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by waterheater 3y ago
Your system only works if everyone is uniform. Unless you strongly disincentivize or eliminate the desire to see over the heads of the crowd standing on the plain, a taller person will be able to see further than a shorter person. The short
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by waterheater 3y ago
It should be possible for a university to ensure that "student success activities" include more than just good grades. Hope that's what's done in practice.
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by waterheater 3y ago
Fair enough. You do say you're interested in honest inquiry, so I'll give you a few resources. A first step is considering that difference can be accepted. "The Illusions of Egalitarianism" by John Kekes is a good place
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by waterheater 3y ago
Fellow white guy, are you aware that you're speaking form a position of privilege, that few will actually receive that signal as you intend, and the vast majority of "non-whites" will actually view you as foolish for making s
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by waterheater 3y ago
Agreed. I know of a single academic faculty who leads engineering research efforts with 40+ research faculty, 4 dedicated administrative staff, and 200+ doctoral students. Most students rarely interact with the PI and are really advised by
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by waterheater 3y ago
Any attempts of reform are immediately met by faculty calls for the protection of academic freedom. They believe their position is so special, they're beyond reform efforts. I remember when faculty tenure review at a major academic ins
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by waterheater 3y ago
It's difficult to make ranging generalizations about academia for the same reason it's difficult to make them about society at-large: massive variation of experience. Still, we can try. A HN commenter once wisely stated: "Bui
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by waterheater 3y ago
Good point. Leakage current is the main issue these days, but that problem is only indirectly linked to power density. I've explained it your way in the past, but I saw the Wikipedia article for Dennard scaling [1] says that power dens
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by waterheater 3y ago
This fragmentation was predicted well over a decade ago, but we're finally seeing mass market realization of these predictions. The most relevant idea here is Koomey's Law [1], which postulates that the "number of computation
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by waterheater 3y ago
Building with local materials makes sense from an environmental standpoint by reducing transport energy. Since local materials will yield in different ways, architectural styles will need to adapt so buildings are resilient to the regional
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by waterheater 3y ago
Resilient systems are rarely 100% efficient. Duplication of key infrastructure and roles maximizes uptime. While I'd bet LinkedIn suffers from large-scale organizational inefficiencies, each team probably is working to maximize resilie
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by waterheater 3y ago
Disinformation? Come on, man. Here's articles on what the situation was. 2015 - "Vancouver house-buying frenzy leaves half-empty neighbourhoods": https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia&#x2F
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by waterheater 3y ago
A little insight on Vancouver: PRC investment firms decided that the steady growth of the North American real estate market looked to provide great returns on investment. So, these firms started buying up large numbers of single-family home
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by waterheater 3y ago
>I never figured out why CMU would have enough name recognition in Japan to show up in an anime. CMU is a solid computer science and engineering school which has found a way to get its name thrown in up there with the likes of MIT and Ca
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by waterheater 3y ago
According to a news article, the first blockchain application is an application released in 1992 called AbsoluteProof by the company Surety [1]. [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-bl
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by waterheater 3y ago
According to the dictionary [1], a blockchain is "a digital database containing information (such as records of financial transactions) that can be simultaneously used and shared within a large decentralized, publicly accessible networ
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by waterheater 3y ago
>It's not a blockchain, but a single writer Merkle DAG. Hmm. Just because something's a Merkle DAG doesn't make it useable on the Internet. A single-writer blockchain, perhaps?
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by waterheater 3y ago
Related to timekeeping is the NIST Randomness Beacon: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/interoperable-randomness-beac... "This prototype implementation generates full-entropy bit-strings and posts them in blocks of 5
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by waterheater 3y ago
Let's assume the technology will eventually work. What if you had a "personal font"? Sure, you have a user name, but what if you had a custom-generated font which communicates your personality to other people on the Internet?
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by waterheater 3y ago
Without changing the fundamental learning process, one could conceivably introduce a "post-production" step, where you tighten up the output according to a set of pre-defined rules (e.g., if an angle is 89 degrees, adjust the angl
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by waterheater 3y ago
svpk's comment aligns with my own understanding. Also, some young-earth creationists may say that God created the earth with age. If you ask them why God did that or where they find such information in the Bible, they'll either sa
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by waterheater 3y ago
>It is like calling homeopathy a medicine. It is medicine, but don't take my word for it: >allopathic medicine: a system of medical practice that emphasizes diagnosing and treating disease and the use of conventional, evidence-ba
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Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS)(gps.gov)
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by waterheater 3y ago
One can hope, though that's my main point in talking about it. The paradigm of artificial wombs will be a literal "brave new world". I wonder what the downstream effects will be when a company offers BaaS (Babies as a Service
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by waterheater 3y ago
Two relevant perspectives to share: "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure i
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by waterheater 3y ago
An interesting idea. You're talking about a biological robot. I doubt such an invention will meet the legal requirement for personhood.
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by waterheater 3y ago
Obviously, this is just my opinion, but no, I believe it's possible that the Georgia definition may be exploited, particularly because the intent behind the law was to protect mothers (a natural person), not an artificial womb owned by
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by waterheater 3y ago
>Slavery is all around you. Perhaps "de facto slavery" was a poor word choice. That said, slavery as we traditionally understand it means you are entirely dehumanized; in essence, you are property. The examples you provide cert
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by waterheater 3y ago
Without legal intervention, I do believe that what you describe is the ultimate endgame of these technologies. People could be owned by a corporation or state because certain developed clumps of cells never met the legal criteria for person
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by waterheater 3y ago
I wrote an excessively detailed comment on the implications of an artificial wombs from a legal perspective in the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308675#37314083 TLDR: it's not as simple as just "fetus

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