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721.
by solveit 7y ago
Honestly, even if they were using the robot dogs as attack dogs, I'm a whole lot more comfortable with robots with auditable source code (or at least an auditable training procedure) than I am with actual dogs that are basically traina
722.
by solveit 7y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I can't see how in the world you could possibly know any of what you said. The human brain doesn't (as far as we know) seem to use backpropagation. Everything else is wide, wide open.
723.
by solveit 7y ago
I have to say crypto seems much easier to solve than bad politics. If you'll grant this, your argument hinges on crypto being useless under an oppressive government, because it will be controlled. I find this implausible given that no
724.
by solveit 7y ago
Buterin was briefly involved with people trying to efficiently simulate quantum computers ( https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/106215696645222809... ). I don't know much about the details of this particu
725.
by solveit 7y ago
Bitcoin certainly got enormously slower. But the other major currencies (ethereum, xrp, etc) are both much faster and more liquid than BTC was in 2015.
726.
by solveit 7y ago
You should be concerned about debris from the truck in front of you flying through your windshield. Unfortunately, I don't think anything short of an armoured hull will stop that. The stronger glass is useless.
727.
by solveit 7y ago
The reason he made bank is because Softbank decided it would be a good idea to let Neumann burn money, gave Neumann a shit ton of money without actually buying control of Wework from Neumann, found that nobody else thought burning money was
728.
by solveit 7y ago
> But even BofA doesn't do things like read your Twitter posts and YouTube comments so they can blackhole your account if you have have the wrong politics. Yet.
729.
by solveit 7y ago
I hate how people perceive unequal growth as a bad thing even when everyone benefits on an absolute scale. In particular, it's a completely ridiculous standard to apply to technology. The fact that Google can train a 12 billion paramet
730.
by solveit 7y ago
The author has a Master's degree in geology, but she's spent most of her career writing for laypeople and approximately none of her career writing for subject matter experts.
731.
by solveit 7y ago
That's because we're lucky to live in a world where the cold war stayed cold, and LeMay and von Neumann were coming from half a century of the worst slaughter the world had ever seen.
732.
by solveit 7y ago
I quite agree. I however maintain that everybody should have access to payment processing services regardless. I think this circle can in fact be squared.
733.
by solveit 7y ago
The point is that payment processing very well should be a right in this age.
734.
by solveit 7y ago
But will it keep the touch bar?
735.
by solveit 7y ago
I feel both of your questions and have no answer for either :(
736.
by solveit 7y ago
I like how your story is both a lesson to really push to get what you want, and a lesson to not ever give people the opportunity to do so.
737.
by solveit 7y ago
Basically this. I'll slightly elaborate on why an efficient market is a good thing. It means that anyone can change money into a different currency without having to worry about being ripped off. There is one exchange rate and you&#x27
738.
by solveit 7y ago
I think that gives a great deal of insight to how armies actually work.
739.
by solveit 7y ago
Upon hearing this, the student achieved enlightenment.
740.
by solveit 7y ago
The problem is that our society is terrible at rewarding positive externalities. Even worse than we are at punishing negative externalities. I do object to your phrasing. Quantitative finance isn't hacking a casino. It does generate
741.
by solveit 7y ago
I think the low carb argument is that processed carbs mess with your blood sugar levels, making you hungrier, but the discourse around nutrition is messed up enough that there are many low carb arguments, some of them mutually contradictory
742.
by solveit 7y ago
That's a terrible example in the context of economic growth over millenia for the simple reason that anything resembling modern healthcare basically didn't exist as recently as a hundred years ago.
743.
by solveit 7y ago
That number happens to be remarkably accurate. More accurate than required by law in fact. It also happens to accurately predict changes in a person's weight if you know everything they're eating.
744.
by solveit 7y ago
Yes, but how would that work in practice? Special schools for high performers is much more palatable than special schools for quarantining children who aren't going to amount to anything (no matter what you call it and how you design i
745.
by solveit 7y ago
I really don't think people would be afraid of banks floating away, Newton or no.
746.
by solveit 7y ago
But China isn't doing unbelievably well. Strong centralized near-totalitarian government quickly industrializes enormous population and becomes Great Power is basically half the story of modern history. The question is whether they&#
747.
by solveit 7y ago
I would guess that they bad enough at both that the difference doesn't really matter. I would be interested in what someone at the highest levels of all three fields thought, but I'm not sure these people exist.
748.
by solveit 7y ago
Obviously the question actually being asked is "Are people traditionally classified dead actually dead dead?" to which the answer may only be "mostly" rather than "yes".
749.
by solveit 7y ago
I don't know about special consideration, but statistically legitimate depends on absolute numbers and not relative. 0.02% of American students would certainly be enough to conduct a statistical analysis on.
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by solveit 7y ago
> The guy has no clue whatsoever when it comes to political matters. I find it unlikely he is clueless and very likely that he has incentives that we do not see.

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