thesteamboat

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by thesteamboat 4y ago
Your link doesn't exactly mean what you think --- they're giving a combination of economic growth and population growth. When looking at just the GDP growth, your link suggests that they are the 6th fastest growing US state econom
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by thesteamboat 5y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but I assume you mean EU houses are better insulated than those in the US, rather than isolated.
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
But crucially, the incentives are different than those people have in the middle of their lives. Most people's usual incentives lead to them optimizing for the short-to-medium term future, i.e. the next couple of months or years. Peopl
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
Presumably they (scalpers and miners) are not buying in large enough bulk orders, far enough in advance.
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I too wish to add this to my repertoire. I don't think it will replace :s, but occasionally I find myself copying a line to use as a template. When I go to change each line I'm changing a particular part to different things. Assum
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I don't think the parent was talking about JIT power generation but rather using JIT (in other industries) as a comparison to to talk about the efficiency-reliability tradeoff. The analogy here is cost savings of avoiding winterizatio
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Joel Kaplan's Policy team sways decisions like Alex Jones ban(buzzfeednews.com)
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I have seen you and others make this point in the past, it and always seems equivalent to creationists shouting "Scientists who believe in evolution are the REAL dogmatists who don't want to look at the facts! We are really being
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
Comments are probably have positive usefulness expected value in a probabilistic sense. Unfortunately extracting that value, separating the insights from the dross, is work and requires effort. Effort that perhaps the person doing the origi
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
Both sides are guilty to some degree, but, and this is the crucial point, not to the SAME degree.
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I think I'd rather have a comment "this site might be helpful" on the page than not. It doesn't take long to classify a link as either potentially helpful or useless, and I'm usually finding the SO page through a go
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
If you hold that all governments are unethical do you pay taxes, get mail, stop driving if pulled over by a policeman, etc.? Is it equally unethical for a government to provide for collective defense, collect taxes, enforce contracts, impri
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
> his incentives are still infinitely better than those of any government because Facebook's status is built on consent rather than coercion. Is your position that all governance is coercive and thus inherently unethical? That seems
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
Zuckerberg controls a majority of Facebook's voting stock. While Facebook the platform may have grown in unforeseen ways, Facebook the company remains ultimately (legally) under the control of one man. There is no reasonable compariso
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I largely agree with you and think that my views fall closer to yours than the GPs. I'd endorse free speech absolutism as probably the best system in the vein of "Democracy is the worst system of government except for all the othe
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
> Big mistake, but she owned it. Just a tonal note. Saying 'Big mistake' implies to me that it's meant sarcastically in the sense of 'Big deal' or 'Big whoop', which I gather from the rest of your sente
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I think this is missing the point of the no-longer-free-speach-absolutist sentiment (henceforth NLFSA). You note, correctly I think, that > we've seen a lot of egregious, potent, and dangerous lies from credible, verified institutio
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
You are substituting "the West" for rgbrenner's "those on the side of human rights", and in doing so are missing the point of his argument. "The West" as a term is very broad and sufficiently undefined[0]
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I think you're out of luck simply because Americans dominate the English speaking internet. According to loosely eyeballed data [0], Americans account for over 20% of English speakers (a commanding plurality) and over 60% of native spe
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
> Rent-seeking by itself is morally neutral, like guns. Like a gun, it's how you use it that determines if you're contributing positive value to overall society. This strikes me as a bad analogy. What differentiates your state
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
Invoking parallel universes was solely for ease of explaining/emphasizing the math, not because I think it's a realistic model. Talking about the Hubble Deep Field kind of misses the point. The original Drake equation[0] estimates
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
From a previous discussion of this paper I took away the following clarifying insight: The Drake equation is usually turned into the Fermi paradox via some estimations that show the average (mean) number of alien civilizations we expect to
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
> Time and time again, experts have been shown to have consensus opinions which are wildly off from reality. You can almost set your watch to how often an outsider will analyse a situation from first principles and make money off the &#
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
Presumably a single person or small group attempting such would be engaged in market manipulation as traditionally understood, and the SEC would try to charge them. (But I am neither a lawyer nor a financial expert, so the above is just uni
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
> The SWP's standing among young, idealistic socialists exploded after it emerged that ... Not to take away from your otherwise excellent post, but your use of the word 'exploded' seems ambiguous. I take it you mean that t
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
The quotes might signal opposition, but they also might just signal fuzziness. E.g. This is a word that you're probably familiar with used in a specific jargony way that you cannot deduce merely from the standard definition.
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
The thesis of vim is that editing is more fundamental to the act of writing than inputting text. The default mode, normal mode, is entirely shortcuts to do editing tasks better and easier. Moving around the document, and moving or deleting
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
> We're still not comfortable checking if rationals are equal in any major language... This seems to be confusing the issue to me. Checking for rational equality is trivial (just cross multiply). What we don't have is major lan
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I remain skeptical because all practical computing necessarily has finite representation. We don't compute with real numbers, we use floats or doubles of a given precision. While this very occasionnaly leads to weird errors (from the p
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
This seems a strange prediction to me. Can you elaborate on why you think this? Do you think the reals will be replaced by surreals in common usage by laypeople, by working mathematicians or in mathematical pedagogy? While I certainly thin

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