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by richk449 6y ago
Agreed. I've been trying to figure out what to give my son as a first computer. This would be a neat option. If he wants to watch videos on youtube, he is going to have to code himself a browser first.
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by richk449 6y ago
<Theory X> is a post hoc explanation for how <Subject Y> works. It's not like somebody came up with the theory of how <Subject Y> should work and then built one, like you would a computer. General relativity is a post
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by richk449 6y ago
Try reading AntiFragile. You will be very sick of that word by the time you finish the book.
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by richk449 7y ago
Rt is based on the rate of change, not the absolute value, right? So if testing coverage is constant in time, then doesn’t it drop out? Of course, it isn’t constant with time, but it is also probably not changing that drastically over short
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by richk449 7y ago
> This is good. The powers of the Supreme Court are -- and should remain -- limited Wouldn't not intervening be the limited thing to do?
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by richk449 7y ago
Have you ever been to brunch in San Francisco?
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by richk449 7y ago
> This is only fair to Alberta, considering how much they’ve contributed to Canada’s GDP over the last two decades. Is contributing to GDP something you get "credit" for? Or put another way, does someone living in Toronto get a
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by richk449 7y ago
Since this is hacker news, where is the Girardian analysis? This situation seems to call for it with the fear of outsiders and scapegoating. Hard to worry about mimetic contagion when there is a real contagion?
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by richk449 7y ago
For most of the people in the world, Internet is already available through land lines or cellular service. OneWeb has very little ability to extract monopoly rents from them. But both sides are not relevant to the article - whether the busi
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by richk449 7y ago
> Or that they are authoritarian superhumans with a superior response. They literally welded doors shut on apartment buildings. They are not superhuman. They just have a different take when it comes to individual rights. There is no reas
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by richk449 7y ago
Wow, the idea of a real-world chaos monkey is genius. Robotic or biological? Perhaps COVID-19 is a chaos-monkey?
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by richk449 7y ago
If you want to argue about Trump, please find someone else to do it with (or somewhere else to do it). My comment was not about Trump's response, and I regret even including mention of him, since that one offhand comment has generated
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by richk449 7y ago
I worded it that way because I think that even if he had done everything right, his re-election would still be in trouble because of factors outside of his control.
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by richk449 7y ago
I wonder how much of it is just playing the odds. Shutting everything down will very likely have a large, but fixed consequence on the economy, which has huge cost, including in lives and health. Whereas biding your time increases the relat
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by richk449 7y ago
From the second paragraph: A properly fitting backpack (with hip belt) is one where the mass of the pack is evenly distributed from the C7 cervical vertebra (the bony part at the base of your neck) down to the iliac crest (top of the hips)
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by richk449 7y ago
I’m genuinely curious why he thinks a wartime leader needs to yell all the time, whereas a peacetime leader doesn’t. I would think that yelling is either effective, or not effective, in producing outcomes and that should be true regardless
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by richk449 7y ago
You are payed well to do X. You can’t get anyone to pay you to do Y. Yet you believe that Y is more valuable to society than X. Why? Isn’t society’s willingness to pay you for something a decent signal that society values it?
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by richk449 7y ago
True, reducing the cargo would require more trucks to carry the same load, increasing demand for truck drivers. On the other hand, wouldn’t reducing the amount of cargo a single truck can carry makey individual truck driver less valuable? T
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by richk449 7y ago
The most fun anecdote: Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Shanghai’s Huashan Hospital, became a national hero for a press conference speech: The first-aid team put themselves in great danger. They are tired
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by richk449 7y ago
So where it says support for 16 antennas, that means that there are 16 individual rf amplifiers, and the phase and amplitude of each channel is being set to do the beamforming? Can a user just put in 16 rf feeds and do the beam steering the
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by richk449 7y ago
Is this just a passive phased array? I can’t electronically steer it, can I?
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by richk449 7y ago
That feature is super handy, but it has been in word for a long time - I’m guessing about a decade.
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by richk449 7y ago
> A spacefaring civilization wouldn't care much at all about planetary motion and seasons. Given france’s failed attempt at rational time, what does that say about us as a species?
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by richk449 7y ago
Goal: to win High level strategy: wear down opponent, exploit endurance advantage Low level strategy: aggressive midgame, long passes, high tempo, rotate attackers Tactics: 4 4 2 formation, joe and Jean on wings, etc. force opponent mike to
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by richk449 7y ago
Eh, it’s all semantics. What you are calling meta has been called strategy for thousands of years. No big deal - words change. I’ll get used to it.
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by richk449 7y ago
That’s exactly my point. Nobody calls a peloton meta racing. A peloton is just strategy. Always has been.
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by richk449 7y ago
Okay. It’s outside my area of expertise, so maybe I didn’t pick the best example. The internet seems to imply that there is a lot of debate as to what is meta programming.
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by richk449 7y ago
This interpretation seems to unnecessarily constrain strategy. A strategy is not just something you pick at random. A good strategy is chosen with all context in mind - including your opponents choice of tactics and strategy.
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by richk449 7y ago
I can think of two definitions: 1) a higher level of abstraction. For example, creating a class is programming. Creating a class factory (a class that creates classes) is meta programming. 2) self referential. The movie Adaption is meta, be
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by richk449 7y ago
The definition of meta used in the piece doesn't match my understanding. Take his final example where he says that adjusting tactics in response to your opponent in ultimate frisbee is meta. No, that just strategy. Same goes for most o

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