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by throwaway37585 8y ago
You mean general relativity?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Doesn’t this assume that trying to find a great mentor has non-positive expected value, which is probably not true?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
This is a well-written essay, and I agree with the ethical concerns raised in the last section. The one thing I don’t understand, though, is the author’s opposition to opt-out organ donation upon death. This does not involve making “a well
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Did you mean that, under reversibility + determinism, the future “causes” the past just as much as the past “causes” the future?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Then why does NASA consider it unsafe for mission critical code? They also proscribe unbounded iterations (point 2). In any case, NASA’s guidelines for mission-critical code are not necessarily good guidelines for general software engi
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> it is within the right of the private organization to do this Right, but it’s also your right not to do business with them. It’s ok to vote with your feet (or wallet).
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Whats complicated about an iteration What’s complicated about a recursion? > If you see problems, its because something is modifying it between runs, but that wasn't a fault of the iterative strategy, it was the fault of a bad
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> It's literally the point of the organization that did the survey What is “the point” of the organization that did the survey? > these economists are members of this organization. In the sense that they are surveyed by this orga
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> This is a small panel of economists selected from a right-wing economics association. Why do you claim the interviewed economists are “right-wing”? > The question is worded in the most deceptive way possible to encourage that misund
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
What do you think is “grossly oversimplified”?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> In principle, I think all bandwidth is equal. Why?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Chicago school is a broad term for an economics ideology, like "Austrian". I know. > Those surveyed are part of that ideology. I’ll repeat my question: How so? > So tell me then, how does this magical go faster lane wor
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> What the fuck are you talking about? The point is that net neutrality doesn’t even exist presently. > Fair, but I'd say this is an incentive for ISPs to step up their game. What do you mean? > This is a very old argument. Yo
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Majority of those surveyed who are connected to the Chicago School. How so? The majority of those surveyed are not from Chicago. According to the About section: > ...our panel was chosen to include distinguished experts with a keen
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> A ring is a set. No. It is a set together with additional structure. Without this additional structure you just have a set, not a ring. > So is a group. Again, no. It is a set together with additional structure. Note: The collection
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Isn’t it true that commutative algebra is contained within set theory? Aren’t all the objects sets? Sets are one way (among others) to encode such mathematical structures. This doesn’t mean these structures are sets. For example, i
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> It is dismissive because if it was just that then knowing the mathematics would be sufficient to do research in theoretical quantumn mechanics but it isn't. This not at all the same. QM is a special case of QFT. > To say that