sarbaz

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by sarbaz 7y ago
How do you know? There's no experiment I can think of to confirm this. IMO, the correct 'null hypothesis' wrt mammals is that they think and feel like humans do, except where we've managed to prove otherwise.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
>I think this is only true for narrow definitions of efficient The definition I was going for is this: 2% of the US is currently employed in the agriculture sector. The US is also a very large exporter of agricultural products. So each a
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by sarbaz 7y ago
It pretty clearly means that the amount of food produced every day is the amount of food that 9B people consume every day. Market forces will cause the types of food produced to be diverse enough to consist of a sane and reasonable approxim
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by sarbaz 7y ago
> - Can anyone explain the tipping-point business? How can a series of local fires cause a global collapse? Especially considering that this is neither the first nor the biggest fire? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr
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by sarbaz 7y ago
I've read like 10 articles about this so far, and they did not answer the following questions: - How large, proportionally, is the burned region? How long would it theoretically take for the whole thing to burn down at this rate? - How
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by sarbaz 7y ago
Should people act in ways that disagree with their sense of justice? Should people be allowed to speak out against things that other people do, but that disagree with their sense of justice? I don't see how you can call it "arroga
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by sarbaz 7y ago
Yes, but you're selling your attention to Facebook across state boundaries (in 49/50 states). But my more serious answer would be that everybody is harmed by inconsistent trade rules between states. It just makes doing business ha
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by sarbaz 7y ago
One of the rights we explicitly give the government in the Constitution is to regulate our trade and commerce. From that lens all these regulations make sense, including the social media regulations proposed.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
You should check out Threeballot for a simple counterexample. The idea is that you xor together 3 ballots when you vote, but one of the three ballots is published. You have a 1/3 chance of catching manipulation.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
What are the problems with researchers' solutions? There are some very good ideas out there.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
I have to ask: why not find an Emirati friend you trust and have them be the owners of the business and you an employee? It sounds like it would be less costly.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
But this doesn't really apply to apartments, which are probably much more common in Tokyo
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by sarbaz 7y ago
> it has never been what I've put people through. How can you tell? Is this always based on how you experienced the interview, or do you ask candidates afterwards how they felt? (no insult intended, but) you made an empirical state
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by sarbaz 7y ago
This is exactly how submarines work
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by sarbaz 8y ago
The government should be able to use its power of Eminent Domain to buy the copyright from ICC. To me it seems like the only fair solution.
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by sarbaz 8y ago
I used to think like you do, but what changed my mind was that I tried to consider whether a hands-off approach will maximize total freedom. If, by regulating the way people do business, we can increase total freedom in the world, I think t
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by sarbaz 8y ago
This is also the first idea I've seen that tries to deal with the free speech problem on the internet. A lot of platforms today apply varying amounts of censorship (like youtube's copyright takedown mess), but there isn't rea
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by sarbaz 8y ago
This person's feelings are evidence that good science should be able to explain. Dismissing them just because they don't line up with our theory is precisely what anti-intellectualism is all about.
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by sarbaz 8y ago
Sounds like prefetching is good for you, since greater prefetching provides greater plausible deniability.
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by sarbaz 8y ago
The Hyphae image (and the trees) have a result that's very similar to Diffusion Limited Aggregation, but the method of generation is very different. IMO the Hyphae way is actually less cool than plain DLA. The algorithm had a lot of de
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by sarbaz 8y ago
A lot of this is simply that p < 0.05 is a very low bar for research. If we want to understand how the world works, we need to be able to construct mechanisms that explain why the results we measure in experiments come about. Without t