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by saulpw 2y ago
I think this should be front and center. To that end I propose "magnitude notation"[0] (and I don't think we should use the word logarithm, which sounds like advanced math and turns people away from the basic concept, which
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by saulpw 2y ago
Geez those AI-generated images are terrible. It impugns the entire work, which might very well be interesting and reasonable, but I didn't click through to find out. Stock images would have been better.
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by saulpw 2y ago
This is yet another reason I'm promoting the ^45 "magnitude notation"[0]. https://saul.pw/mag
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This article is about storage.
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How does one 'know' anything? Centuries of philosophical inquiry have been devoted to answering this question, but meditative practice is what actually shows you.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Sales or income tax will be a problem though.
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But then there comes a moment when you recognize perception without thoughts, and it becomes apparent that awareness is different from thought. You might 'think' this observation would be contaminated by thought too, but when the
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by saulpw 2y ago
> My thoughts are serialized and obviously countable. You might want to consider doing a bit of meditation...anyone who describes their thoughts as 'serialized' and 'obviously countable' has not much time actually loo
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by saulpw 2y ago
Most teams are less disciplined than they should be. Also, job/team mobility is very low right now. So the question becomes, how do you increase discipline on the team you're on?
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It was for me too, but only for about a month or so. Once I got 19 of 20 achievements (and the last one is nigh-impossible), I lost interest, and haven't played it since. (Though this post is tempting me to try a game or two with a d
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by saulpw 2y ago
It takes time to grow capacity to meet growing revenue/usage. As parent is saying, if you are in a growth market at time T with capacity X, you would rather have more people using it even if that means they can each use less.
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by saulpw 2y ago
My criteria are "no letters or digits from any language" (other than 2). So you can't use the log or S() or the gamma function, but you can use sqrt, because there is accepted symbology that does not require any atom of non-m
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by saulpw 2y ago
What about making each digit be the instruction "times 10 plus digit", with a different instruction to push a 0, like a space? Then you can represent 23 with " 23".
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What if it were a two-tiered system, in which 8500 local representatives elected their set of ~435 national representatives?
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No, a plurality of people voted for the current situation. Not a majority of people, not a majority of voters (many of whom didn't vote, or weren't able to vote), and not even a majority of people who voted (49.8%, and no you c
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by saulpw 2y ago
Ever read Snowcrash?
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Yes, it makes it untenable. There is no way I can remember 4 IP addresses at once.
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by saulpw 2y ago
You should propose it! I hear the CFPB is looking for new ways to protect consumers.
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Those were 4 different types of meetings.
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The slowness to adopt IPv6 is because it's not a great design. Going from 32-bits to 128-bits is complete overengineering. We will never need 128-bits of network address space as long as we are confined to this solar system, and the
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Yeah that's when I stopped reading.
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John Napier is my current math nerd hero! I've been trying to promote "magnitude notation"[0] as the next evolution in numeric notation. If we used mag numbers in science and journalism and even finance, we'd get the s
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The tracks have been laid by social media and smartphones, we've all been tied to the tracks for awhile and some people have definitely been run over by trolleys, and the people building this next batch of monster trolleys are accelera
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Predicted horrors aren't real horrors either. But maybe we don't have to wait until the horrors are realized and embedded into the fabric of society before we apply the brakes a bit. How else could we possibly be vigilant? Read
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If that mechanical process is not reversible, then it's not a copyright violation. For instance, I can compute the SHA256 hashes for every book in existence and distribute the resulting table of (ISBN, SHA256) and that is not a copyri
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> So the models are legitimately not viable without massive copyright infringement. Copyright is not about acquisition, it is about publication and/or distribution. If I get a copy of Harry Potter from a dumpster, I can read it. If
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It is if they are dismantling the pieces for their own benefit. Removing power from the institution and giving it to themselves.
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It's "The Game of Black and White" per The Book by Alan Watts. It goes all the way down to raw mass--the proportion of matter and anti-matter should have been exactly 50/50. But for some reason there was just a little
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by saulpw 2y ago
No, that means that they're earning enough in one year to cover their entire valuation. You want something like 10:1 p/e which means that the next 10 years earnings are factored in to cover their present valuation.
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What do you think capitalism is, if not that? "Those with capital use their money to make the rules so they make more money." Many people think capitalism is simply a market economy. It's not. You can have a market economy

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