algorias

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by algorias 8mo ago
run them in a VM that doesn't have git installed. Sandboxing these things is a good idea anyways.
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by algorias 9mo ago
The biggest problem with Electric is the battery weight, so it makes sense. Ships deliberately use cheaper, less energy dense petroleum products (heavy fuel oil), for pretty much the inverse reasons why airplanes use kerosene.
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by algorias 1y ago
This is a problem with the (lack of) environmental laws in many countries. All things considered, landfills are really cheap.
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by algorias 1y ago
No, people get ill from excessive quantities of alcohol.
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by algorias 2y ago
Something assumed to be true without proof . Think of it as one layer of abstraction above the model under discussion. Like a hyperparameter. In later years, students get taught the same topics again, with the hyperparameter tuned to be mo
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by algorias 2y ago
not the OP, but I think they meant to imply that the AU government is grifting. It does look like attaching a $520k bill to the man's freedom. Totally not part of the punishment...
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by algorias 2y ago
Yeah, when I visited down there I initially misinterpreted what the "CBD bakery" was selling... xD
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by algorias 2y ago
In this case, they're vaguely gesturing towards the "money being better spent elsewhere", instead of making a cost-benefit analysis including the time value of money. Do you see how the argument is overly general? You can use
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by algorias 2y ago
Not defending the overall claim, but there's a plausible reason why being underwater matters: the mammalian diving reflex. Holding your breath on land is not the same.
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by algorias 2y ago
I have a question on manifold about Boeing's troubles: https://manifold.markets/VitorBosshard/number-of-major-incid... I'm only counting incidents where Boeing is at fault, this one might still be bad mainten
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by algorias 2y ago
> instead of knowing there was bias Why do you automatically assume this? Might be related to why people wanted to hide these numbers.
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by algorias 2y ago
or still do it, but know that YC's incentives and yours are pointing in different directions. Sometimes taking their advice is good for both of you, sometimes it is only good for them.
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by algorias 2y ago
That paragraph twists the harm around though. NYT goes out of its way to highlight Gemini depicting PoC as Nazis, while omitting that it almost entirely refused to depict white people and/or males in any positive context. Gemini was wa
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by algorias 2y ago
> The general "left leaning" mood is also to provide services that help single-family households to mitigate issues for children anyway, so I think it's much more of a nuanced "lesser of two evils" position to su
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by algorias 2y ago
The OP means that kids raised by married parents have better life outcomes. The policy proposals that would follow from this (e.g. restricting divorce) are right-leaning positions outside the overton window. But even beyond a specific polic
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by algorias 2y ago
I learned about it from a physical therapist. This seems to be old knowledge that was somewhat widespread (in the german-speaking world at least), then discredited in modernity as medicine was looking to be more evidence-based , and is now
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by algorias 2y ago
No, I'm saying that they also have a comparable rate of post-viral syndrome, and a comparable rate of severe cases. It is not clear at all at this point if covid will be able to do this much damage to the next generation (whose first e
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by algorias 2y ago
There is no ongoing pandemic. There is now an en demic virus that's part of the regular rotation of pathogens that cause colds and flu, and covid doesn't seem particularly more dangerous than the rest (NB: influenza can be very n
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by algorias 2y ago
Calming the sympathicus is one of the very few things that somewhat works for me. It helps to relax and get good sleep. One technique I'll add to the list: skin massage (literally pinching it with your fingers) around the sympathicus a
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by algorias 3y ago
Ahem. The base rate for a healthy person dying in the week or so leading up to their important testimony is tiny . It's reasonably likely (20%+) that this was foul play.
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by algorias 3y ago
It's a meme. Same as "shot himself in the back of the head"
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by algorias 3y ago
Same. I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but that is very strange wording.
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by algorias 3y ago
I can imagine it. You're skipping over the actually hard part, which is the question of where the current AI paradigm will top out. Don't pretend this is not an open question.
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by algorias 3y ago
> I am broadly anti-Worldcoin but it is reasonably competently executed at a technical level. It would be good to understand what they actually did before declaring it to be impossible. +1 to this. I'm very skeptical of the project
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by algorias 3y ago
First of all, it's very hard to make a printout that looks like the real thing to a camera. Images stored on a computer capture a lossy representation of what the camera actually "saw". Secondly, I believe that the protocol i
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by algorias 3y ago
I cultivate all three of those on my balcony. They are all extremely forgiving plants.
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by algorias 3y ago
Overcorrecting is a bad thing. It means that you're explicitly and knowingly discriminating by gender, with a flimsy justification about the guilt of our ancestors.
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by algorias 3y ago
I appreciate what you're saying, but images are nothing more than representations of something we measured with sensors and then combined into an array of data. It's misleading to call this a photo. It's not easy to rigorousl
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by algorias 3y ago
That description of EA is not even remotely accurate.
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by algorias 3y ago
Eh, I've had the opposite experience. If you search for anything slightly obscure in a language like Java, you'll get dozens of spam sites aimed at beginners that answer a much more basic question than the one you asked. That&#x27

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