sarbaz

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by sarbaz 5y ago
As copyrighted material, it should be required that a copy be stored with library of Congress. It used to be that LoC submission was part of the deal with copyright, but somehow we forgot that and important history has already been lost.
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by sarbaz 5y ago
And, in particular, I also think that nuclear winter is another one of these over-hyped scenarios. If you do the napkin-math it doesn't really work out. Nuclear war will probably result in every major metropolitan area in the participa
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by sarbaz 5y ago
The article has some great examples of risks that were hyped out of proportion to their true severity. Should these things be considered? Yes. But only a little. If you halt programs completely for tail risks you'll never get anywhere.
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by sarbaz 6y ago
It's worth pointing out that the worst possible layout for keyboards might actually be one of the best possible layouts for phones.
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by sarbaz 6y ago
It's just that a name is a case-sensitive string. If you said 'france is having a heatwave', 'FrAnCE is having a heatwave', or 'FRANCE is having a heatwave', I would be confused.
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by sarbaz 6y ago
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot It has some criticism, but IMO this is a very simple and effective method. And there are better ideas out there too. I think we can even build a mechanical machine (l
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by sarbaz 6y ago
Approximately half the math textbooks I study from basically do this already. It works very well, but IMO mostly because the questions are not easy. You actually have to stop and think for a few minutes before moving on.
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by sarbaz 6y ago
The problem is that directly in front of a microwave antenna, power output is on the KW order of magnitude. This is like standing in front of a microwave oven with the door open - in a few seconds you will have severe burns.
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by sarbaz 6y ago
This is interesting because I work with professional mathematicians and they are the exact opposite. They always start off with a semi-formalized idea and play with it a lot before trying to hone in on something formal. And conversely they
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by sarbaz 6y ago
One way to shorten the time is to constantly increase hospital capacity, so that in each month lets you infect more people. Especially if plasma donations turn out to work to reduce severe cases. Another way is to separate young people from
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by sarbaz 6y ago
It's a relatively natural consequence of the fact that doing work creates value. One of the things you can work towards is creating more workers (by creating more humans, or better efficiency, or robots). Because these processes are ba
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by sarbaz 6y ago
Nuclear waste can basically be safely solved by dumping sealed containers into the sea. We're talking about extremely small amounts of waste. A swimming pool can contain a year's supply of waste, and 20 ft of water is extremely ef
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by sarbaz 6y ago
Basically, why aren't we treating the null hypothesis as "neanderthals and modern humans eat exactly the same foods"? Rather than "neanderthals don't eat at all" which seems to be the case here.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
This sounds pretty silly. There's bound to be a way to make online (or semi-online) learning agile too. Distance learning is basically a solved problem and has been done for hundreds of years. How about recorded lectures and in-person
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by sarbaz 7y ago
GP's point wasn't about inflation but about growth. So for a rough estimate you should be looking at the rate of GDP growth rather than the rate of inflation. Since GDP per capita grew 30x since 1950, you should be comparing the 7
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by sarbaz 7y ago
Regulation of commerce is one of the powers we explicitly set out as belonging to the government. In the American system free trade is a reflection of some of our values but not some inherent unalienable right.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
I think the idea is that even if all the current top emitters do take initiative, China and India's emissions are expected to grow quickly. The losses will win over the gains.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
There is actually a pretty good study that shows that people are able to guess which studies will replicate and which will not: https://80000hours.org/psychology-replication-quiz/
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by sarbaz 7y ago
In the US, mandatory deposit technically applies to any copyrighted work of any kind. We should fund LoC to enforce mandatory deposit on digitally published works as well. In a sense this is also a good demarcation point. If something is se
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by sarbaz 7y ago
I am looking for a service that will allow me to directly pay creators at the same price as an ad impression, paying per page view. So far ways to pay creators are almost always based on dollar increments, but I would have much more use for
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by sarbaz 7y ago
Only in some dialects.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
Not necessarily, because it can be debated whether posting something on the internet really counts as publishing, and whether most internet content is original enough to be eligible for protection. A good example of people who are probably
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by sarbaz 7y ago
https://www.copyright.gov/mandatory/index.html > All works under copyright protection that are published in the United States are subject to the mandatory deposit provision of the copyright law You own copyright ove
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by sarbaz 7y ago
We should require websites to freeze and archive public content instead of deleting it. We already require media published in nearly every other format to be submitted to Library of Congress, and we should extend those protections to our in
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by sarbaz 7y ago
The counterargument given by one of the proponents of MOND (a non-dark-matter counterargument) is that the bullet cluster can be explained by a combination of slight modification of GR, and additionally by the presence of a significant (but
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by sarbaz 7y ago
The true reason is that intel didn't support coexistence of Virtual 8086 mode with 64-bit mode. So adding 16 bit app support would require loads of work to get it working as part of a 64 bit OS. Regular protected mode code has built in
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by sarbaz 7y ago
But not all instances of global warming caused mass extinction events. I think that there is a correlation here rather than a causation. In fact, looking at historical charts the earth's temperature undergoes a relatively significant c
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by sarbaz 7y ago
I was referring to the article's claim that because India is "emerging as a leader in renewable energy" we can expect it to contribute significantly less to climate change.
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by sarbaz 7y ago
> I suspect reducing emissions is cheaper in the long run than dealing with the effects. I'm not entirely sure. People seem to be convinced that climate change will destroy all civilization, but in the distant past the earth has flo
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by sarbaz 7y ago
So, is there any convincing reason to think that any emissions targets will be met? Does anyone buy the line in the article about India? Surely they will become an emitter at least as significant as China. Isn't our money better spent

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