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by wyager 2y ago
Crime, as with most things, follows a power law distribution. Almost all crime is from extremely predictable repeat offenders. You could eliminate over 80% of crime just by enforcing a 3-strikes policy. https://inquisitivebird.xy
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by wyager 2y ago
> What will happen to 3rd world countries Probably less disruption than will happen in 1st world countries. > No one will have chance to be rich anymore It's strange to reach this conclusion from "look, a massive new product
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by wyager 2y ago
> in the trunk, not on the backseat! Also, never put these expensive items or really any kind of bag in the trunk after you park... You don't want your window broken for a sport bag A frustrating thing is that it's completely o
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by wyager 2y ago
> Who leaves 10K worth of anything in their car? People who live in a high-trust society and not a shithole? I leave $10k of stuff in my car all the time, and it would be super inconvenient if I couldn't.
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by wyager 2y ago
He means that idiot customers will use the wrong batteries and get mad, and they absolutely will. The modal customer doesn't understand anything about battery chemistry and will unconditionally buy the cheapest battery at the store.
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by wyager 2y ago
The question isn't enlightening, because the modal HN commenter isn't anything like the modal criminal
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by wyager 2y ago
"Altruistic punishment in humans" - https://www.nature.com/articles/415137a It's good for society, and (in the evolutionary equilibrium) results in massively reduced defection, if people are willing to t
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by wyager 2y ago
Probably they used LibUSB bindings or something
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by wyager 2y ago
And yet manufacturer liability was a significant causal factor in domestic textile production collapsing
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by wyager 2y ago
A) It's not going to stop at the most egregious cases B) I hope you like meat imported from China
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by wyager 2y ago
Italian food is good. I'm not saying to do this for every single industry, just for food
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by wyager 2y ago
It's more efficient to treat food safety standards as a criminal matter rather than a civil matter. If it's frequently treated as a civil matter, it results in endless (and endlessly costly) civil suits. The standards for successf
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by wyager 2y ago
Exposing food manufacturers to widespread civil suits like this would surely depress domestic production of food just as opening up fabric manufacturers to fire-related civil suits (e.g. Chapman v Brown) destroyed domestic fabric production
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by wyager 2y ago
I don't see the EWMA mentioned anywhere there?
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by wyager 2y ago
Tbf, smartphone cameras are not really "high quality" in a way that's useful here. Try taking a video of something with small angular subtension like an aircraft at cruising altitude with a cell phone camera.
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by wyager 2y ago
How is EWMA a special case of Kalman? I typically frame it in terms of laplace/Z transform, in which case it's just a 1-pole LPF
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by wyager 2y ago
> I just want an economical family vehicle Then buy an ICE vehicle. It's a more mature, cost-effective, and power/energy-dense technology
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by wyager 2y ago
> this guy reported that he spent nothing on his election campaign, which is impossible as there have been flyers with his face on them, plus ads on social media Anyone can buy ads and flyers. If your rejoinder is "It's against
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by wyager 2y ago
Our Democracy(tm) is when elected candidates are judicially removed due to accusations of having unfavorable "sympathies"
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by wyager 2y ago
> If you pay money to run electoral ads, for someone's campaign, this money has to be declared, and the ads should be marked as such. Do you really think this makes sense as a justification for a court to depose a candidate, or are
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by wyager 2y ago
"Undermining democracy" is when you win an election. "Protecting democracy" is when an unelected court unilaterally removes an elected candidate.
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by wyager 2y ago
> except the Ocaml module system is nice to use This comment doesn't lead me to believe you've ever worked in an ocaml shop. It's only "nice to use" for trivial use cases, but quickly devolves into a "funct
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by wyager 2y ago
Surgery is risky and resource-intensive.
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by wyager 2y ago
I wrote this like ~10 years ago as a "Hello World++" type demo (basic key/value server) in Haskell. It's about 200 LoC, with a Haskell and Python client. http://github.com/wyager/neks
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by wyager 2y ago
OCaml's type system is quite janky and simplistic compared to Haskell's. The first class module system is fairly nice, although it leads to an annoying problem where now you kind of have two "levels" to the language (mod
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by wyager 2y ago
F# is good because MSR used to hire a bunch of the top GHC devs and pay them to work on F# part-time. They put all their actual passion into Haskell.
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by wyager 2y ago
> most engineers don't consider ML syntax to be the cleanest, since most don't know any ML language. This is like saying "most uncontacted Amazonian tribes don't like Shakespeare, because they've never read it&q
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by wyager 2y ago
I agree with the denotative message of your post (that we should let the energy market do its optimization unimpeded), but I'm guessing we disagree connotatively; most "green" solutions (especially wind, to a lesser degree so
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by wyager 2y ago
It's a bit of a bizarre design; the JVM's execution model is not sufficiently different from any standard procedural execution semantics to justify special hardware support. It makes more sense to use a normal JIT/AOT compile
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by wyager 2y ago
Bluesky is not decentralized; they have tons of centralized infrastructure, including all the identity management stuff.

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