trevyn

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   by trevyn 8y ago

   That’s cool! Have you actually done this? What clock rate can you achieve?
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   by trevyn 8y ago

   I cannot recommend this article highly enough: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mor...
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   by trevyn 8y ago

   Ha, I think you just explained why Effective Altruists always seem so stressed out.
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   by trevyn 8y ago

   > To have a diagnosis of ADHD, there must have been symptoms before the age of 7 FWIW, in the DSM-5, that was changed to age 12.
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   by trevyn 8y ago

   Ah, interesting. Thank you for challenging my assertion. Upon deeper introspection, my own personal experience of “happiness without meaning” is closer to “the meaning is just the universe/physics unfolding (and I happen to be a part o
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   by trevyn 8y ago

   I deeply disagree with this — if you can achieve happiness without meaning, there is no need for meaning. Of course, I understand that achieving happiness can be challenging, and that seeking meaning can be a meaningful step on that path.
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   by trevyn 8y ago

   I had the unique and very dystopian experience of StockX irrevocably banning me (as a purchaser) from their platform because I hit some fraud flags. No requests for verification or alternate payment method, just an outright "no, we won
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   by trevyn 8y ago

   IIRC, fuel on satellites is used gradually over time to maintain a controlled orbit and orientation, not to actually provide altitude to keep the satellite up, or for dramatic changes in orbital parameters.
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   by trevyn 8y ago

   The trick is to dramatically throw all the cash into the air and run. :)
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Usenet archives are still there, if you search from https://groups.google.com/forum
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    And intriguingly, those two Carmacks are not related!
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    I think working hard is fun, regardless of whether anyone’s watching me or if it’s productive.
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    You have to include some sense of what the classes encode for this to have meaning — for example, “pictures of correct mathematical proofs” vs “pictures of incorrect mathematical proofs” is going to require a much different architecture tha
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    > Without some form of copyright, the movie and TV industry would not exist. We don’t actually know if that is true. (Or if it would be a bad thing, heh)
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    I think guilt and shame are losing their power to control behavior. On the whole, I think this is a good thing; they’re toxic emotions.
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Being afraid would seem to serve the New York Times' interests, so I think I will go read Reuters instead. :)
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Sorry, I don’t understand the comparison, could you explain?
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    And the economic prosperity they generate. Paper and typewriters weren’t exactly more productive tools for knowledge work.
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    And now, social media is all about allowing peasants to live like celebrities. Fascinating.
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    IMO, most critiques are poorly-thought-out and therefore quickly dismissed, so when a well-thought-out critique appears and captures interest, this is surface-level puzzling. Especially to those who are poorly able to evaluate the quality o
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Mr. Harari worries and is anxious, but by the end of the article, his superpower is detachment?
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Heh, the “stubby little thing” image in your post is exactly the form factor of phone that I want!
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Google Cloud Spanner is a counterexample. It can take close to 2 seconds to establish a server connection.
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Now 2.0 cold boot is under 200ms.
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Note that there is still the concept of "inner trusted zones" with something like BeyondCorp, the difference being that access to the zones is controlled by credential via an Access Proxy rather than by network topology. Of note,
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Maybe it will help us break our relationship and reproduction addictions.
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Of course it's possible, but all the charts I'm looking at very confidently predict otherwise.
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    Weird, I experienced the interactivity as completely broken on iOS Chrome. I couldn’t even scroll properly to just read the article.
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    And yet, I would much rather live in 2018 (and 2038, and 2058) than 1960. How does that work?
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    by trevyn 8y ago

    In other news, correlation is still not causation.