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by swatow 12y ago
You originally said: If your house is nominally electric (using gas for things which gas is really good at, making heat) and your gasoline bill is non-existent because your vehicle is electric. It means you can cost out power with a deprec
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by swatow 12y ago
The main point of the article was not so much that technology removes interaction with other people, but that it removes the right kind of interaction. Namely those that expose people to the "real world", in particular class an
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by swatow 12y ago
Knowing averages doesn't help the individual homeowner who has to deal with the increased risk.
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by swatow 12y ago
Depreciation of the battery is going to be much less predictable than energy prices. Just because a simple formula is used in accounting standards, doesn't mean that the true economic value of the battery is anywhere close to the acco
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by swatow 12y ago
not sure that your comment helps the OP, but that is an amazing resume. Shows the kind of intellect Sergey has.
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by swatow 12y ago
There's a Greg Egan novel where one character is invited to work to help build such a simulation. The character is shocked that the simulation creator was aware of the issue of suffering, and had plans to minimize suffering in the sim
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by swatow 12y ago
I don't think cargo cult/magical thinking is a useful concept. I don't know enough about the original cargo cults to say whether they were a reasonable attempt to understand very strange and novel events, or whether the tribe
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by swatow 12y ago
Yeah, it would go something like "What are the applications of this?" everyone gasps, stares at you "...to the K-theory of arithmetic cobordisms." everything goes back to normal, speaker answers the question
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by swatow 12y ago
It might seem like that based on the definition, but read the whole article and you'll find it's the other way around. Mill's number is shown to exist be showing that primes in certain ranges exist, and then building the numb
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by swatow 12y ago
Somehow the fact that this was accomplished by emulating a 32 bit processor with an 8 bit processor, made this less appealing to me. I'm sure it was technically very challenging, but I would have been more excited to see Linux somehow
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by swatow 12y ago
That's in interesting viewpoint, but I didn't see that expressed in the article. It did describe the people involved going on to do other things, but it did not show that they were actually influential. As I pointed out, the ori
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by swatow 12y ago
In classical economics (which I believe in [0]), land is a commodity like any other. There is literally no fundamental difference between land and anything else. Georgists might say that there is no substitute for land, but that is not an
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by swatow 12y ago
Ironically, low statistical power doesn’t only mean real effects can be missed. It also means false effects are more likely to be reported as real, or real effects exaggerated. That is wrong, or at least misleading. If we fix statistical
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by swatow 12y ago
I used the term state capitalism very loosely. What I meant was that success in the economy was primarily a matter of getting the government to grant you privileges.
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by swatow 12y ago
The article doesn't show that the Cybersyn experiment actually influenced the modern big data movement (or anything for that matter). I think that "The socialist origins of the Big Data nation" is much more accurate, since e
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by swatow 12y ago
That is incorrect. There is nothing in the law requiring felons to disclose this. Some employers might ask, and perform their own background checks based on public information.
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by swatow 12y ago
I see a lot of hypocrisy from the left on this issue. When their mobs attack someone, they say that if you express an opinion, other people have the right to criticize you for it. But when the left are attacked by mobs, they describe the
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by swatow 12y ago
Not really digging the plots with no error bars or labels on the y axis
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by swatow 12y ago
First step for doing things correctly: import shutil
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by swatow 12y ago
carguy followed by the 24'th n such that 1 + n + n^13 is prime, followed by the 34'th such n? I would expect a very, very strong password from someone who picks their username like that. (see https://oeis.org/sear
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by swatow 12y ago
I liked the explanation of the physics of why there should be a spike. But I don't see the relationship to the original equation. It seems to me that it's just a coincidence that the original equation had a spike.
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by swatow 12y ago
yeah, he describes in the video how Dalian is a nicer location than the other buildings they operate. I imagine given the lower profits they could no longer afford the luxury.
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by swatow 12y ago
The fundamental problem is the low market price of unskilled labor. A living wage is one a way to deal with it, along with social programs, education and basic income. However living wages suffer from the problem that they only benefit peo
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by swatow 12y ago
It is completely clear to me when I go shopping that Walmart employees are (1) older, (2) less attractive, and (3) less well spoken than employees at Trader Joes or Starbucks. The difference is pretty big. Your intentional exaggeration asi
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by swatow 12y ago
When you say one occasion, do you mean one night, or one week, or longer? I ask because one possibility (and if I had to guess, I'd say this is the case), is that the vast majority of workers on the tipped minimum wage actually make
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by swatow 12y ago
you are right. And the same applies in the other way. If most of the lenders are in Germany or some other country, of course they are going to be annoyed if Greece defaults. Unfortunately, the length and tone of the article are going to c
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by swatow 12y ago
so glad I added the disclaimer to my post.
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by swatow 12y ago
Based on what you wrote, I expected the comments to be along the lines of "who do these privileged man-children think they are, don't they realize what real work is?". But when I read them, I saw they were more along the li
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by swatow 12y ago
First, I want to acknowledge that neither article was actually about who gets to call themselves a software engineer. That said, clearly that's all the HN comments are going to be about , so I'm diving in. I call myself a softwar
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by swatow 12y ago
Even within a job class, there is a lot of variation in workers. E.g. I don't think most Walmart workers would have a shot at a job at Trader Joe's or Starbucks.

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