Firadeoclus

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by Firadeoclus 9y ago
There is more than one strand of libertarianism, and not all of them strive to minimize taxation. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism
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> What we cannot have in the economy, is a large, and potentially exponentially growing, group of expenses without any useful work. The solution would be to implement it so it forms a self-regulating feedback loop. It is indeed true (and
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> A simplified model is better than no model at all. This is true in physics where the system being modelled is governed by stable laws. You can confirm the model's predictive usefulness by experiment. If you test the model and find
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by Firadeoclus 9y ago
That seems to be exactly what Barraketh is saying, "the preferences of individuals weighted by their net worth" The preferences of rich _individuals_ have a much higher influence than those of poor individuals.
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I thought the consciousness one was a pun.
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Your "genetic future" immediately gets diluted and is barely recognizable after a few generations. A memetic legacy can last much longer.
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A lot of evidence seems to point towards the best way being a combination of the two.
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Semantics is the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. With tags like <b> or <font>, the meaning of the tags themselves as they're supposed to be understood by the browser is clear. Semantic tags, on the
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If the supply of labour changes because potential immigrants stay away then the market has certainly changed. Market rates are not fixed.
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That can be addressed within the UI. E.g. display the old name next to the new name for a few weeks. After that, just leave a symbol indicating that this username has a change history, which could be presented on click or hover.
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Locally and short term that is the case, but looking at the bigger picture a race to the bottom can lead to worse outcomes overall. Not saying that is definitely the case at any particular tax level, but it's not as easy as looking at
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That's where the YAGNI principle comes in. You cannot reason about use cases you don't know yet, so don't even try to predict what you might need until you have a clearer picture.
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Indeed. It's easy to imagine urban centres replacing internal traffic with a fleet of self-driving cars. If you're coming from somewhere else, park & ride.
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By definition, a UBI must be insufficient to finance a middle-class lifestyle. It provides an income floor. The most important effect of UBI on the poor is that it gets rid of the welfare trap. Even the poorest paid part-time job will incre
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There must be a speed-up since the audio track is not divided into frames. Dropping a 33ms chunk of audio would be very noticeable.
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Hi Paul, Thanks for making your hard work available. It is very interesting from a technical point of view. I'm struck by just how huge a challenge this is given the enormous corpus size. Are you familiar with Joe Edelman's work?[
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Structured data allows the use of generic filtering and structured data processing tools. The basic requirement is reflection, objects being able to tell you about their structural composition. If code was stored in a structured representat
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That's an interesting observation. In poker, if you have a clear and consistent bias other players will move to exploit that bias. However, it's worth pointing out that poker is a zero sum game if you choose winning as the measure