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New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]"

oopsiforgot7 — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 17:21:50 +0000

Did you wear shoes at work? Do you wear shoes at home?

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "The Philosophy of Anger"

oopsiforgot7 — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:03:15 +0000

Game theoretically, seeking lose-lose as revenge is not rational. But credibly precomitting "burning your ships" to revenge is rational.

A gene for anger is a pre commitment.

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "The Reason Renewables Can't Power Civilization Is Because They Weren't Meant To"

oopsiforgot7 — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:02:09 +0000

Solar has a reverse economies of scale problem: the more we build, the bigger the fraction of power comes from solar, the more urgent the issue of storage becomes.

We should keep building until it becomes a problem, I suppose, but also hopefully prepare solutions before it hits.

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed"

oopsiforgot7 — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 14:50:07 +0000

If we take this satire more seriously then it's meant, which was the biggest mistake?

Lack of market research right? They should at the very least have done it post launch. Maybe more pre launch too?

I think many of the other ones might have been survivable?

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them"

oopsiforgot7 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:37:53 +0000

Twitter and Google and Facebook often cut a person at the same time. So it's like backuping up your photos to another drive on the same computer. Better than nothing but not ideal.

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications for the Covid-19 Response"

oopsiforgot7 — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:13:08 +0000

When non experts talk about herd immunity they mean herd immunity given no to minimal precautions. This is a well defined concept.

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison"

oopsiforgot7 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:19:17 +0000

> security

That might be your problem. From what I heard it's a more sensitive role so they will take a stricter stance.

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "Social Cooling (2017)"

oopsiforgot7 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:03:07 +0000

It is enough in the present, but I'm not sure that will be enough in the future. People have always been distrustful of faraway strangers hiding their faces in hoodies and sunglasses. Similarly for a good credit score you need a history of taking and paying off loans.

You may need a good life on display rather than just an absence of bad things.

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality"

oopsiforgot7 — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 16:25:40 +0000

If you embrace many worlds all these issues go away.

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores"

oopsiforgot7 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:10:28 +0000

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Vitaly Nikolayenko?

"He spent 33 years living with the brown bears (Ursus arctos) native to the Kamchatka peninsula (...) For over 20 years, Nikolayenko followed an enormous male he named Dobrynya, forming such an easy bond that the bear would often curl up to sleep just a few feet from him."

Eventually he died of a bear mauling.

Moral of the story: it works until it doesn't.

New comment by oopsiforgot7 in "Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores"

oopsiforgot7 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:01:32 +0000

Sounds like adversarial patches