clear, I don't think this is specific to
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by pontus 5y ago
There's a subtle distinction between these two statements. Any theory that diverges from our currently accepted theories (like general relativity) will only start differing at sufficiently high energy. There's usually a dimensiona
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by pontus 5y ago
The distance between two points is basically just the Pythagorean theorem: x^2 + y^2 + z^2. If you have extra dimensions, you just add more terms to this. Now, if you know that e.g. x is very large then that puts a lower bound on the distan
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by pontus 5y ago
I've had the same thought about Google promoting its own products over competitor's in search results. Isn't that the same as Whole Foods putting a stack of their 365 brand cereals at the front of the store?
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by pontus 5y ago
I agree that taxing unrealized capital gains is a fundamentally flawed approach. However, the problem with the current system is that these ultra-wealthy people just end up borrowing against their equity, avoiding selling if possible. I thi
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by pontus 5y ago
Well, crypto is either going to be a huge success or a big flop. Whichever it is, whoever was espousing that side of the story will feel vindicated and talk about how it was obvious all along. Sadly(?) I belong to neither camp. I definitely
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by pontus 5y ago
I completely agree... in principle. That being said, I actually think we tend to underestimate the value of trusting experts. Often times the sources out there that one could be quoting espouse conflicting and ambiguous conclusions and it i
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by pontus 5y ago
Is there anything deep here? There's a parametrized representation of a function and it's being interpreted as a neural network, why is this surprising? It's like saying that Newton's second law is a neural network: F=ma
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by pontus 5y ago
I know the point of this post is not the actual problem, but I couldn't help myself thinking about it. It turns out that this is actually a more general phenomenon. Any matrix for which A[i,j] = A[i-1,j] + A[i,j-1] and that has all one
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by pontus 5y ago
Really nice! When I was in college we had all sorts of online systems that automatically graded assignments based on how close to the correct answer your supplied answer was. I think it'd be nice if in the future there was more of an o
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by pontus 5y ago
The downside with Project Euler, though is that you need to run your code elsewhere. That's why something like leetcode is so nice (I think, at least): you can run the code right there in the browser. If you take this approach, you&#x2
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Chia Green Paper [pdf](chia.net)
3 points by pontus 6y ago|0 comments
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Two Envelope Paradox(mindbowling.wordpress.com)
3 points by pontus 6y ago|0 comments
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by pontus 6y ago
This is my thought as well. There's too much crypto-purity going around in these discussions and not enough bitcoin-pragmatism, I think. Reminds me a lot of the purity games that are being played elsewhere online, just instantiated in
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by pontus 6y ago
I'm confused about the scaling issue. It's not like every time I buy a cup of coffee, I initiate a wire transfer to Starbucks. I buy these things on credit and the issuer of that credit charges me and Starbucks a fee for the servi
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by pontus 6y ago
The irony of all this is that ultimately people will stop buying and prices will fall. Then all the regular people who participated in this will be stuck holding falling stock. Panicked selling will ensure, crashing the price. At the end of

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