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The point is that the theoretical problem, interesting as it may be, doesn't matter that much in practice. The marginal utility you could get by fine-tuning the trade off is low. I…

I would say it's true if a little reductive. Democracy has to give the best outcome overall and economic growth is a major factor in that.

Systems programmed by humans typically have coding standards. The human body on the other hand has been haphazardly developed over billions of years by the principle quick hack on …

Hillary is more war eager than Donald. Look at her mails regarding Syria. Also, she hates Russia (meaning that the proxy war there would continue) while Donald do not (meaning he m…

> I remember meeting a guy who had a degree as a food chemist. I asked him what jobs he was after, and he said ... food chemist. Could someone explain this to me? Like I assume lor…

With a Martian colony, we could - if worst came to worst - start a zero-child policy, and "go silently into the night". That would be unacceptable if it meant the end of humanity.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but wouldn't a better solution be to say that server1.localhost doesn't have to be loopback, but that it must be resolved by asking the DNS server at l…

One of the meanings of mark is "victim of scam / swindle". See definition 15 (!) http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mark

They could live in the same house.

There are many companies (should be familiar to anyone in tech) and well funded organizations working hard to give more opportunities to women. Well, they succeeded and this is wha…

That he feels depressed and lonely?

If they actually made that policy, that they will buy any <500k widget that promises the world, then I bet the market could churn out pseudoscience at astonishing rates.

Why would you start a new company when you can join and enhance an existing one?

Some players are fine with a community that only consists of the devs themselves playing a few hours a day.

>The classical problem is more or less designed to be a utilitarian thought experiment. Are you willing to be actively unethical for a greater ethical action? That may be what it i…

What does this mean for a TBB user?

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I completely agree that those are not gameable. The thing I wondered about was why there can't be any other ungameable algorithm.

Rather than resizing to 320x240, pick that number of pixels randomly. For even better results use some method of variance reduction e.g. divide the screen into n squarish rectangle…

> Moreover, there are only two algorithms you can't game - one that perfectly addresses and solves explicit and implicit aspects of the problem (impossible in practice), and one th…

1. Because the hash is in the blockchain, certificates cannot be created retroactively. 2. The notary could make their archive public, so that any interested party could go through…

Are you saying that if black people live in one society and white people live in one society, then the black one will necessarily be hundreds times worse than the white one? Becaus…

You must be very sensitive?