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by svara 6y ago
Ok, but if you're using a password manager with long random passwords, that changes the calculation. The advantage might not be huge at the end of the day, but it's non-zero.
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by svara 6y ago
That seems to be a rather strong interpretation of "cogito", i.e. that thinking needs to work according to rules and regularities such as logic. I'm certainly no expert on what Descartes meant precisely when he wrote that, bu
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by svara 6y ago
> Could be that and explanation to the final part of the curve? In principle yes of course, but 1) there's an obvious mechanism which gives you a clear prior and 2) this is not the first time people have looked at this type of data
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by svara 6y ago
I can't help but feel like having it this way is breaking one of the huge reasons that made computers so absurdly exciting and enticing in the past. The fact that there was this wide open field, where, sure, maybe you paid Microsoft fo
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by svara 6y ago
> (Are people here really having this hard of a time with basic statistics?) No, no one is disagreeing with the narrow point you're making that protecting the oldest leads to fewer bad outcomes given equal numbers of infections. But
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by svara 6y ago
The EU has received enough vaccine for everyone over 70-something. But it doesn't change anything about whether there's a third wave or not. If you chose not to do a lockdown in the third wave because "older people are alread
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by svara 6y ago
This is the wrong thing to complain about. At this point vaccine distribution is a zero-sum game. You might just as well frame it as "EU refrains from pushing itself to the front of the line". This thing isn't over before vac
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by svara 6y ago
It's not strictly true in the sense that if the price were to fall over long enough periods of time, you would expect the hash rate to eventually fall, too. But that's not plausible in the scenario where the world's financial
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by svara 6y ago
The point is that ever increasing hash power is a consequence of the design of the system.
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by svara 6y ago
That analogy doesn't work at all, since "the body contains the brain" does not describe a recursive relationship. By contrast, you see people trying to "explain consciousness" by telling a story that assumes conscio
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by svara 6y ago
Hi! We've been bootstrapping ariadne.ai [0] in the same space. Similar origin story, too - turning tools we built as grad students into products for the biomedical industry. Looks like we're thinking along somewhat convergent line
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by svara 6y ago
I think there's an issue that sometimes the dynamics of scientific progress that Kuhn described are misinterpreted as basically meaning that, oh look, scientists are just human like the rest of us, so scientific thought isn't some
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by svara 6y ago
Maybe your sample is really biased, but the actual credit card ownership rate in Germany in 2017 was 53% and growing YoY, so it's likely quite a bit higher by now. https://www.statista.com/statistics/865943/cr
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by svara 6y ago
> the number of taxonomists, people who could accurately identify species (many of which require internal dissection, or molecular methods), [...] has most certainly declined. That sentence is close to falsifying itself. If species can b
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by svara 6y ago
> OTOH, I really wonder what would happen if you tried to train an adversarial neural network to produce pictures that make somebody angry, or horny, or to provoke some other very primitive reaction. That is, quite literally, the enterta
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Global Privacy Control(globalprivacycontrol.org)
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by svara 6y ago
I was affected by this. Funny how Malwarebytes wants to turn this into positive PR about how they reacted "quickly". I installed just about every Android anti-malware app that I could find in late January, and none detected the ba
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by svara 6y ago
> Nearly all of the information there is also available in the public documentation of whatever the question asker is asking about anyway. That's really not true in any meaningful way. Maybe the information is somewhere , but some
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by svara 6y ago
Tuna aren't a single species, most of them are not endangered. The one you would usually use in sandwiches or salads for example is the albacore or skipjack tuna which is not endangered. Bluefin is critically endangered. (Edit: Saw tha
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by svara 6y ago
I'm about as pro EU as it gets, but I don't want the EU to integrate into a superstate modeled after 19th century nationalist ideas. What makes the EU awesome to me is precisely the fact that it's a nation-like structure with
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by svara 6y ago
Discovered this very early in life when I found out that the more adults tell kids that something is "fun", the less it's true. If it really was fun, it would be obvious and wouldn't need to be said ;)
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by svara 6y ago
And that's where you've checked out of the political philosophy that built the modern world. You should feel right at home living under the Chinese communist party? Cynicism can really lead you astray as your comment proves.
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by svara 6y ago
There does seem to be a fundamental design issue in bitcoin and proof of work in general: Mining has economies of scale and therefore winner takes all mechanics leading to centralization. At that point the mechanism that ensures ledger inte
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by svara 6y ago
"Competition" in the Darwinian context is often understood in a too narrow way anyway. Organisms can become more fit by carving out a specialized niche for themselves where they don't have to compete. Or by becoming more coop
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by svara 6y ago
It's explained in more detail further down in that paragraph, I think the wording is fine. The axis argument gives the index of the axis along which your summate, and which therefore disappears after summation. There might be a confusi
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by svara 6y ago
Cool, that literature is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for. Without having looked at the precise methodological details, it seems to broadly support my point, though: "Our findings lead us to the conclusions that the
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by svara 6y ago
I really don't think that's it to be honest. I'm talking about the difference between an expert level speaker of a second language and a native speaker of that language. Getting basic phonology right happens way before you ge
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by svara 6y ago
> I think an adult working full-time on their pronunciation would get within the native range of variation fairly quickly. I'd be interested in learning more about how to do that! I don't think I've ever seen it in real li
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by svara 6y ago
> My pet theory is that it isn't a decline of brain ability but rather a psychological shift: Adults expect results, get frustrated more quickly, can't tolerate speaking "silly" for long etc. Totally agree. An adult w
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by svara 6y ago
Not sure if this question even makes sense, or if it sounds hopelessly naive to someone in the know, my maths education ended in undergrad - can this type of push towards formalizing mathematical proofs be seen as a sort of continuation of

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