As I understand it, the US inherited a common law tradition from England that empowers judges to effectively create laws. For example the US Criminal code sets penalties for "assault" but a long series of precedents…
The US and the HMMWV did great at the combat part of Iraq and Afghanistan. The real switch was from conventional military operations to the long peace. "Instead, the new incentive for most countries would be to build a…
You are actually correct. The speed of light you always hear about is the speed of EM radiation in a perfect vacuum. In a medium such as the atmosphere, the pulse doesn't travel as fast. The slowdown depends on the…
Because we're too expensive to waste on something another employee could do. The bitter irony is we're so expensive largely because being siloed leads to wasted effort and rework.
> Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Anyone that's read even the intro section of the Fermi paradox Wikipedia page already has: "There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox ... suggesting that…
> Acknowledging that they aren't currently equipped to adequately cover this in depth is insulting? Except he doesn't acknowledge ignorance, he plows ahead and puts the entire continent in the same category as Syria and…
Campbell is tremendously overestimating how much extreme prepping actually increases your chances of survival. Keeping a week or two of food, water, and energy is smart, but "zombie prepping" is useless: Revolutionary…
> the ‘reputation age’, in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others Isn't this just a return to form? This sounds like what newspapers, publishers,…
ANNs aren't supposed to model biological neurons, they're more inspired by them. We actually know a great deal about how real neurons work, although the emergent effects keep us from learning much about the brain as a…
> how would a government pay to secure their blockchain? What do you mean? Aren't they inherently tamperproof? > how would they find those dealing everything in bitcoin? A few people might live that way, but unless the…
All you have to do is arrest people converting rebel cryptocurrencies into the one you can use at the grocery store. Since every transfer of legitimate money is now in the blockchain, they'll be able to identify them…
UBI has an incredibly simple solution (that you already quoted): The programmer gets paid way way more than the basic income, because she also has a real job (vs a government subsidized basic job). If her current…
Mine didn't have HR monitoring, but I found the movement (aka actigraphy) to be pretty much useless. Fitbit was counting all the time I was laying still trying to fall asleep as "deep sleep", and looking at the chart I…
> Every minimum wage increase is different! Sure, but > You can't extrapolate this stuff. Why not? I'm not saying it's like physics where we can make nearly exact models, but can't we at least make educated predictions…
> I don't pretend that the world is perfectly modeled by classical macroeconomic laws Understatement of the century. Would you tell someone working at CERN "I don't pretend Newton's laws are perfect, but..."? > the…
Convenient of this article to ignore that the Berkley study only looked at food service workers while the UW study looked at a much wider range of jobs than previous studies. I'm sickened by my "pro science" party…
Natural != good for humans. We evolved and are well suited for the current ecosystem. Whether you view human-caused mass extinction as natural or not, it probably won't be great for us. So it makes sense to try to…
But AirBnB and Uber aren't actually sharing. The uber driver isn't carpooling on their way to work, they're your driver, which is a luxury. Likewise an entire apartment on vacation is much better than a hotel room.…
The hotels I stayed at in Spain, France, and Italy made copies of mine.
Honest question: I thought the big problem with solar and wind is what to do on windless nights. AFAIK battery technology is nowhere near good or cheap enough. Nuclear seems like a solution to that gap. What are others?
But how? If it takes 4 months to train on a new CNC machine or 8 to learn the latest web design tools, how do we make people more adaptable? There are certainly some jobs that are currently over trained, as evidenced by…
Totally agree, we drastically overestimate the power of the President. Congress does most of the things Presidential candidates promise to do, and local government rules everyday quality of life issues like criminal…
Like most of us I haven't actually read Capital in the 21st Century, but isn't his whole point that the capital gains of the ultra rich outstrip the income of any worker? Anecdotally I hear anger towards hedge fund…
Dumb question: why use power of two sized rings? If I know the reader won't be more than 100 behind the writer, isn't it better to waste one element of a 101 sized rings instead of 28 of a 128 sized ring?
If you want to become a domain expert, become a domain expert. You won't learn the intricacies of the newest structure from motion algorithms by writing user-facing apps. you have to specialize, possibly for years,…
As I understand it, the US inherited a common law tradition from England that empowers judges to effectively create laws. For example the US Criminal code sets penalties for "assault" but a long series of precedents…
The US and the HMMWV did great at the combat part of Iraq and Afghanistan. The real switch was from conventional military operations to the long peace. "Instead, the new incentive for most countries would be to build a…
You are actually correct. The speed of light you always hear about is the speed of EM radiation in a perfect vacuum. In a medium such as the atmosphere, the pulse doesn't travel as fast. The slowdown depends on the…
Because we're too expensive to waste on something another employee could do. The bitter irony is we're so expensive largely because being siloed leads to wasted effort and rework.
> Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Anyone that's read even the intro section of the Fermi paradox Wikipedia page already has: "There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox ... suggesting that…
> Acknowledging that they aren't currently equipped to adequately cover this in depth is insulting? Except he doesn't acknowledge ignorance, he plows ahead and puts the entire continent in the same category as Syria and…
Campbell is tremendously overestimating how much extreme prepping actually increases your chances of survival. Keeping a week or two of food, water, and energy is smart, but "zombie prepping" is useless: Revolutionary…
> the ‘reputation age’, in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others Isn't this just a return to form? This sounds like what newspapers, publishers,…
ANNs aren't supposed to model biological neurons, they're more inspired by them. We actually know a great deal about how real neurons work, although the emergent effects keep us from learning much about the brain as a…
> how would a government pay to secure their blockchain? What do you mean? Aren't they inherently tamperproof? > how would they find those dealing everything in bitcoin? A few people might live that way, but unless the…
All you have to do is arrest people converting rebel cryptocurrencies into the one you can use at the grocery store. Since every transfer of legitimate money is now in the blockchain, they'll be able to identify them…
UBI has an incredibly simple solution (that you already quoted): The programmer gets paid way way more than the basic income, because she also has a real job (vs a government subsidized basic job). If her current…
Mine didn't have HR monitoring, but I found the movement (aka actigraphy) to be pretty much useless. Fitbit was counting all the time I was laying still trying to fall asleep as "deep sleep", and looking at the chart I…
> Every minimum wage increase is different! Sure, but > You can't extrapolate this stuff. Why not? I'm not saying it's like physics where we can make nearly exact models, but can't we at least make educated predictions…
> I don't pretend that the world is perfectly modeled by classical macroeconomic laws Understatement of the century. Would you tell someone working at CERN "I don't pretend Newton's laws are perfect, but..."? > the…
Convenient of this article to ignore that the Berkley study only looked at food service workers while the UW study looked at a much wider range of jobs than previous studies. I'm sickened by my "pro science" party…
Natural != good for humans. We evolved and are well suited for the current ecosystem. Whether you view human-caused mass extinction as natural or not, it probably won't be great for us. So it makes sense to try to…
But AirBnB and Uber aren't actually sharing. The uber driver isn't carpooling on their way to work, they're your driver, which is a luxury. Likewise an entire apartment on vacation is much better than a hotel room.…
The hotels I stayed at in Spain, France, and Italy made copies of mine.
Honest question: I thought the big problem with solar and wind is what to do on windless nights. AFAIK battery technology is nowhere near good or cheap enough. Nuclear seems like a solution to that gap. What are others?
But how? If it takes 4 months to train on a new CNC machine or 8 to learn the latest web design tools, how do we make people more adaptable? There are certainly some jobs that are currently over trained, as evidenced by…
Totally agree, we drastically overestimate the power of the President. Congress does most of the things Presidential candidates promise to do, and local government rules everyday quality of life issues like criminal…
Like most of us I haven't actually read Capital in the 21st Century, but isn't his whole point that the capital gains of the ultra rich outstrip the income of any worker? Anecdotally I hear anger towards hedge fund…
Dumb question: why use power of two sized rings? If I know the reader won't be more than 100 behind the writer, isn't it better to waste one element of a 101 sized rings instead of 28 of a 128 sized ring?
If you want to become a domain expert, become a domain expert. You won't learn the intricacies of the newest structure from motion algorithms by writing user-facing apps. you have to specialize, possibly for years,…