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by uh_uh 5y ago
> The space metric fits very neatly into the Einstein field equations, and the expanding universe pops out of that directly. Is there a simple way to understand why? I don't have an understanding of the relevant math. It's a bi
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by uh_uh 5y ago
You can truncate it at any point you want. If in 2060, the community collectively decides that the chain is too long, they can just decide that a block from 2040 is the new genesis block.
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by uh_uh 5y ago
These are good steps yes. But still, you're at the mercy of fintechs. Also, for this stuff to be really useful, it needs to be standardised worldwide. E.g. Algerian traders should be able to trade with Japanese counterparties by intera
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by uh_uh 5y ago
Your bank account and credit cards are not programmable money. They don't have smart contracts where third parties can verify the fairness of the financial instruments you are purchasing. All you have is trust in financial institutions
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by uh_uh 5y ago
When hyperinflation kicks in, will the United States military step up and try to curtail it? If so how?
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by uh_uh 5y ago
And this is something that could power reversible transactions as well which I think is a current, but solvable problem of all crypto platforms. What you are proposing is actually a lot better than the tech we have now. If I ever lose my Go
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by uh_uh 5y ago
Because you don't know whether the video on the top of the queue is one with like/dislike ratio of 90% or 10%. If it's the latter, you are inclined to get off YouTube and start searching elsewhere.
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by uh_uh 5y ago
It's frightening to think that this decision from YouTube might literally end up killing some people. Given the userbase of YouTube, I don't think this is a hyperbole, as unlikely events become likely once the number of samples is
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by uh_uh 5y ago
> I do the unthinkable and just give it a go for a few minutes You do this on a societal level and you waste centuries. There's no need for thousands of people to watch a few minutes of a bad DIY video to conclude that it's cra
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by uh_uh 5y ago
Why do they do this?
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by uh_uh 5y ago
> The vaccine only reduces symptoms (and might thus save yourself, or others, when extended with the hospital-bed-limit-thought), but it wouldn't stop you from transmitting the disease if you are infected (and vaccinated) but you ar
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by uh_uh 5y ago
I don't think most physicists subscribe to the view that things are laid out already. I think most believe that physics is non-deterministic due to QM. Other schools of thoughts like superdeterminism does believe what you're sayin
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by uh_uh 5y ago
If their behaviours are not comparable, then why were fungi lumped together with plants up until the 1960s?
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by uh_uh 5y ago
I think it's fine to lump fungi together with plants for the spirit of this discussion. The distinction between plants and fungi are made on the basis of metabolism but in this thread people are clearly talking about external behaviour
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by uh_uh 5y ago
I'm wondering if newer projects like Cardano are trying to address reversibility at all. To me this looks like the real roadblock for crypto. No financial institution wants to go broke because of a bug in the code. Granted, this can al
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by uh_uh 5y ago
You can not use QM for faster-than-light communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
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by uh_uh 5y ago
It is bad if you have to do extra steps for non-annoying UX. Non-annoying UX should be the default and annoying stuff should be opt-in. Reddit is such a disaster nowadays, especially with the "new" design, it's just a matter
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by uh_uh 5y ago
Could a reduced number of work hours/days work? If she's doing 5 days a week, then trading off one day for 20% of her salary would increase her free time by 50% which might lift her spirits?
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by uh_uh 5y ago
> ADHD people can sit there yelling at themselves to "do the thing" that they _know_ they need to do and still be completely incapable of starting regardless of how "easy" it is to actually do it once something forces
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by uh_uh 5y ago
Isn't it just rational not to get excited about boring stuff that is rewarded by a fix monetary ceiling? Economically it completely makes sense: why put more energy into something that yields the same result either way? Or maybe I have
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by uh_uh 5y ago
> You welcome a world where affluent elites eath high quality food and everyone else eats shit? That's a bit of a strawman there. Improving food tech does not need to be a zero sum game. Can it not be that food quality will in gener
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by uh_uh 5y ago
Don't take it personal. Commenters on HN are famous for dismissing successful ideas (remember Dropbox?). I have one question: you mentioned that the training data was 100GB. Was it the same resolution as what is output by the model (ig
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by uh_uh 5y ago
The idea of WSL would have been laughable back then. I'm really curious what other unthinkable things will happen in the next 30 years.
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by uh_uh 5y ago
You might be taking this a tad bit too personal. OP described how your argument sounded to them. They didn't condemn your entire personhood because of it.
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by uh_uh 5y ago
Regarding the "unimaginative" comment: OP might have just meant that we are in the very early days of artificial meat and dismissing it now would be tantamount to dismissing the internet in the early 90s.
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by uh_uh 5y ago
If you want to improve a situation, at first you will make slow progress. But I'm willing to bet on artificial meat being an engineering problem and ultimately becoming better than the real thing.
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by uh_uh 5y ago
What's so unethical about it?
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by uh_uh 5y ago
What if the surrogate will taste better than the real thing? Will you still insist on eating meat coming from an actual animal?
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by uh_uh 5y ago
I think we have too look at the numbers. There are 600 million pigs kept worldwide, most of them in miserable circumstances. The more this number grows (and it is on a growth trajectory) the more we should be concerned about this. (Though m
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by uh_uh 5y ago
Sometimes I like to think about how historians will talk about us in the distant future where artificial meat production is the norm. I think it is quite likely that the big story about us will be our treatment of other conscious animals ra

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