Joe-Z

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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Well, you want to be witty, but that‘s exactly the point of an analogy: Make things that are different comparable, so you can come to conclusions about thing A even though you only have knowledge of thing B. You might want to try to strengt
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Good on you for standing up for yourself. I hope everything worked out in the end!
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Not giving a guy who’s bringing nothing to the table but money 51% of your company sounds like a good idea. Not trying to be mean, but as soon as I read that I was like „Oh boy...“
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Yes, "just use the public asshole-towel", says the guy who found the idea of disposing of toilet paper in a bin disgusting
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Can someone help me understand the context of this? Is this just some philosophical thought-experiment, or is there a real problem to be solved? Also: If blackmailing becomes legal before soft drugs do I'm gonna be SO pissed :D
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I realize that advertising provides actual value. It just seems that it became too much. It went from something that should be an add-on to the main income source for some of the biggest companies in the world. That‘s way too much power in
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
That‘s so absurd though. It went from „hey let‘s put a banner in this popular place, so people will know us“ to „let‘s police this place so people will only associate us with nice things“ This whole ad-based internet needs to die.
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
By enabling people to subscribe to their content if they deem it worthy. Maybe have a free section where you serve static sites and for your more "in-depth" articles or whatever you make it subscriber-exclusive. I didn't want
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
You do realize that static web-sites is what the internet was built on, right? It does work! And frankly, it‘s very well suited if all you want to do is display an article. Maybe i was woooshed here, not sure.
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I‘m not sure I get the point. So you‘re saying most truck drivers can‘t afford health insurance, income protection, etc.? Are they in the group of the „working poor“?
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Thank you for your answer. I didn‘t know his role, so for me it was just „some programming guy“.
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Why would he even ask "can we tell people?" Is keeping the programming languages your company uses a secret something people assume by default? Now I just feel stupid for working mostly in Java. (It's handy and it works. Leav
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I think we may be talking about different things here. So in the interest of clearing things up: I was using the example of a neural network as "the closest thing" (arguably still very far off) to the human mind we have in computi
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Wouldn't it be more fitting to call it a godly amount of computational power then? :) We're only looking at it from the inside perspective. Who knows, maybe our simulation overlords (ourselves?) already placed us in a far better p
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I get where you're coming from, but I didn't get the impression that GP was ignorant to new developments. In my experience the most important thing is really wrapping your head around a domain to be able to solve concrete problems
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
What are you referring to?
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
At the lowest level of every computer there's only zeroes and ones. Still you don't try to explain a neural network in terms of zeroes and ones. Because the emergent behaviour is much more complex than that.
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Oh, but don't forget that one congregation of dust particles that flew by us really fast, which _might_ (who am I kidding - we all know it's 100%!) have been an alien probe. Oumuamua is what it's been called.
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Would you mind dumbing that down for me? As I understand it we'd be living inside a simulation. Isn't that what GP suggested?
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
So, I turned on "showdead" (thanks for the hint btw!) and the original comment I see is closer to my description of it. I understand you calling it unsubstantive (so I guess I were right in that we're not allowed to post opin
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
One of the author's points is that it's a fallacy to believe people can be explained / lead purely by rational thinking or facts. Emotions play a huge part in human life and realities like this will always need to be taken in
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Maybe. I'm pretty sure I remember the "can't use HotelTonight anymore"-bit. Well, too bad we deleted this information because someone was uncomfortable with someone else's opinion...
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Don't know the GP's intention, but coming from a small tourist-heavy city, it can really fuck with the local housing market and make an already dire situation even worse. Also: What are the rules for flagging on HN? Can people not
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
One distinction I could think of is that some of these tasks require intensive training in some field to get the desired outcome (I wouldn't want to sit on the crappy chairs I'd probably make myself), while others can be performed
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
The author raises some points which would've been interesting to dig in more deeply, but then mainly digresses to an ad hominem argument against the author of the original tragedy of the commons essay. Also I don't understand how
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Okay, so we now defined the meaning of "being happy" to mean "not being so totally depressed to not even put on clothes anymore" :) Quite a low bar to reach, we can do it!
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
And I'd like to see you telling someone who just told a 'a horse walks into a bar'-joke "But horses don't even drink whisky, duh!"
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
>Only way you could do a Saturday delivery and back to work on Monday is if you were a superhero and dropped the baby the classic way early AM Saturday. Superheroes aren't based in reality. The only way humans could fly is if they w
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Yes, it very obviously is a joke, so why go to the lengths of pretending it is not?
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Consider going back to school and taking some rhetorics classes. Introductory level should do.

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