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by tashi 10y ago
"Is melting," not "has melted." Did you misread the headline and then accidentally skip the article?
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by tashi 10y ago
Huh, I expected the playfulness of the term would come through. Sorry about that. This was a term coined by engineers to explain why the behavior that seemed, and still seems, so obviously right to a certain kind of brain can be so unwelcom
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by tashi 10y ago
Re: your aside about your personal experience, I've heard it called "engineer's disease" to hear a person complaining about something in their lives and respond by trying to offer a solution. For many people, commiserat
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Then your answer to the first question is no? Or am I misunderstanding?
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by tashi 10y ago
Is shame especially effective at preventing irrational behavior? Is there anything in your life you would be doing differently if you were a 100% rational agent with unlimited willpower? If so, do you ever feel ashamed when you fall short?
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by tashi 10y ago
That's funny, I thought I had added email to my HN profile. My name is Tashi Daniels and I have a Gmail account under my name. First session would be talking generally about how much you want to learn and figuring out what your definit
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by tashi 10y ago
Interesting. I'd be happy to give you one or two (free) online tutoring sessions. I've always been able to get my students past their roadblocks so far, and I'm interested to see what a more difficult case might look like.
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by tashi 10y ago
a. That logic may apply to equilibrium in zero-sum games (I'm not sure it does), but in cooperative systems a rising tide is often helpful. b. "Fairness" is a man-made concept, like "democracy" or "government&q
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by tashi 10y ago
There are a few unguessable shortcuts, but every puzzle can be solved.
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by tashi 10y ago
Let's say I have a door on the east side of a room, and beyond it is a hallway that gradually curves 90 degrees to the right. Then I will have entered the next room through its north door, and going north from there will send me curvin
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by tashi 10y ago
Yes, but manufacturing jobs and the like tend to get offshored a few hundred or thousand at a time, to hit the latest expense targets. It's a slow bleeding that can take decades. The right tech startup can sometimes have the power to d
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by tashi 10y ago
There's also the terraforming possibility, even though that's still a long, long way away. It may turn out to be easier to create a habitable atmosphere from scratch than to make even relatively small changes to our own, since the
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by tashi 10y ago
While I agree that travel is a great mind expander, telling people that they need to travel is about as effective as just telling people directly that they need to expand their minds. Which is to say, maybe a good nudge for people who were
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by tashi 10y ago
Stupidity!? Handmade Hero seems to me to be a uniquely great resource for learning the guts of game development. He's made it clear from day one, and has reiterated often, that the aim isn't to make a game as fast as possible, and
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by tashi 10y ago
Interesting. My well being is so intertwined with that of my neighbors that I don't know how well separating our communities would work. Would I have to build a wall down the middle of the street? How permanent is that solution? If a c
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by tashi 10y ago
Interesting. I haven't heard him speak about politics before, and I only knew that he was thought of as a Libertarian. I am very confused now about what he believes. He talks about our expensive college and health care systems, contras
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by tashi 10y ago
As a resident of the eastern side of my street, why wouldn't forming an identity and political system based on east-dweller supremacy be in my interest? I guess because the rivalry would have no meaning and no real benefits, and could
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by tashi 10y ago
Right, and taking a premise you believe to be false and mapping out its consequences has a long and noble history; e.g., non-Euclidean geometry.
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by tashi 10y ago
She may think that the problems associated with sexism in the workplace aren't solved yet, so feminism is relevant to her working life, whether she likes it or not. Or she may just find the subject interesting and enjoy writing about i
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by tashi 10y ago
One moral justification is that the ability to own and profit from intellectual property gives people a powerful incentive to create and share new things. You seem to be making a statement from first principles: ownership of ideas is absurd
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by tashi 10y ago
I agree. Think about the Manhattan Project: six years from concrete idea to working prototype. For three of those years, they had a significant chunk of Earth's smartest people living and working together with few distractions or outsi
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by tashi 10y ago
There's also a more dystopian option (see Neuromancer or Elysium for examples): as the rich get richer they get more isolated from, and less empathetic towards, the poor. They control the information and the advanced military technolog
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by tashi 10y ago
Did they teach you that a group of completely rational short-term thinkers can get stuck at a local maximum that's way below the optimum for people who are thinking ahead? Or that irrational behavior can emerge from groups of smart, ra
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by tashi 10y ago
1. Calling someone "weird" seems a lot more playful than insulting to me. 2. Do you find it equally unpleasant when people make insulting remarks about their own group than about a group they don't belong to? I think the latt
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by tashi 11y ago
Yes, that made me sad too. As the father of a girl, I'm often discouraged when I see how angry some men get when women (and only women) disagree with them, regardless of tone or substance.
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by tashi 11y ago
This is great advice for people with respiratory and heart problems, but in my experience there are other reasons someone's stupid jerk of a body might not know how to sleep properly. For narcolepsy, circadian rhythm disorders, and oth
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by tashi 11y ago
Verified. Chapter 6, page 117 in my paperback edition.
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by tashi 11y ago
Wow, that's a great lecture! It really seems like the pieces could be coming together on not just unification, but a fundamental (though very non-intuitive) understanding of how spacetime works.
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by tashi 11y ago
Watergate is the first example that popped into my head.
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by tashi 11y ago
It's hard to believe I may have useful information about this, but I used to know a guy from the University of Colorado at Boulder who was getting his master's degree in bassoon performance by day and sneaking out to the physics l

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