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by vba616 4y ago
Just because someone ends up underperforming the market doesn't mean they didn't have any insights. It might just mean that after doing something right, they did something wrong that more than cancelled it out. This is why it&#x27
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by vba616 4y ago
Probably they are looking for the word "atmosphere". But personally, I hate when reporting uses mph for orbital velocity. It's supposed to be more relatable to non-experts or space buffs. (boffins if you prefer) It isn'
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by vba616 4y ago
>"If your system can have a conversation with a human who believes they're talking to another human afterwards, it's AI, we're not there yet." That happened well over 50 years ago! There's something fundamen
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by vba616 4y ago
I'm picturing someone having trouble deciding who is the underdog in the original Terminator movie. Also this: https://xkcd.com/652/
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by vba616 4y ago
People have been saying "forbes.com isn't Forbes , it's a blogging site" for so many years I think they mostly got old and died, so now nobody knows again. It's funny because how does anybody associate Forbes with
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by vba616 4y ago
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/uniquely-me Most people can be uniquely identified by the combination of gender, zip code, and date of birth. "Anonymized" data that's everywhere, is not . A
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by vba616 4y ago
I think you're making a standard objection about the fruits of a crime exceeding the fine that isn't applicable in this case. They were allowed to sell the GPUs to crypto miners, so the fine is not a cost of the profits. Apples di
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by vba616 4y ago
>Couldn’t possibly be! No, it couldn't possibly be. Here is the money quote: '...he told the sailors they should have "reasonable expectations" and that they're not "sleeping in a foxhole like a Marine might
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by vba616 4y ago
Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31287142
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by vba616 4y ago
Has NZ taken steps to ban foreigners from owning property, particularly if vacant? I thought I read something about that.
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by vba616 4y ago
"The driving force behind par-baked is economics," explained Russell Chapman, c.e.o. of Ecce Panis, Carlstadt, N.J. "Scratch baking is very labor intensive and requires skilled labor, which is extremely difficult for our cust
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by vba616 4y ago
>laughing their full heads off every time they think about how there are people who do free work for Google who think they are making the world a better place or something. So when you go to a store that Google Maps says is open, and fin
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by vba616 4y ago
Russia...never promoted...ideology...? Perhaps you could expand on your definition of ideology because this is confusing.
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by vba616 4y ago
>If you're sending me gigabytes of JSON, something has gone horribly wrong. Split it up, or send me the result in a more suitable format. Gigabytes of XML, coming right up!
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by vba616 5y ago
I'm almost the same age as the personal computer. In the mid to late 80s, I used to go to the local Amiga store (in the US, though I'm aware they were very popular in Europe) and copy the Fred Fish disks there. That was how I was
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by vba616 5y ago
There's only one product I've ever seen labeled as imported from Lesotho, and it was a pair of blue jeans.
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by vba616 5y ago
>a sink should generally not overflow from just being left on I once thought all bathroom sinks had a little drain hole in the side to prevent overflows. But not all do. (in places I've lived in my area of the US)
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by vba616 5y ago
Ironically, they're talking about American style "chips". I know, I assumed otherwise too.
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by vba616 5y ago
Second to last paragraph concedes the premise isn't even true, though.
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by vba616 5y ago
It depends on what the meaning of "gravity" is. Is there one thing that is "gravity", or was Newton's gravity a different thing than Aristotle's and Galileo's? If you want to insist that there is only one
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by vba616 5y ago
I don't understand why or how they think resources were wasted. I mean, it might be true, since I don't know how Ethereum works. But I don't see where it says or implies or explains that the fees represented real resources lo
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by vba616 5y ago
Richard Feynman and Ronald Reagan both worked for GE a long time ago. I'm not sure how close in time and space they got. But it sort of boggled my mind when I realized people who worked there in the 50s saw them more as co-workers than
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by vba616 5y ago
The canonical example of why atomic database transactions are needed has always been transferring money from one account to another without creating a temporary imbalance. Yet the actual real world financial industry has never solved the is
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by vba616 5y ago
>the voter record has always been part of the public domain I think you should make it clearer that "the voter record" does not include who you voted for . Joe Schmoe is a Democrat and voted in the last election is presumabl
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by vba616 5y ago
The "Dark Forest" outlook is not logical when you reason it through. If everybody in the forest is afraid of strangers, where are they? Hiding in the dark, right? In that case, without additional assumptions, someone who sees a fi
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by vba616 5y ago
CNN isn't really reporting to "the world", and the US (or Europe) has a considerably higher median age. Decision makers at high levels are even older.
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by vba616 5y ago
Well, we haven't optimized away bacteria, or mice, or fleas. Plants can't run or fight us directly, yet we haven't gotten rid of them. We put a lot of effort into attacking particular pathogens like COVID-19, HIV, and many ot
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by vba616 5y ago
It all seems kind of obvious and dull. Of course he's broken that part of the agreement. Do you think people are seriously denying it or excusing it? Is the sky going to fall on him because someone noticed? I'd rather read what
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by vba616 5y ago
To me, a "superior" being is something that, in an abstract general way, is "good" at optimizing a function. Where that might become terrifying is in two cases that occur to me: (a) no matter how good it is at optimizati
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by vba616 5y ago
Well, you can have a pointy helmet or something intended to break through when all else fails. I don't remember the details, but I remember reading about something like that, on some aircraft.

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