sedev

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by sedev 4mo ago
How has that worked out? What are you looking at when you compare that to what you were doing before last year?
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Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)(blog.danieldavies.com)
365 points by sedev 6mo ago|207 comments
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by sedev 6mo ago
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/kyc-and-aml-beyond-th... > You might look at the standard KYC questionnaire for a new retail account and think “Really? You ask questions which have obviously correct answers.
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by sedev 1y ago
https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
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by sedev 1y ago
Request for clarification: 13% of what?
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by sedev 1y ago
In addition to the more concrete reasons, abstractly they're getting a bit of extra usage out of the namespace by segmenting it. A 9ZZZ999-type license plate is not just any license plate — it's specifically an ordinary private ve
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by sedev 1y ago
> Personally i feel like its kind of like democracy: the worst system except for all the other systems. It's exactly this, in large part because Wikipedia happens to also be a large-scale exercise in direct democracy.
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by sedev 1y ago
> Maybe there is something I'm not taking into account but I have a hard time seeing the meaningful cost of some obscure wiki page merely existing. The thing you're not taking into account is that every article that exists take
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by sedev 1y ago
The general notability guideline is another thing that's effectively downstream of "there's not enough editor time to keep everything up to basic standards." If Wikipedia had 10x the editor-hours it does now, notability
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by sedev 1y ago
You can create a page as an anonymous user. The content and subject is much, more more important than the fact of being created as an anonymous user. If that's the process you want to avoid, there's also https://en.wiki
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by sedev 1y ago
For most things the talk pages will explain why it is restricted, but if someone forgot to put a notice there, there's also a giant list of "the following topic areas reliably attract disruptive editing and get people angry, so ad
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by sedev 1y ago
I am going to say a thing I say a lot: please edit Wikipedia. It is easier to do than you probably think! Wikipedia's biggest constraint is no longer money or server space, it's editor time (especially since LLM-based garbage is a
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by sedev 1y ago
"But this means his pro and con opinions don't match typical opinions and this makes him polarizing. And hence some people will flag his articles reflexively or post reflexive dismissals. And Hacker News is heavily weighted to dow
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by sedev 2y ago
An important part of the historical context here is that the black community in America has a lot of scar tissue around sketchy investment opportunities, and those scars go back, oh, call it 160 years (i.e. the Reconstruction era). When you
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by sedev 2y ago
Unfortunately that well-worn example usually only proves that "false positive" as a technical term fails to match people's intuitions. The underlying problem about the base rate is important to teach, but it's easy for w
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by sedev 2y ago
I'm glad your proposed solution was "Spend a few hours monkeying around in Jekyll to make dates radically less prominent [and] somehow alter the URL structure to take them out of URLs" — my conscience is repulsed by the thoug
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by sedev 2y ago
That one (as I am seeing it now) cites the Jacobin article as a source, but the Jacobin article itself is fuzzy on sourcing.
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Voting Simulation Visualization: Plurality, Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Hare/IRV(zesty.ca)
3 points by sedev 2y ago|0 comments
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by sedev 2y ago
They can construct various internally-consistent models of what's going on, debate the merits of those models, and check them against the available evidence while doing their best to procure and evaluate new evidence. It's not fun
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by sedev 2y ago
A lot of textual analysis is fairly mundane — it's the equivalent of a document allegedly from 1962 saying "when Reagan became President" or being typeset with LaTeX or referring to "selfies". Specialists, of course
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by sedev 2y ago
The byline is kinda small, but it's helpful contextual information that this article is by Mike Duncan, who is likely to be familiar to HN readers as the guy who did the Revolutions and The History Of Rome podcasts.
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by sedev 2y ago
"appeasing brutes like russia has a long history of not working" is a true statement that, in this context, does not do any of the work one would like a true statement to do, but it does do much of the work that one would like a s
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by sedev 2y ago
Please go into detail about how this would be implemented, with particular attention to what could go wrong at each stage of the process and what the consequences would be, especially consequences originating from stakeholders who possess n
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Judge the AI that exists, not the AI you imagine(coyotetracks.org)
1 points by sedev 2y ago|0 comments
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A Drug-Free Nasal Spray to Prevent Emerging Respiratory Infections(biorxiv.org)
1 points by sedev 2y ago|0 comments
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by sedev 3y ago
Clickbait avoidance: it's rapamycin.
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by sedev 3y ago
You know what, fair, that was too harsh of me; I was probably speaking more out of irritation about the editorial issues. Thanks for the pushback.
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by sedev 3y ago
From the Conclusions section: > The main question we tried to answer is whether a significant shift away from the US dollar as the dominant “hegemonic” currency is likely to occur in the foreseeable future, and in which direction the m
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by sedev 3y ago
This was brought to mind by the discussion of Dan Luu's "Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed" piece. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313942 Particularly germane is the requirement
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Practical Wisdom: The Master Virtue(artofmanliness.com)
1 points by sedev 3y ago|1 comments

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