CharlesColeman

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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> One of those restrictions involved country of origin, but I can't remember the details. Maybe security clearance restrictions? IIRC to get clearance you're not allowed to have dual citizenship (b/c divided loyalties) no
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
paywall bypass: https://outline.com/EMvchc
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
They get those amenities because the people employing them are making so much more money off of them that the cost is easy to swallow.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Do these people even understand how the rest of the country lives? Perhaps some of those well compensated but eager to organize tech workers should focus their organization efforts where it can actually help people. Unions (or some typ
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Spending a quarter million dollars on a four wood walls and a door in a podunk Montana town that is about a 100 mile drive to the nearest town From the OP: > The Jersey Lilly was the town’s first brick building , built in 1914 as t
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> How is random memory relevant here? Because memory can be filled with random data, so that's a case that needs to be handled if a computer is to "perfectly simulate itself ." >> That's easy to disprove. A cal
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> That's easy to disprove. A calculator isn't sophisticated enough to simulate itself, but a modern computer can perfectly simulate itself. What you say is pretty obviously false: a computer with finite memory cannot simulate i
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Indeed. To go even farther, I suspect that there is nothing other than consciousness. There are no particles and forces, only awareness and will. I believe the word for that is idealism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
Paywall bypass: https://outline.com/EYGAS6
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> This should be mitigated by browser vendors by integrating HTTPSEverywhere as a core functionality of the browser that needs to be explicitly turned off (instead of the current state of affairs where we have a tiny minority on the web
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
And a Potemkin village still has real people in it. The point is: TLC [1] reality TV programs exist to entertain. They'll choose the most entertaining examples, not the most typical or illustrative. That bias means that's it&#x
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
My guess is they meant to post this link, but forgot to actually enter the URL. http://nautil.us/blog/are-black-holes-actually-dark-energy-s...
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> By tech fantasy are we talking about the kiosks which are already providing a value-add to customers? No, we're talking about the making and packaging diverse types of food to order. That's why people go to McDonalds, and it
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
>> "Pan frying an egg and some veggies (using food item examples above) takes less than 5 minutes." > Which includes: 1) Owning a pan 2) Owning a cooking surface 3) Selecting, cleaning, and cutting vegetables 4) Dishes, o
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> If you watch any episode of My 600 Pound Life, you will realize just how unwilling some of these people are to help themselves Please don't use point-and-gawk trash TV shows to make generalizations about the world. See https:&#x2
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> They will be replaced by machines and the consumers are going to see a value-add. This is tech fantasy, like Musk promising that Teslas will be fully self-driving any minute now.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
>> I'm probably going to catch some flak, but I see some optimizations she can make. > This woman is literally living paycheck to paycheck, and your suggestion is to... put money into a 401k? That simply isn't an option f
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> it's the political cover to make changes they knew they should make all along Or the political cover to make the changes they wanted to make all along.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
The actual article title is "Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor," don't know if it was edited or the poster just chose something different.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> People always look at it differently once it's their money being taken away. Yeah, they tend to take on a more selfish attitude. People will also believe all kinds of dumb or awful things if they think it justifies their self-int
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
Would de-indexing the clone pages from the start help, so only the improved pages are indexed?
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> It's generally terrible or controversial on current events or recent history. Or any person with any kind of ideological charge, especially a boogeyman to some group or other. The problem with Wikipedia is the fanatics with infini
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> If everyone had the same amount of money, these things would still be allocated on the basis of who's willing to pay the most for them - that is, who's willing to give up the most other things in order to get that thing. Thou
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Exactly. Tax the capital that those other bastards have. My house? Oh, that’s totally different. So, progressive taxation, basically?
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> I'm fairly well acquainted with the literature on this topic How so, exactly? > and I think the opposite; the fact that most people don't understand why these "nitpicks" actually seriously undermine the premise a
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> It means [a billionaire] has more power than me in a capitalistic system, sure. But is that really so wrong or unfair? Where does that leave democracy? > I think it’s actually kind of a good thing: most people would just consume lik
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> note that i'm not taking a position on the conclusions of Piketty and Saez, just pointing out that re-stating their claims does not say anything about the papers that argue against them and calling such papers nitpicky seems like
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> capitalist realism I've never heard this term before, but it's perfect. The implicit assumption that certain capitalist economic theories are literally the real world (rather than limited and imperfect models) is something
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
Context matters, though. A law may have a beneficial effect in a democratic country with a strong culture of distributed oversight, but the exact same law may have an adverse effect in an authoritarian country.
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We're in the Middle of a Global Information War: What We Need to Do to Win(time.com)
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