Hacker News: Exo_Tartarus

Ask HN: How will we be getting people and payloads into orbit in 50 years?

Exo_Tartarus — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 02:57:50 +0000

Reusable rockets? Space elevator? Something else?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821571

Points: 3

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New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says"

Exo_Tartarus — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 04:55:22 +0000

That's exactly what I've been thinking. Of course the inflation target would be arbitrary, but once agreed upon and baked into the blockchain logic it could maintain itself based on some parameter or set of parameters

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Researchers create “neuromorphic chip” that is modeled after the brain"

Exo_Tartarus — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 04:53:58 +0000

I wonder how that train it? The network is built into the silicon so I don't see how training could occur after its creation... But maybe they build a simulated network and train it then construct a faithful hardware representation

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says"

Exo_Tartarus — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:03:54 +0000

People need to work not because of inflation, but because they get a fixed amount of money and spend most of it on things they want.

Not only that, but wages largely track inflation so your argument fails.

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says"

Exo_Tartarus — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 01:18:10 +0000

Inflation can be properly managed by responsible central banks. It's not really a problem.

Also "wage slavery" is perpetuated by private companies not governments, so not sure how you aim to eliminate that by killing governments.

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says"

Exo_Tartarus — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 01:00:34 +0000

Have efforts been made to produce a cryptocurrency that is compatible with monetary policy? Such that supply can increase or decrease either on command or naturally?

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says"

Exo_Tartarus — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:54:10 +0000

Governments should make it illegal because governments need to have control over the money supply.

We need taxation. We need monetary policy. The Bitcoin obsessives think these are bad things. No. They are very important and good things.

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "This is why female economists aren't being recognised"

Exo_Tartarus — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 21:09:05 +0000

Well the author starts out by saying 15% of Economics Professors are women. Then says

"Across all the years, only 18% of the authors are female. This disparity between male and female authors alone exemplifies the gender gap."

Which is in line with the previous acknowledgment, so there is no additional conspiracy at play, just a result of the gender composition of the field.

But then the statistic about collaboration.

Men tend to collaborate with other men, just as women tend to collaborate with other women. The natural tendency for people to collaborate with people like themselves is universal.

So don't blame male economists for collaborating with other males slightly more than with females. It's a natural human tendency to do so. Women are more likely to collaborate with other women.

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Universities are also to blame for the GOP’s ‘grad student tax’"

Exo_Tartarus — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:59:21 +0000

I worked in the administration of a flagship state university. Instead of spending millions of dollars on salaries for bogus administrative positions like 'Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives', put that money towards grad student salaries and bringing down general tuition.

Ask HN: Which open mathematical problems block immediate technical progress?

Exo_Tartarus — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:17:16 +0000

Are there any problems in math which, if solved, would immediately impact technology? Doesn't matter which type of technology.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15802388

Points: 4

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New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "American Equity"

Exo_Tartarus — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:08:48 +0000

These are just words that don't mean anything without a concrete implementation plan. Owning a piece of America... What is America? Is it US based companies? Is it physical property and capital? These things are already owned by people. Everything worth being owned is already owned by someone or some corporate structure. Who is going to rearrange and adjust all these existing ownership structures to introduce joint ownership by the American people? Why would we expect existing stakeholders to want anything to do with such a plan?

Silliness.

Scale Invariance as an Alternative to Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Exo_Tartarus — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 04:48:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171122113013.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15784920

Points: 14

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New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”"

Exo_Tartarus — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:43:40 +0000

That may be true, but wouldn't that not affect my argument?

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”"

Exo_Tartarus — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:19:16 +0000

The assumptions I'm making are that most people drink water and non water, and the non water they drink is not going to be more than 3 to 4 drinks (cups/bottles) per day, and that people drinking coffee are already filling their quota of non water drinks by drinking coffee so they don't drink sugary drinks.

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”"

Exo_Tartarus — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 05:19:35 +0000

Just like milk, there is probably a sub population of people whose body chemistry is not compatible with caffeine or coffee. You may fall into that category.

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”"

Exo_Tartarus — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 05:04:49 +0000

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state a theory I've been considering for a while that could explain these coffee health benefit results...

The liquids I and everyone else consumes can be placed in two classes: pure water and everything else.

When I'm not drinking pure water, my drink of choice is usually coffee, of which I drink about 3 cups a day.

Now let's think of the alternative non water drinks out there... Many of them are sodas which have obscenely high sugar levels, just like most drinks that aren't pure water.

Someone who doesn't drink coffee may have more of these sugar containing drinks when they're not drinking pure water, inundating their bodies with harmful amounts of sugar.

So the benefits we see from high levels of coffee consumption come not from the coffee itself but from a substitution effect of replacing unhealthy sugary drinks with coffee.

A good test for this would be to see if tea drinkers also experience health benefits similar to those seen in the study. If not then that may indicate that my theory is wrong.

Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”

Exo_Tartarus — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 02:23:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171122190659.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15779133

Points: 160

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New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective"

Exo_Tartarus — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 01:45:28 +0000

That's not what I'm saying at all

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective"

Exo_Tartarus — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 01:43:50 +0000

Agreed. And I'll go one further: there is no free will. But the point holds

New comment by Exo_Tartarus in "The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective"

Exo_Tartarus — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 03:23:56 +0000

What's their fair share? You think you're worthy to determine that?