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by sebastos 7y ago
>(Alt-Tab, really?) Yeah, but they're changing it _back_ to the way it should have been, and the way it used to be. Which is wayyyyyyyy better. >They also mention a "better" multi-monitor support. that scares me. I have
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by sebastos 8y ago
I doubt they do, but have you never had a sort of "heart-to-heart with yourself"? I'll sometimes take a walk with the explicit intention of having a good think, and whenever I do that, my thoughts absolutely take the form of
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by sebastos 8y ago
Am I having a stroke
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by sebastos 8y ago
Computers, radio, internet, etc. all started as big government spending with eyes towards military applications. Spending 406 billion on a program like this largely _is_ giving it back to the people: productive people who are designing and
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by sebastos 8y ago
Why does it assume that? It assumes that when _you_ make up a scale, the people that deserve to be at the top of it tend to be there. There's no reason for it to imply there's one universal scale of good people versus bad people.
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by sebastos 8y ago
>Plenty of studies show that the correlation between being on the edge on that curve and being extremely successful are tenuous at best, most very successful people have average IQ. Sources please. That's not my understanding of the
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by sebastos 8y ago
To each their own and all that, but this method of driving adoption never works. Virtually nobody makes decisions that way when they're shopping for a product that is important to their everyday life. This was Tesla's big insight
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by sebastos 8y ago
I mean, I could do that, but that's kind of missing the point. In fact, I don't particularly disagree with the ideas. I think it would be pretty hard to find people who do! That's what makes the piece so banal - it's say
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by sebastos 8y ago
>I just started working at Google and it wasn't everything I had hoped This person just graduated college. This is a wildly unremarkable piece of writing about a widely discussed issue, and the author has no unique insight into the
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by sebastos 8y ago
Great answers, thanks for the insight! Responses to the responses: 2. Definitely squares with what I remember of the problem. Seems like accommodating the most extreme operating conditions would compromise the design so strongly that it&#x2
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by sebastos 8y ago
Cool concept! 1. Any preliminary numbers for total weight and/or disk loading? 1a. How much weight budget is left for payload while still being past the break-even point, considering you'll need enough battery to weather nights an
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by sebastos 8y ago
For anyone that's curious, the actual point of The Bell Curve is that modern society's knowledge economy increasingly rewards IQ, so we should be careful not to create a world that conflates "high IQ" with "good per
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by sebastos 8y ago
Though it's important to remember that this doesn't necessarily preclude the existence of a "visual git", for instance.
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by sebastos 8y ago
Interesting, thanks! For others interested, I also found that Scott Alexander wrote a tremendous summary and then rebuttal of Neoreactionary theory. An excellent example of steel-manning an argument you disagree with, then taking it apart i
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by sebastos 8y ago
Just wondering, cause I've often wondered if there's some interesting argumentation trapped inside a 15,000 word <body> - is Carlyle the go-to source if I want to read about the ideas without the ... rest?
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by sebastos 8y ago
No, I think I did exactly the same thing you did. In fact, I went in eager to read what he had to say, and ended up tapping out after the prose became too insufferable. I'm just saying I wish more people would do what you did. Read it,
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by sebastos 8y ago
Great minds and all that.
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by sebastos 8y ago
Exactly. Similar to the famously political choice to restrict the space of IPv4 to 4 billion addresses.
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by sebastos 8y ago
Well just to present the other side, I don't really understand the prevalence of the "there's no one answer that fits for everybody" comment trope. You see a couple of comments like yours in every discussion like this. S
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by sebastos 8y ago
3: Yes. Mandatory indenting is a godsend to readability. Author is wrong. 4: Yes. Imports >> Includes in every conceivable way. However, what is actually available to import _is_ confusing. This is really a symptom of a different prob
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by sebastos 8y ago
You can probably get the model to a place where the actual orientation / position of each component is completely resolved into the final world coordinate sit will have, then do the slicing after that but before any intersections &#x2F
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by sebastos 8y ago
So your takeaway from my example is that the pit crew was being exploited? Even though they didn’t know it, and even though literally everyone was worse off after the wage hike?
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by sebastos 8y ago
Imagine you're an enterprising, privately operated F1 pit crew. You shop your company around to teams, which hire you to be their crew. The teams promise you $10,000 per race because you have built a reputation for being fast, and ther
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by sebastos 8y ago
:thumbs-up: Thanks for being civil :)
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by sebastos 8y ago
Seems like you just wanted to excuse to talk about how stupid people and barbarism are the only reason we still have religion. There’s a less obnoxious version of that argument I tend to agree with, but I don’t see how it’s relevant here. C
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by sebastos 8y ago
Ok, why don’t you go ahead and put two YouTube videos up: one of you burning a Bible, one of you burning a Quran. We’ll see which one gets you into more trouble :) (Note: please don’t actually do this, you would be putting yourself into mor
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by sebastos 8y ago
You seem somewhat unperturbed that the entire crux of your original argument was faulty... maybe time for an update on your priors? Don't mean to sound unfriendly :)
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The Cavendish Experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sebastos 8y ago
EDIT: Nevermind, it appears you're right!
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by sebastos 8y ago
This is also a really good insight. To be Andy Reid you have to do both things: take copious notes AND audition. It definitely seems important to understand the positive psychology aspects of this and set yourself up for success, but perhap

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