Hokusai

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by Hokusai 5y ago
If he was identified then it was not anonym data. This would be a grave break of the GDPR in Europe. Anonymizing data is a hard problem that usually requires statisticians.
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You are 100% right. A million people can own $1000 in a corporation, or 1 person can own $1,000,000,000. The company has the same capital but wealth is distributed differently. Even if we needed big corporations, we still do not need billio
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> His employees are free to seek a better paid employment if a jerk they work for underpays them. So, people have options to stop being poor, people have options to not have to pee in a bottle at work, but they chose to do it, why? Pover
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Meanwhile other markets were heavenly corrected around 2009-2015 after the housing crush Sweden came out quite unscratched. Low interest rates also have created an incentive to invest in housing for the average citizen. On the other side co
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> where the state owns the majority of the labor for each individual I guess that it all depends what do you get back. To live in a well functioning society is worth a kingdom. In many places your landlord owns more than half of your inc
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> People are tribal by nature. Maybe, but what "tribe" are you part of is completely fluid. Your tribe can be extremely inclusive or exclusive. > Grand unification of humanity is a good ideal, one we should work towards, but
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> EU is completely helpless against rouge states There is a point where politics depend on good intent. It does not matter if it is the EU, USA or China. If there is a part of the population that is radicalized and hate rhetoric is used
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by Hokusai 5y ago
I had a similar discussion about naming evolution and using "Borg" as shorthand for duplicating machine (I think that it is not a great word for this use): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27869571 It is alway
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> about expected value and perceived risk. Overall for most people the equation is always: (probability of data being mishandled) * damage < time and effort required to maintain my privacy. That is the main reason. To keep privacy is
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Computers like the "HUAWEI MateBook X" are fanless with a powerful CPU (10th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-10210U Processor, 1.6 GHz 4 cores, Turbo up to 4.2 GHz). https://consumer.huawei.com/en/laptops/matebook-x-
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> Especially for older people that don't need $500+ flagships I am not so old, and I also have enough with a cheap smartphone. I just use mail, instant messaging, maps and government and bank apps. None of these need advanced graphi
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> it is seen as a deep flaw over here and it can haunt you for a long time When a company goes bankrupt it can bring down with it smaller providers and self employed workers. If you only lose venture capital, that is not so bad as it is
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The Mount of piety (Monte de piedad) were also common in Spain. Monte de Piedad de Dueñas is the oldest one in Spain founded in Palencia around 1500. But Monte de Piedad de Madrid (1720) by a Franciscan monk was the most important one and i
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> create something people want to buy and serve it to them. When your customer is going to come back angry when you cheat them it is important to make something that people appreciates. And when people appreciates your work it is easy to
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> Language changes. Not as much as it should, the predominance of orthographic corrector software can slowdown the pace of needed change. The rule I see for Cybernetic Organism to cyborg is to take a syllable of one word and another of t
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> A person who makes a comment like that isn’t going to be happy with anything. :)
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> You're happy now. The problem still persists. The word only makes sense in the popular TV show reference as Cyborg is the actual short name for Cybernetic Organism. It would be like shortening Computer Language as ulang, not very
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Confusing name. "Borg" means "castle" or "fort" in Swedish but it seems that the name refers to the "Borg collective" from Star Trek The Next Generation. So, it is a derivative of a derivative name. I
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> any chance maybe that big ol’ government which owns all the land, and takes all my money could do their job? I completely agree on that. The government needs money to affront this challenges. In the 40s tax was around 90% to pay for a
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> could also be other human factors The cause for the failures have been unprecedented rainfall. There are a million possible factors that can influence the situation, climate change is the leading one. Let's fix it instead of disc
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> “By collapse, I mean a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time.” What I like about this description is that it mentions "o
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That fits with someone I knew. He used to be interested in any apocalyptic movement, like the 2020 end of the world. He was never extreme, but he will talk about them time to time. In his case the motivation was he had a degenerative diseas
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> I am unclear how audits, regulation, taxation serve as protections or safety nets for the average person. There is much literature about the topic that explain why regulation and audits are needed to protect not only the average perso
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> "You can believe that 99% of crypto is bullshit while also believing that the 1% that isn't will change the world" Is this a quote from someone? Because you can believe anything, believes are not a good method to find w
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> In the same breath he wants people who LOVE their jobs and super-productivity, but yet also understand its only a job. You can't have the super-productivity that comes with intrinsic motivation if the environment is boring and lac
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by Hokusai 6y ago
So it was not so simple as one man bad vision, but it was so simple as laying-off more people? That also seems quite an oversimplification, and one that shifts the blame from leadership to the employees.
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https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/cyberpunk-2077 Metascore: 87 User score: 7.1 I have seen all this backslash and does not fit my experience with the game in any possible way. But your criticism fits a pattern I
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> But I've got it "In most countries of the world, all mineral resources belong to the government. This includes all valuable rocks, minerals, oil and gas found on or within the Earth. Organizations or individuals in those coun
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> risk mitigation Is that still an argument after the housing collapse of 2008? Far from mitigating risk it seems that risk was increased.

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