whycombinater

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by whycombinater 1y ago
Like the MS employees that wrote books on proprietary APIs that are otherwise undocumented an undecipherable.
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by whycombinater 1y ago
It's possible that hospitals were claiming something like a car crash victim with COVID as a COVID death for extra funding, making actual total deaths less due to COVID than reported, meaning what he said was true, even while the hospi
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by whycombinater 2y ago
Just beat them to death. Jury nullification. Or vote, or whatever the site rules permit, good luck with that.
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by whycombinater 2y ago
"Immune. Immune, immune, immune." You forced me to not actually read the dissent but to CTRL+F "immune,", because I couldn't believe a person/demigod serving in such an incredibly honorable and powerful positio
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by whycombinater 3y ago
All knowledge/predictions are encoded as a chain of probabilities that something is true, otherwise, what else is it? My brain calculates 0.8 * 0.3 * 0.5 * 0.6 in order to make a 3-pointer, but Michael Jordan's brain ... well his
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by whycombinater 3y ago
Your question is a trap. Either you dispute that money=power or you're just waiting to capture my rant on video and find some flaw in it. Good day.
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by whycombinater 3y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/24/politics/republicans-house-un... According to billionaire-owned media, the owner of which is owned by a trillionaire investor, you are a conspiracy theorist: both parties w
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by whycombinater 3y ago
Men are the most disproportionately affected.
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by whycombinater 4y ago
"But their senior civil servants quit if they try." Why does abandoning ship when the ship is set on fire or under threat to be set on fire save the ship? Worse if the abandoners are the good ones to be replaced by more fire start
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by whycombinater 4y ago
Star Trek: TNG episode "The Game" anyone?
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by whycombinater 5y ago
Regarding the "pedagogy", my favorite method of learning is straightforward problem solving: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad... If you wanted to have state with pure function
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by whycombinater 5y ago
Believing in a different set of axioms cannot be a logical fallacy.
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by whycombinater 5y ago
But this is worse because the interrupter may be doing it in good faith, as in, "I already predicted the rest of your paragraph, let's save 50 seconds of our lives." edit: unless they're a "serial interrupter"
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by whycombinater 5y ago
Velocity is fake. Money is valued according to totalStuff / totalMoney. If there is one item of food left on the entire planet, everybody is about to starve to death. If you print enough money to quadruple the supply of money, everybod
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by whycombinater 5y ago
93% are men, 7% women. Our criminal justice system is designed to incarcerate men. edit: High five to sibling comment.
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by whycombinater 5y ago
That sounds entirely reasonable. I'm just wondering if anyone would ever take the side of a mere gamer.
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by whycombinater 5y ago
Pay me commission. Most businesses that pay salary operate like this: Worker picks 5000 apples, coworkers picks 300. Business pays them each 1 apple. Both start picking 1 apple, business puts them on improvement plan. (China wants apple pic
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by whycombinater 5y ago
It's not quite as simple when you consider time invested. Messing with someone's lifetime of training with ever-changing EULAs is something I haven't seen talked about. But similar to the damage to pro soccer players if, offi
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by whycombinater 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRgsfHc8kqU&ab_channel=Harry... https://youtu.be/Y1QQSFlm0dI?t=81 The audience is laughing because this notion is ridiculous.
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by whycombinater 6y ago
'It's an important skill to independently discern the likely from the unlikely on your own, but any idea repeated often enough becomes "truth", and it's an important function of society to recognize fake truths and
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by whycombinater 6y ago
Biden said Biden has the most extensive voter fraud organization in history.
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by whycombinater 6y ago
So many posts in here that don't expressly praise twabber for being our moral arbiter are grayed out.
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by whycombinater 7y ago
I'd prefer to just get arrested every time I sneeze.
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by whycombinater 7y ago
But they also exert more force onto the earth. If you drop the sun onto the earth, for example...
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by whycombinater 7y ago
Because anonymous percentages can be interpreted as the likelihood that you yourself are those things, like a sort of quantum mechanical cat paradox. I believe it's also how our "collective consciousness" and language kind of
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by whycombinater 7y ago
Seriously dude? "American Airlines overcharged you by $1 and you're complaining? WHY NOT JUST START AN AIRLINE YOURSELF?" If only we were all god, your comment would be helpful.
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by whycombinater 7y ago
Seriously why is the discussion anything but delete all tech immediately and bomb silicon valley? Too late, the ML just flagged me as being anti-ML. I'll probably be assassinated soon.
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by whycombinater 7y ago
There's an extremely large difference between tricking someone into thinking they're working for the other team by grafting on a pre-calculated memory of them being a Chinese agent for the last 20 years rather than ... making thei
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by whycombinater 7y ago
Why is everybody so afraid of violence? Do you think politely discussing on HN the pros/cons of King of Earth owning 79 oil rigs is going to get him to see the error of his ways? That he should stop funding F-35s to bomb his neighbors
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by whycombinater 7y ago
I skimmed but is every comment in here trying to optimize how to implement a social credit system, rather than expressing terror at a social credit system? Quit posting and get back to coding surveillance AIs, the sooner Uber will self-driv

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