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by rw 17y ago
Are you in school? Get an independent study going with a professor on a topic she likes and you wouldn't mind learning. Emphasize that you want to get your training wheels for autodidactic math education.
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by rw 17y ago
e.g. until the United States implements the Kyoto Protocol :-)
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by rw 17y ago
It's a rally and vigil, not a protest. I know from experience.
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by rw 17y ago
Where are the corrections for population growth? I think the OP's claim might be true, but their case is not watertight. A quote: "The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an
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by rw 17y ago
Lesson learned: even you can sound like a crackpot.
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by rw 17y ago
Holy shit. This is the paper that I've had intuitive glimpses of for over two years. Well done.
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by rw 17y ago
Chaitin's constant is also quite underappreciated.
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by rw 17y ago
Eliezer, to you, how does the fight against aging compare with the fight against poverty or the fight against war? Is it just a matter of scale? These concerns of yours, while pressing to us lucky few, seem to sidestep the urgent problems f
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by rw 17y ago
Definitions, definitions, definitions. North Korea claimed to be communist, but it is totalitarian. China claims to be a republic, but it is totalitarian.
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by rw 17y ago
Want to convince others? Then don't assume that they'll "easily imagine" that you're right. Save that stuff for the choir.
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by rw 17y ago
Yeah. It's not the crispest distinction to make. But, note that the U.S. has also helped a whole lot of people. a - b = c Being utilitarian about it, which country has done better in the last decade?
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by rw 17y ago
It's about capacity for harm.
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by rw 17y ago
Capacity for harm != actual harm done. To play Devil's advocate: The United States controls over five thousand thermonuclear missiles. Sudan controls none. So what country has been more evil in the last decade? It's important to acknowledge
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by rw 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-deadly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war)
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by rw 17y ago
Apple gives us great default choices. But when you want to change them, what do you do? Nothing, because you can't.
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by rw 17y ago
I predicted that my comment would be taken pejoratively, but I didn't correct for it. All I wanted to know is, had C-- been looked at? Thanks for putting it into perspective.
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by rw 17y ago
Also check out the (now free) Problems on Algorithms: http://www.eng.unt.edu/ian/books/free/license.html
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by rw 17y ago
Have you looked at C--?
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by rw 17y ago
cf. tragedy of the commons.
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by rw 17y ago
The cultural variety and quality is awesome in New York. The Valley has a critical mass of technology, but NYC has a critical mass of life . </more-than-usual bias>
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by rw 17y ago
That's a cool workaround, but is an exta $27/month actually unjustified? How much time is lost when people are trying to contact you, and can't, or vice versa?
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by rw 17y ago
PG has been given [literally] dozens of great suggestions like yours, yet has not implemented them. I think that he is trying to cultivate a respectful community through conversation (i.e. comments), instead of applying technological soluti
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by rw 17y ago
We could send the subscriptions to his school! Imagine how traumatized he must be, now. He'll need counseling just to deal with the stress--not to overcome his 'problem' making electronics.
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by rw 17y ago
Imagine saying "Capitalist America". How accurate is that? Not very :-)
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by rw 17y ago
"[...] The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. [...]" Yes, just look at criminal-suppressing services like (inequitably-funded) public schools, emergency medical care, free kidney transplants... P.S. I voted y
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by rw 17y ago
"a task which is believed to be NP-hard" CITATION NEEDED
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by rw 17y ago
Your comment is painfully embarrassing to read. Instead of attacking what I said (or me), try asking: "could you elaborate on what you think the article is misrepresenting?".
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by rw 17y ago
When a quantum computer is put to work on a problem, it considers all possible answers by simultaneously arranging its qubits into every combination of "zeroes" and "ones." This has got to stop.
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by rw 17y ago
What if they are not improved by doing that? What if women actually respond "better" to not being listened to? If that's (empirically) true, is that acceptable? I think the parents are asking how we can go about wrangling with gender role
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by rw 17y ago
Step 0: don't pretentiously prepend "new" to the name of your language.

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