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by solveit 4y ago
It's funny how banning single occupancy vehicles is out of the question for being overly authoritarian (you're downvoted on HN, but I bet you'll win most actual votes in actual American cities), but designing a city center wi
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by solveit 5y ago
That's a problem common to all of medicine though. It's really hard to operate on the right abstraction level when your codebase was "written" by randomly flipping bits and killing all the programs that don't work.
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by solveit 5y ago
I don't believe any reputable psychiatrist would claim that everyone needs therapy.
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by solveit 5y ago
Life wisdom would seem to be an area where you should be wary of following advice from serial sex abusers... (I know nothing of Robbins, I just wanted to discuss the general heuristic).
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by solveit 5y ago
> The particular thing that comes to mind repeatedly when reading this is the fact that more or less all of mathematics can be derived starting either from set theory or from logic theory. No, most of mathematics can be expressed in se
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by solveit 5y ago
Somewhat famously, the very first commercial blockchain transaction twelve years ago was for two pizzas. Cynicism is fine but you don't have to be lazy about it.
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by solveit 5y ago
If that were the only way to describe the curvature of space then it would indeed be useless.
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by solveit 5y ago
Lots of people study really hard. Few go on to become Feynman.
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by solveit 5y ago
OP wants to be able to hire somebody with a future of abuse because they're not psychic...
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by solveit 5y ago
Thank you for making my day.
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by solveit 5y ago
See 'anyone working at a large company ever'. Any large group of people with any kind of goal and any amount of power(doesn't even have to be a company) will do despicable things, it's almost a law of nature. Google&#x27
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by solveit 5y ago
Lol, every HN commenter knows Google was in the wrong but the Googlers themselves didn't because they're gullible. No, the Googlers didn't buy it but continued working because when it comes to it, thinking your company does s
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by solveit 5y ago
How much time do people actually spend on this training? I am dead certain that the bulk of the time is spent on actually learning the material and not on gaming the test. This is because there are only so many tricks you can learn, and you
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by solveit 5y ago
When a measure becomes a target, the measure will be optimized at the cost of the actual target if the two diverge . If the measure is close enough to the target that the easiest way to optimize the measure is to optimize the target, then
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by solveit 5y ago
I would argue that calculus is essential in discrete maths, but ML is not essential in Computer Science.
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by solveit 5y ago
Philosophers spend a lot of time trying to figure out a way to define an objective measure of utility that can be compared across different people. This is necessary for many formulations of utilitarianism. And probably many HN commenters
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by solveit 5y ago
> even talking about utility assumes the price someone is willing to pay reflects their utility gain It does. It reflects their utility gain relative to the utility they gain by spending that money somewhere else, or just keeping the mon
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by solveit 5y ago
You're right, unless there is unknown physics that happens near a black hole.
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by solveit 5y ago
There is a type of person who can only reply with "smart people can do bad things" when discussing competence in any form. But there are only so many ways you can say "smart people can do bad things" without sounding rep
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by solveit 5y ago
Outspoken Muslims form 9 out of 10 members of Congress despite representing 65% of the US population? I'm genuinely uncertain what point you're trying to make.
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by solveit 5y ago
I suppose you're not concerned about the misery they inflict on their own citizens? While they don't do ethnic cleansing per se (not many ethnicities to cleanse in North Korea), they absolutely do wipe out entire bloodlines for cr
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by solveit 5y ago
And is the Ukrainean state actually fascist? How about Korea? In the absence of UN intervention, would there have arisen an authoritarian state that was a menace to not only its own citizens but every neighbouring country? Clearly Ukraine i
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by solveit 5y ago
A bad actor claiming reasonable motivation does not make the motivation unreasonable... Obviously you have to also be sincere (debatable in Russia's case) and correct (Russian claims are simply wrong).
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by solveit 5y ago
Shouldn't be too relevant if they're planning on living in the house for the next ~30 years.
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by solveit 5y ago
> an economist is someone who can tell you today why he was wrong yesterday. Which puts them near the bottom as a hard science, but near the top of the social sciences. (I'm agreeing with you, but the valence of your observation dep
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by solveit 5y ago
Sure, sure, you can encode difficult computational problems into markets in convoluted ways, but this is uninteresting unless you're into that kind of thing. When people usually say that markets aren't efficient, they don't m
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by solveit 5y ago
Not sure how I feel about an anon account presumably created for the sole purpose of denigrating someone's ability.
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by solveit 5y ago
Patio11 on this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2020/04/21/japan-coronavirus/
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by solveit 5y ago
Principal Engineers at Google know their stuff, a viral blogpost notwithstanding.
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by solveit 5y ago
> We didn’t want simply to step in as teachers with a new set of rules about how the children could use Legos, exchanging one set of authoritarian rules with another. Ann suggested removing the Legos from the classroom. This bold decisio

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