dlss

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by dlss 2y ago
I'd love to see drug trials funded by tax dollars, ideally informed by a legal prediction market on which trials are likely to succeed or fail. The people betting on pharma stocks would likely prefer betting directly on trials, since s
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by dlss 3y ago
The price of rent roughly tracks the price of a mortgage, and apartments are only about 20% of all homes. If this legislation passes, and home prices go down, then rental prices for homes will go down, and apartment rental prices will need
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by dlss 4y ago
D'oh. abolition -> prohibition in the above
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by dlss 4y ago
My inference from nature supported a non-moral point, namely "[abortion is] going to be with us until the end of time, regardless of law." As for my moral argument, I invite you to read about the history of abortion, the history
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by dlss 4y ago
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-bruce-effe... If animals do it in nature, and humans do it with dangerous methods when denied access to safe methods, it's going to be with us until the end of tim
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by dlss 5y ago
Do we agree it's a bad sign when a model treats lived human experience as noise?
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by dlss 5y ago
> I don't think Tor tries to accomplish the same goal as Orchid If the goal isn't "Anonymity Online" (taken from torproject.org), what is Orchid's goal? > afaik Tor still doesn't have a working iOS port
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by dlss 5y ago
> our users mostly buy in using "in-app purchases", which has led to use implementing various restrictions on spending them. Browsing through the code, it looks like Orchid's xdai contract is https://blockscout.
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by dlss 6y ago
There's a great Warren Buffett quote on this: "Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill
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by dlss 6y ago
if the devs only have 76k of capital right now, maybe also pays for ramen?
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by dlss 6y ago
He spent a decade of nights-and-weekends effort on making kids better at math and science, taking what I understand to be startup level risks in the beginning. How much do you think he should make? Mr. Rogers was paid more than $800k/y
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by dlss 9y ago
> No, society tolerating those vocal trolls does mean that society is sexist. What change in society would count as not tolerating these trolls?
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by dlss 9y ago
TL;DR: OP hasn't tried haskell yet ;p
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by dlss 9y ago
If I am understanding this correctly: 1. My 1 year old cousin is likely to die somewhere between ~1.1 and 2 years old. 2. My 96 year old grandfather is likely to die somewhere between ~100 and ~2000(!) years old. Naively I would have though
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by dlss 9y ago
> But, actually do want to test them for radioactivity lol. Anybody know about this? Perhaps buy a radiation tester? https://smile.amazon.com/GQ-GMC-300E-Plus-Radiation-dosimete...
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by dlss 9y ago
> Every interview I've see with Damore after him getting fired confirms that he's a misogynist. The only one I'm familiar with is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4WoeOkj2Ng ... which kind of left me with
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by dlss 9y ago
The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows: You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the articl
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by dlss 9y ago
I actually really like this idea, and almost clicked away before understanding it. Maybe try describing it as "What if every Trello card had its own Google Doc?" (I'm sure you have other features, that was just the one that e
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by dlss 9y ago
> Most other drugs have to be proven safe to use even before showing tangible benefits. What? I encourage you to read about prescription drug side effects. If a drug were safe, it would be over the counter rather than prescription. Presc
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by dlss 9y ago
> Because men love electronics projects and women love keeping a tidy house and ruining their dreams, am I right? I don't think this is accurate. Personally, I've had a lot of trouble finding people of either gender who are int
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by dlss 9y ago
There's no point in using a hashing algorithm that can be maliciously collided.
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by dlss 10y ago
> At one point after days of training, my agent actually had a 90% LOSE rate against an opponent that played totally randomly. To this day I am baffled by this. This is indeed baffling. My best guess: perhaps your error function was reve
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by dlss 10y ago
It's not exactly a citation, but high school culture ("that which sounds cool should be done") doesn't exactly lead to the best of all possible places. Looking for symmetric universal moral principals sort of does seem t
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by dlss 10y ago
> It does not need to be Samantha Bee's job to win everybody over. Exactly. It's Samantha Bee's job to feed the polarization cycle. If she doesn't, who will?
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by dlss 10y ago
(Going meta for a second: I'm sorry this took me so long to notice, but I think this might have become a political discussion. I had believed we were principally discussing mathematical fairness as it applies to markets, with maybe som
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by dlss 10y ago
> There is plenty of evidence that people have conscious and unconscious biases. Agreed. I didn't say otherwise, I just also pointed out that there's evidence some of those biases are genetic. > There is ample evidence tha
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by dlss 10y ago
> Analysis of the famines in Bangladesh and the role of speculation in them has been done by Nobel prize winning economist Amartya Sen Then, assuming he agrees with your above summary, I encourage both you and Amartya to locate the found
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by dlss 10y ago
> and the initial goal after validating my MVPs Validate before building an MVP. See: https://steveblank.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/customer-deve... -- company building happens at the end, not at the start.
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by dlss 10y ago
1. Economics, unlike the other social sciences, is built off of mathematical assumptions about behavior. Computers are built similarly off of the math that is Von Neumann's modification to Turing machines, so I'll use them as a me
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by dlss 10y ago
Competitive markets are a sub-component of Capitalism. Allowing private individuals to own the means of production (so corporations) is another important part of capitalism not guaranteed by competitive markets. Voluntary exchange is also n

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