PrimalDual

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by PrimalDual 9y ago
Pardon my ignorance but I thought Apple largely obeyed the law. Shouldn’t these people be protesting the government that fails to tax Apple justly?
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
Usually you judge whether something is broken when it fails to meet your expectations. In America with it’s individualistic culture I suspect the government is expected to behave differently than in those eastern european countries. A fair
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I would posit the alternative theory that perhaps things are going well enough that people don’t have to care and thus they don’t. Government is one of those things most people ignore unless it’s broken and usually pretty badly at that. Th
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I’ve wondered lately how far away we are from automated air travel especially with the impending advent of self-driving cars. I understand that it’s a technological hurdle to get to the level of reliability and robustness required to trust
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
So there are somethings I don’t quite understand about the pro-diversity argument. My understanding of the claim is that companies should want to have a diverse workforce because people of different backgrounds are fundamentally different.
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I think you are failing to take into account compounded interest and opportunity cost. Efforts you make when you’re young get compounded during the rest of your life time and the time you spend learning the intricacies of human mating is ti
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I am not sure about your claim that sex doesn’t require money. At least the male side courtship seems to be rather expensive both in terms of time and money. Granted that depends on what side of the pareto distribution you fall under. I agr
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I am probably being naive but I see nothing wrong with the examples you listed. Isn't this how iceland essentially erradicated downs syndrome? Using information about genetics to inform how we steer the populations' gene pool soun
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
Perhaps this has to do with the increasing heterogeneity of American society. The US probably looked more like Sweden, Denmark and Japan in the past. People may feel more compelled to partake in civil engagement and similar things like help
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I was talking about Jordan Peterson's content not the manifesto itself. I see now how it would be confusing though.
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
Reading the manifesto felt like going through a less eloquent regurgitation of Jordan Peterson's content. So far I have been unable to disprove Peterson's points and his thoughts process is a very robust way to vet ideas. I a very
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
1. I could not find the source stating that gender ratios were identical before the 80's in engineering. I do know that there used be a more even ratio of male/female programmers but I think the field has changed enough from those
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
When I first read the manifesto, It sounded like a regurgitation of Jordan Peterson's content. After being immersed in his lectures I found it very hard to contradict his points not just because of his eloquence but also because of his
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I think the premise is that you are not entitled to unemployment benefits in the first place. The government provides some aid but you have to be trying to help yourself first. It sounds fair to me that if you are offered a job and you refu
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I really don't understand why that would be. In fact, given that most people are not software developers, we can be sure that the people making those high impact things are very non-representative of the population. Moreover, people ca
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I don't think you are wrong in principle but in practice this simply wouldn't work. We don't have enough sequenced genomes in the world to train such a network and even if we did there is no guarantee that a network-produced
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
I have been thinking along the same lines lately. Issues like addiction and poverty are complex, multicausal and cannot objectively be blamed solely on the individual. Still, we have to consider what a person needs to believe in order to ac
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by PrimalDual 9y ago
How would genetic editing be a race to the bottom? If anything it would be a race to the top. If every generation got smarter, healthier and more attractive thanks to procedures like this humanity would be better for it. This would probably
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
So I found this article completely lacking in real information. They could at least misrepresent an inconclusive study or something. This isn't even trying. It does set the topic for a possibly interesting discussion. In the era of tin
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
Some people argue that more diverse teams will produce better results but I have yet to see evidence that this happens in Computer Science related tasks. In addition I remember being taught that you ultimately want teams to "jel"
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
I read a couple of comments that say this is a step in the right direction to reverse the demographic trend in most developed countries of decreased fertility. I don't think that we will ever be able to compensate a couple and mother i
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
I think this comes from vastly underestimating the value humans bring to other life. I would argue that without humans there is no life. We are the only species in the planet that has, in the next couple million years, the ability to allow
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
I absolutely agree with you whenever I can I like to stay in a Paleo Diet because it makes me feel a lot better than any other diet I have tried. However, whenever I read comments about the environment on HN I always get this Malthusian fee
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
I think the problem is you are giving a money on the table explanation for the missing lower-income housing. If developers could make more profitable lower-income housing (and by lower I mean anything other than high-end) they would and a l
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
It does if you give all of the interests paid on that debt back to the government like the Federal Reserve does.
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
The negative effects of low inflation are well documented. You can see Japan as an example. Low inflation has perverse incentives that hamper employment and econmic growth. Essentially low inflation is good for the consumer until they lose
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
They already did that for several years with QE. They de facto reduced the outstanding US debt by several trillion. You could argue for more monetary stimulus but it's hard to get away with it now that they are very close to reaching t
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
I don't think there are mustache twirling landlords that buy buildings only to leave them empty and refuse to let people live in them. Frankly it's appalling that government regulation could get bad enough that a landlord's o
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
The point is that you still end up misallocating housing units. The marginal Googler at San Francisco may end up taking a lower paying job elsewhere in the country reducing overall productivity. If the renter moves because they can't a
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by PrimalDual 10y ago
I don't understand you try to characterize money printing with runsway inflation. For one I am Not arguing for unlimited money printing I am talking more about QE style money printing. You don't continue pumping money into the eco

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