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by savanaly 8y ago
>His exact cause of death is still unknown; police say the autopsy results are not expected for several weeks. Love it when they wait until like five paragraphs into the article to include the sentence that tells you the whole article is
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by savanaly 8y ago
>Give fishing rod, not a fish. I know you're speaking pretty abstractly, but let me run with it for a bit to illustrate the case for basic income: Better yet, is give money and let the person decide whether to buy a fishing rod or a
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by savanaly 8y ago
He worked backward to see what X would need to be for X to grow to 8200k in 70 years and got 72k. Under an assumption of 7% returns per year on average, which is a fair number to use for the stock market over a long period of time (over a s
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by savanaly 8y ago
Did you mean to say comparative advantage?
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by savanaly 8y ago
Every box points to a box and is pointed to by a box. If at first you try box 3 and it doesn't contain your number 3, then your number 3 is out there and its box points to the one you tried. Thus its box is in your chain and has your n
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by savanaly 8y ago
That all sounds hard.
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by savanaly 8y ago
>one could argue this was “the World, including Kasparov versus the World, excluding Kasparov Well only if he also posted his best ideas for how to beat himself. It's Kasparov vs the world and Kasparov cheated a bit.
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by savanaly 9y ago
I personally tend to skim sections on food as they are boring to me.
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by savanaly 9y ago
I really don't understand that-- compared to the cost of developing and marketing the app itself, surely the cost to hire someone whose only qualification is that they be bilingual is trivial, and you would only need them for long enou
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by savanaly 9y ago
What would you call the state of affairs where only 10% of people own cars and the rest make temporary use of those cars through rental? Would you not call that a dramatic move away from private car ownership? And that is a plausible if dis
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by savanaly 9y ago
Well of course, who wouldn't rather pay fifty cents than ten dollars for something? The question is really rather how can the average business survive after its revenue stream falls by 95%? They don't have volunteers staffing the
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by savanaly 9y ago
If drinking beer only had a negative effect on society based on how much beer we collectively drank and you drank beer only when you paid someone else to drink that much less beer, then the analogy would fit and yes, you would indeed not be
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by savanaly 9y ago
I don't understand, whose labor are we talking about when you say "labour-intensive ideas" if not yours? And if it's yours how is it passive?
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by savanaly 9y ago
Well doesn't that just mean they're allowed to record the conversations between me and their tech support? How is that worrisome? I assumed the person you were replying to was asserting that Comcast had proclaimed its right to re
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by savanaly 9y ago
Clearly humans care a lot about neurogenesis not just because understanding whether it happens in humans would be a stepping stone to building a robust model of how cognition happens, but also because intuitively it has to do with whether w
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by savanaly 9y ago
Also, most of their code example are screenshots and thus the code can't be copy/pasted.
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by savanaly 9y ago
Makes me think of >ONCE UPON A time, artists had jobs. And not “advising the Library of Congress on its newest Verdi acquisition” jobs, but job jobs, the kind you hear about in stump speeches. Think of T.S. Eliot, conjuring “The Waste La
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by savanaly 9y ago
I remember a history teacher claiming that in the area of sculpture, the likes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo) haven't been surpassed. He could easily have been full of it, though.
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by savanaly 9y ago
>It seems like the main crux of the argument is that being reflective of the culture is also reinforcing it I believe expecting Google to change its search results to match an ideological agenda (I'm not using "ideological&quot
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by savanaly 9y ago
What is it compared to human drivers in general? That seems to be the fair comparison as "computer will never be drunk/tired/distracted" is usually cited as one of the benefits of computer-driven vehicles.
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by savanaly 9y ago
They have access to your stuff, and they signed away access to the stuff that they have access to when they gave such and such app permissions. It's like if you loan your house key to a friend and they make copies of it and give it to
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by savanaly 9y ago
This doesn't run afoul of my understanding of the EMH. I would expect an equilibrium for the stock market to be when the amount of trading by well informed individuals is such that the marginal cost of another hour of research is equal
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by savanaly 9y ago
I thought the opportunity to write a nice "I'm quitting facebook" post to let all your friends know was half the reason people were doing it?
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by savanaly 9y ago
Yep. I work totally remotely and Slack felt fundamentally different to email: my extensive DM's with coworkers felt very analogous to physical contact. Sometimes, if you're working in an office, you just want to lean back in your
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by savanaly 9y ago
I agree, and this is the first time I can ever recall disagreeing with one of HN's admin title corrections that I noticed.
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by savanaly 9y ago
If humans can't prevent themselves from having accidents 100% of the time when they're in total control of the vehicle, why should we expect they could prevent an accident 100% of the time when they're in partial control of t
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by savanaly 9y ago
Not sure if this answers you question about how Discord can afford it while Slack can't, but the topic of how they store all those messages was addressed very well in this article. https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discor
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by savanaly 9y ago
I don't feel too bad about it. If economic growth stays even slightly positive it won't take too many generations for our descendants to be unimaginably more wealthy than we are. They can put up with our brain banks and dry their
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by savanaly 9y ago
Whenever I read about this sleep-cures-depression topic on HN (and it seems to come up relatively often) I think about and often go back and read this post. [0] Definitely doesn't have all the answers but it really changed how I though
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by savanaly 9y ago
If I collected the same anecdata with Uber drivers I know in real life, not in the context of an uber ride, would the observer effect still apply?

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