> Don't forget this [emacs] is a text editor, not an IDE or some general purpose automation harness How familiar are you with Emacs?
> deterioration of international shipping routes like a closing of a certain straight that was essential for a large percentage of a necessary resource?
I press 1 on my microware. It starts to run for 1 minute. I press 99 on my microwave. It starts to run for 99 seconds. 1 minute < 99 seconds.
> Technology has advanced enough that analog clocks have joined polaroid cameras and vinyl records assumption digital 'more advanced' than analog. unclear. How digital more 'advanced'? Is regression, not advance. Analog…
I appreciate you being upfront about the depth of your knowledge. Regenerative farming and/or permaculture offer ways to run industrial-scale agriculture without the monoculture. See i.e.…
fortunately, there is a lot of evidence behind plant's feeling and thinking; enough so that if you were to expose yourself to it, and if you were willing to update your beliefs based on strong scientific evidence, I…
might depend how different the codes are. could be a really expensive retrofit. Residential and office put different stresses on infrastructure.
Wait, you seriously believe the point of all entertainment is addiction? As in, the only form of entertainment that society should (or does) offer should be specifically designed to trigger as much addictive behavior as…
I respect your humility, and agree that you have an insight. what I am curious about is how you would think about valuing these companies? Let's take it for a given that they are data and capital flywheels, and that…
Alas, the teachers are typically pretty hampered by policies they cannot control. They are not the thing to blame. It's system thinking all the way down.
"Your are a helpful/less assistant" Give it a try. 4 letter difference. Add a few 100 tokens describing the task, such that the change becomes a tiny fraction of the input. Discontinuities everywhere.
Game theory seemed kind of useful when the US was negotiating nuclear weapons control with the Soviets. It allowed successful negotiations in an extremely low trust situation. Also, your own example is an application of…
> in the long term being the key phrase. Until we get to that long term, the less price sensitve buyer can buy up all available goods. for example, all of the gas turbines needed to generate electricity. so it is…
wait, so we have a pill that cures us from (some of) the effects of having turned all of out food into low-nutrition, high addiction items that negatively impact our health while they destroy our ecosystem? (ask where…
I wonder how large the spread of ethnicities is in Native American Indian populations. Just for fun, let's estimate our answer based on data from 1600, just pre the mass European arrival on the continents (plural).
academic writing is designed so a paper is part of a conversation, i.e. 100 other papers strongly relevant to the current paper. And the author needs to compress the ideas from those 100 other papers, plus their own…
eliminate malaria from the continental US. Check. eliminate smallpox. Check. eliminate measles. Own goal.
> power a modest sound system please don't inflict your music on everyone around you.
> Question: do you think reading is fundamentally worthwhile in terms of practicality, or is there some other medium that would achieve both pleasure and better information retention? If your quality bar is 'better…
> The new generations have lived their whole lives under this maligned structure, and they are sick and tired of it. Evidence in support: Compare the number of HN posts showing disfavor towards "billionares" and/or…
> the Friedman doctrine makes the argument that the social responsibility of the firm is to increase its profits. That policy making should be left to governments. > His theory was introduced in 1970 and it seems has…
I appreciate the linked article. I wonder if the the list should be expanded to 'at least three times', and I start to think about intelligence in plants. See also recent work on honeybees, popularized here…
> that 14 out of 64 samples had levels above the legally allowed limit (MRL), of which 12 pesticides that are not approved in the EU (page 12 of report).
The guy who carries a pistol and shoots the neighbor's dogs in self defense, I would expect that guy to face some social consequences and he'd be lucky if it was just the police. Hobbes. we create the Leviathan so we…
apparently you enjoy drinking from permanently poisoned aquifiers.
> Don't forget this [emacs] is a text editor, not an IDE or some general purpose automation harness How familiar are you with Emacs?
> deterioration of international shipping routes like a closing of a certain straight that was essential for a large percentage of a necessary resource?
I press 1 on my microware. It starts to run for 1 minute. I press 99 on my microwave. It starts to run for 99 seconds. 1 minute < 99 seconds.
> Technology has advanced enough that analog clocks have joined polaroid cameras and vinyl records assumption digital 'more advanced' than analog. unclear. How digital more 'advanced'? Is regression, not advance. Analog…
I appreciate you being upfront about the depth of your knowledge. Regenerative farming and/or permaculture offer ways to run industrial-scale agriculture without the monoculture. See i.e.…
fortunately, there is a lot of evidence behind plant's feeling and thinking; enough so that if you were to expose yourself to it, and if you were willing to update your beliefs based on strong scientific evidence, I…
might depend how different the codes are. could be a really expensive retrofit. Residential and office put different stresses on infrastructure.
Wait, you seriously believe the point of all entertainment is addiction? As in, the only form of entertainment that society should (or does) offer should be specifically designed to trigger as much addictive behavior as…
I respect your humility, and agree that you have an insight. what I am curious about is how you would think about valuing these companies? Let's take it for a given that they are data and capital flywheels, and that…
Alas, the teachers are typically pretty hampered by policies they cannot control. They are not the thing to blame. It's system thinking all the way down.
"Your are a helpful/less assistant" Give it a try. 4 letter difference. Add a few 100 tokens describing the task, such that the change becomes a tiny fraction of the input. Discontinuities everywhere.
Game theory seemed kind of useful when the US was negotiating nuclear weapons control with the Soviets. It allowed successful negotiations in an extremely low trust situation. Also, your own example is an application of…
> in the long term being the key phrase. Until we get to that long term, the less price sensitve buyer can buy up all available goods. for example, all of the gas turbines needed to generate electricity. so it is…
wait, so we have a pill that cures us from (some of) the effects of having turned all of out food into low-nutrition, high addiction items that negatively impact our health while they destroy our ecosystem? (ask where…
I wonder how large the spread of ethnicities is in Native American Indian populations. Just for fun, let's estimate our answer based on data from 1600, just pre the mass European arrival on the continents (plural).
academic writing is designed so a paper is part of a conversation, i.e. 100 other papers strongly relevant to the current paper. And the author needs to compress the ideas from those 100 other papers, plus their own…
eliminate malaria from the continental US. Check. eliminate smallpox. Check. eliminate measles. Own goal.
> power a modest sound system please don't inflict your music on everyone around you.
> Question: do you think reading is fundamentally worthwhile in terms of practicality, or is there some other medium that would achieve both pleasure and better information retention? If your quality bar is 'better…
> The new generations have lived their whole lives under this maligned structure, and they are sick and tired of it. Evidence in support: Compare the number of HN posts showing disfavor towards "billionares" and/or…
> the Friedman doctrine makes the argument that the social responsibility of the firm is to increase its profits. That policy making should be left to governments. > His theory was introduced in 1970 and it seems has…
I appreciate the linked article. I wonder if the the list should be expanded to 'at least three times', and I start to think about intelligence in plants. See also recent work on honeybees, popularized here…
> that 14 out of 64 samples had levels above the legally allowed limit (MRL), of which 12 pesticides that are not approved in the EU (page 12 of report).
The guy who carries a pistol and shoots the neighbor's dogs in self defense, I would expect that guy to face some social consequences and he'd be lucky if it was just the police. Hobbes. we create the Leviathan so we…
apparently you enjoy drinking from permanently poisoned aquifiers.