IQunder130

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by IQunder130 5y ago
The problem is with your assumption that the decision function can be reduced to a nice, clean, closed form that a human's brain can consciously conceptualize. It might as well be a tangled mess of a thousand parameters you can't
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by IQunder130 5y ago
I'd argue multilingualism is a bad thing in most repects. There are hardly any problem domains where having multiple equivalent yet incompatible communication protocols is helpful. I'd much rather we all simply switch to English w
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by IQunder130 5y ago
Just because your armchair evopsych swings the other way doesn't make it any more valid.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
>creepy transactional views of intimacy The rest of your points are entirely valid, but this is absolutely not. Every living thing with a brain is in some sense acting as a utility maximizer. If you're not getting something you want
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by IQunder130 5y ago
I am curious what would get you a "nuclear ban" like that.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
You're not writing a hash table in verilog, you're writing a hardware configuration that can hold and manipulate a hash table. It's a different ball game.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
Is there a better one? Bonus points for a scientific publication and not a tabloid article.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
You say this as, in all likelihood, someone with significantly above average abilities.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
Let's not pretend someone in the 50th percentile can write a game engine in C. If you're on this website and your day job is programming, your expected IQ is already way north of 100.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
C was my first language as a first year undergrad, in mechanical engineering to boot. I think I came out of the experience just fine.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
And all of those techniques are orders of magnitude more difficult and risky than simply doing the transaction with crypto.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
It's money that is more difficult to regulate, and easier to conduct illicit transactions with. Rather than debate abstract principles the point of the article is very clearly that fewer practical hurdles to clear -> more people eng
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by IQunder130 5y ago
Intelligence agencies exist to gather intelligence about the adversaries of state actors, not "find the evil doers". And being the bloated government agencies that they are I very much doubt they're the hyper-competent market
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by IQunder130 5y ago
The leader makes a decision, but usually that decision is either fully defined or heavily constrained by the wishes of the team. Being in charge often feels more like figuring out what your subordinates want to do and putting out some compr
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by IQunder130 5y ago
You are arguing ethics, I am arguing motivation. Disaster strikes, some mitigation is put in place, but then it's a long time till the next one. Which means plenty of time for enterprising opportunists to redirect the resources somewhe
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by IQunder130 5y ago
What is there to learn? Events like this are rare enough that it's hard to justify any overhead for dealing with them in the off-period and it inevitably gets cut. Same as with that extreme weather event taking down the Texas grid.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
We need an uber for ____
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by IQunder130 5y ago
They charge men because presumably men will pay.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
If you're running a business things like actually pricing based on the market you've got rather than the one people idealistically wish you had start to make a lot of sense.
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by IQunder130 5y ago
Wanting to be done in under 12 months and actually being done in under 12 months are two very different things.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
The big iffy assumption being made in your post is that any kind of foreknowledge of the outcome exists. In reality you're probably looking at survivorship bias at work. A thousand artists throw their output at a wall, one manages to s
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by IQunder130 6y ago
How is it "more efficient" when individuals who can do the job are not allowed to do the job because of some arbitrary price control floor? Literally nobody in society benefits from this arrangement besides a tiny class of program
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by IQunder130 6y ago
So what you're saying is that when supply goes up, market price goes down? Not much of an insight there. Not something you really could (or even should) fix.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
So you agree that business takes on the risk, but then go around to say profits should then be redistributed by law? Where is the incentive to do business then? Why is artificially supporting failing businesses bad, yet artificially punishi
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by IQunder130 6y ago
And to do anything non-trivial requires years of tediously building up a knowledge of all the abstraction layers and dependencies between you and the machine. For a long time there is nothing you can do that a million others haven't al
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by IQunder130 6y ago
I hope this business of yours works out because a laptop that isn't a piece of junk with too much stuff I don't need inflating the price is something I've been wanting for a long time.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
You are looking at this through the eyes of someone who is already comfortable with their understanding of computers and software. To a kid with no prior knowledge, the entry barriers might appear impossibly high.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
The obverse of this is that everybody can get whatever they need from Shenzen nowadays, not just some privileged American communities.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
Control of where Linux development is going is indeed economically worth a lot. Copies of the Linux kernel are near enough to worthless for the distinction not to matter.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
What is the market price of a copy of the Linux kernel, I ask?

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