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Rapid Evolution of Plastic-Degrading Enzymes Prevalent in the Global Ocean(biorxiv.org)
4 points by supergarfield 6y ago|0 comments
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by supergarfield 6y ago
There are other purposes for taxes, the most famous one being Pigovian taxes, which attempt to price negative externalities into a market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax . The inheritance tax is not a Pigovi
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Effect Tracking Is Commercially Worthless(degoes.net)
1 points by supergarfield 6y ago|0 comments
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by supergarfield 6y ago
As far as I understand, the prevailing opinion is that the brain is a physical object and that its operation does not involve currently-unknown laws of physics (because we have a good understanding of what happens at the scale of an entire
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by supergarfield 6y ago
That's true, but I think it's only "not obviously yes" in the sense that it's also not obvious that you or my mom are conscious. It does seem like accepting that all other physical humans are conscious, and that the
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by supergarfield 6y ago
I'm a little confused by this. To simplify, it seems like either you want developers that are physically present in London, in which case you have to find some and pay them London rates, or you don't particularly care if they are
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by supergarfield 7y ago
> British law also N.Irish people to declare themselves Irish under the GFA This by itself doesn't mean anything for GDPR—GDPR applies to EU residents (whether or not they are EU citizens), not EU citizens. Declaring yourself Irish
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by supergarfield 7y ago
> Though it’s not like companies are in the habit of communicating their CPU scheduling strategy to their customers. The customers don’t care nor can the comprehend that information. I think nobody’s talking about publishing their actual
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by supergarfield 7y ago
The AI may very well take no enjoyment in the narratives it's creating either. Both for this and for sharing emotion, in principle it merely needs a model of human enjoyment or human emotion, not to feel the enjoyment or emotion.
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by supergarfield 7y ago
Non-breaking spaces are required to typeset French correctly, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Stylistic_varian... . The accidental insertion of non-breaking spaces is a possible issue, and it'
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by supergarfield 7y ago
I understand "you can't use any kind of data structure to remember which cards you've already picked among 2^64 of them" as "N cards don't fit in memory". Or is the relevant distinction memory vs disk, as
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Wave Function Collapse in Python (2018)(terbium.io)
1 points by supergarfield 7y ago|0 comments
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by supergarfield 7y ago
> In other words, we end up with an entropy gradient that points along the TIME axis because the volume of space expands along that axis. That's a good insight, I hadn't thought of it that way. > I guess another thing to
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by supergarfield 7y ago
Thanks for the answer. I mean exactly that! Thoughts on your thoughts: > One answer could be the mostly spatially uniform initial conditions of the big bang. That's fair, but in that case, to continue the galactic north analogy, i
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by supergarfield 7y ago
Speaking of this, does anyone know of an explanation for why the direction in spacetime in which entropy decreases is parallel to the time dimension (the one with a different sign in the relativistic metric) of spacetime? Maybe I'm mis
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by supergarfield 8y ago
> People who don't speak english for example but who read python can often read code you wrote and understand it. Math is a similar thing and sometimes called a universal language. I doubt that's true. It would be like reading
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by supergarfield 8y ago
I wrote an post with a short and (hopefully) understandable implementation a while ago: https://terbium.io/2018/11/wave-function-collapse/ . There's a Jupyter notebook you can download at the bottom of th
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by supergarfield 8y ago
Exponential progress is not required to get to post-scarcity and AI overlords. Linear progress gets you there just as surely.
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by supergarfield 8y ago
Maritime power plants are tiny, but they typically require much more enriched uranium, which is frowned upon for civilian programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Diff...
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by supergarfield 8y ago
Sure, maybe occasionally there are anomalies, with extreme price hikes for specific things in specific places. Right now iPhone X prices seem to be reasonably close everywhere (not-so-great-source: http://www.businessinsider.com&
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by supergarfield 8y ago
> 100k in SF is the same as 70k in London which is the same as 5k in Tunis. Not really. Only some things are significantly affected by the local cost of living: rent, food, nights out for instance. Sure, they probably make up the majorit
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by supergarfield 9y ago
This is tangential to your main point, but: > did it in a way that obviates needing to know what a monad is, concern oneself with functional purity, Caring about both of these things in the context of functional programming essentially d
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by supergarfield 9y ago
> Free up drivers of even more responsibility when they kill people? That's a strange way to put it. Surely if someone is not driving their car, they can't be responsible if the car kills people (assuming of course the car was
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by supergarfield 9y ago
This (fairly famous) Reddit post is a really interesting read about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the...
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by supergarfield 9y ago
I know it's completely anecdotal, but I've been with Comcast for two years now and I've always had a good customer service experience with them. That said, I'm in an area with a fair amount of ISP competition, so it&#x27
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by supergarfield 9y ago
Which test are you referring to? Googling returns nothing.
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by supergarfield 9y ago
The advantages you give aren't directly related to the cards being real credit cards, though. Visa debit cards work fine all over the world, and with Stripe. (In my experience it's very common in Europe for debit cards to be dual
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by supergarfield 9y ago
[1] is from Russia Today, so I'll abstain from commenting [2] is true, but it should be noted that this is standard procedure in the West, since citizenship is considered one the most inalienable rights (in Germany, loss of citizenship
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by supergarfield 9y ago
Something being infinite doesn't mean it has no limit (I guess "boundary" would be a better term). If, for instance, it were impossible to answer any question about the strong interaction, I'd clearly call that a limit t
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by supergarfield 9y ago
Gödel's theorem does applies to mathematical systems of axioms, and I don't think it's clear how it translates to physics. To take an extreme example, you could answer any physical question about a universe that's made u

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