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541.
by rocqua 3y ago
What about a monotonix function that has the keast duplicates when shown as a tree of thresholds? Or one that has the deepest tree? Or the least balanced tree? Those feel likely to have an alternative definition that is more elegant.
542.
by rocqua 3y ago
Being in a bigger car than everyone else makes you safer, but that gets largely nullified if everyone is in a bigger car. That leads to an arms race with no benefit to anyone and massive costs. A prime example of when government should step
543.
by rocqua 3y ago
There are two parts to profitability. Revenue and costs. I don't want space exploration for unlocking massive new revenues, but reduced costs would be amazing. Not just for opportunities that get unlocked, but also for freeing up resou
544.
by rocqua 3y ago
A key advantage of the assembly line production of these things is fast iterative development. At first, in a 'move fast and break things' way, when doing tests. But just as significantly, by learning about non-fatal flaws in a wo
545.
by rocqua 3y ago
I find 'take out the trash' so much less hsrsher than 'you will take out the trash'. The first statement permits the response 'no'. It is clearly an order, with room for agency on the other side. The second sta
546.
by rocqua 3y ago
It might be cost effective if you can export the externalities of rare earth refining. It is a deeply toxic process. The only reason we don't want to rely on China is geopolitical. Besides that everyone would be happy to have China tak
547.
by rocqua 3y ago
How would the massive pollution from the refining be handled if it occurs locally?
548.
by rocqua 3y ago
The 'rare' comes from the fact that the ore is not at all concentrated. The material is 'rare' within your earth.
549.
by rocqua 3y ago
Street cars can brake abd dodge less. That makes them much harder to bully. Get in an accident with a bus, and the bus driver has some suspicion on him, people won't immediately blame you. Get in an accident with a tram, and you are ju
550.
by rocqua 3y ago
Is it really symmetric? I imagine generally the upper limit on always winning is higher. As in, usually the person consistently losing wants to stop playing before the player consistently winning.
551.
by rocqua 3y ago
In python at least, with strict-mode, Any is useless because you can do almost nothing to it. You can print, you can call 'dir' 'help' and other built-ins, and you can pass it to functions that accept Any. That means tha
552.
by rocqua 3y ago
You can do a refactoring later, or reap the benefits of typescript for all new code. ChatGPT here doesn't need to do a good job. You get value just by getting a codebase type-annotated.
553.
by rocqua 3y ago
MRI machines are much more expensive than colonoscopy machines. Orders of magnitude more expensive.
554.
by rocqua 3y ago
I think the original sentence was meant more like 'the problem with unproductive tests is...' Where unproductive means that the total cost benefit of doing the test is negative. And even procedures that never help can 'cure&#
555.
by rocqua 3y ago
But alternative screenings with a wider acceptance could have a higher 'benefit-cost' for a lower 'benefit/cost'.
556.
by rocqua 3y ago
Randomized controlled trials are great, they are incredibly certain to be right. But experience has a whole other quality, it is much less reliable but a whole lot more comprehensive. An RCT can only measure effects on what can be used to s
557.
by rocqua 3y ago
Red blood consistently still deserves to be checked out.
558.
by rocqua 3y ago
They are meant to detect issuers misbehaving, not individual SSL certs leaking. It lets issuers show they are trustworthy.
559.
by rocqua 3y ago
It really limits the value of a stolen or leaked key. Similarly it limits the amount of trust you need in the key holder. If the NSA could steal a debian key (or coerce a packager), without deterministic builds, they could put a backdoor in
560.
by rocqua 3y ago
In order to trust signed binaries, it is very valuable to be able to verify a binary came from some source. This way anyone who signs modified code can be caught. This is especially easy with open source projects. Incidentally, Debian is wo
561.
by rocqua 3y ago
Degrees aren't a 'unit' indeed because the zero point isn't a real zero. Hence you don't get correct scaling.
562.
by rocqua 3y ago
The bios is much more hardware bound than it is software bound. It very much needs to talk to other hardware on the board.
563.
by rocqua 3y ago
If you can push the fuel and air in at ambient pressure, it shouldn't matter much right? Because the 'neutral' point of the cilinder pressure would be just as high as the pressure of the exhaust. You'd probably lose some
564.
by rocqua 3y ago
You cannot reasonably dimension wind power to serve the winter heating needs of northern Europe. Once you get halfway there you're summer surpluses get so huge, inefficient seasonal storage becomes a much better solution.
565.
by rocqua 3y ago
For seasonal storage, because you cycle then so rarely, and demand between charging and discharging is so different, the economics favor low cost per kwh solutions, and care much less about efficiency.
566.
by rocqua 3y ago
More 'pointers' (32 bit offset ints) fit on a single cache line. Or, put differently, a list off offsets is half as long amd hence everything om the list is twice as close to everything else on the list.
567.
by rocqua 3y ago
I wonder if there is a fixed buy date that outperforms dollar cost averaging. Something like "around new years lots of people get money they invest, so prices tend to pop, so buy in november' There just needs to be some kind of ye
568.
by rocqua 3y ago
It's hard to understand something if your salary depends on your misunderstanding. It's even harder to understand something if your self-conception as honorable depends on your mistunderstanding?
569.
by rocqua 3y ago
Is there room for that? To what degree is that admitting to perjury? It seems to me like it is really hard to make room to recant in a justice system. Mostly because if allows already convicted people to pressure experts to recant. But also
570.
by rocqua 3y ago
Which rights would be better protected than property rights?

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