tachyonbeam

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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I believe you, and I would rather live in a larger town myself. However, I think that on this front, Canada compares very well to the US, France, the UK, Brazil, China, and Japan (known for its xenophobic culture), to name a few places. No
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Nice baiting there Jcowell, well played. No country in the world is perfect. Canada is still near the top of the list when it comes to safety and quality of life. It's true that many first nations people struggle. Canada is taking step
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Here in Canada we've had BLM protests, "defund the police" and "ACAB". I don't really understand. As far as I'm concerned Canada is about as close to a utopia as you can get on this planet. We have one of
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Maybe we could build laptop cases out of carbon fiber and get the best of both worlds? Or at least make laptop cases easier to open for servicing, with standard screws and no plastic clamps.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
It seems a lot of the marketing for PC cases and hardware is targeted at young teenage boys 10-16. I wanted to buy a computer case for my mom, and I couldn't find an affordable one without a window on the side. IMO it can look nice if
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
But this would force your laptop to be a whole 1.8cm thick! Unthinkable!
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
The original promise of bitcoin was that it would actually be useful as a currency, for buying stuff. Now that this hasn't panned out, and the problems preventing BTC from being used as a currency fail to be addressed, advocates have s
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
> The evolution of organisms that gene mishmash (aka sexual reproduction) is thought to be the result of an ongoing arms race between gene sequences that "try" to stay unchanged (in higher level species) and gene sequences that
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
> It's like taking a random byte sequence from some binary, shoving it randomly into another, and the new binary gets useful new features. If you think about it for a moment, our genetic code is kind of designed to work that way. Yo
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Isn't the US already a net exporter of oil at the moment?
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
We all need to transition to renewable energy. It's not good for Canada to become more invested in the oil economy, just as electric cars, trucks and renewables are starting to boom. It's neither good for you environmentally or ec
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Is that how it works in Singapore? I know in China you lease land from the government for 50 or 100 years. I do think it's important to be open to ideas, and I think there probably ought to be redistribution of wealth, particularly whe
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
IMO we should probably reduce taxes on house builders. Maybe even give them tax exemptions. Do what we can to increase supply. Speculators wanting to buy a house, redo the kitchen, and mark up the price 20% 6 months later though? We could j
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I edited my comment, I had written "permanent resident", when what I actually meant was just "resident".
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Maybe? They are a luxury for the upper middle class, and you could easily rent one the same way you rent an airbnb. Those holiday homes do need to belong to someone though, so I suppose it makes no sense to outright ban own multiple homes,
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Yes I agree, I meant residency requirement, requiring that people live in a country for at least 6 months before buying a house, which could be done on a work or student visa.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I agree that we need to stop treating houses as investments, because they're a basic fundamental need everyone has. IMO, the problem could be fixed by having stricter laws prohibiting people who aren't residents from owning homes
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I would say you can make your text easier to understand by a large audience by avoiding very rare words that many people don't understand, and sticking to common phrasings. That will make text compress better for sure. I'm sure yo
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
That's how I organized my work in grad school. I basically worked when I felt like it. Some weeks that was 80 hours, others just 20, following the natural flow of my motivation. I went for errands in the middle of the day, took time to
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
It's not necessarily the "have nots" who jump on the bandwagon. Many of these mob inciters are clearly middle class or upper middle class. I've even seen news anchors participate, people who earn several hundreds of thou
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
There's a perception in the DL field that encoding things into rules is bad, and that symbolic AI as a whole is bad. Probably because of backlash following the failure of symbolic AI. IMO the ideal is somewhere in the middle. There are
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
IMO a part of the problem here is that you have a misunderstanding on the part of deep learning people. They look at radiology, and they say "these people are just interpreting these pictures, we can train a deep learning model to do t
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
When I went to high school, I remember having to take philosophy schools, and we went into the art of debate, etc. How to argue about different viewpoints without getting emotional, respecting your opponent, proper protocol for discussion.
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
I think most people just have a tendency to to repeat dogma they are exposed to, based on the groups they belong in. If you join any group anywhere, be it people who practice yoga, the burning man crowd, or an online forum about programming
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
> I've always viewed work as means to an end, and that end is getting paid to take care of my family For most of us, it's also something we're being forced to do for 40-50 hours a week. We spend the best, more productive h
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
As an outsider: what was the problem with integer division?
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Working remotely will never be as good for communication IMO. You can set up weekly one-on-ones over your favorite videoconference platform, but there's just so much you can't see being physically separated from your coworkers. At
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
Same. I lost a small but nonzero amount when a fraudulent crypto exchange went bust. There's a reason FDIC protection exists. This is going to be unpopular, but the value proposition for cryptos isn't there yet IMO. It's eith
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
> Can't wait for the time when i wont be allowed to access a website because I have unsigned drivers running... If that happens, it will create a market opportunity for websites without DRM or such checks. If you fuck with the ergon
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by tachyonbeam 5y ago
There's an option to limit data sharing as well.

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