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by richk449 8y ago
> What stops me printing jstanley dollars and claiming there is 1:1 parity with actual dollars? Nothing! And yet that doesn't devalue actual dollars. If most people had legitimate reason to believe that your jstanley dollars would r
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One thing I do to help myself sleep is to think about it in a long term versus short term framework. I don’t know about you, but for me, sleeping less is usually better in the short term. I can get more done, or have more fun, today. But wh
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by richk449 8y ago
You must not have read the article.
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by richk449 8y ago
How was the pita?
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by richk449 8y ago
> What's it worth to you? I'll gladly separate out my aluminum if you send me a check each month. How much are you willing to pay? Is this how you handle all human interactions?
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by richk449 8y ago
Yea, isn't it about time someone spent some money on AI?
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by richk449 8y ago
De beers has been selling synthetic diamonds for decades. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_Six
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by richk449 9y ago
No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who makes prints in 6 minutes?
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by richk449 9y ago
At an hour per abstract (seems like a reasonable amount of time to understand the abstract), I get: 400,000 hours = 50,000 days (at eight hours a day) = 208 years (at 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year) If the abstracts wern't really read
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by richk449 9y ago
> m.nn.pp-alpha-rc0 may convey meaning to the author, but it is meaningless to users because the 'alpha' and 'rc0' mean different things in different libraries, based on their release processes I don't think you
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by richk449 9y ago
> That's a bad argument. You can also never be certain any third-party code works at all Perhaps in the philosophical sense that you can never be certain of anything, this is true. But that only place that thinking leads is to stayi
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by richk449 9y ago
> Why not just seize the means of production? I wonder if anyone has tried that before. I guess I will go read a history book and find out.
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> This is a basic contradiction which I am not sure is solvable. Why do people say things like this? Have you ever been to a major European city? Most have well designed public transit systems that are much more convenient than driving.
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> It's not crazy that I would be checking my maps app at the same time a police siren comes into view, leading me to miss the biker who'd just turned into the lane next to me. I think this is much of the problem. It should be c
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by richk449 9y ago
> It is a crime when you do it by purpose, not if it is an accident. This statement doesn't seem to be consistent with the law in the US. Involuntary Manslaughter is a crime, and it explicitly covers cases in which the crime was not
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by richk449 9y ago
So like Pascal's Wager for meditation?
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> The only thing you can truly know is what you witness in person. Why do you trust your eyes? Eyewitness accounts are notoriously inaccurate. Why trust your brain? How do you even know that the world you think exists is real? Maybe you
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by richk449 9y ago
> "For example, I am a pacifist. When I tell this to people, they sometimes assume I would stand aside and do nothing if a loved one was threatened with violence. In fact, the opposite is true: I would act aggressively and assertive
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by richk449 9y ago
"Hyperbole is what's ruining the world today." Well played.
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Are you arguing that nobody goes there anymore because it is too crowded?
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>If a crowd of people were that crazy about getting me to not speak at their college, I would happily leave and find another place, and write a Medium post about my views, not crying that people don't like me and don't want to
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by richk449 10y ago
Of course, since most people don't want to read things that they disagree with, the result is that most people don't want to read good journalism.
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by richk449 10y ago
Well put. Has the idea of a quality factor (Q) for a political "echo-chamber" been defined? Seems like an opportunity to inject some rigor into some commonly used terms. One could measure the decay time of conspiracy theories thro