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by waqf 10y ago
If you write a function int makeHash(int) which computes a trapdoor function, and I write a function int makeHash(int) which prepares breakfast and returns a status code, then they have the same signature but different semantic meaning.
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by waqf 10y ago
What happens when a competitor creates a substitute artwork (i.e. one that competes for market share with the original artwork) and sells it at 24¢?
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by waqf 10y ago
People are already creating more art than we actually need (witness how hard it is to make a living as an artist). Now just wait till the AIs become serious competition at that too.
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by waqf 10y ago
Can you expand on what he meant by that? I've always taken it to mean "don't ever make an investment that you know deep down is suboptimal".
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by waqf 10y ago
So, in what sense is it true that it costs (present tense) 50¢/m²?
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by waqf 10y ago
> Trump as a kingmaker with a vastly outsize influence Hmm, now you mention it, didn't something like that happen to the Weimar Republic?
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by waqf 10y ago
Thanks, I was expecting a rebuttal based on experience with PR but this is a particularly interesting one. Actually I'd be interested in seeing some kind of delegative democracy system like Liquid Feedback. It has some features in com
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by waqf 10y ago
If people are even thinking about gerrymandering, then it's apparent that the system of having one representative elected by each district no longer serves its supposed purpose of making sure each "community" is represented.
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by waqf 10y ago
It's nontrivial to measure definitively, due not only to subjectivity but to various selection bias problems; but why do you think it could not be true?
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by waqf 10y ago
When you're playing blackjack or craps, with physical devices whose odds are quite likely what they appear to be, "can't do math" might be a fair criticism. But when you're playing an underspecified game against a m
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by waqf 10y ago
> it's just [when] the casino cottons on that you're doing it And maybe not even then. With the incomplete mitigations that casinos already put in for card-counting (multiple decks, etc.), card-counting is tricky and has a ve
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by waqf 10y ago
Quick, tell me your favourite number between 0 and 1. How did you do that? Weren't there an uncountable number of possible numbers? Ah, you may say, but I obviously wasn't going to choose one with an infinite information content,
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by waqf 10y ago
N is not fixed, so we're always in case (i), position ≤ N. The equivalence class does indeed not specify the colour of the hat. The invocation of the Axiom of Choice was used to tell the prisoner what to guess in that equivalence cl
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by waqf 10y ago
Oh, I see, you're addressing the "we don't need uncountable sets" statement by giving examples of intuitively obvious things which are uncountable. But I think OP's claim is that we don't "need" those
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by waqf 10y ago
If you take any finite subset of N prisoners, it's easy to see that they won't do better than chance, so the expectation is for N/2 of them to guess wrongly. Since N can be arbitrarily large, your intuition is correct.
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by waqf 10y ago
I"m not sure what you're saying. There are only countably many computable sequences of rational numbers, so why shouldn't they all converge?
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by waqf 10y ago
OP never claimed there were countably many functions from N to N, only that there are countably many Turing machines which is true. By "polynomials" OP doesn't mean polynomials over the reals but over, for example, the ration
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by waqf 10y ago
sampo posted an article about misophonia in China: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1030060.shtml
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by waqf 10y ago
Seems to be from 2012: https://search.googleblog.com/2012/03/graphing-on-googlecom-...
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by waqf 10y ago
Enforcement of contracts is ultimately dependent on the goodwill of the state, just as honouring visas is.
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by waqf 10y ago
The worry isn't the last order, it's the next one. The US set a precedent that they're willing to suddenly, indiscriminately cancel thousands of visas by executive order. And at NO notice, which means that your worst case isn
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by waqf 10y ago
"Fulfilled", except for the bit where it's a lottery. "Give me your tired, etc., and bet their future on red maybe six or seven times in a row. If they win every time, send them on. Otherwise screw them."
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by waqf 10y ago
Ok, what is the aim of the H1B program? You appear to have raised that question, and then shied away from that phrasing in your answer.
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by waqf 10y ago
> much better than Funny to say that, when the comparison between these two approaches was the subject of the original "Worse is Better" article: http://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
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by waqf 10y ago
> traveling by sea [from another continent] If you have thousands of dollars and a week or two to waste. > Canada or Mexico If you can get a visa for those places. Both of your ideas are things I, as an affluent Westerner, would
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by waqf 10y ago
Not to defend anything that's currently going on, but you have to consider the possibility of a dispute at the border over whether someone is a citizen or not. Honestly, this is why I don't complain very much about biometrics and
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by waqf 10y ago
If you're thinking about constitutional change, how about starting by electing the candidate that got the most votes?
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by waqf 10y ago
> If half of your population's will is being disregarded and worked against, there is a problem . Then it seems to me there has been a problem in the US for many years now. (Good news everyone! There's now a problem in the UK
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by waqf 10y ago
> (This is a term of art with a very specific sense.) Would you care to enlighten us?
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by waqf 10y ago
That's easy to apply to a common-sense law like "Don't cut other people's limbs off without their permission". It's not so easy to apply to a law written in terms of concepts like "two employees of the sam

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