challenger22

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by challenger22 7y ago
This is mostly as a reply to Eliezer Yudkowsky- I've been in the rationalist community for quite a while, this is the first time I've noticed you here on HN. It is really funny to observe how much people want to argue against you
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by challenger22 7y ago
I think that even long-term the approach as described in TFA will always require many hours of work for an hour of time saved. The saner way to do it is probably have direct personal assistance for the blind. Phone call systems for the deaf
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by challenger22 7y ago
The expected steady-state outcome of this situation is that all website-owning educational companies will be targeted for lawsuits, many of which are valid, and many of which are not. The net effect of these lawsuits will primarily be a mas
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by challenger22 7y ago
I see a screaming face in the article's top picture. A gaping maw of horror!
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by challenger22 7y ago
You state that there is nothing cultural about birth rates and then list several cultural factors influencing birth rates. And then you state that there is nothing we can reasonably do to increase birth rates, even though most of the factor
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by challenger22 7y ago
no Excel as an alternative to google sheets? aww.
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by challenger22 7y ago
Congratulations, you have disproven statistical evidence by providing an anecdote.
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by challenger22 7y ago
I would argue that the primary mechanism is cultural changes effecting the fertility rate. Japan suffers a declining population not because of its technology, but because of its culture. Population growth rate peaked in 1968. Up until 1968,
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by challenger22 7y ago
More like: The guy that designed the flight control surfaces of the F-22 did so using an elaborate Excel spreadsheet powered by 4,000 lines of uncommented VBA filled with aerodynamics equations, and he retired 3 years ago.
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by challenger22 7y ago
You didn't make an effort to charitably interpret my question. My question is essentially about whether transient response to changes in albedo occur primarily over the course of days or primarily over the course of years. Albedo is im
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by challenger22 7y ago
Interesting, thanks. The mechanisms that cause such a delayed temperature response are still opaque though, figure I gotta read more in-depth technical stuff to really understand.
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by challenger22 7y ago
Because China is emotionally distant enough from most HN commenters that it does not trigger a flame war.
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by challenger22 7y ago
>Even if we completely stop emitting CO2 right now (which we can't), there would still be too much CO2 in the atmosphere for some time, leading to further heating and longer melting Do you have any data on this? If you look at how q
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by challenger22 7y ago
I hate it when I find traces of environmental group in my cereal.
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by challenger22 7y ago
The act of decomposing a piece based on the values of the artist and the values of other viewpoints ultimately leads to a spooky place where truth is defined by narrative. This is the domain of postmodernism. I reconcile the narratives by:
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by challenger22 7y ago
I would think that it can still short out and overheat, but the material the battery is made of does not combust or have any exothermic chemical reaction. The energetic failure mode would be- "sparks and gets really really hot."
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by challenger22 7y ago
Look up the 4% rule and firecalc.com to learn how this 100x multiple is a lot less, more like 25x realistically. A lot of people are irrationally intolerant of risk. Try not to let fear dominate your intuition about investing.
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by challenger22 7y ago
I imagine there's boiler room full of guys somewhere tagging videos as "Borderline content", creating data which then feeds into a machine learning algorithm which decides which videos get promoted. All videos are metricized
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by challenger22 7y ago
I wish the people downvoting this guy would actually research this claim. Seems reasonable to me. Seeing for a scatterplot of consumer good MSRP's vs. energy of production would be enlightening.
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by challenger22 7y ago
pull yerself together, man! :)
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by challenger22 7y ago
If you have issues with fine cuts (like fishing line or tissue paper) the scissors on a victorinox swiss army knife work very well. Get a 91mm size knife for scissors that aren't laughably tiny, but only smallish. On the opposite side,
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by challenger22 7y ago
>Women are enculturated to be uncomfortable most of the time. And to ignore their discomfort. >The real problem isn't that we — as a culture — don't sufficiently consider men's biological reality. The problem is rather
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by challenger22 7y ago
I follow your example. Thanks for the wisdom.
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by challenger22 7y ago
Failing to declaw an outdoor cat lets the cat kill more birds; cats are an invasive species that kill billions of birds per year.
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by challenger22 7y ago
The true cost of plastic is cheaper by far than aluminum or other alternatives. Injection molding and other plastic technologies are miraculously productive and energy efficient compared to many other forms of production. The U.S. produces
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by challenger22 7y ago
Another question- How much more do you enjoy your self-made career over your previous engineering career?
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by challenger22 7y ago
These questions are completely tangential, and may be a bit too personal, but I can't help but be curious... 1. After you moved out to the country, and discovered you did not want to handle the lifestyle of maintaining all that land (e
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by challenger22 7y ago
Think of it this way: A cylindrical fuselage provides no lift (except for the lift from its angle of attack flying obliquely through the air), only drag. If you can design the aircraft in such a way that all exterior surfaces contribute to
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by challenger22 7y ago
It has been known for a long time that flying wing designs are inherently more fuel efficient than typical passenger airline fuselage designs.
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by challenger22 7y ago
I am inferring it from the shape of the aircraft.

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