thewakalix

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by thewakalix 5y ago
No, it’s not more accurately described as arbitrage. Arbitrage involves buying something and then selling it for a higher price in a different market. That might describe something like a temp agency, which buys labor from employees and the
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by thewakalix 5y ago
My family does this! We call the game Demon, the piles “demon piles”, and we shout “demon” to end a round. The rules are the same as you described them, except possibly that we allow “stacking” multiple cards to place them on the same commo
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Paying employees more or less depending on where they live is an instance of price discrimination , in a sense. This isn’t necessarily good or bad, but it does mean that it’s not inevitable. Laws against certain forms of price discriminati
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by thewakalix 5y ago
“Ideas can be harmful” is gibberish?
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Yes, I read the same article. Do you believe, based on a single word, that the author believes that literally zero people in the entire course of human history have ever suggested “brighter lights” until Yudkowsky came along?
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Sort of. He believes that if people try to come up with infohazards and then immediately spread them, there’s a nonzero chance that they succeed. It’s unlikely, but still not something to encourage. (This is not the same thing as “being cer
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Are you honestly claiming that the author believes that Yudkowsky was literally the first person in history to suggest making lights brighter? Also, you should read anything Yudkowsky himself has written about Roko’s basilisk. He’s never cl
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by thewakalix 5y ago
I don’t think English is such that every sequence of letters is a valid encoding of phonemes, either.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
How is it in any way significant that the sequence of letters “ethi” is not present in a Wikipedia article?
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by thewakalix 5y ago
> Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design.[4][5] This website certainly does seem to be minimalist, showcase its structura
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Nobody make any strange images based on this data…
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by thewakalix 5y ago
> Part of what causes this is the type of 1 itself. Haskell, unlike Rust, allows literals like 1 to be interpreted in any number type. This is false. Rust allows 1 to be a u8, an i16, etc. It does distinguish between integral and floatin
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by thewakalix 5y ago
That’s not what “strongly typed” means, though.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Nothing about this algorithm relies on similar words producing similar hashes. If the word “foobar” has a 0 in the first digit of its hash, and you see a green 1 in the first digit in Passwordle, then you know that the answer can’t be fooba
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by thewakalix 5y ago
The correct password is impossible to calculate from the given data, but it seems like it should be possible to check whether a password matches the data.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
If you design a robot that can independently decide to kill people, that's on you.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
The existence of VC funding is directly responsible for teachers starving? I don't see how that follows.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
It would probably be better to remove "Wow" from the title.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
You mean you were able to solve a problem with a few minutes of talking rather than an elaborate technological process? I’m shocked, truly.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Yes? It’s not Fight Club.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
As I'm sure everyone has heard in response to the Matrix, "humans make for pretty terrible batteries".
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Did he really say those specific words? It's common, on the internet, to use quotation marks to signify "here's what I think someone else is saying, it's not my own belief". (That is also an example of such a usage.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Why does it “rankle”? Would you expect, a priori, that the universe would be very unlikely to contain large amounts of matter that only interacts gravitationally?
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Seems likely. Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-01-01 14:17 CST Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 14:17 Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 14:17, 0.00s elapsed Initiating Connect
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Sounds like you might like dath ilan.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
A diversion is an activity done for fun or enjoyment, rather than for money or similar. A sports field is the area in which the sport is carried out, and has the connotation of “outside” from its other meaning as a meadow. A definition of “
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by thewakalix 5y ago
That’s still a breaking change, although somewhat less of a break. Better to just do it right.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
In case you're not aware, the author has continued the blog on Substack: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ But if it's just nostalgia, then I agree. Substack is slower, harder to navigate, and less Aesthetic.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
Perhaps you don't have the entire linked list in memory, but are instead requesting individual nodes from a server.
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by thewakalix 5y ago
That argument works well against generic RETVRN sentiments, but I don't know if it applies to regretting how a subculture changed when acted upon by the outside world. Is "I wish we hadn't been invaded and conquered by people

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