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by richk449 7y ago
(1) 100 billion over 7 million people is 15k over say twenty years for roughly 750 dollars per year. If the outcome was effective, that sounds like a worthwhile investment. (2) We definitely need increased housing, but that will only make t
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by richk449 7y ago
> I used to try to mostly eat "healthy", so I'd tend to buy the "low calorie" options. It amazes me how many people make this mistake.
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by richk449 7y ago
Interesting. What is the application that need ga and can’t tolerate minutes of evaluation?
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by richk449 7y ago
Very true - there are lots of what the AI people call hyper parameters to tweak. And they do affect the balance between fast convergence and avoidance of local minima traps, as you would expect. Once you have used them for a while, you star
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by richk449 7y ago
> the problem you're trying to solve is not very time critical (GA can take seconds to minutes depending on your problem) Ha. Days or weeks is typical for complex problems.
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by richk449 7y ago
Hard to see how open source nuclear reactors would work. Open source works well for software because getting to the 80% solution is fun, and most people only need the 80% solution. An 80% nuclear reactor isn’t useful to anyone, and even get
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by richk449 7y ago
Still sounds better than being dead.
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by richk449 7y ago
Good video. I'm curious about the laser scanner that he showed. What kind of resolution does it provide? And how much does it cost? Really, I don't care so much about the one he showed, but I want to know if it is possible to get
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by richk449 7y ago
> Airports can land a plane every minute. A rail line would never dare have two high speed trains that close to each other. Why the difference? If I naively guessed, I would think that trains were easier to control and more predictable,
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by richk449 7y ago
> there's something magical about walking into the living room and saying "Hey Siri, good morning" and having your TV kick on, automatically start streaming the morning news Magical in the sense that hell is magical?
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by richk449 7y ago
> I'm surprised that it's only in the last few years that people have figured out how to exploit it (or maybe it's only now that someone is finally shameless enough to exploit it). It’s been going on longer than that. Look
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by richk449 8y ago
What do they sue you for? If you are upfront about what you are selling, and you didn't steal any IP, it isn't fraud or theft of trade secrets. Maybe they have patents, and claim you are violating them? I can't see how it is
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by richk449 8y ago
> I imagine that the challenge with during EHT-style VLBI in space is downlink bandwidth... there's just no way to get the petabytes of data they talk about down from a satellite. Why do you say that? The latest High Throughput comm
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by richk449 8y ago
> I'd also point out that the Postman book was written in 1985, and TV/Movies then vs now with the choices and streaming and the improvement in the medium, I mean, it's not even close to the same thing. Very true. And that
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by richk449 8y ago
If you genuinely want an answer to this, read Amusing Ourselves To Death. Postman presents a very convincing case that the medium (tv, book, radio, etc.) has a very strong influence on the content that is presented, and the discourse that e
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by richk449 8y ago
> I haven’t noticed any difference. SF still has tons of litter. Less of it is plastic bags ... Sounds like you have noticed a difference? Unless you are suggesting that there is some "conservation of litter" principle that ens
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by richk449 8y ago
Why?
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by richk449 8y ago
Taleb in Antifragile makes almost the exact opposite point - that you should be flaneur, rather than a tourist. A flaneur enjoys viewing and being part of the natural rhythms of the city, whereas the tourist just goes to the showpieces with
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by richk449 8y ago
I was with you until you said you wanted to exempt the politicians. I would charge them double.
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by richk449 8y ago
What principle?
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by richk449 8y ago
Funny how that pg post has aged. Now python is the language you learn if you want to get a job. What’s the new python?
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by richk449 8y ago
> What’s harder for me to forgive is that, when asked later in life whether he felt any guilt for his participation in the bomb, he always said no. It seems to me that, when called to account for pain that we’ve caused — even indirectly,
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by richk449 8y ago
Because empirically, we have learned that the best system we have for distributing goods such as shelter, food, and clothing is a well regulated free market economy. It’s not perfect, but it is less terrible than anything else humans have t
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by richk449 8y ago
By that logic, going to a movie is taxation without representation. Should movie theaters be outlawed?
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by richk449 8y ago
Novi? Is strip-mall-sprawl a personality?
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by richk449 8y ago
> Thanks. I think you are a correct exception to what I said. I should have known that using words like "nobody" would not go over well on HN (but tedious to type "a very large percentage") In the future, you could us
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by richk449 8y ago
For sale for $3M?
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by richk449 8y ago
Very impressive. But in just three minutes, I thought of an even better plan: put a $10M wormhole between LA and SF and have near instant travel. Wormholes don’t quite exist yet, but they seem close at hand.
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by richk449 8y ago
> A simpler example that I recently went through was that I stopped drinking alcohol. I never had a problem with alcohol and would have beer or wine here and there. But, the evidence keeps mounting that it's literally just putting p
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by richk449 8y ago
> The value of Bitcoin comes from social consensus. You cannot fork that. Can’t? Perhaps it is difficult, but not impossible. I can think of some examples of forking social consensus: x11-wayland, Debian-Ubuntu, star office - open office

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