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by shmageggy 4y ago
You really think that a poem that people have tattooed on themselves, put onto tee shirts and mugs, inspired emotional emails to the author, and so on has inspired exactly zero excess recommendations to friends, zero dinnertime discussions
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This argument fails in the same way that “I’ve got nothing to hide” arguments against privacy fail. Even if someone is not currently running afoul of the current government’s current definition of a particular illegal act, we still might no
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> The relationship between perceived brightness and physical amount of light is approximately quadratic (~doubling amount of light is perceived as one incremental brightness step), which is called the gamma curve. This sounds logarithm
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> It's crazy in my view to do this without a scheme to support replacement of older vehicles Good news - FTA: > A £110 million scrappage scheme has also been announced, to allow those living within the expanded ULEZ to get mone
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> Simply allowing people to cross at the corner and encouraging them to do so by building a path works keeps them off his land and in public areas. But that's not what this person wants. He wants to maintain exclusive access to la
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I've noticed SV rich guys never use citations (Sam Altman is another that comes to mind), probably because of the uncritical fawning they receive regardless. Why bother backing up what you say with evidence when the audience doesn&#x27
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> No, it's a failing of government policy. And who (or perhaps what socio-economic class) might be responsible for our inability to change these perpetually bad government policies that always seem to preserve this state of rampan
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> Consumer goods are absolutely best handled by markets. But what about the previous paragraph where you said > markets are... mostly blind to externalities (pollution!) What about the externalities from consumer goods? (And every
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If by “worked out ok” you mean where life on earth is reduced to little more than weeds and it takes millions of years for the complex ecosystems that support humanity to reemerge, then yeah, it worked out just fine. We would definitely go
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A few years ago there was a billboard in my city opposing an assisted suicide/death with dignity bill. Turns out it was sponsored by a disability advocate group who claimed that doctors abuse these laws to kill disabled people. Pretty
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Humans started using tools over 2.5 million years ago, and that’s also when brain size stared to steadily increase.
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The idea is that the ability to create technology creates an evolutionary gradient whereby increased intelligence yields better tools yields increased survivability
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Opening twitter.com on my phone reveals no fewer than 4 (FOUR!) obstacles to doing or seeing anything. Log-in with Google pop-up | “Use the app” nag box | Cookie modal | Log-in page When I get bombarded like that I just “nope” right out
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You mean the common person who is getting evicted or having their rent increased by double digit percentages or getting priced out of their neighborhoods? Or the common person who owns a dozen high rises and is pissed about paying slightly
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Note there are two pdfs with more detail linked at the bottom under "Read more about this year’s prize" Popular science background: How entanglement has become a powerful tool (pdf) Scientific Background: “For experiments with ent
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> This paper states this as though it is desirable and inevitable. No it doesn't? Two sentences later: > But modernity has been enabled by the rapid and accelerating expenditure of our one-time inheritance of fossil fuels, and b
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For a 500 page version of this analysis with correspondingly more rigor (including an acknowledgment of S-curves), see Growth by Vaclav Smil. Although this is just a tiny, flawed snapshot of the argument, the conclusions are the same.
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> ...assuming... the mix of opponents are the same in the two periods (2019 and 2020-2022) This seems like a big issue. There are currently a bunch of really promising young players coming up the ranks who will likely be continuing to
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> In this simulation. Magnus reached the rating in 1600 simulated trajectories out of 2000. If Magnus Carlsen continues showing the same performance as he did during the 2019 period, he has 80% chance of reaching 2900.
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It's not about prudishness, although generating pornography is one of the concerns. In the paper there's a full page on ethical concerns, but some of issues they mention are misinformation, and perpetuating harmful cultural stereo
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If you look at the website of the organisation that lobbied for this ( https://brightpathstrong.org/about/ ), you'll see that several of Thorpe's grandchildren are honorary board members, as well as prominent t
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I was wondering how you made that gif and looking for an option on the UI to automatically export one, but then I realized you are OP. That would be a cool feature to add.
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Having nerded out on this question in the past, I found that Wikipedia had one of the better discussions, with a Huffman encoding scheme that seemed like it should be near optimal. Someone has since deleted it but it can be found in the his
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Following the link for “wankpuffin” (beautiful word, btw), apparently the one-syllable followed by two-syllable construction is a distinct pattern, called a “shitgibbon” ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shitgibbon ) Noun
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This gets a nod in the last paragraph > …a mantis shrimp will never smell the way a dog can, and a dog will never understand what it is like to be a bat.
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Unfortunate editorial choice for the title, as this is really about how noise and light pollution disrupt the natural world. As these topics seem to be popular here, probably the original title would have been a better choice: > It appe
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This was my takeaway as well. So in order to not get screwed everytime I do business with any corporation (i.e. virtually constantly in the modern world), I have to go scrutinize contracts, meticulously log phone calls, initiate and follow
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This is addressed at the end of the article. Many are probably made with automated tools > For example, the 12-word stub Pottallinda (5 views last year) was created on 18 January 2011 by User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao, who happens to be th
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I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. I
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I see. I still find this usage confusing, since in the lunar context it seems to simply refer to grain size (regolith -> soil -> dust), whereas terrestrially, the word "soil" has a much richer connotation.

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