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by thinkski 5y ago
It’s also an inconvenient idea. For instance, how can one be guilty of a crime if one had no choice in committing it? Why try at anything if you have no choice — everything that will happen was decided at the universe’s origin and is merely
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by thinkski 5y ago
Feature idea: bundle a webring, so when viewing one paper website can get connected to others.
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by thinkski 5y ago
Software updates have also been longer and more frequent. Wonder how many people have died because their phone was updating when they needed to call 911.
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by thinkski 5y ago
Post it in a Hacker News comment.
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by thinkski 5y ago
Perhaps look at it another way: each of your actions and thoughts influences people today, who influence people tomorrow, and so on — your legacy lives on within the state space of humanity (same as you are a vessel for the legacy of those
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by thinkski 5y ago
Thomas Jefferson had similar thoughts, a “tyranny of the majority”. Say 1 in 100 people are doctors. People are tired of paying doctors and want care for free. They put it to a vote. 99 vote to force doctors to work for free. Democracy triu
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by thinkski 5y ago
From the Hacker News guidelines, this appears Off-Topic.
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by thinkski 5y ago
When they say motions of three bodies are random and unpredictable, I assume they mean not able to be modeled with a closed form equation? Seems like the motions would still be entirely deterministic — could still predict the locations of t
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by thinkski 5y ago
I think it comes down to measuring the wrong things. Reminds me of the story where a flight was 30 minutes delayed. Instead of delaying all downstream flights affected by this by 30 minutes, the airline repurposed the plane for a flight tha
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by thinkski 5y ago
Out of curiosity, how often do violations of open source software licenses result in enforcement (e.g. court case)? Even then, it seems the worse case is a requirement retroactively adhere to the license — monetary penalties seem like they
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by thinkski 5y ago
Much of Eastern Europe tried this between the 1940s through the late 1980s. The result was blocks upon blocks of cramped, drab apartments with long waiting periods to get one. If you were married, you could get one sooner, which resulted in
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Best Time to Go to the ER?(thoughtrefinery.substack.com)
3 points by thinkski 6y ago|0 comments
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by thinkski 6y ago
Has anyone tried to implement this as a gstreamer plugin?
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by thinkski 6y ago
The same happened with home prices.
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by thinkski 6y ago
Fabrice Bellard is indeed a super-programmer. Amazing how one guy can write ffmpeg, qemu, linmodem, amongst a slew of other useful thing.
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by thinkski 6y ago
Good point! Yes, had assumed storing .tar.gz, but makes sense to then have the code for tar and gzip. What about gcc?
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Ask HN: What open source would you preserve with 1GB?
1 points by thinkski 6y ago|5 comments
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by thinkski 6y ago
Electronic payment mechanisms reduce friction, making it easy to spend money you wouldn’t otherwise, and lack adequate protections against inadvertent spending. This is why many vendors are happy to eat the 3-5% credit cards and online paym