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by ckuehne 11mo ago
“Some people become depressed at the scale of the universe, because it makes them feel insignificant. Other people are relieved to feel insignificant, which is even worse. But, in any case, those are mistakes. Feeling insignificant because
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by ckuehne 2y ago
There is no "nation from which the items were taken".
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by ckuehne 3y ago
This conclusion does not follow from the article.
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by ckuehne 4y ago
> We're already inundated with mediocre programmers, many of whom have CS degrees, which is precisely why the industry looks at job experience more than credentials How does looking at job experience help to distinguish good from ba
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by ckuehne 5y ago
"The assumption is that people can acquire knowledge as if it’s a substance they can pour into their minds. I call it the Water in a Cup method" In German-speaking countries, there has been a name for it since 1647: Nuernberger Tr
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by ckuehne 5y ago
I think your statement "Once you have plasma breakeven you have a self-sustaining heater basically" is false. According to Wikipedia [1] - if I interpret it correctly - the fusion energy gain factor from plasma must be 5 (!) to ha
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by ckuehne 5y ago
No, there is only "knowing that communist central planning always ends up in shortages". See here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970544 for an example that illustrates the point nicely.
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by ckuehne 6y ago
"and make the latter catastrophically worse" Wrong: https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality#global...
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by ckuehne 6y ago
You're in for a 'treat' https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(14)...
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by ckuehne 6y ago
Of course it is. That is why, had the pilot survived, he/she would have faced criminal charges.
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by ckuehne 6y ago
So, how much percent in pension payments for teachers would the German taxpayer save if the state required, say, one year less teacher education?
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by ckuehne 6y ago
I like this quote from the "Where We Have Failed" paper: "We are very uncritical of systems created by the large Internet vendors to that solve application-specific problems, which have been written, until recently, by develo
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by ckuehne 7y ago
This sounds a lot like the "We do everything with XML now"-phase that the Java world has gone through.
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by ckuehne 7y ago
Note also that the blueberry test group (WBB) had a higher score in the practice test already (cf. Table 1). In other words: they were probably better before the consumption of the blueberry juice and stayed better afterwards.
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by ckuehne 7y ago
Note that the chart in the linked comic begins in the middle of the last ice age. It ends one or two degree celsius above the mean temperature of the previous 500 years (or so). The big hockey stick at the end is a prediction! At the point
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by ckuehne 8y ago
You've missed the wonders of socialism. https://polishforums.com/history/food-stamps-communist-era-6... Edit (for the down voters): I observed these "wonders" first-hand, since I grew up in the Eastern B
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by ckuehne 8y ago
What do you mean by 'allowed'? Why should it not be allowed?
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by ckuehne 9y ago
If licensing was required for computer-related goods and services we would likely neither have Linux today nor a cheap plastic router to run it on.
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by ckuehne 9y ago
Export is not the metric you are looking for. Germany exports lots of solar and wind engery during storms or on hot summer days because it cannot use it. The prices for this energy are low, even negative.
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by ckuehne 10y ago
How is Fizzbuzz a trick question?
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by ckuehne 10y ago
"What’s going on here? Why is Postgres wasting its time, continuing to search even though it’s already found the data we’re looking for?" Because Postgres has not already found what we are looking for. The query is select *
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by ckuehne 11y ago
I think you are confusing things. The problem is not to compute S=10^(3 * 10^10). In fact, we have already computed it. The problem that you originally discussed was waiting (at most) S steps until we can be sure that the finite state-machi
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by ckuehne 11y ago
It is not "relatively easy" to solve. It is exponentially hard. For example, 16 GB RAM means you have about 10^(3*10^10) possible states. That is a 1 followed by 30 million zeroes. So I guess I'll pick you up in about 10^10^9
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by ckuehne 11y ago
Those who cannot differentiate between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy at adulthood are doomed to draw misleading cartoons.
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by ckuehne 11y ago
But this is exactly the point. How do you know that it is a correlation? To establish a correlation you would also have to look at all the founders who did not succeed. As far as I am aware, Jessica has not done this.
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The Software Paradox(thesoftwareparadox.com)
2 points by ckuehne 11y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 12y ago
http://jmockit.github.io
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by ckuehne 12y ago
Maybe a quote by David Deutsch will ease the pain: "Some people get depressed when they find out how huge the universe is. They feel tiny and insignificant and think that nothing matters in this world. That makes no more sense than get
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by ckuehne 13y ago
> In Africa, they even have a song about it They also have a song about it in Germany. It's called "Whatsapper": http://youtu.be/Rxb2A4uASqc
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Do people mind more about inequality than poverty?(rationaloptimist.com)
3 points by ckuehne 13y ago|0 comments

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