SomeStupidPoint

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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
As I've said before, you'll have to ban me then, if you really believe I'm a negative contribution. I'm not going to stop responding in reasonable, human, and direct ways to comments. I'm also going to note, yet aga
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Could you tell me what personal attack that would be?
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I actually outlined why I thought they were wrong, and shut your mouth is clearly attached to not making subjective statements about other people's belongings (which, I absolutely stand by as inappropriate) -- so yes, an angry but on-p
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
That you disagree with my assessment that angry lead-ins to detailed responses to people insulting your things are appropriate, but feel insulting other people's belongings (while providing incorrect and useless tech advice) is appropr
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
The second part of your example is a statement of opinion, not fact -- so it's not really the same thing at all.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I run full Windows 10 on a tablet (dual core, 2GB RAM), and it's pretty amazing to me how many websites that have no reason to run slow completely fail on it. I can only imagine it works fine on dev machines with much faster quad+ core
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Excellent blog post! And if anyone is looking for the book (like I was), this seems to be a more recent edition (with better availability): https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/14516638...
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Society is not a force of nature such that its decrees carry the weight of natural law. People can (and often should) resist what society decrees, because it's only through that dynamic tension of conflicting forces in society that we
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Sure, if you force people to behave a certain way, the conflict can be avoided. The problem stems from the fundamental fact that a very small percentage of people are assholes, a faction of people are intent on forcibly silencing and harm
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> [Subordinates] are used to being dominated and condescended. If you talk to them as respected individuals, you usually get respect back. It also gives more weight to the times you have to be more assertive. This is actually pretty good
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I agree, but poking holes in why they're excluded is important, because it let's you have this exchange -- "You can't argue with the math!" "Well, hold on now, I think you left a whole bunch of things out!&quot
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> They have relatives, friends, aesthetic preferences, social obligations, religious beliefs, and other things that "do not compute" in mathematical models. They compute fine -- most models are just "lying with math"
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I think it takes less than most of us imagine -- but more than most of us are capable of organizing. If you wanted to build complexes to stimulate the economy, you'd probably need on the order of... $100M in buildings, and another $100
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> Integrity is always an option, but it's definitely not always an easy option. Here's some anecdata: I've been that shitbag without integrity, it's not actually any easier. (I actually think it's much harder.)
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
People have been trying that, for at least a few decades. Do facts like almost every American wants a more fair system change it? No, because the governing structure has itself been corrupted after decades of abuse. Therefore, it seems th
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> We frequently receive reports from community activists and other social media users who were blocked from commenting on an agency’s Facebook page, or prevented from contributing to a community discussion prompted by an officials’ tweet
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> If you were correct, then women should have economic parity with men. They don't. Every statistic I've seen seems to indicate that modulo life choices that seem correlated with gender (ie, on average women prefer different th
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Late reply, but I think there's a second harm to throwing out generalists in addition to what you outline: Specialists aren't as good as generalists at integrating the work of specialists across domains (almost by definition). A l
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
If you look at per energy expenditure, I'd argue that "webcams for pets" or "delivery for X" are probably delivering more value per unit energy used, because of relative efficiency.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I think the implication is that "free" is being quoted from elsewhere and the author doesn't necessarily agree that it is without cost just because such cost is not denominated in dollars.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
So Google deployed malware against... tens of millions of people?... in order to steal confidential data for profit, by bypassing security mechanisms on those devices as they interacted with Google servers, exceeding authorized access, and
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
That was connecting on to the previous paragraph, and contrasting with pre-authorization through a payment network -- I meant a direct transfer of currency from customer to merchant, instead of using a financial institution as an intermedia
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Digital currency isn't competing with credit card networks, it's competing with ACH. ACH transfers take days; wire transfers take minutes to hours and cost tens of dollars. There's ever possibility of running a digital curren
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
How accurate does that need to be...? 100ms? 10ms? 1ms? 100us?
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
It's actual a real problem with people who are moderately good at math: They sabotage explanations to laypeople by incorrectly nitpicking technical details because they hear informal language that sounds similar to something they know,
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I run one as a malware blocker, because if I don't then my computers get attacked at least once a day, often by reputable sites. It's probably more important than an antivirus for stopping malware.
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
It's precisely the N that I was talking about: I discuss how seeing 100 steps of a sequence with regular behavior gives you a better sense of its asymptotics than seeing 3 steps, and then how you can generate some steps of that sequenc
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> It's because we think in 3D, so we only really see three steps of exponential growth. > If we thought in 100D, we might have a better sense for it, because we'd be able to see a hundred of them. This is pretty clearly talk
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Honestly, it's just a mash-up of a few Buddhist ideas and a few math ideas: You can model what you're doing as a phase space, which is the product space of the state of each thing you control. This generally has a lot more dimensi
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by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
> Why has the government taken such a hands off approach? Because it's something like win-win-win for them? 1. They don't stifle a new technology for no reason. 2. They can always regulate it later, with the added bonus that th

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