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by vecter 6y ago
https://matrix.org/faq/
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by vecter 6y ago
> This idea of an inner hole that is hidden and connected is quite unintuitive to me. What do you mean by the hole in the torus being "hidden and connected"?
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by vecter 6y ago
First they came for the violent insurrectionists attempting a coup in the nation's capital to prevent the peaceful transition of power, and I was glad that they did. The end.
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by vecter 6y ago
Let's be honest. His followers, especially the ones that stormed the Capitol, aren't living in reality. They believe the lies that this election was stolen. It wasn't. It was fair, free, secure, and accurate. But reality does
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by vecter 6y ago
> A tolerant society that doesn't "tolerate intolerance" (your words) is an intolerant society. Absolutely wrong [0]. > We are heading toward authoritarianism. With the failure of this insurrection and the (unfortunatel
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by vecter 6y ago
No? We ban the people on those platforms that are creating such plots.
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by vecter 6y ago
There are so many unreasonable assumptions baked into this parable that make it difficult to take seriously. Any amount of meaningful investigation by the aliens would yield more insights into the fact that the game is in fact not a random
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by vecter 6y ago
Did you watch the linked videos? They explain what is happening physically. It's not as simple as a macroscopic analogy to particles ping-ponging around. It relies on the wave properties of atoms and subatomic particles, mostly electro
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by vecter 6y ago
> Well, actually, the speed of light is constant, it just takes time to ping-pong around a lattice/gas. Photons hit particles, get absorbed, and re-emitted, which causes an effective slowdown at a larger scale. A gas is just vacuum
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by vecter 6y ago
Maybe "poverty" isn't the right word or metric, but according to that poll, 25% of people who make under $24k/year use ridesharing and 48% of people who make under $60k/year use ridesharing. Granted, $50-60k annual
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by vecter 6y ago
That's a good callout. The prevalence of sugar in the American diet is pretty insane. Fried food doesn't help either ...
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by vecter 6y ago
It’s all diet. I visited Nashville a couple of years ago and everything on the menu was fried or just terrible for you. Most of weight is diet. Exercise helps a tiny amount but is more for your cardiovascular health and strength. Running fo
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by vecter 6y ago
More space. It's pretty nuts. Imagine you were stretching a rubber band. What's in-between two points on that rubber that was stretched? Just rubber, albeit thinner and less dense. In our universe, however, the space that's c
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by vecter 6y ago
That's because it violates Occam's razor. That doesn't disprove the existence of a God, of course, but it makes it less likely if you accept Occam's razor to some degree. The reason it violates Occam's razor is beca
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by vecter 6y ago
Your balloon analogy is almost correct but it's missing one important piece. In that analogy, the surface of the balloon itself is the entire universe. It is a two-dimensional universe. Imagine that there is no other space except for t
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by vecter 6y ago
It's so obvious that she was "negotiating" in bad faith by threatening to quit if she didn't get what she wanted (i.e. throwing a tantrum) that I'm surprised that other people are surprised at Google's response
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by vecter 6y ago
Don't make ultimatums unless you're ready to accept the consequences of those ultimatums.
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by vecter 6y ago
It's fine to call bluffs. In fact, the definition of a bluff is something that, with perfect action on the other end, should be called.
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by vecter 6y ago
pg is surprisingly prescient in his predictions about the potential size of the opportunity. This might just be survivorship bias though, but still, one takeaway I got from the email exchanges is that pg really evaluated founders on both th
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by vecter 6y ago
> the slower you travel through both space and time No. You are always traveling at a constant velocity through spacetime. [0] Spacetime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
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by vecter 6y ago
What was the actual change?
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by vecter 6y ago
I had a mini-episode of this earlier this year. Reposting as a warning for people: I had mild Vitamin D deficiency which was diagnosed by a doctor many years ago. I was given Vitamin D supplements, which I stocked up on more than usual rece
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by vecter 6y ago
I think you're absolutely right in terms of senior engineers' responsibilities. My take is the following: - It's hard to evaluate the skills you mentioned. They're important, but generally "softer". - It's
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by vecter 6y ago
I’m only talking about engineers. Look at compensation on levels.fyi. Staff engineers should make north of that.
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by vecter 6y ago
I take issue with this: > But the thought of "What would I do if I didn't have this job? I've got rent and food and car payments and bills, I'd be homeless and never work again!" works against this advice and so
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by vecter 6y ago
It's unlikely we live in a dark forest. The resources necessary to execute entire civilizations across interstellar space would be literally astronomical.
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by vecter 6y ago
Perhaps, but how does that 9 I drew ever map to a 6?
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by vecter 6y ago
I think it works quite poorly: https://imgur.com/a/oDpVkZ6
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by vecter 6y ago
Going to the website on your profile made it immediately clear, but even without that confirmation, there's a much higher probability of you being a random programmer vs. a specific older mathematician.
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by vecter 6y ago
This user is not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Welch

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