sfrank2147

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by sfrank2147 4y ago
What does it even mean for consciousness to be an illusion? An illusion implies that someone is being fooled by consciousness, but who is the someone being fooled if there is no underlying true self?
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by sfrank2147 7y ago
Somewhat tangential, but the most absurd ad I've ever seen was when Dodge ran an ad during the Superbowl quoting from this speech.
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by sfrank2147 11y ago
Thanks for the response!
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by sfrank2147 11y ago
Does anyone know how Project Euler was storing the passwords?
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
That's not what standards are for - standards define what students should be learning and at what age, and teachers are responsible for making lesson plans to implement those standards. Every teacher has his/her own teaching styl
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
I'm learning Haskell right now and it's great. I don't know how widely used it is in production, but it's introducing me to tons of ideas that are applicable in lots of other languages (e.g., how to do functional program
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
That's a great tradition! From an economics perspective, I would gain way more than $2 worth of utility from discovering that someone had randomly paid for my coffee, it would really make my morning. I wonder if the benefit would decr
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
A monopoly should be defined by barriers to entry, not just market share. There's nothing preventing other large companies from entering the search space, and in fact many of them have (yahoo, microsoft, etc). There are true monopolist
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
The one in 30 million statistic is crazy to me! That means that the surviving fish need to average 30 million children in their lifetime to sustain the current population - if they stay adults for 2 years, that's 41,000 children per d
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
As the paper mentions, it's also possible that people are lying to the IRS about the date of relatives' deaths. (I personally think that's the more likely interpretation, but I guess it depends on your priors).
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
I don't understand how a startup will help here. The problem is regulatory hurdles (good or bad): there are laws that prevent patients from buying medicine before it's been thoroughly vetted. Will this company lobby to change th
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
Everyone here is saying to give lots of examples: I would add to not ONLY give examples, but also make sure you explain parameters, return types, etc. The most frustrating type of documentation for me is when there are usage examples but no
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
I could see this having large adverse selection effects. All the "low risk" people buy cheap insurance from Google, and the incumbent insurers are left with a pool of only high-risk customers and have to dramatically increase the
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
I don't think this is comparable to recent NSA actions. The Post Office is a government agency. It's not reasonable to expect the government not to keep track of the mail it delivers.
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
To phrase this the nerdiest way possible: good art is NP-Complete.
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
I'm a former math teacher, now a programmer. I think he leaves out a few considerations: 1) You need to be able to do basic calculations before you can do advanced proofs. I taught a lot of high school seniors, and I had a ton of stu
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by sfrank2147 12y ago
The problem with average per song is that you "use up" words in every new song, so all things being equal each marginal song has progressively fewer new words.