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by tzar 7y ago
It's an analogy for the second law of thermodynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics . The point is that it's “challenging” and that complex events “evade a straightforward explanat
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by tzar 7y ago
–Hello Mike –Hello Joe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78&t=2m7s
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by tzar 7y ago
You can make up any number you like! That's what they did.
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by tzar 7y ago
Isn't the problem, then, that the software doesn't work well enough with dark skin?
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by tzar 7y ago
The semaphore ploy strikes me as much more rooted in information, thus the description “cyber”. Stealing code is just theft, since the object of theft doesn't generally qualify the act (though it does in some cases).
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by tzar 8y ago
> Given that the user name says the user has no street cred, it's ironic that people would assume the user is "urban". I don't think so. If they weren't “urban” it wouldn't be relevant at all—no streets.
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by tzar 8y ago
No.
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by tzar 8y ago
An argument like this generalizes into: everybody's free to do anything and there are no problems. At least you included “I don't see”.
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by tzar 8y ago
“... can't get fooled again.”
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by tzar 8y ago
Who isn't a terminally ill patient?
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by tzar 8y ago
Though some of it is, so it's written this way.
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by tzar 8y ago
You stopped reading too early.
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by tzar 8y ago
> ...making it seem like it’s entirely out of your control and you need outside help just to survive. Is this not the case? It seems rather apparent that we all depend on our environment (including one another) for survival. There are
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by tzar 8y ago
> I just want to say that the comments on this thread are absolutely ridiculous and I expected better. Does anyone actually think the customers would find out at the last minute? That the company would leave its users without any suppor
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by tzar 8y ago
> I mean that's like saying if a huge percentage of Americans have been arrested... No, it's not like saying that. It's saying that public shaming might eventually become less damaging. If you want an analogy that expres
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by tzar 8y ago
I have a feeling, based on absolutely nothing, that it isn't until later in life that we realize that this is it. As in, you can basically consider what you are doing now to be your life. There really isn't some big shift ahead wh
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by tzar 8y ago
> How do we fix this bug in human psychology? My gut feeling is that this sort of thing is cyclical. We oscillate back and forth in countless ways, micro and macro. So the bug fix is to ride the crazy train until we reach the apex and
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by tzar 8y ago
Self-centeredness (illustrated here as violence through revenge) is a characteristic most strongly associated with single-cell organisms. Along that axis, humans are characterized by being a complex system embedded in a complex system. We a
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by tzar 8y ago
Probably useless in terms of existing, standard development processes, but it seems to me like this Limbo effort is to come up with a new one (in which we can assume, by the principle of charity, that this is not entirely useless).
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by tzar 8y ago
I think you may have just brilliantly expressed the human condition...
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by tzar 8y ago
> I don't understand why the Hawaiians are so negative about scientific progress. I know their land is small, but the 'scope will benefit all of humanity for years to come, along with economic incentives. What's wrong wit
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by tzar 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by tzar 8y ago
I haven't read the article, but I wonder if it's arguing that there isn't a difference in information quality between the paid sources and the free. Then you might attribute the spending to “FOMO”, but probably it's more
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by tzar 8y ago
Perhaps you mean “moral judgement”, or something like that, or I've missed something, because this is exactly a judgement.
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by tzar 8y ago
More than 8, or more than 9.5? Which is it?
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by tzar 8y ago
> The key idea was that energy and structure are interdependent, at every level. This doesn't strike me as so far out there. The concepts of entropy and enthalpy are often used at the molecular and cellular levels, along with statis
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by tzar 8y ago
He also doesn't say such things at all. I haven't decided whether the impossibility of his writing to be read and discussed charitably is primarily his fault or ours, if it even makes sense to think of it that way. I agree with th
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by tzar 8y ago
What reasons do you have to suspect this?
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The Confidence Sequence Method: A Computer-Age Test for Statistical SLOs(pvk.ca)
21 points by tzar 8y ago|0 comments
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by tzar 8y ago
How long have you been smoking daily? From the article: > Unlike with opioids and stimulants, marijuana dependence tends to develop slowly: Months or years may pass before symptoms begin to affect a dependent user’s life. The case is sim

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