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by progrus 4y ago
Unfortunately, I will never go along with one of your plans, because I do not trust your ability, or the ability of others who panic about the environment. Bit of a Catch-22 for you there, sorry. It’s just reality.
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by progrus 4y ago
I don’t trust proof of stake, mostly because loads of people who I consider irrational want it to work so desperately. Proof-of-work actually does work - it is no longer a debate, and these people (many of the same people who were saying
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by progrus 4y ago
In places more enlightened about gun ownership, self-regulation can just happen at the point of a gun, with no need for the middlemen.
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by progrus 4y ago
Maybe that first community should have done a better job of regulating itself? All you’re really arguing for here is more engagement in local politics.
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by progrus 4y ago
Honestly, that’s the hope. Putting together well-solved combinations of computer functionality ought to become less-skilled work as technology progresses.
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by progrus 4y ago
Glad he lived long enough to see analog synthesis make it back to the mainstream.
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by progrus 4y ago
The bad part about being the ~solo developer is you don’t have as many people around you to learn from. The good part about being the ~solo developer is you learn how to deal with almost all the universal challenges involved in making sof
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by progrus 4y ago
Which parts have the story you are experiencing? It’s random, isn’t it? I mean at this point you might as well just start arguing that nobody can reason or argue anything.
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by progrus 4y ago
It works because of the big hand-wave that underpins MWI: Which universe do you end up in? It’s random!
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by progrus 4y ago
Uh, I guess they claim this?
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by progrus 4y ago
https://youtu.be/DHR-ggwafO8
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by progrus 4y ago
Question: How often have you seen Quanta Magazine write a disclaimer that their latest story is from a school of superstring theorists? It’s PR, this is just how it is. I do wish Sabine would state the axiom “reality is real” up front thoug
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by progrus 4y ago
I don’t think astrophysics is a hard science anymore.
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by progrus 4y ago
...who will instead invest their $20k life savings in beanie babies. The system is stupid, and we don’t all agree that it is the right way.
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by progrus 4y ago
I hate to even ask, but for a security-focused product, is that a good thing? I think there is a valid argument “there is no good video experience on web otherwise” but that’s still a long list of less-than-fully-mature dependencies.
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by progrus 4y ago
Don’t tie your personal happiness to this, because then you’ll be sad when it goes back up.
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by progrus 4y ago
We did not decide this. You are just pretending that this has been decided the way you like. FDR is long dead.
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by progrus 4y ago
I don’t know what your culture claims, but freedom isn’t a privilege, and the only good social contract is a voluntary one. Things are never going to work otherwise in the US.
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by progrus 4y ago
Unfortunately for some, whatever “science says” will be ignored next time.
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by progrus 5y ago
Well also, in my partly-serious physics trolling I left out that maybe the model could then predict a value for the next in the Higgs family (if such a thing exists), which according to my limited understanding doesn’t seem impossible.
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by progrus 5y ago
> The hard part is tweaking the properties of the family of Higgs Bosons so they predict the results of the experiments where the 125GeV and 95GeV are seen, but they don't cause weird results in all the other thousands of experiment
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by progrus 5y ago
You plug off-brand cables from Amazon that you know contain microcontrollers into your USB-C port? Brave!
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by progrus 5y ago
“Long lists of generic hooks” is a symptom of devs not having climbed the difficulty curve a bit further, to where they are writing custom hooks, and using fewer in each component, IMO. It’s understandable to stumble into this difficulty th