throwawayhhakdl

11 ms·

61.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Probable claims. Not truth.
62.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Totally agree. I also feel that awareness of the meta is increasingly public knowledge, but is not utilitized. Smash bro’s for instance, has a ton of players who know about advanced techniques, and talk about some of them as easy because th
63.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I suspect it’s merely a function of personality. Introverts will find it tiring and invasive. Extroverts will probably find it energizing, and will probably have the most vocal opinions shared. Mind you, tech leans towards introverts and it
64.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I think you’re viewing the problem backwards. It’s not that they intend to send out a standard bill and know in advance who can pay. It’s that they intend to send out bills scaled to people’s ability to pay. It’s probably more profitable fo
65.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
That is fascinating. It’s like they’re selling a do-it-yourself indulgence kit.
66.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
This is only tangentially related but one thing I would like to see is the deep learning Starcraft bots to play 2v2 games and be required to send messages to each other (perhaps also preventing them from sharing LOS on each other’s units).
67.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
A chunk of it is thermal expansion and the fact that CO2 is being absorbed in
68.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Hm, I think that’s a good observation. Likely rooted in how a lot of our opinions are consensus based rather than reason based. If a weird person says something you’ll write it off as them being them. If a normal (or god forbid a popular pe
69.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I’m not. Click hole is a funny concept. But it’s not that funny for that long. I love Alan Resnick, who sometimes contributes (or at least used to?). But even his click bait Dadaism grew stale. I’m surprised they have regular visitors. That
70.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
That’s only really a hard problem because of physical cash. If we’re already going electronic only, one could simply use negative interest rates to solve it. When cash is physical people can choose to put it under their mattress instead of
71.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Most importantly, it’s not consultants causing this, it’s tech making organizing large groups easier. The consultants are mostly just helping slow changing orgs inch towards better business models. Not crazy cutting edge tech either. We sti
72.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I think people fixate on “better” without really defining what that means. Imagine it as bell curves. The mean of the computer might be worse than the mean of the human, but the variance is likely to be a lot tighter, which means less of th
73.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
The face masks aren’t especially effective for this disease
74.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Isn’t it a natural gem? How is it patentable?
75.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I think you’re reading that incorrectly. NPR is likely not saying they should be embarrassed, they’re saying they would be embarrassed. That’s just a fact.
76.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I think it’s a relevant comment. The article does very little to explain what she did that was useful. The Wikipedia article... sort of suggests her comments were more impactful but it’s hard to assess that claim. The article even adds >
77.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Yeah... reading the article I don’t see any mention of the impact it had. Principia had been out for over 60 years at the time. I think the article is being overly dramatic with her race against death as well. The life expectancy number is
78.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I’ll be honest. I don’t feel like studying viral genome patterns is high on anyone’s list of useless science. My second thought is that the observation of an unnatural pattern would be really important. Naively an early hypothesis might be
79.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
> the amount of fake news spread through WhatsApp — the liberal forums in India are filled with stories of how people are losing relationships or finding it difficult to digest the fact that their loved ones are close minded bigots. Can
80.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Also bad news for people who drink water.
81.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Without having watched the link, a serum that prevented you from lying would be obviously impossible. Truth serum is about increasing willingness to reveal things that you normally wouldn’t. More of a blabbermouth serum.
82.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Life expectancy includes infant and child mortality and thus is commonly misunderstood. Given that you’re already alive and healthy at age 12, your personal life expectancy is going to be higher than the population mean.
83.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
> to make housing "more affordable" while also making it ever more expensive. This is a simple but excellent way of putting it
84.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
what if they... enjoy making things in scratch without aspiring to greatness?
85.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Matlab and a variety of other paid languages think otherwise
86.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
The idea that you can arbitrarily label a dollar value as the the point of the no return is pretty absurd. Even forgetting the differences in cost of living for different areas.
87.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I think the opportunity lies in the other direction. Say that fund managers for index funds aren’t generally accountable for performance (assuming they actually comply with the index. Differentiate the funds on their voting strategy. I don’
88.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Just talking out of my ass here but it feels likely to me that the natural algorithm would be randomly learn to parse n features, and then do a sort of multi arm bandit process to determine which features to keep and also how to use them vi
89.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I wonder what proportion of stock market growth is completely absent of any human decision making, e.g. automatic 401k contributions to index plans
90.
by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Smaug in particular is rendered as a different creature across two movies. Shrug. (Wyrm vs dragon)

More ›