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by rjf72 8y ago
There is nuance that you're not considering. Increasing supply only results in a decline in prices at the point that supply is so plentiful that sellers are obligated to drop prices to increase revenue. This very article inadvertently
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Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor(chronicle.com)
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I think it's your latter point that's the key issue. This is something that has been able to be predicted from years ago. Most people do not use phones for many hugely intensive tasks: email, messaging, audio/visual (music, p
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by rjf72 8y ago
They were looking at 3 0 games ( 3 minutes for the entire game with 0 seconds added per move ) with a total of 6 or fewer pieces, including kings. So stuff like King + Rook + Bishop vs King + Rook + Knight. There are a countless number of c
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by rjf72 8y ago
A nice saying that sums up what you're saying more clearly: Dog bites a man is not news. Man bites a dog is news. Rely on the news for information and suddenly there seems to a rampant culture of men biting dogs! Is YOUR pet safe!?
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by rjf72 8y ago
One major issue I have is that I think the way you 'ought' make money is to make a product that you believe to be good, and put it out there. And for many years, this was the model with video games. But in the last decade or two p
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by rjf72 8y ago
Education is pretty easy. In 2005 the government changed the law such that even private education loans could not be dismissed in bankruptcy. Prior to that the law was such that only government educational loans could not be dismissed in ba
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by rjf72 8y ago
I think the first thing that conversations like this need are data. I ran into this [1] when actually searching information on the chiseling out of the middle class. And that paper does describe that. In 1979 the middle class controlled 46%
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by rjf72 8y ago
Indeed but when you change your ISP you are generally completely disconnected from them. Changing your search engine is just the first in a lengthy series of steps required to separate yourself from Google's data harvesting capabilitie
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You're conflating "proper background" with legacy and they are very different things. Harvard (and most/all other Ivy League institutions) dramatically lower the standards of enrollment for legacy applicants. In other wo
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by rjf72 8y ago
I think this article has an important lesson. Here is his graph now: https://lichess.org/@/peidi He quickly dropped those 200 points right back. In chess there is luck. Not luck like you hit a 9:1 longshot on the draw
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by rjf72 8y ago
It's not at all hard to have a license where something is free for noncommercial or limited commercial usage, and premium otherwise. This is an extremely typical model for many products today whose licenses you could use as inspiration
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Also makes you wonder about the mistakes we're making when things get truly ancient, but cannot be proved to be wrong. This vase is only 4,000-5,000 years old and the mistake was ostensibly very obvious. By contrast we have made a vari
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by rjf72 8y ago
It's confirmation bias. When you want something to be true because it confirms your biases, most people are not going to actively try to refute it. This is one big argument for avoiding ideological homogeneity in academia. Homogeneity
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by rjf72 8y ago
I think the key point here is that nobody knows precisely what fake news is, so we all create our own often times incompatible definitions. This probably goes back to the source of the word. The terms usage seems to have been organized by
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I think you're both saying the same thing here. The key point is that nutrition can change the weights of your equation, which must be accurate even if by appealing to the conservation laws of the universe, in ways that are not obvious
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There's one way that China has done phenomenal with soft power already in a very bottom up fashion: tourism. At least throughout Asia, Chinese tourists are absolutely everywhere. This is a relatively new phenomena and I imagine it&#x27
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It's not just TV and movies. Go Wiki browsing on organized crime some time. Here's [1] a fun starting point. These organizations go through extensive efforts, which at times has included things such as flipping decorated law enfor
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by rjf72 8y ago
I think the leap to eugenics there is not warranted. Eugenics is about enforced selective breeding. Enforcement being the key. Imagine you are tall and want a child that is also tall and so actively seek out a tall partner. That's obvi
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by rjf72 8y ago
I'm really curious about your views on something, if you would share: 1) Let's say you could provide definitive data showing, without doubt, that intraracial relationships resulted in different longterm outcomes than interracial r
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Many people, perhaps Apple themselves, are ignoring something very fundamental. What happened to PCs? It's not that they became obsolete. In fact that is precisely the problem. They stopped becoming obsolete. In the early 2000s you&#x2
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by rjf72 8y ago
Just to hit on your last point (that result oriented loans could kill "unprofitable" university programs) I'd add that universities existed for centuries when, relative to the entire population, practically nobody attended th
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by rjf72 8y ago
I've had the exact same experience with "sell first" on various user applications. Pitch something to people and they're lukewarm. Make the product, in my case first and foremost for myself, and they end up gushing over
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by rjf72 8y ago
I think the logical outcome is rather than Google avoiding ethically dubious, but highly profitable behavior, they will simply run a tighter ship of classification, isolation, and control. Companies and governments have become pretty decent
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by rjf72 8y ago
Sure I completely get that, but what the core issue I was hitting on is that you end up trading an expensive resource (computing power) for a very cheap resource (disk space). In cases where disk space requirements become enormous this can
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by rjf72 8y ago
And here we could get into all sorts of back and forth. For instance while it says OTF was from 2013-2016, there is also nothing listed after 2016. Does this mean that OTF cut funding for some reason, that future donations were not listed,
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by rjf72 8y ago
It depends on your motivation but if you really want to learn about graphics programming (as opposed to learning an API) then I think the best way to do so is to remove any API from the picture. There is an absolutely phenomenal book that d
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Many people that are interested in privacy and security consider server based software to be problematic. Even when server based software is open source, as Signal is, you are required to trust that what is being run on a server is the same
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I'm not entirely understanding the motivation for this. The most naive method would be to just UCI move notation, that's simply square1-square2. Eg: e2e4 e7e5 g1f3, etc. That's 4 bytes per half move or ply (5 bytes for the on
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by rjf72 8y ago
Why would it be an out there idea when analogous sorts of behavior is something that happens at all levels? You only need to look at the middle class to see the same thing quite visible in action. There are endless incidents of individuals

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