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by richk449 7y ago
I’m intrigued. Why cant true exponential growth of a physical system exist? Do you mean it can’t be maintained forever? I can think of lots of physical processes that have exponential behavior for some amount of time.
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by richk449 7y ago
If you want an element that acts like gold (doesn’t oxidize, high electrical conductivity, high thermal conductivity, malleable, etc.), you need gold. You can’t replace it with lead and get the same results. If you want a string of bits tha
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by richk449 7y ago
How is that valuable, aside from ones ability to speculate on how much people will want it in the future? As an aside, I agree with the other poster that there is no intrinsic scarcity to bitcoin, because anyone can create bitcoinN which ar
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by richk449 7y ago
Surely there is a difference between investments that have underlying value, but are speculated on, and investments which have no underlying value except that due to speculation.
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by richk449 7y ago
Website says Palo Alto, post says Redwood City. Why?
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by richk449 7y ago
I suggest we try an experiment. Appoint an austrian (say, Alan Greenspan) to run the US federal reserve. See if we get improved stability, or the largest recession since the Great Depression.
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by richk449 7y ago
You have an engineering degree, but you wouldn’t call yourself an engineer? What do you call yourself?
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by richk449 7y ago
It’s not worth worrying about. If there is no such thing as free will, there is no point in trying to do anything (such as carefully choosing words to be consistent with the non-existence of free will). For simplicity, might as well live my
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by richk449 7y ago
Don’t look for shortcuts?
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by richk449 7y ago
> Wait... I thought you don't believe in free will? I don’t. I also don’t find the libet experiment to provide convincing evidence either for or against the existence of free will.
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by richk449 7y ago
Sounds like sophistry to me.
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by richk449 7y ago
Nice article. I don’t believe in free will, but I never liked that Libet experiment. So many tenuous connections had to be made to connect electrical signals with free will, and most of the time people didn’t even bother trying - they just
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by richk449 7y ago
As an American who has eaten two pieces of cheese with two pieces of bread And a piece of fruit for lunch for at least a decade now, I was happy when I saw an article on this a few years ago. I started telling people I wasn’t weird, I was j
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by richk449 7y ago
I think the easiest answer: If it comes in a box or a bag with a list of ingredients, consider it processed. Occasionally eating something that comes in that form is okay - so making pasta from a once a week won’t kill you ( at least not qu
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by richk449 7y ago
Author seems overly dismissive of the sequels. While they aren’t as great as the first, many of them are still very good books with interesting ideas. The stuff written by others (not Frank Herbert) on the other hand, does seem to be dreck
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by richk449 7y ago
Was?
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by richk449 7y ago
That’s what he waymo cars were thinking too.
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by richk449 7y ago
You can buy a meca500 for 15k USD. If you are just doing learning stuff, it should be more than adequate.
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by richk449 7y ago
You want to offer incentives to people to go into fields that aren’t needed?
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by richk449 7y ago
Hmmm. Make money selling blades? No, I got a better idea - give away the guillotine, make money selling the blades. Or perhaps a subscription model for the blades? Probably the best option is decapitation as a service.
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by richk449 7y ago
Interesting suggestion. It is sometimes said that Uber was started based on Kalanick's Randian free market ideas. And at a superficial level, it sorta looks free market - the price responds to supply and demand for instance. But intere
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by richk449 7y ago
Can someone explain the benefit of using a separate env for each project? Why not just use the default env for all your projects? Does it have something to do with the ops part of devops?
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by richk449 7y ago
How do you teach a preschool kid reason?
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by richk449 7y ago
> a computer can be programmed to detect instances of the word “betrayal” in scanned texts, but it lacks the concept of betrayal. Therefore, if a computer scans a story about betrayal that happens not to use the actual word “betrayal,” i
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by richk449 7y ago
> I would love to see more systems engineered to try to balance that. Perhaps a Twitter-like system that capped the number of followers you had. Is that really better? I think I like the current system. Sure, Everest is ruined, but there
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by richk449 7y ago
> Especially in the hyper-critical social media age when everyone is looking to kick anything popular down a peg or two, for their own personal satisfaction of being smart Hmmmm
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by richk449 7y ago
Was expecting social media, al la seveneves, but that is much better. I wonder where the data comes from?
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by richk449 7y ago
> I am talking about throwing 10 Elon Musks at the problem. Heck let's throw 50 Elons at it. Sure. We just need to find 50 Elon Musks's, and then convince them all to work for the state. Let me know when you have them all lined
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by richk449 7y ago
If Japanese kids have a one in a billion chance of being hit by a meteorite, and US kids have a ten times higher rate, does that mean the US is justified in requiring kids to wear meteorite resistant helmets at all times?
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by richk449 7y ago
“Not owning a gun” equals ”bystanding”?

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