RRWagner

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by RRWagner 11mo ago
I used to do presentations at educational technology conferences and many (30+)years ago I speculated that "in the future" computers that could create would be licensed. This was based on the observation that every significant pas
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by RRWagner 1y ago
Got it! Thanks!
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by RRWagner 1y ago
No comments here about the odd non-standard "say yes to say no" sliders for data collection and selling? I've only seen this a few times in privacy settings windows but enough times that I'm now wary of just assuming th
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by RRWagner 1y ago
I have had the same suspicion. I can propose a new kind of ongoing Turing-like test where we track how many words are suggested on our phones (or computers) as we type. On my phone it guesses the next single word pretty well, so why not th
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by RRWagner 1y ago
I only half-humorously thought the article would include how to make the wire from ore, or at least a functional equivalent.
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by RRWagner 1y ago
It's lawyers all the way down :)
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by RRWagner 1y ago
+1 and more to this. Democrats are not good at all at letting voters know what they have done for them. In California that Republicans love to hate, we have clean air, free beaches, more protections from corporate predation, and so much mor
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by RRWagner 1y ago
Be better (like doing it at all) of saying what they have accomplished. People don't know what they zone know. Make a list of things accomplished and say it out loud. Humility could be another way that democracy dies.
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by RRWagner 1y ago
This sort of unexpected and fascinating topic is one of the many reasons I love reading HN.
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by RRWagner 1y ago
The most important take-away of the story is that if the government has the power to gather all available data of people, sooner or later the same information will be in the hands of criminals targeting those same people.
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by RRWagner 1y ago
+1 +1 +1.... I'm glad that all diseases have been cured so that no further research with public funds is necessary /s. How can some humans be so short-sighted to cheer on their own suffering...
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by RRWagner 1y ago
What interests roger wagner?
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by RRWagner 1y ago
For which Booth was unlucky.
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by RRWagner 2y ago
No, the oligarchs can't stand seeing a single dollar go to the poor, and when one is a billionaire, everyone else is poor.
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by RRWagner 2y ago
"Boredom is the fount of learning and creativity"
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by RRWagner 2y ago
Jimmy Carter
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by RRWagner 2y ago
And don't forget about the "Star Wars Science: Force Trainer"! (2009 - Uncle Milton" (toy company)
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by RRWagner 2y ago
I was a subject in a college psychology experiment when I was an undergrad. The researcher said I would get some amount of $ for each new word in a sequence that I could correctly remember and repeat without error. I mentally made up a stor
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by RRWagner 2y ago
Exactly. And "synthesis" is the better word than "creativity". I wrote an essay about this very topic some years ago: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tbMTpkPWkkN8_KH2KSpteFsb... . (if you c
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by RRWagner 2y ago
I was the original publisher of the Merlin assembler (I gave it the name) and didn't know about this. I'm very happy to see it!
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by RRWagner 2y ago
Real question: What is to stop someone with power/money from taking advantage (or just fooling) someone with UBI to sign away their future UBI income? For example, the UBI person wants to buy a car, but has nothing other than UBI, the
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by RRWagner 2y ago
That would be contrary to lower taxes and less government, which many people claim to want.
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by RRWagner 2y ago
That would be contrary to lower taxes and less government, which many people claim to want.
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by RRWagner 2y ago
only the Canal
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by RRWagner 2y ago
I tried to block Adobe from automatically billing my account for a monthly fee, Adobe phone support said if I couldn't tell them the email that was billing my bank account, they wouldn't cancel it. I then told the bank to block fu
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by RRWagner 2y ago
well said. If those who now have 100s of billions in personal wealth had just paid their employees more...
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by RRWagner 2y ago
good to know about the adjustment screws. I would have tried having the turntable straddle two piles of books or some such arrangement so that I could adjust the setting in real-time from below the turntable while getting the speed display
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by RRWagner 2y ago
an accusation can be a confession
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by RRWagner 2y ago
" can sue you" is a very very important detail here. As I understand it, in the UK, the losing party in a suit pays legal expenses on both sides, which discourages "let's just shake them down" lawsuits. in the U.S.
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by RRWagner 2y ago
or alternatively, the media indeed carrying water for the corporate elites to make people angry so as to want "less government and less taxes", which doesn't help the angry person but which would please a corporation or wealt

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