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by vslira 7y ago
That is basically Adam Smith's (and consequently almost every pro-market economist) thesis. Actually his thesis is that on average the answer is "yes". If it's true or false is a matter of intense debate, to say the leas
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by vslira 7y ago
To be fair, I think her shtick is throwing useless stuff away, not avoiding acquiring it in the first place (because if you didn't have, you wouldn't need to discard it). With this new store, she profits from both ends of the junk
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by vslira 7y ago
In Composing Contracts[0], Peyton Jones, Eber and Seward describe a framework for "programming" financial contracts, even allowing for external events[1] to influence the result (for example, actual stock prices) of the contract.
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by vslira 8y ago
Bipartisan legislation incoming
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by vslira 8y ago
Just to give some context, the paper referenced by the post[0] is a bit old. Eamonn Keogh is (to my knowledge) the current head of the research group that developed the Matrix Profile, which purports to be useful in clustering[1]. Actually
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by vslira 8y ago
Is there any hope beyond developing nuclear (fission / fusion) tech for this world to sustain 10 billion humans consuming as much energy as an average Californian?[0] As the gp said, the objective is maintaining and improving our quali
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by vslira 8y ago
No, I make my own, but it’s nothing special. Short snippets of code with “what does this do”, “what’s the syntax for _____ in LANG” or “best too for X in standard lib”.
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by vslira 8y ago
If it’s any help, I’ve been using anki (spaced repetition software) to keep my useful-but-not-frequently skills sharp. I feel it’s effective for programming languages and shortcuts.
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by vslira 8y ago
Killer bots will be treated just like nukes: world powers will justify their investment in the technology by saying that the other side is also doing it, and when it becomes clear that there are only two or three powerful countries that can
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by vslira 8y ago
Maybe the machine mearning community is particularly good at curating feeds, heh
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by vslira 8y ago
I'm not an expert in licenses, could someone weight in and explain how the AGPLv3 was being abused? Did the mentioned companies follow the spirit of the license and were getting away with something the company didn't like or were
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by vslira 8y ago
>The ads in the paper newspaper are usually fine. Rarely do they affront or annoy; and they are tailored to the general profile of the newspaper's readership. Now I feel stupid. For all the doom and gloom about the impossibility abo
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by vslira 8y ago
If we get fully cryptographic computation (I don’t know if I’m using the term correctly, but basically no one knows what you’re doing with their cycles), why would we need decentralization? Couldn’t Isis run their irc server on AWS if it wa
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by vslira 8y ago
Is Julia a decent substitute for non numerically focused tasks? I’ve been thinking about learning a new lang recently, and while Julia does seem to be a real alternative to python for analysis, I can’t see how ergonomic it would be for simp
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by vslira 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. Maybe Apple was a couple of steps ahead and added an amazing feature for the ever growing Chinese market. Who knows?
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by vslira 8y ago
Something I wish was more common is some type of therapy for treating death anxiety. I read somewhere that LSD can reduce the fear of death[0]. I can think of few things I’d like more in life than not being afraid to cease to exist[1] in my
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by vslira 8y ago
What would be the best way to understand the relation between amplitudes and probabilities in the “non-quantum” world? In your NYT piece you say that it would be weird to give a “sq(-1) probability of rain tomorrow”, but are there relatable
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by vslira 8y ago
I'd be really interested in seeing examples of the most dynamic websites can get with HTML only. Penalties for using CSS but that's fine, too. Does anyone have pointers?
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by vslira 8y ago
Is there any license that makes software free (as in beer) for contributors/maintainers and paid for everyone else? This way it would be possible to alleviate the free riding problem while providing a mechanism to use software free of
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by vslira 9y ago
Interesting! Can someone provide some source for this “science backed” bit? I’m a bit skeptical, but willing to give a try if the science is convincing
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by vslira 9y ago
While I agree that being taxed on inflation is unfair, it would not be that hard to discount inflation when assessing taxes. Surely a tax system could accommodate that.
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by vslira 9y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t inheriting by averaging the parents’ matrices only work in single layer perceptrons? Anyway, nice exercise! :)
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by vslira 9y ago
I second this feeling. I'm not a native English speaker but I often see myself hoping that it becomes ever more prevalent. Unfortunately there's a lot of resistance to accepting it as the official universal language, not in small
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by vslira 9y ago
Honest answer: yes, being indoctrinated is pretty different than having your muscles literally controlled by a third party, if only for the illusion of agency
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by vslira 9y ago
This should be a WTO principle or something: you’re only allowed to sell products/services to foreign countries thay you allow to circulate internally and on similar conditions.
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by vslira 9y ago
"While there is no logical reason to suppose that bitcoin should have the same value as gold, if it did, each bitcoin should be worth approximately $285,000, 45 times the current market price. As such, one might wonder: is bitcoin sti
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by vslira 9y ago
Sorry to go off topic, but I've been waiting a thread about weird stuff found on gmaps for a long time. Does anyone know what is this geological formation (26.621298, 55.490281) and why it looks like a crater? Didn't find any refe
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by vslira 9y ago
Does anyone recommend a source akin to “statistical rethinking”, but in Python/pymc/edward? That book’s balance between theory and practice is remarkable, but im no fan of R :/
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by vslira 9y ago
The problem is that none of your definitions reflect how these terms are read in some academic circles. Which is not saying that you're wrong, I'm just pointing out that probably each person/group has a different view on what
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by vslira 9y ago
I know this may sound like a poor substitute to private corporate space, but I can't praise enough the combination of noise reducing earplugs and active noise cancelling over earphones. This combo plus somafm and a pomodoro timer app c

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