mcguire

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by mcguire 5mo ago
Out of curiosity, what if the "can be useful" part is Gell-Mann Amnesia?
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by mcguire 1y ago
"They actually have a great contempt for expertise. They don't see it as necessary because they think that they're the smartest people who've ever lived, because they're the wealthiest people who've ever lived.
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by mcguire 1y ago
"Adam Becker: I've got a magnet on my fridge right now that says the heat death is coming. Certain Silicon Valley visionaries hate the laws of thermodynamics. Others claim that their ideas are thermodynamically inevitable because
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Silicon Valley billionaires want the impossible(arstechnica.com)
8 points by mcguire 1y ago|6 comments
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Gender bias towards women entrepreneurs by VCs – a randomized response survey(tandfonline.com)
16 points by mcguire 1y ago|4 comments
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by mcguire 1y ago
Don't forget that people don't really want factory jobs, which suck; they want union jobs that pay well and don't kill them.
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by mcguire 1y ago
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Mercantilism.html
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by mcguire 1y ago
Don't confuse the Goldman Sachs branch of the Democratic party with Musk/Bezos/et al bankrolling the Republican party.
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by mcguire 1y ago
Well, now, that depends on when and who exactly is involved in large scale protests against the Trump administration. If they call out the active duty military against middle-aged, white, protestors, they'll have a problem. If it'
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by mcguire 1y ago
This is the biggest lesson of the first quarter of the 21st century.
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by mcguire 1y ago
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-29-2025#...
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by mcguire 1y ago
That is what Amazon said in their comments disavowing the additional information.
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by mcguire 1y ago
Amazon reportedly threatened that this morning. They backed down immediately after Trump (or someone at the Whitehouse) called Bezos.
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by mcguire 1y ago
The usual HN response to wealth inequality is "why do you care how much they have?" The answer is, of course, that money is power and the power that many of the wealthy are exercising is not to the benefit of most people.
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by mcguire 2y ago
Fundamentally, mathematics is about understanding why something is true or false. Modern AI is about "well, it looks like it works, so we're golden".
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by mcguire 2y ago
Many years ago I heard a mathematician speaking about some open problem and he said, "Sure, it's possible that there is a simple solution to the problem using basic techniques that everyone has just missed so far. And if you find
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by mcguire 2y ago
The only confirmed example I know of is Harley-Davidson, roughly during the boom of cruiser motorcycles (1995-2010?): They only ran one shift, but the PR of waiting lists and extremely high instant resale prices made the choice appealing in
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by mcguire 2y ago
The important part is at the end of the article: " For those interested in building a stronger foundation in logic, the Open Logic Project provides excellent free educational resources on propositional and predicate logic, formal proof
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by mcguire 2y ago
See maternal mortality in Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/06/texas-maternal-morta...
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by mcguire 2y ago
So, like Hacker News?
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The New Artificial Intelligentsia(lareviewofbooks.org)
2 points by mcguire 2y ago|0 comments
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by mcguire 2y ago
A fun thing to do with google's search engine: look for "Scheme tutorial". For me, the links are: 1. Arun Muthu's Programming in Scheme ( https://medium.com/atomic-variables/programming-in-scheme-th..
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by mcguire 2y ago
I was going to say... " I began to see TIs like Luca as a group of individuals who are caught between two competing narratives.... The second narrative – the TI narrative – is that if you’re having these sorts of experiences, nothing i
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by mcguire 2y ago
Japan had more structural problems than that. For one thing, at the time it was reported that wealthy, powerful people could not be allowed to lose money in the stock market; the broker would make them whole, until the day that they couldn&
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by mcguire 2y ago
Allowing the country to die of senescence is also not reviving that country.
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by mcguire 2y ago
Because I am the bluebird of happiness, there are a couple of things you may want to be aware of here. " I’d be like the few older workers I’d dealt with in my career. I felt like they moved too slow, were stuck in their ways, and unab
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by mcguire 2y ago
"Eh, it'll crash before it runs out of memory."
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by mcguire 2y ago
Don't forget that you're not reading the text as it was originally written; the surviving texts are copies of copies. Reconstructing, partially, the original text is possible if you have many downstream copies from different sourc
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by mcguire 2y ago
How do you control for sun exposure versus outdoor physical activity and any of the other factors?
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by mcguire 2y ago
Discussion of the actual paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41302103

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