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by rixed 10mo ago
A well needed counterbalance when so much in tech is just a popularity contest.
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by rixed 11mo ago
Could it be that "America" and "Americans" are two related but different things, and that what's good for the one may not always be the best for the other?
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by rixed 11mo ago
To me this is borderline doxing (didn't check on /g/, maybe that was actual doxing): > there was a thread on /g/ about this guy the other day, anons digged out much of its past
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by rixed 11mo ago
You don't have to scan my private messages to know that i will oppose any war propaganda. If private classified negotiations between state actors would be done away with, and past such "private" communications published, mo
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Came here to say that. I've lived a long time in both Amsteram and Paris, and seeing those two cities close in that ranking call the whole thing into question. For sure, cities couldn't game the metrics used by tha ranking, but I&
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by rixed 11mo ago
I've been following as well. As much as i disagree with it, I appreciate that he has the audacity to propose this "all in" attitude. I'm a bit worried by the amount of anger that border doxing at times. I'd like th
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by rixed 11mo ago
Granted, memory is certainly more complex than basic feelings and can probably not be generated on demand by stimulating a few neurons in a single place. We are certainly far from being able to create memories by electric stimulations, but
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by rixed 11mo ago
I don't know why you single out memories. Certainly, if some mad scientist were to stimulate via an electrode some parts of your brain to make you experience pain, you will remember it. Also, it's not unreasonable to assume that i
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by rixed 11mo ago
Is anyone working on a low orbit Datacenter already?
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by rixed 11mo ago
The cynic in me believes that the motivation behind this very publicized melodramatic arrest is even simpler: reinforce the myth that Telegram is e2ee (remember the 90s when the DoJ wanted us to believe that 40bits keys were unbreakable?)
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by rixed 11mo ago
I really believe this is the way forward, but how do you make sure the AI is speaking to the student rather than to another AI impersonating the student? You could make it in person but that's a bit sad.
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by rixed 11mo ago
Thank you for voicing a different tone than the seemingly prevalent obscene warmongering. I believe people of good will are generally less comfortable speaking out and are therefore underrepresented, including here on HN.
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by rixed 11mo ago
Certainly, to get new ideas it's better to start from a good knowledge of past ideas? If we had thrown an anathema on physics each time a rocket blowed up, nobody would have ever landed on the moon :)
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by rixed 11mo ago
As the other person who responded to me wrote, I might have misunderstood your comment. I believed that you associated the idea that "property is theft" with Marx, and that's this association that I wanted to warn against. Bu
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by rixed 11mo ago
I'm all for experimenting on babies, but I can't understand what point you are trying to make with this. Do you mean they naturally understand property, or do you mean they naturally understand theft, or what?
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by rixed 11mo ago
I haven't read Marx since I left college, but in my remembering the only thing that is "theft" in the capital is the initial accumulation. There is no idea that any form of ownership beside that is theft (I don't believe
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by rixed 11mo ago
Reminds me of the Frenchs and their "pays des droits de l'homme", although I don't believe it's been as operational as the "chosen people" in practice.
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by rixed 11mo ago
> This is the first time flavanols have been shown to be effective at preventing sitting-induced vascular dysfunction, in young healthy men. How many times did they try before? Am I right to suspect p-hacking?
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New Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests: Powerful Sums(azspcs.com)
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by rixed 11mo ago
I used to participate in a few contests ages ago, and it was a lot of fun; Certainly a lot of HNers would enjoy it as well. With plenty of time to try many different ideas, I much prefer this format over the ICFP contest for this reason. Th
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by rixed 11mo ago
My understanding is that the emergence of informal hierarchy can actualy be the feature; The problem being addressed being the rigdity of formal hierarchies in a changing environment. As long as informal hierarchies emerge and die according
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by rixed 11mo ago
Thank you for the references; Is there any article/blog describing that secret sauce from the insde for the curious outsider that you would recommand? I've always been interrested in organisations, but not so much by the theory th
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by rixed 11mo ago
We can talk to bees, we know their language. How would you go to explain what it's like to be a human to a bee?
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by rixed 11mo ago
So, that's a "no" since that meal costs less that it would if bough over the counter?
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by rixed 11mo ago
Is McDonald still a labor intensive shop? Last time I visited one I had the impression that it had become vastly more automatised: you order on a machine, and most customers just grab a bag from their car before they drive away.
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by rixed 11mo ago
I do not understand what gave you the impression that I was advocating for "hope and prayers". I'm advocating for not relying on one level of abstraction to be flawless so we can build a perfect logic on top of it. I'm a
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by rixed 11mo ago
In the early 2000s when Google explained how they achieved their (already back then) awesome reliability, ie assuming that any software and hardware will eventually fail, and that they designed everything with the idea that everything was f
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by rixed 11mo ago
I may be wrong, but a cursory look at the data gave me the impression that the actual majority of that data was actually not related to dealing with commonplace string manipulations. Other than that, we probably agree.
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by rixed 11mo ago
Exactly! You could have `rand() > 0.5 && panic!()` in the code of your bot module, and that should not put the internet on fire. The issue here is about the system as a whole not any line of code.
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by rixed 11mo ago
2025: solve the biking pelican problem 2026: cure cancer

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