MawNicker

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by MawNicker 10y ago
I agree that approval voting is simpler conceptually. I like that IRV lets me prioratize my vote. It's not that much more complicated. Counting the vote is a lot harder but the voters don't have to do that. If 60% prefer Gore to B
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Are you sure? There are some pretty scary private security firms. Do you actually know what they have? I hope government really does have a monopoly on force.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
That's bullshit. The government at least owes you a song and dance about how it's working for you. Even if you're too poor to pay taxes. Corporations don't owe you anything. When the masses have been squeezed dry they wi
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Holism is inescapable. An ant is a holistic thought. When you talk about the parts of an ant hill you don't talk about the atoms in the ants. You talk about the ants . In that same way when you want talk about the ecosystems that cont
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by MawNicker 10y ago
No, I couldn't do it. Too disgusting. Yes, I do realize that's what I'm paying for. It's expensive but then I don't have to do the icky part. I'm cool with it. I watched a video of a guy jabbing a cow with a pi
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I was also a bad developer. Then I was a "clever" developer. Then I was rewriting everything from nothing because I needed to know how it worked. Doing so is a great way to get a sense of how much "secret sauce" there
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by MawNicker 10y ago
That's a really nice hierarchy. I'd argue a 10x business value developer is a 10x technical developer AND a 10x product designer. Also that a 10x manager is a 10x business value developer AND a 10x leader/coordinator. The
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> Especially in a world awash in bad developers. Your comment is totally reasonable. You're being down-voted because the sentiment of that statement is so negative but in some ways it's true. There is widespread encouragement f
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> Or, they cannot really appreciate the quality or even the speed of my work. Clueless people abound. Many "10x programmers" aren't anywhere near 10x faster/better/etc in an environment full of 1x programmers. I
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by MawNicker 10y ago
It's hilariously ironic. They're in the business of scanning things which smart people want them not to. How does someone send them something they really shouldn't scan?
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I didn't suggest there was a conspiracy to remove ADHD. Only that it was seen as a disorder. That has effects. They've learned to accept it in programmers because it's so common. But what if I were something else? If my boss
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Are you sure? I assume you mean they can't observe the mind. But they can. We can now identify psychopaths with brain scans. There are also pro-social psychopaths. Do you think they will continue to have total freedom to live as such w
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by MawNicker 10y ago
The repressed extroverts wouldn't exist if they weren't miming introverts. That fact won't stop them from discovering themselves and assuming every introvert is actually a repressed extrovert. Also that there is only one inna
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> That we're moving closer to embracing freedom of self on such a fundamental level is one of the truly encouraging things about this time. This has been done and done again for as long as there have been societies. The surveillance
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by MawNicker 10y ago
LOL! I would have had no idea. I'm scared of Google Translate now.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> I don't think small-time, little UAVs really pose enough threat - even if used improperly - to justify regulatory burden I'm ambivalent about this. I'd like my 8 year old cousin to have a toy UAV. It may be more practica
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by MawNicker 10y ago
American's feel "entitled" to freedom in all the conflicting ways it can be contrived. I'm on your side of the fence here. I'd rather have the freedom to go outside without drones hitting my face. The freedom to fly
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by MawNicker 10y ago
How did they do that? Hopefully not something like Warden, Blizzard's cheat-detecting rootkit .
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I'm sure they researched this but square panels seem suboptimal. I wonder if manufacturing made that determination. It seems like circular or hexagonal panels would better utilize the space. That or just grid aligned square panels. May
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I'm more concerned about the act of "judging". What does that involve exactly? I'm fine with giving everyone A, B, C, D and F grades. I wouldn't care if you made people sew them into their clothing. But I'd lik
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> we won't get X product fast. I am also very sympathetic to this view. That the work would get done anyway if capitalism weren't aggressively "stimulating" us with an insidious short-term mindset. We will certainly
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> Where everyone literally has the same power over everyone else I'm sympathetic to these sorts of ideals. I think you've gone too far though. I want Elon Musk to be able to exist. The working world is a lot shittier than it ne
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I doubt they expect to make that much money from it. I suspect their motivations are actually moral. If it has to exist it may as well be as good as possible. There's no reason to subject pot-heads to nasty chemicals. They can afford t
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> I would argue the population has been trained to be cynical in order to disengage them from politics I actually agree. However, I think the discussions we need to be having are ultimately cynical. We need to be able to tolerate it. The
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I think a big part of the problem is that we have a concept of cynicism at all. It's very similar to the conspiracy theorist label. There are known conspiracies. Big ones. It's not that crazy to be a conspiracy theorist. It is c
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by MawNicker 10y ago
If people are skeptical they're probably the sort of people who can't handle being alone. Maybe I shouldn't be convincing them of anything. I don't really have a goal. It's not like I make these comments as conversa
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I've met people who do this. It only works in some languages. The status quo is certainly to use a fixed-width font and many people's formatting habits depend on this. Very quickly it isn't worth the trouble. Seeing it in act
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by MawNicker 10y ago
You're confusing AI and AGI (artificial general intelligence). AGI is a subset of AI focused on introspective systems that are resourceful and don't get stuck. Like humans. Face recognition and picture processing are not AGI.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> When you are truly comfortable in yourself, you won't feel the need to convince others that this is so. Maybe I'm an introvert or something. I'm not trying to say that spending more time alone is good for everyone. But a
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Thank you. I'm social enough that people give me strange looks when I describe myself as a loner. I've been accused of posing . As if being a loner is "in" now or something. Everything in my reality is telling me to be

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