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by solveit 7y ago
> But I haven’t seen it work in practice with strong usability. The Linux kernel does this (with a mailing list, no less!). I agree with the main thrust of your post and I suppose strong usability is arguable but I thought it would be go
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by solveit 7y ago
> Disabled people certainly don't want to be part of that classification but there's no subjectiveness when it comes to their disablement. You'd be surprised. Being disabled is a spectrum just as being ugly is. It's n
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by solveit 7y ago
SK published (and is publishing) logs of every establishment the infected people had been to with timestamps accurate to the minute. Like, "this particular Burger King branch from 2:23 to 2:55". For the entire two-week period in w
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by solveit 7y ago
You're right. I chose the optimistic end of fatality estimates because that's the conservative choice (for making the point I was making) but given that infrastructure will collapse in this scenario the true fatality rate is almos
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by solveit 7y ago
As I see it, you have a choice between three options. 1. Go nuts and lock everything down, Wuhan-style. 2. Be really competent at testing people, tracking everyone they've come into contact with over the previous ~2 weeks, test them to
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by solveit 7y ago
The US had tested 23 out of every million people as of 11th March, while South Korea had done 3692/million as of 8th March.
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by solveit 7y ago
Sure game-changing big changes exist. But when someone says "this is different", it's almost certainly not different. Both of those statements are true and I see no reason to think we're not in the latter case right now.
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by solveit 7y ago
On the one hand, you're absolutely right. On the other hand, if I'm putting off food or even general house/vehicle maintenance because of market conditions, my retirement has already failed from my point of view.
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by solveit 7y ago
Two people were executed. One for smuggling(The regime was figuring out how he had contracted the virus after NK barred Chinese people from entering the country and they found out that he was meeting Chinese smugglers), and the other for
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by solveit 7y ago
> This is partly due to the fact that upward mobility in South Korea is notoriously hard without the right connections This is perceived to be the case, yes, but I have seen no evidence indicating that it is in fact the case. In fact, al
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by solveit 7y ago
> Much of natural language aptitude is about fuzzy logic with lots of exceptions (in English at least) and contextual intuition (especially in Chinese). Not saying you're wrong, but do you have a source to back up this claim?
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by solveit 7y ago
It helps that socialism is a much dirtier word in Korea, courtesy of history with a certain northern neighbour.
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by solveit 7y ago
While I see your point, it should be noted that we are perfectly capable of killing everyone on Earth as well. The only reason this hasn't happened is because the whole world came together to be more sensible[1] about nuclear conflicts
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by solveit 7y ago
What's up with October? It looks incredibly overrepresented on the top 20 list as well.
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by solveit 7y ago
> It's amazing how much this misses the point of the conversation on meritocracy - that critics of meritocracy do not have a problem with merit itself From what I've seen of the conversation on meritocracy, you could read throu
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by solveit 7y ago
> Even then, why not consider their opinions (which are popular, rightly or not), and criticize them? They really aren't popular in any real sense. I would go so far as to say that anyone who thinks they're popular isn't p
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by solveit 7y ago
Not what you were looking for, but I would be conscripted into the military if I quit this job.
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by solveit 7y ago
I mean, we're arguing semantics at this point, but these definitions we're talking about are things like schemes, which pretty much everybody would call heavy machinery.
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by solveit 7y ago
Grothendieck and lack of machinery do not belong in the same sentence. But yes, it is kind of silly.
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by solveit 7y ago
Because the only reason to send a human to the moon is publicity, and having said human die defeats the whole point. If there were an actual reason to send people to space, we'd be just fine with deaths. People die in construction, e
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by solveit 7y ago
The sentence is (afaict) accurate, relevant, and to the point, only incidentally being amusing. It should survive StackOverflow as well.
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by solveit 7y ago
"I encrypted the device but don't have the key" isn't a defense to being compelled to decrypt the device?
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by solveit 7y ago
Google is literally the market leader at using personal information to make money. In any sensible business plan, they'd be the ones buying data, except they don't have to, because they're also the best at collecting it! In
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by solveit 7y ago
Just like every moderately serious athlete does.
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by solveit 7y ago
An article on Less Wrong being castigated on HN for being too conformist! Never thought I'd see the day.
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by solveit 7y ago
That just makes me think you haven't been exposed to enough weird people. Also, uh, you're not very open minded.
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by solveit 7y ago
A more general (and more mainstream) idea is that of political capital.
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by solveit 7y ago
Not even kidding, I love how HN commenters understand orders of magnitude.
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by solveit 7y ago
I don't know Bill Gates well enough to say if you're right or wrong, but I am dead certain that you don't either.
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by solveit 7y ago
> We seem to be much better at measuring and discussing "success" than actual happiness. Not surprising given how much easier it is to fake happiness than success.

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