bcgraham

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by bcgraham 4y ago
Isn’t it right and proper for management to serve ownership?
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by bcgraham 4y ago
Note that roads are not neutral in the “net neutrality” sense, since emergency vehicles are prioritized. There’s a cogent argument against net neutrality on similar grounds: i.e., prioritizing traffic with prioritized purpose, especially i
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by bcgraham 5y ago
If opportunity cost means anything at all, “not extending one’s life” must have a truly dizzying opportunity cost.
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by bcgraham 5y ago
As far as I can tell, reading documentation - not in snippets, to remember the details of something you know how to do, but top-to-bottom, to learn capabilities you didn’t know existed.
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by bcgraham 5y ago
Aren’t you describing exactly the kind of “intuitive guess” he referred to, for why consciousness is embodied?
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by bcgraham 5y ago
Art must be distributed to be appreciated. There will be demand for it: customers, each furiously waving their cash offer. Someone is going to render that art for consumption in exchange for that cash. My conviction is the artist should ha
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by bcgraham 5y ago
If you went this route, I’d push it out farther and make the cut steeper. Maybe after 20 years you start doing X%, where X is (Years - 20)*2. I really don’t want to make it harder for people to survive on their creative output for their who
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by bcgraham 5y ago
Can this line of reasoning be extended to poker?
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by bcgraham 5y ago
This seems like the kind of thing that got decisively ruled out decades ago, but could the estimates of star mass be wrong?
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by bcgraham 5y ago
http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
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by bcgraham 5y ago
The vim integration piece uses the same concepts as the gdb integration. The rest uses some (very ugly) local scripts, cobbled together in 10-minute snatches of time over years. Hopefully, the functionality of the pieces not included here c
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by bcgraham 5y ago
Fzf can be a tremendous time-sink because its credible promise to improve your quality of life in the terminal. One of my most-frequently-used pry customizations is a keybinding that opens the current backtrace in fzf, with the preview wind
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by bcgraham 5y ago
That sounds like exactly the kind of meaningful information I’d be interested in.
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by bcgraham 5y ago
I would be interested in seeing normalized comparisons, data allowing - e.g., X deaths per person-protest-hour, that sort of thing.
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by bcgraham 6y ago
> Calling to silence others (that is, encouraging them to take your view of not giving them an audience) is fine as long as people have a choice on how to respond. The urge to preempt what an audience hears is suspect.
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by bcgraham 6y ago
When some civilization becomes apparent, wouldn’t game theorizing say there’s a free rider problem? Wait for someone else to poke their heads out to handle it, save us the trouble, and maybe learn how we rank in a battle royale?
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by bcgraham 6y ago
It’s driven by the nature of jokes in a long-running medium. Jokes both require and create context; this joke’s punchline is that joke’s setup. If the setup isn’t rooted in the current context, it’s nonsensical. If the punchline is in curre
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by bcgraham 6y ago
Just a little bit of trivia for other Stephenson fans: Anathem ’s narrator is named “Erasmas.” This is a phonetic representation of the Greek “ήρωάς μας,” meaning “our hero.”
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by bcgraham 6y ago
http://bible-api.com/ecclesiastes%203:7
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by bcgraham 6y ago
> People are pretty susceptible to passionate speech by charismatic figures; much more susceptible, in fact, than they are to facts. This just seems like an opportunity for racists to win hearts and minds. The unstated assumption of this
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by bcgraham 6y ago
I always thought it was stored in the “angle” of your geodesic. When you come out of the gravity well, your travel through spacetime is angled to be traversing more time relative to space, making you look like you’re moving slower (when con
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by bcgraham 6y ago
https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459?ijkey=c3677213eca8...
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by bcgraham 7y ago
Eh, Stephenson likes puns. He did the same thing for Anathem, and I’d say that takes itself at least somewhat seriously.
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by bcgraham 7y ago
Anyone else read Neal Stephenson’s Anathem ? It drew heavily from Deutsch, so it’s not totally surprising, but this argument seems pretty close to “Did you read Anathem ? Because Anathem .”
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by bcgraham 7y ago
I can tolerate anything except the outgroup.
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by bcgraham 8y ago
An excerpt from Anathem (Neal Stephenson, 2008): > "Early in the Reticulum — thousands of years ago — it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information," [he] said. &qu
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by bcgraham 8y ago
I know this is a sensitive topic, but just for consideration: when I asked my wife this question, she answered, "Almost everyone." She thought that answer was so obvious it might be trying to lead people to that answer. If you rea
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by bcgraham 8y ago
Providing the combination to your safe seems like a closer analogy, and I believe it is protected from compulsion by the Fifth Amendment.
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by bcgraham 8y ago
The "best" by which metric and whose evaluation? This is another way of asking, "Who are we going to forbid from determining for themselves these answers?"
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by bcgraham 8y ago
In every economy, companies optimize for survival by "seeming" the best. The only part that changes is the audience to which it seems.

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