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https://hn.algolia.com/?query=betteridge&sort=byPopularity&p...
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The language it's written in is Assail, too.
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I've read some computation-heavy processing using long-form variable names in code and it's not actually readable. For parameter passing, long-form names make sense. For actual math? Not so much.
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That's not irony. That's Birdman winning an Oscar.
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Honestly... you haven't learned public speaking. Watch any widely-acclaimed comedian and tell me there's any lack of dry wit and piercing insight. Those routines are speeches. Pick one that you like and dissect it to see how it wo
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If they were bringing in entrepreneurs, what does that have to do with academics?
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You seem to be asking for this: http://postgis.net/docs/ST_DWithin.html
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You have to remember that, in this era where there are more books in existence than is possible for a single person to read within a lifetime, most people haven't heard of everything. I've certainly never heard of the two names yo
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The really funny part of HPMOR is that, while it was intended to demonstrate rationalism, what I got out of it was that rationalism doesn't actually work. I'm unwilling to post spoilers, which makes this unfairly undiscussable, bu
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It wasn't apparent in my own comment, but I don't put much stock in the "intellectual content of the work" myself. I dislike LessWrong and self-described rationalists, including Yudkowsky as far as I know him. I agree wi
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Which is perfect. We can Peter Principle away the egotistical programmers.
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I feel obligated to mention that this strategy, while it often works to some degree, sometimes doesn't work. For people like me, phrasings like that sound passive-aggressive. I prefer the strategy of wrapping my sentences in things lik
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Well, Harry did stop giving mini-lectures on rationalist concepts. :P At least, out loud.
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While I think the line you were fed about its premise was incorrect, I don't think you read as far as chapter 28, did you? The thing is... HPMOR isn't about the scientific method. It's about rationality. It's not a story
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From Sep 2014, Neil Gaiman writing about Terry Pratchett: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett...
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> until the patent expires. It's almost like it's baked into the system.
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"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
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People complain about the tyranny of the mob, and then they obey it. Capitalism.
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> Is something "publicly available" if you can be sued for using it? Yes. > There's a difference between the details of the invention being known and it being available for use. "You have to pay for it" doesn&
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Being a good host is also kind of a thing, FYI, and part of that is going to the effort of making life nice for your guest. If you're going to harp on hospitality, please remember it cuts both ways.
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That's the point from the inventor's perspective, yes. If an inventor wanted it publicly available, she'd just publish it. That's generally how science happens. For an inventor, a patent is a way to guarantee ownership o
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The entire point of a patent is to make it publicly available while funneling money to the patent holder (who is presumably the inventor). That's the entire point . That's why the patent system exists . To say something is paten
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Well, it's worth noting that this has been John Mark's statement for some time. Here's the earliest instance I can find online: https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?artic.
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Blah. I got my recollection confused with the Greater Good magazine, which is at Berkeley. /facepalm
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Incidentally, Dr. Zimbardo has continued doing stuff in the last 40 years. He testified as an expert for Abu Ghraib, wrote a book [1], and has been promoting heroic imagination as an antidote. It's worth checking out his work since, if
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It's a little disingenuous to use the word "schoolmates" to describe his fellow prisoners. This was at Berkeley; as far as I'm aware, none of the guards knew the prisoners before the experiment. Honestly, if it weren&#x2
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In my first write of that post, I automatically substituted "trailblazers" for "commandos". Then I realized I didn't want to figure out another metaphor. Some sibling comment mentioned "settlers" as a meta
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I think that what this really misses is that companies aren't necessarily monolithic entities. You need different groups of people doing different things. "Commandos" are useful as skunkworks groups, trying out completely out
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> I don't think the Dems in the US would go for that. Every non-office-holding Democrat I know would go for it. The problem is that it's political suicide to actually suggest it, because most people don't realize how exorb

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