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by savanaly 7y ago
Did you read the survivorship bias portion of the post? Since it is making points in support of the direction taken here and you didn't respond to them I assume not, but in particular it gives an interesting exasmple of how Elm evaluat
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by savanaly 7y ago
The funny thing is that even the easiest games are surprisingly difficult, even insurmountable, for otherwise capable humans who have not been "trained" on what to expect and learned domain knowledge through trial and error. See [
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by savanaly 7y ago
If you don't feel like reading the actual book, this book review [0] does an excellent job of summarizing. [0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
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by savanaly 7y ago
At many points in my life I have tried to do sketching and recognize my problems in your description of symbol drawing. Since you sound knowledgeable about it could you possibly recommend something that expands on that topic, and gives advi
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Too Much Dark Money in Almonds(slatestarcodex.com)
6 points by savanaly 7y ago|0 comments
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by savanaly 7y ago
By [all consumers' discretionary income they'd be willing to spend] I think the parent meant [all consumers' discretionary income they'd be willing to spend on web content] which is obviously a subset of all their discre
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by savanaly 7y ago
For those who don't know, you can get around their incognito detection. Go to chrome://flags/ and set "Filesystem API in Incognito" to enabled.
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by savanaly 7y ago
We've almost had several nuclear weapons launched due to flaws in human decision making, two that were launched with the inputs of humans, and a ton of wars launched with the input of humans. What about an AI being involved automatical
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by savanaly 7y ago
Does it reduce the entropy of passwords in practice or just in theory ? It could be that in practice if you let users repeat characters they will do so more often than random chance would allow for, thus making their passwords predictabl
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by savanaly 7y ago
I'm sure it's not. Often, the streamer is reading the chat onscreen while streaming, and it's always identical to the one I'm seeing, except perhaps delayed by some seconds.
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by savanaly 7y ago
In the case of the bank bailouts of 2008, didn't they all get repaid, with interest, and the government made money on it?
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The Economics of Privacy(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by savanaly 7y ago|0 comments
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by savanaly 7y ago
Before Uber and Lyft came along, did we have either?
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by savanaly 8y ago
It certainly accompanies it (can you imagine a world where there was needless and wasteful consumption, but no one bothered to advertise?). I wouldn't be so sure about causation.
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by savanaly 8y ago
We scoff at companies that intentionally store the passwords in plain text, then compare that stored value with the credentials provided to authenticate a session. This is a common mistake for novice engineers. We are dismayed by but I woul
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by savanaly 8y ago
I agree with everything up until life lesson #1. How does that follow from the preceding? Nowhere did you say you had learned that inflation in renting prices is greater than inflation in wages which is what would be necessary for "inf
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by savanaly 8y ago
>But who are those people who simplify Silicon Valley, and mock the useless innovation? Isn't listing "those people" the very first thing he does at the top of the essay? WaPo, TechCrunch, Slate, etc.
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by savanaly 8y ago
>How do you explain the obesity epidemics which is a very recent phenomenon, if not through perverse market forces? When you put it that way, I feel like asking how could the obesity epidemic possibly be blamed on perverse market forces?
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by savanaly 8y ago
>should be put up for auction rather than being first-come-first-served. Have you by chance heard of the Coase Theorem in economics? Which states that given that property rights are well defined and transaction costs relatively low, init
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by savanaly 8y ago
>Apple is the richest company in the world, and instead of paying their engineers top wages... If that sentence caught anyone else's eye, know that it caught mine too and I did a quick sanity check. [0] It does seem that Apple is fa
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by savanaly 8y ago
Wouldn't we observe the exact same behavior if the two were in an equilibrium where long term average cost was minimized (and, incidentally, equal to the price) and something caused LTAC to rise?
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by savanaly 8y ago
If we are efficient enough in our use of land, the demand relative to the supply will shrink enough that it's no longer scarce. I suppose lots of people enjoy owning their own land-- large tracts of it in fact, and not sharing it with
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by savanaly 8y ago
I lean libertarian, but I like to think I have a lot of empathy and also to some degree share your preference for a quainter, high-price era of goods. So I'll try to argue Amazon's side from a point of view you might relate to. He
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by savanaly 8y ago
Perhaps thinking of facts as "asymmetric weapons" would help? [0] [0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-o...
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by savanaly 8y ago
To add on to the reasons mentioned by others (Hanabi is simpler, purely cooperative, etc), I'll point out that Hanabi is fairly popular with young CS types, especially the ones interested in ML and AI, much more so than Bridge which is
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by savanaly 8y ago
Economists assume that there exists some value V that if you offered $V to someone to quit facebook, they would be indifferent to the offer. That is, if we offered V + $0.01 they would certainly take the offer and consider themselves a penn
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by savanaly 8y ago
>What are the best replacements (products, services, or just best practices) for Facebook's core utility of sharing photos and updates, and generally staying in touch with family and friends in your network? That we all think of tho
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by savanaly 8y ago
Ok so then you need to invent a new word for what is lost when companies further cross the line from [using your data in a totally internal and in fact internal to just your account]. Because it seems like a big step from treating your data
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Novichok attack board game 'Our Guys in Salisbury' on sale in Russia(theguardian.com)
2 points by savanaly 8y ago|0 comments
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by savanaly 8y ago
Board games are completely overrun you say? But I buy at least a half dozen big board games per year from Amazon and have never had a problem.

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