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by voldacar 4y ago
Correct, the Rubik's cube group is neither cyclic nor abelian. It is generated by 6 elements, which correspond to quarter turns of each of the 6 faces.
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by voldacar 4y ago
These remind me of Orwell's "Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a consi
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by voldacar 4y ago
If women aren't morally compelled to find short men attractive, why are they morally compelled to not feel negatively about them in general? I don't see how anyone is morally obligated to feel any way about any other human. It&#x2
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by voldacar 4y ago
>people are flying 50 year old planes because the new basic cessnas cost $400K each This wasn't always the case though. There's a chapter in the book Where is My Flying Car? that explains how this was a result of the early 70s
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by voldacar 4y ago
>China has also taken 1 billion people out of poverty in just 3 decades. Capitalism took them out of poverty once Mao died and the Chinese government mostly got out of the market's way
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by voldacar 4y ago
there is no reason to assume a priori that systems improve over time. if anything, the opposite is the case. the overall computing experience has been steadily declining for many years, due to the web, javascript, electron, etc
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by voldacar 4y ago
Honestly I love it. It seems like some kind of surreal cyberpunk art project. The only thing a little disappointing is the blasé rounded rectangle web design
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by voldacar 4y ago
Relax, it's not like I'm going to try it :] Besides, most people would not want something like this to happen to them anyway, you already have to be a weird person to attempt something like this
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by voldacar 4y ago
Yes, thank you for the explanation. I am also fascinated by these processes. When you say that you "see" it, do you mean you see it in your mind's eye (i.e like if I asked you to visualize a spinning cube in your head) or you
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by voldacar 4y ago
How did you do this? Why did you do this?
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by voldacar 4y ago
this has a beautiful stream of consciousness quality to it. do you write somewhere? agreed on all points too
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by voldacar 4y ago
I think they just have a small team. Most recent work has been on their software stack (emulator, compiler etc), which I think is fairly close to release, but I could be wrong about that.
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by voldacar 4y ago
The mill guys post one or two updates per year on their forum site. Apparently covid messed up their timeline a lot, but they aren't bankrupt or anything.
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by voldacar 4y ago
With 4, the more significant factor is not tax avoidance, but the fact that selling 21B$ of shares in a short period would really tank the stock price. the negative effect of that would be more significant than capital gains tax
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by voldacar 4y ago
1. banks loan elon money 2. elon uses this money to buy twitter
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by voldacar 5y ago
Facebook is not a competitor to twitter. It is culturally just a dead space. Nothing interesting happens there, I can't think of the last time an interesting subculture or meme originated on facebook. It's this bizarre place where
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by voldacar 5y ago
Journalists and bluechecks seem to be particularly mad about this. I guess they don't like the prospect of having to follow rules that are transparently enforced rather than the current system of favoritism and opacity
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by voldacar 5y ago
A bit LARPy, don't you think?
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by voldacar 5y ago
What I find particularly odd about Hikaru is that he's a top 20 player in the classical chess format, but in the time-limited rapid/blitz formats, he's consistently in the top 2.* Something about his brain must degrade less u
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by voldacar 5y ago
> "In a secularizing world, infantilization quickly became a moral posture and a theological necessity. It allowed the main actors in slavery and colonialism to make peace with their own consciences, and the intelligentsia and the C
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by voldacar 5y ago
Sorry, I meant the average educated person who might write a book. It just seems strange that we have only one reference to the device in all surviving classical literature
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by voldacar 5y ago
Thanks, that's an excellent article. I'm still not really convinced that Archimedes made it, as it would be a massive coincidence for the only device we found to be the same one described in a book by some notable figure. It seems
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by voldacar 5y ago
Do we know anything at all about the creators of this device, other than that they were Greek? Where was it made? What kind of tools did they use to do the machining? How large was the workshop or factory where it was manufactured? Who was
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by voldacar 5y ago
>There's also a huge amount of internal friction created by the moon stretching and squeezing the earth Wow, I hadn't even thought of that. How much heat does this produce, roughly? For context, the total heat lost from the ear
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by voldacar 5y ago
Thanks. I've been out of that world for roughly a decade, it's neat to see a more resilient social ecosystem emerging around these markets. I'm still sort of surprised that the three letter agencies can't just immediatel
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by voldacar 5y ago
What are the biggest and most reputable darknet markets currently? Do they still get taken down frequently? My understanding is that it's easy for state-level actors to unmask hidden service IPs through traffic correlation attacks
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by voldacar 5y ago
Not sure if this counts, but you can use slime molds to optimize road networks https://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.3967.pdf
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by voldacar 5y ago
I think they are pretty clever actually. One of my chins figured out how to unlatch his cage door from the inside
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by voldacar 5y ago
physical art too
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by voldacar 5y ago
There is no way to prove the statement "x is conscious". You are just stating your opinion.

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