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by readams 10y ago
Though I'm a meat eater, I have a strong suspicion that the arrival of high-quality meat alternatives will cause a societal shift away from eating meat to the point where it would become rare. As it is, giving up meat is a huge declin
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by readams 10y ago
This sounds like a good idea until you realize that your computations will be dominated by synchronization and/or communication overhead.
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by readams 10y ago
People think laptops have desktop-like performance only because they haven't used desktops much. It's actually not even close.
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by readams 10y ago
The trust fund is an accounting fiction. Social Security is paid out entirely by proceeds from people paying into the system. If ever the number of new people paying in is not enough to cover the outflows, then the system collapses. That
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by readams 10y ago
No; investments go toward productive work to create economic value. Social Security doesn't have any element that would actually create wealth. It works exactly like a Ponzi scheme.
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by readams 10y ago
These claims are extremely weak. Even taking them all at face value you get a straightforward account of a whistleblower. The only statement of harm speculates that documents that were not released got into the hands of Chinese or Russian
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by readams 10y ago
Yes, exactly. Rich people increase their wealth primarily through unrealized capital gains. It's very safe for Warren Buffet to proclaim he wants tax rates increased because this barely affects him at all.
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by readams 10y ago
No this article talks only about taxable income. Wealth inequality is far more important and for some reason nobody talks about it.
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by readams 10y ago
People continue to focus on income inequality and ignore wealth inequality. Income is a terrible way understand inequality and also not a good way to compare how inequality is changing, since the really rich people increase their wealth in
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by readams 10y ago
I think you'd find you wouldn't have any serious entries in the competitions any more.
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by readams 10y ago
Hertz lives in an equilibrium where lots of people buy and operator their own cars. Autonomous cars may well move us to an equilibrium where most people do not own cars and instead rely on services. That totally changes the economics of t
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by readams 10y ago
Cutting the map in the Pacific just makes a lot more sense rather than cutting it in the Atlantic. Do we really need most of the space in the middle of the map to be water?
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by readams 10y ago
Mars has lots of water and the ability to make rocket fuel and oxygen from the soil.
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by readams 10y ago
We need to move to a system where a tightly-regulated utility owns the wired infrastructure only, and leases access to a wide variety of ISPs, video services, etc. This solves the problem that the infrastructure costs involved create a nat
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by readams 10y ago
I've been attempting to use this system for a while today to converse with a native Chinese speaker and it seems to be better but still very far from human-level translation. Maybe they've been using especially bad human translat
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by readams 10y ago
It's not a failure of Church-Turing. The whole point of my comment is that you can easy construct more powerful models that are "unreasonable" because they don't exist in our universe. It's the same for programmin
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by readams 10y ago
It would be similarly aggressive if a journal were to sue a scientist for copyright infringement for posting their own work.
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by readams 10y ago
What would stop journals from blacklisting scientists who publish their articles under open access laws? Would anyone publish their article if they knew it meant never being able to publish in Nature again?
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by readams 10y ago
I'm not really sure I completely understand where the conflict is here. Even in the "machine model" the church-turing thesis "fails spectacularly" once you start adding in unreasonable things like halting oracles.
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by readams 10y ago
Generating poems from a bunch of existing poems is pretty much what humans do also. Art is very derivative, and necessarily so.
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by readams 10y ago
I'm pretty sure his numbers were intended to show that stock returns are currently very healthy and not stagnating.
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by readams 10y ago
A cache miss can be a slowdown of ~200x on modern CPU architectures. Lets say you have a choice of a O(n) algorithm that always misses the cache and a O(n lg n) algorithm that never misses the cache. The crossover point where it makes sens
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by readams 10y ago
It would be nice if all the Kubernetes tutorials didn't assume you're using GCE.
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by readams 10y ago
Are you disputing that if you issue such a trade that you are not guaranteed to be able to execute it? Because, I assure you, there is no such guarantee. I'm not even sure why this requires some special explanation. There have to be
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by readams 10y ago
Those are still just ordinary trades that happen at the end of the day. You're still just pulling orders off of the queue of sell orders if you're buying. The final close price will of course be the price after these trades are
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by readams 10y ago
Notwithstanding the post-hoc rationalization of one of the people trying to take advantage of the indexers, I suspect that if you asked them, the indexers would all prefer 100% to be able to make their trades without the arbitrageurs and do
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by readams 10y ago
No you can't. You can only buy a stock based on the set of offers to sell that stock. The closing price is the just the price that marked the last trade of the day, and isn't otherwise special.
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by readams 10y ago
The S&P 500 is just a list of the largest 500 companies by market cap. Managing the S&P 500 fund is actually pretty tricky since everyone knows when the index changes and they know what trades you have to make so they try to take mo
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by readams 10y ago
They say you have to wait for Wayland for this to work correctly.
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by readams 10y ago
There are things like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-5fKzmy38 and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5rraWJq6E

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