You don't get to keep waiting for a prediction to finally come true when it doesn't come with a deadline. It already didn't happen despite all our labor saving technology so far (we don't even weave cloth by hand…
I don't understand what is being optimized by minimizing the product rw. Reducing w reduces the number of digits, but how does reducing the radix r help with component count? Surely a memory cell that could store…
windows also comes with the well-hidden "Problem Steps Recorder" that takes a sequence of screen shots whenever you click something. Doesn't do the text overlay but it's already installed with Windows which makes some…
> Use of force against people who commit such crimes as selecting their own sexual partners, being seen in public with members of the opposite sex, texting members of the opposite sex, being homosexual, etc. This…
No, the solution would be to get insurance against high insurance costs. This already happens with medical insurance. If you're already sick your insurance costs more. But if you get insurance in advance, before you…
It's unfortunate that languages are so monolithic. You want to make a language that does concurrency differently and you end up having to design date format strings! Sad that we still don't have any kind of common…
It's not just autocracy. The US government is quite aggressive in shutting down websites that spread information it doesn't like. They also sometimes go further and arrest and imprison the operators. Examples include…
It might not be practical to send information as light. You'd need a powerful transmitter so your signal can be detected among the noise from stars. It might turn out that sending a spaceship is actually cheaper and…
When you're making the decision yes, I agree it's risky and perhaps arrogant, but with the benefit of hindsight it's clear that it was successful in this case. Not in other cases, sure.
Not every case was bad. It was extremely successful in New Zealand with hardly anyone killed (relatively speaking), a peace treaty quickly signed and the quality of life brought up to modern standards, ending 1000 years…
No need to be melancholy. That glorifies killing. Do you have the same sad feelings for the Paris gunmen that were killed? There's no fundamental difference between them. Remember of course what the purpose of the…
If they really had no great alternative, and the chain of reasoning was that clear, then traders would have anticipated it and it wouldn't have caused any major problems. Since it was widely unexpected and people did…
It sounds like the intention is actually much better than net neutrality - it claims to be trying to encourage a more competitive market. Proper competition would make net neutrality irrelevant, and would actually serve…
The recent European cookie law was close to that and got laughed at by tech people. Poor Europeans are constantly being asked for permission "Can we store a cookie on your computer?" whenever they visit a major website.…
I doubt most people care. This isn't going to drive customers away. The only way it'll be stopped is if they're legally forced to. For example, see the history of cookies themselves and how most people never cared about…
You might have missed the instructions - "Imagine it's 1994".
Another useful one is to ask him to explain his reasoning. If he can't justify his decisions, then he's probably using instinct which is unreliable in the case of rare diseases, or he doesn't know how to diagnose known…
The time to make these complaints was years ago, possibly on the way up a big boom just to show that you're confident in yourself despite the apparent evidence to the contrary. Now that it's going down doesn't mean it…
And then what? If you do 3 scissors and a rock, what would a human typically do next? By making use of the pattern you have to break it.
That didn't work in England when they wanted to arrest a terror suspect, so they secretly followed him to work one day, then shot him dead as he entered the train station. It turned out he was a plumber, not a terrorist.
I was just thinking about freedom of speech. I don't deny America has a problem with police violence. It has a bigger problem with violence in general too. It is still quite bizarre that not being in France, I can…
France is not a free society in the same way America is. French people are happy to live under many more restrictive laws but we don't often see it. For instance, Charlie Hebdo's staff could have gone to prison if they…
The election is the appropriate forum. Except that Americans somehow keep on voting for parties they don't want because they have silly idealistic rivalries.
No because we can't control cell reproduction to any significant degree compared to what happens automatically. If you're careful not to cut your skin and cause extra cell reproducing as it heals, you're still shedding…
It seems to be counting types of cancer (by their location in the body) rather than incidence. This makes it potentially meaningless. Those 9 cancers caused by lifestyle, might also be the 9 most common or most deadly…
You don't get to keep waiting for a prediction to finally come true when it doesn't come with a deadline. It already didn't happen despite all our labor saving technology so far (we don't even weave cloth by hand…
I don't understand what is being optimized by minimizing the product rw. Reducing w reduces the number of digits, but how does reducing the radix r help with component count? Surely a memory cell that could store…
windows also comes with the well-hidden "Problem Steps Recorder" that takes a sequence of screen shots whenever you click something. Doesn't do the text overlay but it's already installed with Windows which makes some…
> Use of force against people who commit such crimes as selecting their own sexual partners, being seen in public with members of the opposite sex, texting members of the opposite sex, being homosexual, etc. This…
No, the solution would be to get insurance against high insurance costs. This already happens with medical insurance. If you're already sick your insurance costs more. But if you get insurance in advance, before you…
It's unfortunate that languages are so monolithic. You want to make a language that does concurrency differently and you end up having to design date format strings! Sad that we still don't have any kind of common…
It's not just autocracy. The US government is quite aggressive in shutting down websites that spread information it doesn't like. They also sometimes go further and arrest and imprison the operators. Examples include…
It might not be practical to send information as light. You'd need a powerful transmitter so your signal can be detected among the noise from stars. It might turn out that sending a spaceship is actually cheaper and…
When you're making the decision yes, I agree it's risky and perhaps arrogant, but with the benefit of hindsight it's clear that it was successful in this case. Not in other cases, sure.
Not every case was bad. It was extremely successful in New Zealand with hardly anyone killed (relatively speaking), a peace treaty quickly signed and the quality of life brought up to modern standards, ending 1000 years…
No need to be melancholy. That glorifies killing. Do you have the same sad feelings for the Paris gunmen that were killed? There's no fundamental difference between them. Remember of course what the purpose of the…
If they really had no great alternative, and the chain of reasoning was that clear, then traders would have anticipated it and it wouldn't have caused any major problems. Since it was widely unexpected and people did…
It sounds like the intention is actually much better than net neutrality - it claims to be trying to encourage a more competitive market. Proper competition would make net neutrality irrelevant, and would actually serve…
The recent European cookie law was close to that and got laughed at by tech people. Poor Europeans are constantly being asked for permission "Can we store a cookie on your computer?" whenever they visit a major website.…
I doubt most people care. This isn't going to drive customers away. The only way it'll be stopped is if they're legally forced to. For example, see the history of cookies themselves and how most people never cared about…
You might have missed the instructions - "Imagine it's 1994".
Another useful one is to ask him to explain his reasoning. If he can't justify his decisions, then he's probably using instinct which is unreliable in the case of rare diseases, or he doesn't know how to diagnose known…
The time to make these complaints was years ago, possibly on the way up a big boom just to show that you're confident in yourself despite the apparent evidence to the contrary. Now that it's going down doesn't mean it…
And then what? If you do 3 scissors and a rock, what would a human typically do next? By making use of the pattern you have to break it.
That didn't work in England when they wanted to arrest a terror suspect, so they secretly followed him to work one day, then shot him dead as he entered the train station. It turned out he was a plumber, not a terrorist.
I was just thinking about freedom of speech. I don't deny America has a problem with police violence. It has a bigger problem with violence in general too. It is still quite bizarre that not being in France, I can…
France is not a free society in the same way America is. French people are happy to live under many more restrictive laws but we don't often see it. For instance, Charlie Hebdo's staff could have gone to prison if they…
The election is the appropriate forum. Except that Americans somehow keep on voting for parties they don't want because they have silly idealistic rivalries.
No because we can't control cell reproduction to any significant degree compared to what happens automatically. If you're careful not to cut your skin and cause extra cell reproducing as it heals, you're still shedding…
It seems to be counting types of cancer (by their location in the body) rather than incidence. This makes it potentially meaningless. Those 9 cancers caused by lifestyle, might also be the 9 most common or most deadly…